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Author : Christopher Todd
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Century of French Best-sellers (1890-1990) written by Christopher Todd and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825356
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel written by Timothy Unwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816074992
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel written by Karen L. Taylor and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Author : Elizabeth Andrews Bond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501753584
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Writing Public written by Elizabeth Andrews Bond and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long-running debate about the link between the Enlightenment and the political struggle that followed. Elizabeth Andrews Bond scoured France's local newspapers spanning the two decades prior to the Revolution as well as its first three years, shining a light on the letters to the editor. A form of early social media, these letters constituted a lively and ongoing conversation among readers. Bond takes us beyond the glamorous salons of the intelligentsia into the everyday worlds of the craftsmen, clergy, farmers, and women who composed these letters. As a result, we get a fascinating glimpse into who participated in public discourse, what they most wanted to discuss, and how they shaped a climate of opinion. The Writing Public offers a novel examination of how French citizens used the information press to form norms of civic discourse and shape the experience of revolution. The result is a nuanced analysis of knowledge production during the Enlightenment. Thanks to generous funding from The Ohio State University Libraries and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes, available on the Cornell University Press website and other Open Access repositories.
Author : Ralph Schoolcraft
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203208
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Romain Gary written by Ralph Schoolcraft and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the coveted Goncourt Prize under the pseudonym—and largely invented persona—Romain Gary. Although he published such acclaimed works as The Roots of Heaven and Promise at Dawn, the Gaullist traditions that he defended in the world of French letters fell from favor, and his critical fortunes suffered at the hands of a hostile press. Schoolcraft details Gary's frustrated struggle to evolve as a writer in the eye of a public that now considered him a known quantity. Identifying the daring strategies used by this mysterious character as he undertook an elaborate scheme to reach a new readership, Schoolcraft offers new insight into the dynamics of authorship and fame within the French literary institutions. In the early 1970s Gary made his departure from the conservative literary establishment, publishing works that boasted a quirky, elliptical style under a variety of pseudonymous personae, the most successful of which was that of an Algerian immigrant by the name of Emile Ajar. Moving behind the mask of his new creation, Gary was able to win critical and popular acclaim and a second Goncourt in 1975. But as Schoolcraft suggests, Gary may have "sold his shadow"—that is, lost his authorial persona—by marketing himself too effectively. Going so far as to recruit a cousin to stand in as the public face of this phantom author, Gary kept the secret of his true authorship until his violent death in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The press reacted with resentment over the scheme, and he was shunned into the ranks of literary oddities. Schoolcraft draws from archives of the several thousand documents related to Gary housed at the French publishing firms of Gallimard and Mercure de France, as well as the Butler Library at Columbia University. Exploring the depths of a story that has long remained shrouded in mystery, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow is as much a fascinating biographical sketch as it is a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions made about identities in the public sphere.
Author : Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135347115
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book French Food written by Lawrence R. Schehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food matters.
Author : Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792358190
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries written by Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This twenty-seventh volume of ABHB (Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries) contains 5076 records, selected from some 1000 periodicals, the list of which follows this introduction. They have been compiled by the National Committees of the following countries: Arab Countries Italy Australia Latin America Austria Latvia Lithuania Belarus Belgium Luxembourg Bulgaria Mexico The Netherlands Canada Croatia Poland Estonia Portugal Finland Rumania France Russia Germany South Africa Great Britain Spain Hungary Sweden Switzerland Iceland Ukraine Ireland Israel USA Benevolent readers are requested to signal the names of bibliographers and historians from countries not mentioned above, who would be willing to co-operate to this scheme of international bibliographic collaboration. The editor will greatly appreciate any communication on this matter. Subject As has been said in the introduction to the previous volumes, this biblio graphy aims at recording all books and articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural envi ronment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation, and descrip tion. Of course, the ideal of a complete coverage is nearly impossible to at tain. However, it is the policy of this publication to include missing items as VIII INTRODUCTION much as possible in the forthcoming volumes. The same applies to coun tries newly added to the bibliography.
Author : Kimberley J. Healey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803224124
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Modernist Traveler written by Kimberley J. Healey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healey focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature. ø The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the physical body are Healey?s concerns as she reads works by Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Nizan, Albert Londres, Andre Malraux, Valäry Larbaud, and Isabelle Eberhardt. This book shows how, in the field of French literature, these texts about travel best capture the modernist experience of being alone in a world of new technologies, cultural diversity, and anxiety about the self.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786941562
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Middlebrow Matters written by Diana Holmes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.
Author : Alexia Bloch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812237597
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Red Ties and Residential Schools written by Alexia Bloch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thoughtful study should interest anyone concerned with social and political life at the periphery of today's Russian Federation."—Choice
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Bilingual Edition of the Major Epics of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo's epic trilogy - La legende des siecles, La fin de Satan, and Dieu - is often said to contain his finest literary achievements. This volume contains the 10 best-known longer epics from the trilogy, supplemented by relevant shorter poems and unfinished fragments.
Author : Lucette Desvignes
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Translation of Three Plays by Lucette Desvignes written by Lucette Desvignes and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes these plays accessible to contemporary scholars, dramatists, directors and students, to be read, discussed and performed. Eurydice, Eurydice is a classical allegory in a modern setting, addressing the theme of loss and recovery within contemporary society. Strange Encounters is reputed to be the first play in France to use onstage the cinematographic technique of flashback to create a play within a play. In Marsyas, Desvignes combines tragic discourse with musical interlude to achieve dramatic catharsis, representing the struggle of humanity against forces that would diminish individuality, creativity and freedom.
Author : Michael G. Lerner
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pierre Loti's Dramatic Works written by Michael G. Lerner and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces Pierre Lotis' work from the miniature theatre of his childhood to the large stage productions of his later life. It includes an introduction focusing on the development in the French theatre around 1890. Following chapters with full notes deal with each of his plays in turn.
Author : Enda McCaffrey
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Octave Mirbeau's Literary and Intellectual Evolution as a French Writer, 1880-1914 written by Enda McCaffrey and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shows how the literary and political ideas of Mirbeau generated a vision of reality foreshadowing Modernity. Through Mirbeau's descriptions of the effects of technological, scientific developments of the day and the temporal and spatial implications of such developments on the literary process, coupled with his advocacy of a radical political ideology to expose the inadequacies of social democracy, it covers the relationship between literature and politics, showing how innovation in the creative process provides a reflective framework for the expression of political difference.
Author : Edmund J. Campion
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Montaigne, Rabelais, and Marot as Readers of Erasmus written by Edmund J. Campion and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between critical reading and creative imitation of the works of Erasmus by Montaigne, Rabelais, and Marot, this work utilizes Erasmus's exegetical writings and his Colloquies in order to demonstrate how religious, ethical, and moral problems were treated in remarkably similar ways by Erasmus, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Marot. In addition to introductory and concluding chapters, the work contains three chapters which explore the creative imitation of Erasmus's work by these three writers.
Author : Joachim Du Bellay
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A critical edition of the circumstantial verse of Joachim Du Bellay written by Joachim Du Bellay and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Henri II (1547-1559) consisted of a wealth of patriotic prose. The events Du Bellay commented on culminated at the end of the reign with the capture of Calais and the accidental death of the King. This work provides insight into the patriotic mentality of Du Bellay.
