A History of Modern French Literature (eBook)

From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

Christopher Prendergast (Herausgeber)

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2017
736 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8504-6 (ISBN)

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Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin Proust, and his many books include Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (Princeton).

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An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "e;national"e; coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "e;French"e; and "e;Frenchness"e; expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France.Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth centuryFeatures more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsIncludes an introduction and indexThe contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Mechoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabate, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stevic, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Allusion • Ambiguity • aphorism • Art for art's sake • Arthur Rimbaud • Autobiography • Biography • Blaise Pascal • Boudoir • Cambridge University Press • Candide • Charles Baudelaire • Charles Perrault • Classicism • Colonialism • Consciousness • Cornell University Press • Decolonization • Denis Diderot • diction • dieu • Epic Poetry • epistolary novel • erudition • Farce • Fiction • flattery • François Rabelais • Francophone Literature • French army • French Literature • French poetry • French Renaissance • Gargantua and Pantagruel • Genre • Guillaume Apollinaire • Gustave Flaubert • Ideology • Illustration • Intellectual history • Irony • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jean-Paul Sartre • Joachim Du Bellay • Latin Literature • Literary criticism • Literature • Louis XIV of France • Madame Bovary • Manifesto • Marcel Proust • Marguerite de Navarre • Memoir • Metaphor • Michel de Montaigne • modernism • Modernity • Monsieur • narrative • Novel • novelist • Oxford University Press • Pamphlet • Parody • petrarch • Petrarchan Sonnet • Philosopher • Philosophy • Picaresque novel • Playwright • Poetry • Princeton University Press • printing • Prose • Publication • Publishing • Religious War • Renaissance humanism • rhetoric • ridicule • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Satire • sensibility • Short Story • Sonnet • Stendhal • Superiority (short story) • Surrealism • Theology • The Other Hand • The Various • Tragedy • treatise • University of California Press • valet • Verisimilitude (fiction) • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8504-3 / 1400885043
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8504-6 / 9781400885046