A history of modern French literature : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast.

Contributor(s):

Prendergast, Christopher, 1942- [editor]

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.Description: vii, 725 p. : 24 cmISBN:

9780691157726 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691157723 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

840.9

LOC classification:

PQ 103 H673 2016

Contents:

Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories / Christopher Prendergast -- Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature / David Coward -- Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France / Edwin M. Duval -- Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity / Raymond Geuss -- Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman / Wes Williams -- Pierre Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator / Timothy Reiss -- Du Bellay and La Deffence et illustration de la langue française / Hassan Melehy -- Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy / Timothy Hampton -- Molière, Theater, and Modernity / Christopher Braider -- Racine, Phèdre and the French Classical Stage / Nicholas Paige -- Listening In: Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction / Katherine Ibbett -- From Moralists to Libertines / Eric Méchoulan -- Women's Voices in Enlightenment France / Catriona Seth -- The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / Larry F. Norman -- Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth / Nicholas Cronk -- Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century / Pierre Saint Amand -- Comedy in the Age of Reason / Susan Maslan -- Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau, and the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Kate Tunstall -- Rousseau's First Person / Joanna Stalnaker -- Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai -- Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stevi -- Victor Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red / Sarah Rocheville and Étienne Beaulieu -- Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Peter Brooks -- Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness and Modernity / Clive Scott -- Mallarmé and Poetry: Stitching the Random / Roger Pearson -- Becoming Proust in Time / Michael Lucey -- Céline/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s / Steven Ungar -- André Breton, René Char, and Modern French Poetry / Mary Ann Caws -- Aimé Césaire: Poetry and Politics / Mary Gallagher -- Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel / Christopher Prendergast -- Beckett's French Contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Assia Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature / Nicholas Harrison.

Summary: "In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading."--Publishers Weekly "[A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone preparing to teach a French literature survey for the first time will find the book a godsend.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PQ 103 H673 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000117892

Includes index.

Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories / Christopher Prendergast --
Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature / David Coward --
Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France / Edwin M. Duval --
Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity / Raymond Geuss --
Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman / Wes Williams --
Pierre Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator / Timothy Reiss --
Du Bellay and La Deffence et illustration de la langue française / Hassan Melehy --
Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy / Timothy Hampton --
Molière, Theater, and Modernity / Christopher Braider --
Racine, Phèdre and the French Classical Stage / Nicholas Paige --
Listening In: Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction / Katherine Ibbett --
From Moralists to Libertines / Eric Méchoulan --
Women's Voices in Enlightenment France / Catriona Seth --
The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / Larry F. Norman --
Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth / Nicholas Cronk --
Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century / Pierre Saint Amand --
Comedy in the Age of Reason / Susan Maslan --
Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau, and the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Kate Tunstall --
Rousseau's First Person / Joanna Stalnaker --
Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai --
Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stevi --
Victor Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red / Sarah Rocheville and Étienne Beaulieu --
Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Peter Brooks --
Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness and Modernity / Clive Scott --
Mallarmé and Poetry: Stitching the Random / Roger Pearson --
Becoming Proust in Time / Michael Lucey --
Céline/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s / Steven Ungar --
André Breton, René Char, and Modern French Poetry / Mary Ann Caws --
Aimé Césaire: Poetry and Politics / Mary Gallagher --
Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel / Christopher Prendergast --
Beckett's French Contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté --
Assia Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature / Nicholas Harrison.

"In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading."--Publishers Weekly "[A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone preparing to teach a French literature survey for the first time will find the book a godsend.

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