Brian Nelson (Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Victoria)

The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A highly readable and accessible introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present, through a sequence of chapters on major French writers of their time. A comprehensive and engaging account of the riches and pleasures of one of the world's great literary traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780521715096
• ISBN-10: 0521715091
• Artikelnr.: 42477848

Autorenporträt

Brian Nelson is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Translation Studies at Monash University, Victoria, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include Perspectives on Literature and Translation: Creation, Circulation, Reception (co-edited with Brigid Maher, 2013), The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola (Cambridge, 2007) and translations of the novels of Émile Zola.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
1. Villon: a dying man
2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter
3. Montaigne: self-portrait
4. Corneille: heroes and kings
5. Racine: in the labyrinth
6. Molière: new forms of comedy
7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power
8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel
9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance
10. Rousseau: man of feeling
11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic
12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons
13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness
14. Balzac: 'All is true'
15. Hugo: the divine stenographer
16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris
17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes
18. Zola: the poetry of the real
19. Huysmans: against nature
20. Mallarmé: the magic of words
21. Rimbaud: somebody else
22. Proust: the self, time and art
23. Jarry: the art of provocation
24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new
25. Breton and company: surrealism
26. Céline: night journey
27. Sartre: writing in the world
28. Camus: a moral voice
29. Beckett: filling the silence
30. French literature into the twenty-first century
Notes
Further reading.