A Guide to French Literature

From Early Modern to Postmodern

James Kearns author Jennifer Birkett author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:9th Jul '97

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A Guide to French Literature cover

'This well-written, informed and wide-ranging survey of French Literature from the Renaissance to Francophonie provides a map which will be invaluable to students of French Studies in its widest sense.' - Forum for Modern Language Studies

In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading public.In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading public. Writers and writings relegated to the margins of the canon are reassessed. New directions in contemporary thought, women's writing and Francophone literature are a feature, together with important concepts of contemporary critical theory.

'This well-written, informed and wide-ranging survey of French Literature from the Renaissance to Francophonie provides a map which will be invaluable to students of French Studies in its widest sense.' - Forum for Modern Language Studies

ISBN: 9780333428542

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 473g

376 pages