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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'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