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French Literature: A Very Short Introduction
John D. Lyons
152 pages
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15 black and white halftones
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174x111mm
978-0-19-956872-7
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Paperback
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22 April 2010
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- Focuses on texts that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices
- Explores the notion of the 'problematic hero'
- Introduces a number of major works from a wide variety of periods, styles, genres, and themes
- Examines how each work fits into society and its concerns and values
- Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over three million copies sold worldwide
The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations.
The first great works of this repertory were written in the twelfth century in northern France, and now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, include authors writing in many parts of the world, ranging from the Caribbean to Western Africa.
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction introduces this lively
literary world by focusing on texts - epics, novels, plays, poems, and screenplays - that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices.
From the hero of the medieval Song of Roland to the Caribbean heroines of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem or the European expatriate in Japan in Fear and Trembling, these problematic protagonists allow us to understand what interests writers and readers across the wide world of French.Readership: The general reader with an interest in literature, particularly French literature, students of French and English literature, as well as students of modern languages, cultural studies, and French
history.
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John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French, University of Virginia, USA
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1: Werewolves, Saints, Knights, and a Poète Maudit
2: The Last Roman, "Cannibals", Heroines of Modern Life, and Giants
3: Society and Its Demands
4: Nature and its Possibilities
5: Around the Revolution
6: The Hunchback, the Housewife, and the Stroller
7: From Marcel to Rrose Sélavy
8: Self-Centered Consciousness
9: French-speaking heroes without borders?
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