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Author: Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1107005124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For centuries Paris has had a deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. This Companion shows how Paris, in its various districts, has inspired writers from Moliere to Henry James, from Victor Hugo to Jean Rhys, and how it is now responding to multicultural diversity.
Author: John D. Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107036046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107028035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author: Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1139827170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.
Author: Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1107433886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had begun to find form in print. This collection follows that process through to the present day. Beginning with the 'salon', followed by the hybrid culture of libertinage and the revolutionary hotbeds of working-class districts, it explores the continuities and changes between the pre-modern era and the nineteenth century, when Paris asserted itself as cultural capital of Europe. It goes on to explore how this vision of Paris as a key capital of modernity has shaped contemporary literature.
Author: Timothy Unwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-10-28
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521499149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
Author: J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1108427367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-10
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ISBN-13: 9781139827874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Author: Julian W. Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521829571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a novelist, his relationship to the literary currents of his day, his world-view, and his lasting artistic legacy, particularly through Lolita, his most famous and controversial work. The volume also contains a chronology of his life and a guide to further reading.
