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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458456103321

Autore

Kay Sarah

Titolo

A short history of French literature [[electronic resource] /] / Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-75655-1

0-19-151845-X

0-19-151622-8

1-4294-7109-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CaveTerence

BowieMalcolm <1943-2007.>

Disciplina

840.9

Soggetti

French literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-324) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE LONG VIEW; PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO 1470; OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD; THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP; PART II. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: 1470-1789; OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD; THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP; PART III. THE MODERN PERIOD: 1789-2000; OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD; THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP; POSTFACE; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS; INDEX; B; C; D; F; H; L; M; P; R; S; T; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events but as a series of stories told at varying pace and with different kinds of focus. Readers can thus take in the broad sweep of historical change, grasp the main. characteristics of major periods, or enjoy a close appraisal of individual works and their contexts. The book is