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A history of French literature : from Chanson de geste to cinema
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- Creator
- David Coward
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xxviii, 606 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0470753439, 9780631167587, 9780470753439, 9781405122931, 0631167587, 1405122935, 9781405117364, 1405117362
- OCLC
- ocn184983381, ocm47718074
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [560]-565) and index.
- 1. The Middle Ages -- Hagiography -- The chanson de geste -- Lyric poetry to Rutebeuf -- Romance -- Comic realism -- The literature of devotion, moral reflection and information -- Learning and ideas -- Theatre -- Later lyric poetry -- Fifteenth-century 'modernism' -- 2. The Renaissance -- The Age of Francois I -- The Generation of the Pleiade -- Literature during the Wars of Religion -- 3. The Classical Age -- Writers and Their Public -- The Elaboration of the Classical Ideal -- The Rise of Rationalism -- Literature -- The Crisis of Confidence -- The Legacy of Classicism -- 4. The Age of Enlightenment -- Writers and Their Public -- The Rise of the 'Philosophic' Spirit -- The Social Programme of the Enlightenment -- Literature -- Literature and the Revolution (1789-99) -- 5. The Nineteenth Century -- Writers and Their Public -- Movements and Schools -- Literature -- 6. The Twentieth Century -- Writers and Their Public -- From Literary Doctrine to Critical Theory -- The Rise of the Intellectual -- Literature -- 7. Beyond Imagination, Gender and the Metropole -- Biography -- Autobiography -- Women's Writing -- Gay Writing -- Francophone Writing -- 8. Beyond 'Literature' -- The Best-seller -- French Humorous Writing -- Regional Literature -- The Roman Policier -- 9. Beyond Words -- The Roman-photo: Graphic Fiction -- La Bande Dessinee -- The Cinema