A Short History of French Literature,9780199291182

A Short History of French Literature

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ISBN13: 9780199291182
ISBN10: 0199291187
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-16
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 aneven 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. Thebook is written in an accessible and non-technical style that will make it attractive to students and to all those who enjoy French Literature.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
INTRODUCTION: THE LONG VIEW 1(12)
PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO 1470 13(84)
OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD
15(16)
THE PERIOD IN CLOSE—UP
31(66)
The saints speak French
31(3)
Inventing love poetry: the songs of the troubadours
34(7)
The three matières and the move from history to fiction
41(4)
Courtliness and the rise of romance
45(3)
The chansons de geste
48(4)
Clerks, jongleurs, and townspeople
52(5)
Prose: history, romance, and the Grail
57(5)
Treatises, encyclopedias, and compilation in the thirteenth century
62(3)
The Roman de la rose and the allegorical tradition
65(4)
From the grand chant courtois to the formes fixes: the French lyric at its height
69(6)
The dit amoureux: between lyric and history
75(5)
Writing history
80(2)
Humanism, didacticism, licence and death
82(5)
The 'Querelle du Roman de la rose' and 'La belle dame sans mercy'
87(2)
Theatre in the late Middle Ages
89(3)
The future of a poet with a past: François Villon
92(5)
PART II. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: 1470-1789 97(96)
OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD
99(14)
THE PERIOD IN CLOSE—UP
113(80)
From Burgundy to the French court: Jean Lemaire de Belges
113(3)
Rabelais: Pantagruel and Gargantua
116(2)
Religious controversy and literature: the circle of Marguerite de Navarre
118(4)
Rabelais's later works
122(1)
Poetry: (i) from Marot to Labé
123(6)
Poetry: (ii) the Pléiade
129(4)
The late sixteenth century: Montaigne's Essais
133(5)
New directions in the early seventeenth century
138(1)
Poetry: (iii) Malherbe and his contemporaries
139(2)
Questions of language and style
141(2)
Theatre: a retrospect
143(2)
Theatre: Corneille and his times
145(3)
Descartes and Pascal: the mid-century turn
148(4)
Literature and power in the age of Louis XIV
152(2)
Questions of psychology and ethics
154(4)
Lucidity and uncertainty
158(6)
'Ancients' and 'Moderns'
Outlines of the novel
164(4)
The end of a reign: literature at the turn of the century
168(1)
The letter-form: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Graffigny
169(4)
The philosophes in action: the Encyclopédie
173(3)
Rousseau: autobiography and fiction
176(4)
The sentimental and the erotic
180(5)
Diderot: the philosophe and his double
185(4)
Crossing the divide
189(4)
PART III. THE MODERN PERIOD: 1789-2000 193(122)
OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD
195(13)
THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP
208(107)
Literature and political action
208(2)
The Romantic individual
210(3)
Literature and sexuality
213(2)
The Napoleonic legend
215(3)
Romanticism in verse
218(3)
History and prophecy
221(3)
Prose fiction prepares for victory
224(2)
Stendhal and Balzac
226(2)
A colossus: Victor Hugo
228(3)
Poetry and society
231(6)
Writing by women, 1830-1880
237(4)
Theatre in the nineteenth century
241(3)
Literature before the law
244(1)
Flaubert's war on stupidity
245(2)
Literature and science: the case of 'Naturalism'
247(3)
Dreyfus and after
250(3)
Gide and Proust
253(5)
Literature and war: 1914-18
258(2)
Mallarmé's shadow
260(4)
Dada and surrealism
264(3)
Prose fiction between the wars
267(4)
The twentieth century's Voltaire: Jean-Paul Sartre
271(3)
Literature and war: 1939-45
274(5)
The fortunes of the modern novel
279(6)
Writing by women in the twentieth century: a long revolution
285(7)
Theatre in the twentieth century
292(5)
Poetry in the later twentieth century
297(4)
Beyond the Hexagon
301(5)
Beyond the literary profession
306(3)
The Revolution remembered
309(4)
A final note, in which the story does not end
313(2)
POSTFACE 315(2)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 317(8)
SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS 325(8)
INDEX 333

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