short history of French literature

Short history of French literature by Leon Emile Kastner Download PDF EPUB FB2

This compact history deals in outline with French literature, from the chansons de geste to the early s. Over eight hundred years of poetry, fiction, drama, essays, history and philosophy are treated on a scale which makes clear the general movements of thought ad taste without neglecting the characteristic qualities of individual authors and their works/5.

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--though selective--account of major writers and movements.

Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events Cited by:   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--though selective--account of major writers and movements/5(22).

This is a good, handy volume for those wanting to sample French writing without making a long-term committment to a novel. The collection features good translations of several classics - including my favorite, Flaubert's "A Simple Heart", a sad yet symphatetic depiction of a wasted life - and features many modern authors unfamiliar to American by: 2.

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A short history of French literature. [Sarah Kay; Terence Cave; Malcolm Bowie] -- "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. passages which they will here find.

This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature. Two things only I have uniformly aimed at, accuracy as absolute as I could secure, and completeness as thorough as space would allow.

In the pursuit of the former. In this lucid and innovative volume, three distinguished scholars trace this history of French literature from its beginnings to the present day. From the oral, unstable anonymous works of the early Middle Ages via the emergence of a print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted codification of genres and styles in the nineteenth century and the resourceful experimentation of the.