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A guide to French literature : from early modern to postmodern / Jennifer Birkett and James Kearns. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, (c)1997.Description: x, 361 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312174750
  • 9780312174767
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ305
  • PQ305.K24.G853 1997
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Contents:
Classicism: Writing in the Absolute State, 1600-80. Subject to Authority ; Dramatising Matters ; The Tragic Perspective: Negotiating with History ; Comic Conclusions ; Maximising Morality. -- Enlightenment and Revolution, 1680-1815. A Room with a View ; Scientific Subjects ; Dreams of Reason: Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Expanding Horizons ; A Novel Subject ; Revolutionising the Subject. -- Restoration to Revolution, 1815-48. The Age of History ; Socio-Economic Conditions of Literature ; The Development of Paris ; Romanticisms ; Staging Romanticism ; The Rise of the Novel ; Women's Stories ; New Voices and Forms in French Poetry. -- Reactions to Revolution, 1848-71. Conservative Progress ; New Novels ; Post-Romantic Positions in Poetry. -- The First Inter-War Years, 1871-1914. Naturalism's Narrative Closures ; History as Fiction ; Poetical Openings ; Anti-Positivist Reactions: Decadence and Symbolism ; After Symbolism ; The Dreyfus Affair ; The Novel in Crisis? ; Poems Down to Earth and Up to Heaven. -- Changing Language and Changing Worlds. -- Changing Forms and Subjects. The Novel ; Poetry and its Purposes ; Theatre: Language in Performance. -- Starting Fresh. Women/Writing/Women ; Writing the Interface: Francophonie.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PQ305.B524 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001545579

Renaissance and Reform, 1515-1600. Stating the Subject ; Forging a Language ; Towards a New Sensibility ; Subject to Reform: The Religious Factor ; Michel de Montaigne (1533-92): The Body in History. -- Classicism: Writing in the Absolute State, 1600-80. Subject to Authority ; Dramatising Matters ; The Tragic Perspective: Negotiating with History ; Comic Conclusions ; Maximising Morality. -- Enlightenment and Revolution, 1680-1815. A Room with a View ; Scientific Subjects ; Dreams of Reason: Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Expanding Horizons ; A Novel Subject ; Revolutionising the Subject. -- Restoration to Revolution, 1815-48. The Age of History ; Socio-Economic Conditions of Literature ; The Development of Paris ; Romanticisms ; Staging Romanticism ; The Rise of the Novel ; Women's Stories ; New Voices and Forms in French Poetry. -- Reactions to Revolution, 1848-71. Conservative Progress ; New Novels ; Post-Romantic Positions in Poetry. -- The First Inter-War Years, 1871-1914. Naturalism's Narrative Closures ; History as Fiction ; Poetical Openings ; Anti-Positivist Reactions: Decadence and Symbolism ; After Symbolism ; The Dreyfus Affair ; The Novel in Crisis? ; Poems Down to Earth and Up to Heaven. -- Changing Language and Changing Worlds. -- Changing Forms and Subjects. The Novel ; Poetry and its Purposes ; Theatre: Language in Performance. -- Starting Fresh. Women/Writing/Women ; Writing the Interface: Francophonie.

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