The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521499143 ISBN 13: 9780521499149

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.

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Book Description:

This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading, and there is a challenging reassessment of major figures and traditional views. Other genres and other literatures, and novels from other periods are also discussed. All quotations are translated and there is a chronology and guide to further reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521499143
• ISBN 13: 9780521499149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Unwin Timothy