Checklist of Printed Material Relating to French-Canadian Literature - Softcover

Tougas, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774800070 ISBN 13: 9780774800075

Publisher: UBC Press, 1973

Synopsis

This second enlarged edition of Gérard Tougas'Checklist is essentially a primary bibliography ofFrench-Canadian literature from the nineteenth century to 1968. TheChecklist, containing over 2800 titles, represents theholdings of the University of British Columbia Library. The UBCcollection comprises a substantial portion of the total body of workpublished in this field. Included are books, pamphlets andmicrofilms.

In this bibliography, the term literature has been interpreted toinclude separately published chronicles, literary criticism,biographies, and folklore as well as novels, poetry, drama and shortstories. The second edition has been expanded to include bibliographiesand theses.

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About the Author

Gérard Tougas, Professor of French Language andLiterature at the University of British Columbia, specializes in thestudy of francophone literatures. The first edition of A Checklistof Printed Materials relating to French-Canadian Literature datesfrom 1958. In 1960 his Histoire de la littératurecanadienne-française contemporaine appeared, and the fifth editionwill be published at the end of 1973. His other works include:Littérature romande et culture français which analyzes thenovelists and poets of French Switzerland; La Francophonie enperil, a comparative study of French and English-speaking Africanauthors, and Littérature canadienne-française contemporaine.In his latest work, Les écrivans d’expression française devantla France, Professor Tougas has made a study of the francophoneauthors of Africa, the Middle East, Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion,Indochina, the Antilles, and Canada which underlines the dynamism ofcontemporary French literatures.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774800070
• ISBN 13: 9780774800075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 175