A new history of French literature /
edited by Denis Hollier ; with R. Howard Bloch ... [et al.].
- 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
- xxv, 1158 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Writing Literary History/ Denis Hollier -- Entering the Date/ John Benton -- The Birth of Medieval Studies/ R. Howard Bloch -- Saints' Lives/ Brigitte Cazelles -- The Epic/ Joseph J. Duggan -- Manuscripts/ Laura Kendrick -- The Old Provencal Lyric/ Stephen G. Nichols -- The Romances of Antiquity/ Jean-Charles Huchet -- Erec et Enide/ Eugene Vance -- Fables and Parodies/ Kathryn Gravdal -- Marie de France/ Joan M. Ferrante -- The Grail/ Alexandre Leupin -- Old French Prose Historiography/ Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- Arthurian Romance in Prose/ E. Jane Burns -- The Fabliaux/ Charles Muscatine -- Literature and History/ Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- The Impact of Christian Doctrine/ Evelyn Birge Vitz -- Generic Hybrids/ Kevin Brownlee -- Medieval Rhetoric/ Douglas Kelly -- Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose/ David F. Hult -- Medieval Vernacular Drama/ Donald Maddox -- Lyricism in the Age of Allegory/ Kevin Brownlee -- St. Valentine's Day Trials of Eros/ Jacqueline Cerquiglini -- "I the Scholar Francois Villon"/ Nancy Freeman Regalado -- Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties/ Barbara C. Bowen -- The Rhetoriqueurs/ Francois Rigolot -- Writing without Reserve/ Terence Cave -- Humanist Models/ Timothy Hampton -- Life-Saving Stories/ Natalie Zemon Davis -- Margaret of Navarre/ Carla Freccero -- Manners and Mannerisms at Court/ Nancy J. Vickers -- Rabelais and Textual Architecture/ Edwin M. Duval -- Literary Banquets/ Michel Jeanneret -- Evangelism/ Gerard Defaux -- Emblems/ Daniel S. Russell -- The Sonnet/ Francois Rigolot -- Dialogue/ Jean-Claude Carron -- The Birth of French Lexicography/ Terence R. Wooldridge -- Translation as Literature/ Glyn P. Norton -- Calvin the Writer/ Francis M. Higman -- The Neoplatonic Debate/ Lawrence D. Kritzman -- The Architecture of Poetic Sequences/ Doranne Fenoaltea -- A New Intellectual Elite/ Margaret Ferguson -- Inspiration and Poetic Glory/ Michel Beaujour -- Renaissance Comedy/ Donald Stone -- The Origin of French Tragedy/Timothy J. Reiss -- Antiquities and Antiquaries/ Eric MacPhail -- Petrarchism with a Difference/ Ann Rosalind Jones -- Books in Print/ Antoine Compagnon -- Scientific Poetry/ Dudley B. Wilson -- Anti-Dictator/ Stephen Greenblatt -- History and Vernacular Humanism/ Donald R. Kelley -- Distributed by Syndetics Solutions, LLC.
Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles, but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives. The book consists of 164 essays by American and European scholars, and covers the history of French literature from 842 to 1989.
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French literature--History and criticism. Literatura francesa --Crítica e interpretación