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fabliau. French literature, the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the Roman occupation of western Europe. Since the Middle Ages, France has enjoyed an ...
- The 16th Century
French literature - Renaissance, Poetry, Novels: The...
- Medieval, Lyric, Epic
French literature - Medieval, Lyric, Epic: The 12th century...
- The 17th Century
French literature - Baroque, Neo-Classicism, Enlightenment:...
- From 1850 to 1900
French literature - Realism, Symbolism, Naturalism:...
- The 16th Century
e. French literature ( French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in the French language by citizens of ...
Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of ...
Sep 18, 2003 · Abstract. 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 ...
With equal attention to all genres, historical periods, and reg-isters, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexu-ality ...
A history of French literature / David Coward. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–631–16758–7 (hardback); ISBN 1–4051–1736–2 (paperback) 1. French literature—History and criticism. I. Title. PQ103.C67 2002 840.9—dc21 2001004353 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set ...
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Oct 1, 2013 · The Cambridge History of French Literature. Edited by W illiam B urgwinkle, N icholas H ammond, and E mma W ilson. (Cambridge Histories Online). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxiv + 798 pp. This volume comprises seventy-seven essays, by as many contributors, covering topics pertaining to the history of French literature, in a ...
