Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through fr...
Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-century French novels, creating a hybrid genre that is both "realist" and didactic: the roman thse. In this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work, Susan Suleiman looks beyond the politics of novels by such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Sartre, and Aragon, and examines their shared formal and generic features. Although the genre itself is considered antimodern, the critical and interpretive problems it raises are central to an understandi...
Oeuvres Completes de H. de Balzac. T11 (Ed.1853-1855) (Litterature)
by Honore de Balzac
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Operas-Comiques. Ser. 4, Vol. 18 (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
Relation Du Naufrage Du Navire Francais L'Eole Sur La Cote De La Caffrerie, En Avril 1829
by C. E. Boniface
For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions in theater and justice brought them c...
Jean Genet.: Une Ecriture Des Perversions. (Collection Monographique En Litterature Francaise Contempora)
Those who follow current trends in Canadian literature are aware that many of its most exciting and challenging new formats are coming from women writers of Quebec. Patricia Smart studies the historical roots of this development in her study of gender differences in Quebec literature. She offers a feminist perspective on 100 years of writing by both women and men, and argues that it is the women who have modified or subverted the traditions. This new work is her own translation of her study that...
Tony Sans Soin Suivi de Un Partage Qui Coute Cher l'Ours Et Le Bucheron Fleurette (Litterature)
by Honore de Balzac
Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each of six chapters representative examples of works - from across Europe and across a range of the arts...
The legacy of Simone de Beauvoir has yet to be properly assessed and explored. The 50th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex inspired this volume, which brings together philosophers and literary critics, some of whom are well known for their books on Beauvoir (Bauer, Le Doeuff, Moi), others new to Beauvoir studies though long familiar with her work (Grosholz, Imbert, James, Stevenson, Wilson). One aim of this collection is to encourage greater recognition of Beauvoir's philosophica...
The Evolution of Proust's "Combray" (Modern French Identities, #138)
by Maureen A Ramsden
This book primarily investigates whether the most important work in the development of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu was Contre Sainte-Beuve, often assigned this role, or the first, unfinished and, in Proust's lifetime, unpublished novel, Jean Santeuil. Given the length of the final work, this book focuses on the beginning of the first volume, Du Cote de chez Swann, known as "Combray". Proust was writing his work on the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve, when it appeared to evo...
La Legende Des Siecles. Premiere Serie, Histoire, Les Petites Epopees. Tome 2 (Litterature)
by Victor Hugo
Notes Sur La Vie Et Les Ecrits d'Euloge Schneider, ... Publiees (Ed.1862) (Histoire)
by Frederic-Charles Heitz
The Danse Macabre: Printed by Guyot Marchant, 1485 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #447)
by David A. Fein
La Chaste Suzanne: Conte Erotique Et Philosophique (Litterature)
by Rodrigues-H