The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521499143 ISBN 13: 9780521499149

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

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.

Descrizione del libro:

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.

Contenuti:

Chronology; Note on literary prizes; Note on presentation; 1. On the novel and the writing of literary history Timothy Unwin; 2. Novels of testimony and the invention of the modern French novel Jann Matlock; 3. Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel Alison Finch; 4. Women and fiction in the nineteenth century Margaret Cohen; 5. Popular fiction in the nineteenth century David Coward; 6. Decadence and the fin-de siècle novel Laurence M. Porter; 7. The Proustian revolution Christie McDonald; 8. Formal experiment and innovation David H. Walker; 9. Existentialism, engagement, ideology Steven Ungar; 10. War and the Holocaust Denis Boak; 11. From serious to popular fiction Stephen F. Noreiko; 12. The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel Françoise Lionnet; 13. The French Canadian novel Denis Boak; 14. Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel Jane Winston; 15. Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory Johnnie Gratton; General bibliography; Index.