The Contemporary French Novel
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Contemporary Fiction In French
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Author : Anna-Louise Milne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Contemporary Fiction In French written by Anna-Louise Milne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
Beyond The Nouveau Roman
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Author : Michael Tilby
language : en
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 1990-04-11
Beyond The Nouveau Roman written by Michael Tilby and has been published by New York : St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Our perception of French fictional writing since 1960 has been dominated by the radical questioning of novelistic form instigated by Robbe-Grillet and those writers who are habitually grouped with him under the title "Nouveaux Romanciers". This collection of essays attempts to show the variety of French novelists who may, broadly speaking, be considered contemporary. It includes both established and unfamiliar writers and is written with the non-specialist reader in mind. Writers covered include Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Philippe Sollers, Marie-Claire Blais, Augustin Gomez Arcos, Patrick Modiano and Monique Wittig.
Paths To Contemporary French Literature Volume 1
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Author : John Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2005-04-27
Paths To Contemporary French Literature Volume 1 written by John Taylor and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of Sartre, Camus, and the nouveau roman. Some might argue that even well read Americans are ignorant about what is happening in European literature generally. Certainly, there has never been so few translations of foreign books in the United States, or so little coverage of foreign writers. Curious American readers need new, up-to-date information and analyses about what is happening elsewhere. Paths to Contemporary French Literature is a stimulating and much-needed guide to the major currents of one of the world's great literatures. This critical panorama of contemporary French literature introduces English-language readers to over fifty important writers and poets, many of whom are still little known outside of France. Emphasizing authors who are admired by their peers (as opposed to those with overnight reputations), John Taylor offers a compelling insider's view. The pioneering essays included in this book offer incisive analyses of the ideas motivating current writing and delve into a writer's or poet's entire output. Although some names may be familiar (Marguerite Duras, Hulne Cixous, Philippe Jaccottet, Henri Michaux), the reader obtains fresh reappraisals of their seminal work. Especially noteworthy, however, are Taylor's lively introductions to many other key writers who either have not yet crossed the English Channel, let alone the Atlantic. Combating the notion that French literature is overtly intellectual, inaccessible, or interested only in formal experimentation, Taylor shows that many French writers are instead acutely inquisitive about the outside world, shrewd observers of reality, even very funny. Although not conceived as a reference book, the volume possesses some qualities of a reference work: a good bibliography, reliable dates and biographical facts. Paths to Contemporary French Literature will be of interest to students of French literature and culture, literary scholars, and readers of contemporary fiction and poetry.
The Peasant In The Contemporary French Novel
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Author : Walter P. Miksch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Peasant In The Contemporary French Novel written by Walter P. Miksch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
Paths To Contemporary French Literature Volume 2
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Author : John Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2004
Paths To Contemporary French Literature Volume 2 written by John Taylor and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of Sartre, Camus, and the nouveau roman. Curious American readers seeking new, up-to-date information and analyses will find in Paths to Contemporary French Literature a stimulating and much-needed guide to the major currents of one of the worldas great literatures. This critical panorama of contemporary French literature introduces English-language readers to over fifty important writers and poets. Emphasizing authors who are admired by their peers (as opposed to those with overnight reputations), John Taylor offers a compelling insideras view.
Contemporary French And Scandinavian Crime Fiction
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Author : Anne Grydehøj
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Contemporary French And Scandinavian Crime Fiction written by Anne Grydehøj and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period. From 1965 to the present, both Scandinavian and French societies have undergone significant transformations. Twelve literary case studies examine how crime fictions in the respective contexts have responded to shifting social realities, which have in turn played a part in transforming the generic codes and conventions of the crime novel. At the centre of the book’s analysis is crime fiction’s negotiation of the French model of Republican universalism and the Scandinavian welfare state, both of which were routinely characterised as being in a state of crisis at the end of the twentieth century. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book investigates the interplay between contemporary Scandinavian and French crime narratives, considering their engagement with the relationship of the state and the citizen, and notably with identity issues (class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in particular).
Beyond Return
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Author : Lucas Hollister
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-20
Beyond Return written by Lucas Hollister and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which ‘return’ to forms that have often been considered sub-literary, regressive, outdated or decadent, and suggests new ways of reading contemporary adventure novels, radical noir novels, postmodernist mysteries, war novels and dystopian fictions.
The Character Of Rain
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Author : Amelie Nothomb
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2007-04-01
The Character Of Rain written by Amelie Nothomb and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Fiction categories.
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.
Maps And Territories
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Author : Joshua Armstrong (Professor of French)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Maps And Territories written by Joshua Armstrong (Professor of French) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with French fiction categories.
The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life have meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. 'Maps and Territories' identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus for the contemporary French novel.
Being Contemporary
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Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Being Contemporary written by Lia Nicole Brozgal and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.