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Author : Marilyn S. Severson
Release : 2004
Genre : French fiction
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Book Rating : 845/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of French Literature by : Marilyn S. Severson
Download or read book Masterpieces of French Literature written by Marilyn S. Severson. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan H. Pasco
Release : 2019-07-03
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 741/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story by : Allan H. Pasco
Download or read book The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story written by Allan H. Pasco. This book was released on 2019-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th-Century French Short Story, by eminent scholar, Allan H. Pasco, seeks to offer a more comprehensive view of the definition, capabilities, and aims of short stories. The book examines general instances of the genre specifically in 19th-century France by recognizing their cultural context, demonstrating how close analysis of texts effectively communicates their artistry, and arguing for a distinction between middling and great short stories. Where previous studies have examined the writers of short stories individually, The 19th-Century French Short Story takes a broader lens to the subject, and looks at short story writers as they grapple with the artistic, ethical, and social concerns of their day. Making use of French short story masterpieces, with reinforcing comparisons to works from other traditions, this book offers the possibility of a more adequate appreciation of the under-valued short story genre.
Author : Marius François Valkhoff
Release : 1956
Genre : French literature
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Book Synopsis Masterpieces of old French literature by : Marius François Valkhoff
Download or read book Masterpieces of old French literature written by Marius François Valkhoff. This book was released on 1956. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher W. Thompson
Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 543/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis French Romantic Travel Writing by : Christopher W. Thompson
Download or read book French Romantic Travel Writing written by Christopher W. Thompson. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.
Author : Virginia Krause
Release : 2003
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Idle Pursuits by : Virginia Krause
Download or read book Idle Pursuits written by Virginia Krause. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout this study, idleness is shown to be a key element of self-presentation beginning with the figure of the idle aristocrat. The extravagant display of a life of leisure made Gilles de Rais the icon of aristocratic idleness. But even the hardworking humanist was anxious to assume a studied posture of idleness. If both figures were eager to display idleness, it was because oisivete was an important source of what modern theorists have termed symbolic capital. Finally, the Renaissance also saw the birth of a new figure of the "idler": the consumer of leisure. For it was leisure itself along with chivalric and amorous adventure that was consumed by the readers of the popular Amadis series. At once a commodity and form of capital, idleness (otium) clearly belonged to the realm of social exchanges ostensibly reserved for affairs (negotium)."--BOOK JACKET.
