A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to CinemaISBN: 978-1-4051-1736-4
Paperback
636 pages
October 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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"In its breadth, depth, concision and sophistication of
analysis, this book is an exceptional achievement. Neglecting
neither Francophone nor gender-specific literature, this
single-volume history of a thousand years of French writing and
culture is a tour de force." Choice
"Covering in varying depth everything down to modern gay,
regional, and francophone writing, this approachable and clearly
written book can be read front to back or a given strand can be
followed through by moving through the headings classifying genres:
theatre, poetry, etc." Modern Language Review
"[...] Coward comes into his element, and provides an invaluable
synthesis of where French is now and where it is going. A whole
raft of mainstream and marginal writing is presented and evaluated,
and it is here that those of us who teach French find ourselves
pedagogically the most deeply in Coward's debt." The Times
Higher Education Supplement
"The concise discussion of structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and deconstruction will be of use to many students of literature." World Literature Today