Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Essays on French fiction writers shows the widest possible range of fictional types. Covers those authors considered to be the greatest modern French novelists, their historical importance and their lasting value. Includes discussion of the importance of literary friendships as well as the importance of magazines, school and other connections among French novelists.
French Novelists, 1900-1930
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Essays on French fiction writers shows the widest possible range of fictional types. Covers those authors considered to be the greatest modern French novelists, their historical importance and their lasting value. Includes discussion of the importance of literary friendships as well as the importance of magazines, school and other connections among French novelists.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Essays on French fiction writers shows the widest possible range of fictional types. Covers those authors considered to be the greatest modern French novelists, their historical importance and their lasting value. Includes discussion of the importance of literary friendships as well as the importance of magazines, school and other connections among French novelists.
French Novelists, 1930-1960
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Contains twenty-seven alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about significant French novelists active between 1930 and 1960; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Contains twenty-seven alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about significant French novelists active between 1930 and 1960; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Twentieth-century French Literature: To World War II
Author: Harry Thornton Moore
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
These two volumes the evolution of French literature as it was affected by the advent and conclusion of World War II.
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
These two volumes the evolution of French literature as it was affected by the advent and conclusion of World War II.
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 185743269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1787
Book Description
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 185743269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1787
Book Description
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Seventeenth-Century French Writers
Author: Françoise Jaouën
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Essays on French writers of the seventeenth-century, or Classical century. What best defines the literature of this period are political order and the growing awareness of literature as a separate domain in need of rules and regulations. Discusses the political turmoil during this period as well as the Reformation and the Counter Reformation encouraging research on ancient tests, methods of research, and the standardization of the French language.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Essays on French writers of the seventeenth-century, or Classical century. What best defines the literature of this period are political order and the growing awareness of literature as a separate domain in need of rules and regulations. Discusses the political turmoil during this period as well as the Reformation and the Counter Reformation encouraging research on ancient tests, methods of research, and the standardization of the French language.
Contemporary World Fiction
Author: Juris Dilevko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
French Dramatists, 1789-1914
Author: Barbara T. Cooper
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas.
Sixteenth-century French Writers
Author: Megan Conway
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Essays on sixteenth-century French writers, including philosophers, historians, evangelists, men of science, poets, playwrights and storytellers, that endeavors to provide the reader with the feel for a broad array of intellectual activity alive in France during this time period. Discusses the Renaissance period, humanist reformers, Italian influences, the role of church and state, and the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Essays on sixteenth-century French writers, including philosophers, historians, evangelists, men of science, poets, playwrights and storytellers, that endeavors to provide the reader with the feel for a broad array of intellectual activity alive in France during this time period. Discusses the Renaissance period, humanist reformers, Italian influences, the role of church and state, and the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y
Author: Cary D. Wintz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.
Nineteenth Century French Fiction Writers
Author: Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of nineteen French writers of Romantic and realistic fiction active between 1800 and 1860; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of nineteen French writers of Romantic and realistic fiction active between 1800 and 1860; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.