In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, anno ... 続きを読む
This book provides the first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century. The diary came to prominence as a genre in France in the 1880s and since this time, writers ... 続きを読む
Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period t ... 続きを読む
A new translation of Doctor Pascal — the twentieth and final work of Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series that traces the fortunes of a family over five generations.
Brian Nelson's prev ... 続きを読む
Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer
Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli're ... 続きを読む
Examines Émile Zola's distinctive place in the history of the European novel
Explores how Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects and how his work embodies a new freedom of expression ... 続きを読む
Epic Arts in Renaissance France studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Why, the book asks, the epic heroes and themes so ub ... 続きを読む
Honore de Balzac; Christopher Prendergast; Sylvia Raphael
ページ
240 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
128 x 195 mm
刊行日
2009年06月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?'
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novel ... 続きを読む
He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraord ... 続きを読む
Focuses on texts that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices
Explores the notion of the 'problematic hero'
Introduces a number of maj ... 続きを読む
