A New History of French Literature

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"Overall, this volume is a remarkable intellectual achievement and a triumph of editorial skill and discrimination. As I was reading {it}, I was continually reimpressed both by the idea of the book and by the high levels of informativeness and analytic trenchancy . . . maintained throughout the 1150-year survey. The whole spectacle offered by the volume is of a variegated population of scholars making its way back to history - but to a history that is now self-aware, discontinuous, and suspicious of its own procedures . . . Many entries are masterpieces of succinct and richly implying argument and could be recommended equally to the newcomer and to seasoned scholars in search of new stimulus . . . This volume is first-rate, and I can scarcely imagine it better done. [It is} by far the best single-volume guide in English to the French literary tradition." - Malcolm Bowie, University of London "This grandly imagined and executed history of French literature is without precedent in any... Tovább

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"Overall, this volume is a remarkable intellectual achievement and a triumph of editorial skill and discrimination. As I was reading {it}, I was continually reimpressed both by the idea of the book and by the high levels of informativeness and analytic trenchancy . . . maintained throughout the 1150-year survey. The whole spectacle offered by the volume is of a variegated population of scholars making its way back to history - but to a history that is now self-aware, discontinuous, and suspicious of its own procedures . . . Many entries are masterpieces of succinct and richly implying argument and could be recommended equally to the newcomer and to seasoned scholars in search of new stimulus . . . This volume is first-rate, and I can scarcely imagine it better done. [It is} by far the best single-volume guide in English to the French literary tradition." - Malcolm Bowie, University of London "This grandly imagined and executed history of French literature is without precedent in any language. American readers will be grateful that it first appears in English, even while hoping that other literatures, especially their own, will one day be as brilliantly reconceived. Here are many of the best contemporary critics and theorists, writing with vivid originality, always in a personal accent. This volume is a triumph of editorial and critical intelligence." - Richárd Poirier, Editor, Raritan Quarterly Vissza