A History Of French Literature: From Chanson De Geste To Cinema

A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema

This magnificent volume provides a complete history of theliterature of France from its origins to the present day, taking usbeyond traditional definitions of ‘literature' into the worldof the best-seller and, beyond words, to graphic fiction and cinemaPresents a definitive history of the literature of France fromits origins to the present day.Incorporates coverage of Francophone writing in Europe, Canada,the West Indies and North and Sub-Saharan Africa.Links the development of literature to the mentalities andsocial conditions which produced it.Takes us beyond “literature” to study graphicfiction, cinema and the bestseller.Maps the rise of the Intellectual, and in so doing charts aprogression from literary doctrine to critical theory.