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A. GRUZINSKA (dir.), New Interpretations in the History of French Literature: From Marie de France to Beckett and Cioran

A. GRUZINSKA (dir.), New Interpretations in the History of French Literature: From Marie de France to Beckett and Cioran

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

Aleksandra GRUZINSKA (dir.), New Interpretations in the History of French Literature: From Marie de France to Beckett and Cioran

Ceredigion / Lewiston, Mellen Press, 2008, 312 p.
EAN : 9780773451704  


RÉSUMÉ

This work contains essays in French and English, and translations from French to English. The texts, by American and Canadian and scholars of French literature, cover the medieval through to the modern period. In French and English. This book contains six black and white photographs.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Foreword by Allan H. Pasco
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Franco-American Friendships: ‘Les Palmes Académiques' in Arizona – Aleksandra Gruzinska

French Middle Ages
An English Translation of Marie de France's Le Chèvrefeuille – Robert Chancellor
Geste de Guillaume or Geste de Garin de Monglane – William Hendrickson

French Renaissance
‘Tu escorche le latin? Par sainct Jan!': Latin as an ironic marker in the French Renaissance Tale – Deborah Losse

French Enlightenment
Probing the Masks in Antoine Pecquet's Diverse Thoughts on Man - Aleksandra Gruzinska

French Romanticism
Sand, le faiseur de romans et Balzac, le fabricant de romans – Raymonde Bulger
The Sand/Flaubert Friendship: Optimism/Pessimism 1870's Style - Aleksandra Gruzinska

French Realism / Impressionism
Octave Mirabeau's “Claude Monet, Venice” (May 1912) - Aleksandra Gruzinska
Rodin's Favorite Failure: The Monument to Honoré de Balzac – Anthony Gully

Modern Times
The ‘Frivolous Prince' or Jean Cocteau's Art of Metamorphoses – Fréderic Canovas
Samuel Beckett's Fin de partie/Endgame/Endspiel, A Dynamic Evolving Reality – Suzanne Hendrickson
New York: Un mythe français – Daniela Hurezanu
L'aventure selon Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969) – Geneviève James
Le Poids du peu ou l'aphorisme chez E.M. Cioran – Raymonde Bulger
Une Amité : Samuel Beckett vu par E.M. Cioran - Aleksandra Gruzinska
Cioran lecteur de Cioran – Liliana Nicorescu
E.M. Cioran: Music in My Soul – Aurélia Roman

Appendix
A Conversation with Samuel Beckett (Paris, April 16, 1983) - Suzanne Hendrickson and William Hendrickson