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LIBRARY RESOURCES for FRE241
Reading French Literature |
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| Course description |
| This course introduces students to a variety of critical approaches; it provides a basic literary framework through the analysis of selected texts that represent a range of genres and periods. |
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Reference material
GENERAL | DICTIONARIES | BIOGRAPHICAL | ENCYCLOPEDIAS | BIBLIOGRAPHIES & INDEXES |
GENERAL
French culture, 1900-1975. Edited by Catharine Savage Brosman ; associate editors, Tom Conley ...
et al. Detroit : Gale Research, c1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 944.08 B87
Guide to French literature. Anthony Levi. London ; Chicago : St. James Press, 1992-1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 L66
The Oxford companion to fairy tales. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 398.21 Z79o
The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1995.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 F81
The Oxford guide to literature in English translation. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 809 F81 |
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DICTIONARIES
Dictionnaire Bordas de littérature française et francophone. Henri Lemaître. Paris : Bordas, 1986.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 L54
Dictionnaire grandes oeuvres de la littérature française. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais. Paris : Larousse, 1997.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 B37o 1997
Dictionnaire historique, thématique et technique des littératures : littératures française et étrangères, anciennes et modernes. Paris : Larousse, c1985-c1986.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 D556
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française. Jean-Pierre d Beaumarchais. Paris : Bordas, c1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 B37o
Dictionnaire des termes littéraires. Hendrik van Gorp ... et al ; avec la collaboration de J. Baetens ... et al. Paris : H. Champion, 2001.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 G67
Dictionnaire universel des littératures. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 803 D55d |
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BIOGRAPHICAL...
Dictionnaire des femmes-écrivains de langue française. Philippe Drouillard. Paris : Le Grand livre du mois, 1990.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 D78
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.3 F87
Nineteenth century French fiction writers : romanticism and realism, 1800-1860. Detroit : Gale Research, c1992.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 843.709 N714
Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs : de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Paris : R. Laffont, c1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 920.02 N93 |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
Encyclopedia of modern French thought. Christopher John Murray, editor. New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 944.08103 M97
The feminist encyclopedia of French literature . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 840.99287 S25 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES & indexes
An annotated bibliography of French language and literature. Fernande Bassan. New York : Garland, 1977.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.84 B31
French language and literature : an annotated bibliography. Fernande Bassan. New York : Garland, 1989.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.44 B32
Index to fairy tales, 1987-1992 : including 310 collections of fairy tales, folktales, myths, and legends : with significant pre-1987 titles not previously indexed. Joseph W. Sprug. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 016.3982 S77 |
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LYRIC POETRY AND SURREALISM
Baudelaire
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
The Baudelaire Database contains more than 10,000 bibliographic citations compiled from book excerpts, reviews, journal articles, and various ephemera.
www.poetes.com/baud/
www.angelfire.com/ct/edarling/index.html
Mallarmé
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898
www.philagora.net/auteurs/mallarme.htm
persoweb.francenet.fr/~maulpoix/Mallarme.html
www.poetes.com/mallarme/ www.nemoclub.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=19
Les grandes heures de Valvins: www.alliancefr.com/culture/mallarme/valvins.html agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Stephane_Mallarme
Portrait du poète en araignée. J.M. Maulpoix.
Rimbaud
Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891
An introduction to Rimbaud / Tony McNeill: http://seacoast.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/rimbaud/rimbmain.htm
Oeuvres Complètes, hypermedia.univ-paris8.fr/bibliotheque/Rimbaud/Rimbaud.html
www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/
www.poetes.com/rimbaud/
The drunken boat, members.tripod.com/RoadSide6/frames.html
Verlaine
Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896
agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Paul_Verlaine
Victor Hugo
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
V.Hugo au site des poètes conçu par Jacques Lemaire: poetes.com/hugo
Hugo, des textes en ligne, abu.cnam.fr/BIB/auteurs/hugov.html
V.Hugo, Mémoire de Maîtrise présenté par Emilie BOZON, www.multimania.com/djdc
Textes Etudes: Hugo /Bac 2001, www.multimania.com/jccau/ressourc/hugo/index.htm
Victor Hugo par Jean-Pierre Rosnay, perso.wanadoo.fr/yjohri/giraudoux.htm
La maison de Victor Hugo, www.paris.org/Musees/Hugo/
Guernsey's official V.Hugo site, www.victorhugo.gg/default.aspx
www.victorhugo.culture.fr/
Portail pédagogique, www.victorhugo.education.fr/
Victor Hugo Central, www.gavroche.org/vhugo/sitemap.shtml
Dictionnaire des Misérables : dictionnaire encyclopédique du roman de Victor Hugo réalisé à l'aide des nouvelles technologies. Hubert de Phalèse. Paris : Nizet, 1994
GENERAL LIBRARY Not to be borrowed 843.78 GmX
A Victor Hugo encyclopedia. John Andrew Frey ; foreword by Arnaud Laster.
Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 843.78 X
Victor Hugo, un génie sans frontières : dictionnaire de sa vie et de son oeuvre. Philippe van Tieghem. Paris : Libr. Larousse, c1985.
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LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Biography
| Criticism and interpretation
Films de France: review of the movie, frenchfilms.topcities.com/nf_La_belle_et_la_bete_rev.html
Entrez chez Jean
Cocteau. Includes texts, images etc, http://leonicat.club.fr/cocteau/cocteau.htm
Includes images from film, www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lenin/Jean_Cocteau_BATB.html
'La Belle et la Bête': what Cocteau's film fable tells us about society, politics, gender and sexual identity in post-war France.(Jean Cocteau) (Film In Context) History Today, July, 1996, by Susan Hayward,
AlloCiné's La Belle at la Bête page, www.allocine.fr/film/anecdote_gen_cfilm=772.html
Perrault and La Belle et la Bête
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Contes
des fées | Criticism and interpretation
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/perrault.html, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse.
Madame Leprince de Beaumont
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780. Belle
et la bête
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/beaumont.html, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse.
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/livre.asp?livreid=15&them=Conte, produced by the Centre International d'Etudes en Littérature de Jeunesse. Focusses on the work, including different editions.
Disney and Beauty and the Beast
www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/films/beautycinema.html, looks at the translation of Mme Leprince de Beaumont's tale to the animated screen.
disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/beautyandthebeast/, the official Disney web site.
Chris Carter's page, www.ilhawaii.net/~beast/pages/bbeast.htm
beauty.rivkashome.com/, a personal page with some useful links.
General, Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast : a fairy tale in a prologue and two acts. Page of the World Premiere of Beauty and the Beast, BalletMet Columbus, April 24, 1997, which include some interesting links to different versions of this work: www.balletmet.org/Notes/BNB98-99.html
www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/history.html
Lost illusion : Beauty and the Beast, http://lostillusion.net/LI/
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PROSPER MERIMEE
The original text of Colombo on ABU (La Bibliothèque Universelle), abu.cnam.fr/BIB/auteurs/merimeep.html
The English text of Colombo and Carmen from Project Gutenberg, onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2708
Alalettre's biography of Merimée, www.alalettre.com/merimee-bio.php
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980)
Sartre Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 and relevant subdivisions, eg. Appreciation
| Dramatic works
Sartre online, www.geocities.com/sartresite/ includes biographical information, related works and links.
Jean-Paul Sartre. Christopher Scott Wyatt's page, http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/sartre.shtml
The Nobel E-Museums biography of Sartre, nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html
Jean-Paul Sartre: philosophy and existentialism, www.sartre.org.uk Site by Donald Robertson, covers online texts, chronology and related links.
Jean-Paul Sartre archive, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/ Collection of works by and related to Sartre.
The Cry, www.thecry.com/existentialism/sartre/index.html
Jean-Paul Sartre : existentialism, www.iep.utm.edu/s/sartre-ex.htm From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004.
Huis Clos: www.alalettre.com/sartre-huisclos.php | www.cdrnet.net/kb/data/FR_Sartre.asp
Jean-Paul Sartre. people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/sartrebio.html From Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.
The Existential Primer, www.tameri.com/csw/exist/
The North American Sartre Society, condor.stcloudstate.edu/~phil/nass/home.html
101 key terms in philosophy and their importance for theology. Kelly James Clark, Richard Lints, James K.A. Smith. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 103 C58
Philosophical dictionary. Mario Bunge. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 103 B94 2003
Dictionary of existentialism. Edited by Haim Gordon. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
GENERAL LIBRARY Arts Reference 142.7803 G66
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