Ebook: French literature: a very short introduction

The heritage of literature in the French language is rich varied, and extensive in time and space. This introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices.;1. Saints, werewolves, knights, and a pote maudit: allegiance and character in the Middle Ages -- 2. The last Roman, 'cannibals', giants, and heroines of modern life: antiquity and renewal -- 3. Society and its demands -- 4. Nature and its possibilities -- 5. Around the Revolution -- 6. The hunchback, the housewife, and the flneur -- 7. From Marcel to Rrose Selavy -- 8. The self-centred consciousness -- 9. French-speaking heroes without borders?