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French Studies THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, SINCE 1945 By MICHAEL SHE RING HAM, Lecturer in French at the University of Kent at Canterbury (This survey covers the years I g80 and I g8 I) I. ESSAYS, STUDIES, CRITICAL THEORY Jacques Bersani et al., La Liltirature en France depuis 1945, Bordas, 1980, 927 pp., is an updated version of the 1970 edition; a substantial new chapter (pp. 838-910) is devoted to the period 1969-79; the high standard of commentary is maintained. Panorama critique de la litterature moderne, Belfond, 1980,490 pp., is the somewhat misleading title of a collection of mainly brief, but often very perceptive, pieces by the late Claude Bonnefoy; many works by recent French writers are lucidly appraised. Christopher Robinson's lively, idiosyncratic account of French Literature in the Twentieth Century, David & Charles, 1980,218 pp., does arguably less justice to the post-1945 period; by far the most useful chapter is the one on 'National Consciousness' which offers a valuable survey of writing in Africa and the Caribbean, Algeria, Switzerland and Quebec. Because he deals with music and painting as well as literature, Christopher Butler's discussions of the nouveau roman, Absurd theatre, etc., in After the Wake: An Essay on
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill
Published: Mar 13, 1982
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