Survey of French Literature, Volume 1 The Middle Ages and the Sixteenth Century

by Rivers, Kenneth T.; Bishop, Morris Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9781585101061
• ISBN10: 1585101060
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Summary

This is the third edition of a classic anthology, updated for the modern student. Selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. The book includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors. Each century is contained in its own volume. This volume is the Middle Ages and the Sixteenth Century.

Author Biography

Kenneth T. Rivers is a Professor of French at Lamar University, Beaumont, in the Texas State University System. Born in Oakland, California in 1950, he went on to receive his BA, MA, and PhD in French, with a minor in History, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored one previous book, Transmutations: Understanding Literary and Pictorial Caricature, and many scholarly articles on a variety of subjects including the works of Balzac, Flaubert, and other authors; the art of Daumier; French cinema; French politics; and, perhaps most notably, the effects of climate changes throughout history upon European culture. Morris Gilbert Bishop (1893-1973) was one of the great literary scholars of his time and an acclaimed biographer. He championed the academic life, not only in books -- A Survey of French Literature (first and second editions) and A History of Cornell, but also by serving as President of the Modern Language Association.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The Middle Ages	p. 5
La Chanson de Roland (Selections)	p. 11
Le Roman courtois	p. 22
Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut (Selections)	p. 23
Le Philtre	p. 23
La Mort	p. 26
Marie de France	p. 31
Lai du Laustic	p. 31
Aucassin et Nicolette (Abridged)	p. 33
Le Roman de la Rose (Selections)	p. 44
The Trickery of Women	p. 45
The Aims, Devices, and Might of Nature	p. 50
Medieval Theater	p. 54
Le Jeu d'Adam (Excerpts)	p. 54
La Farce du cuvier (Abridged)	p. 64
La Farce de Maitre Pathelin	p. 69
Lyric Poetry	p. 90
D'Orleans	p. 93
Rondeaux	p. 94
Pisan	p. 95
De triste coeur chanter joyeusement	p. 96
Villon	p. 97
Le Grand Testament (Selections)	p. 99
L'Epitaphe	p. 103
The Sixteenth Century	p. 105
Calvin	p. 109
Traite sur la foi	p. 111
Rabelais	p. 112
L'Abbaye de Theleme from Gargantua et Pantagruel (Selections)	p. 114
Renaissance Poets: Marot and Labe; La Pleiade: Du Bellay and Ronsard	p. 118
Marot	p. 119
A une demoiselle malade	p. 120
Labe	p. 120
On voit mourir toute chose animee	p. 121
Je vis, je meurs: je me brule et me noie	p. 122
Oh si j'etais en ce beau sein ravie	p. 122
Las! que me sert, que si parfaitement	p. 123
Du Bellay	p. 126
L'Olive
Si notre vie est moins qu'une journee	p. 126
Ces cheveux d'or sont les liens, Madame	p. 127
Les Antiquites de Rome
Sacres coteaux, et vous, saintes ruines	p. 128
Les Regrets
Je ne veux point fouiller au sein de la nature	p. 128
France, mere des arts, des armes et des lois	p. 128
Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage	p. 129
Flatter un crediteur pour son terme allonger	p. 129
Ronsard	p. 130
Ode a Corydon	p. 131
Cassandre	p. 132
Marie	p. 132
Helene	p. 132
Montaigne	p. 134
Au Lecteur	p. 136
Des Cannibales (Slightly abridged)	p. 136
Bibliography	p. 145
A biographical note about the editors	p. 146
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