| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
French Literature Series ; volume XLI
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French literature series ; v. 41.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language |
Text in English and French. |
| Summary |
The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century 'Dernières découvertes dans l'Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697'; the eighteenth-century 'Histoire générale des voyages' by l'abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century 'Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie' written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Garane, Jeanne, 1960- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Odysseys. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004334687 (DLC) 2016049757 |
| ISBN |
9789004334724 electronic book |
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9004334726 electronic book |
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9789004334687 hardcover |
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9004334688 hardcover |
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