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1 online resource (319 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Faux titre ; 331
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Faux titre ; 331.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Notes on contributors; Michael Freeman: joie de vivre, joies du livre; I Introduction; II The joys of Romance; III 'Balades & Rondeaux nouueaux fort ioyeulx': joie de vivre in a Renaissance miscellany; IV Joie de vivre in Des Priers's Nouvelles Rcrations et joyeux devis; V Comic interludes in French Renaissance prose romance: Aldno's amours in Gerard d'Euphrate (1549); VI Melons and wine: Montaigne and joie de vivre in Renaissance France; VII 'Une vie douce, heureuse et amiable': a Christian joie de vivre in Saint Franois de Sales. |
| Summary |
The apparent self-sufficiency of joie de vivre means that, despite the widespread use of the phrase since the late nineteenth century, the concept has rarely been explored critically. Joie de vivre does not readily surrender itself to examination, for it is in a sense too busy being what it is. However, as the essays in this collection reveal, joie de vivre can be as complex and variable a state as the more negative emotions or experiences that art and literature habitually evoke. This volume provides an urgently needed study of an intriguing and under-explored area of French literature and cu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English and French. |
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
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France -- Civilization.
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France. |
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Civilization. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Feestbundels (vorm)
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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Harrow, Susan.
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Unwin, Timothy A.
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Freeman, Mike (Michael)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Joie de vivre in French literature and culture. Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2009 9042025794 9789042025790 (OCoLC)369144031 |
| ISBN |
9781441616937 (electronic book) |
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1441616934 (electronic book) |
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9789042028968 |
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9042028963 |
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9789042025790 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9042025794 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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