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Lecture on French Literature

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The article presents a previously unpublished lecture on French literature, given by Sylvia Townsend Warner to the Lewes Literary Society on 28 November 1960, prefaced by a letter from Warner to William Maxwell, enclosing a copy of the lecture. She surveys five centuries of French literature, starting with Villon and Rabelais and continuing up to Proust and Sartre, with a particular perspective on the relations between religious authority and French culture, and on ‘the lurking theologian in French writers’.

Source: The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

DOI: 10.14324/stw.24.1.08

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner

Language: English

Topic: French Literature and Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4406958829

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