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	American University Library - Languages and Linguistics: French Language and Literature
		This site has links to a variety of contemporary French literature resources including an index of contemporary authors and other literary links.
		Gallica Classique is a full-text collection of French Literary Studies from the Middles Ages to the 19th century.
		This site has links French books and literature, art, music, film, French history and language sites.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/language/french.html

	GMU Catalog 98-99 - French Courses (FREN)
		Principal literary trends in contemporary French literature; emphasis on evolution of the novel from Proust and Gide to Beckett and the "Nouveau Roman." May be taken toward fulfillment of the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degrees.
		French drama from Surrealism to the "Nouveau Theater." French poetry from Symbolism to contemporary poets.
		414 French Literature of the 17th Century: Prose and Poetry (3:3:0).
	www.gmu.edu /catalog/9899/fren.html (1817 words)

	French faculty at UA
		At the undergraduate level, she teaches courses in French studies, French phonetics and English-French translation, commercial French, French civilization, as well as courses in contemporary French and Francophone literature.
		She has also edited or coedited a number of collective publications on myth in contemporary French and Francophone fiction.
		Her graduate courses include the 20th and 21st century French and Francophone novel, Critical Theory, Feminism, Myth and Literature, and Film and Literature.
	www.bama.ua.edu /~mlc/french/faculty.html (829 words)

	Graduate School Directories - French (Language, Literature, Studies)
		American Association of Teachers of French Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
		About the field of French Language Studies: Studying another culture can be a complicated undertaking, but many people start with the language and literature of that culture.
		Graduate School Directories - French (Language, Literature, Studies)
	www.gradschools.com /listings/menus/french_menu.html (829 words)

	WSU Stewart Library - French Language, Literature, History and Culture
		Literature Resource Center - (Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials) - Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
		Books on French literature are generally located within the call number PQ, and books on French history are found under the call number DC in the General Collection on level two.
		Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature - Voice of the Shuttle is a huge site from UC Santa Barbara for all types of Humanities research.
	library.weber.edu /cm/a&h/french.cfm?bhcp=1 (829 words)

	European Literature - Electronic Texts
		Literatur im Netz and Literaturwelt have descriptive entries for contemporary literature published on the Web and for literary journals on the Web.
		Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
		De Nederlandse Letteren has an index to Dutch authors in the various Web collections as well as links to general information on Dutch literature and to new journals and writers publishing on the Internet.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /wess/etexts.html (829 words)

	Department of French - Trinity College Dublin
		the 'Return of the Subject' in contemporary French though and literature
		20th-century French intellectual, political and social history; history of ideas in late 19th and early 20th century Europe; right and left-wing counterrevolution, nationalism and fascism(s) in France, 1880s-1945.
		Linguistics; Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistics of French, especially attitudes towards regional languages and varieties in France, and language variation.
	www.tcd.ie /French/pages/research.php (329 words)

	French literature of the 20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For literature made after 1990, see the article Contemporary French literature.
		French literature of the twentieth century is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French from (roughly) 1895 to 1990.
		Twentieth century French literature was profoundly shaped by the historical events of the century and was also shaped by -- and a contributor to -- the century's political, philosophical, moral, and artistic crises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_literature_of_the_20th_century (1998 words)

	Liverpool University Press
		Distant Voices Still Heard: Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature
		Autobiography and the Existential Self: Studies in Modern French Writing
		Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in Postcolonial African Writing in French
	www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk /html/catagories.asp?idCategory=8 (179 words)

	Dickinson College - Academics - French and Italian Faculty
		His scholarship has focused on 19th and 20th century French literature, particularly the mythopoesis of culture in crisis, 20th century theatre with emphasis on the theatre of the absurd, the theory of humor, and currently, realms of memory in contemporary French issues.
		She specializes in French literature of the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of the modern novel, narrative and feminist theory; and in cinema studies.
		Her scholarship has focused on 18th century French literature, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the advent of autobiography in modern culture.
	www.dickinson.edu /cgi-bin/facshow.cgi?French+and+Italian (596 words)

	UM-Dearborn - French Studies
		Bernadette Lintz, Ph.D., 19th century French literature, 17th century French literature, French theater as genre, the French novel, contemporary French civilization, 19th and 20th century interdisciplinary studies.
		Gabriella Eschrich, Ph.D., Italian and French literature of the Renaissance and of the Baroque periods, theories and application of second language teaching, writing women of the Renaissance, translation.
		Stéphane Spoiden, Ph.D., 19th and 20th century French literature and culture, business French and the culture of business, French cinema, Francophone literature and culture (Maghreb), the European Union.
	www.umd.umich.edu /academic/casl/fren.html (630 words)

	USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences - French and Italian
		446 Contemporary French Thought (4, max 8) Introduction to important trends in recent French philosophy, political and social theory, psychoanalysis, ethnology, semiotics, and media studies.
		550 French Literature of the 18th Century (4) Literature of the Enlightenment and its intellectual and cultural background; emphasis on Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, prose fiction, and theatre.
		Required of candidates for the M.A. and Ph.D. 525 French Literature of the Middle Ages (4) Literary study of Old French texts of various genres; examination of origins and factors that contributed to their development.
	www.usc.edu /dept/publications/cat99/las/LAS_fren/coi.html (1541 words)

	French Literature - 20th Century
		(1977); Picon, Gaetan, Contemporary French Literature: 1945 and After (1974); Robinson, Christopher, French Literature in the 20th Century (1980); Stone, Donald, France in the 16th Century (1969); Waelti-Walters, Jennifer, Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque (1990).
		Atkinson, Geoffrey, and Keller, Abraham C., Prelude to the Enlightenment: French Literature 1690-1740 (1971); Atkinson, Geoffrey, The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690-1740 (1966); Balakian, Anna, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute (1959 rev. ed.
		1967); Crocker, Lester G., ed., The Age of Enlightenment (1969); Crosland, Jesse, Medieval French Literature (1956); Cruickshank, John, Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (1959); Engler, Winfried, The French Novel, from 1800 to the Present, trans.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature6.shtml (1551 words)

	Participants in the Research Group
		Karl Britto (Ph.D. Yale 1998; Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, UCB) is currently working on two book projects: Disorientation: Interculturality and Identity in Vietnamese Francophone Literature (which grew out of his dissertation) and Bodies in Motion: Immigration and Identity in Contemporary Literature.
		Suzanne Gearhart (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1973; Professor of French, UCI) is a specialist of the Enlightenment, contemporary philosophy, and pscyhoanalysis and the author of two books, notably The Interrupted Dialectic: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Their Tragic Other (Hopkins, 1992).
		Her book-in-progress, The Dispossession of Authenticity: Readings in Contemporary Levantine Literature, is a comparative reading of contemporary novels written in North Africa and Israel-Palestine, introducing the Levant as a generative, transnational, multilingual, and cross-ethnic cultural horizon.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /transnation/participants.html (1551 words)

	UCSC General Catalog 2003-04
		Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern European history and literature, postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, pre- and early modern studies, contemporary fiction by women of color in the U.S., identity politics as political formations
		Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, contemporary critical theory, cultural globalization
		French history and culture, Celtic languages and literatures, history of Judaism and early Christianity
	reg.ucsc.edu /catalog/archive/frenFaculty.html (1551 words)

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		Lecturer of French; Ph.D. in French literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002; M.A. in English and American literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987; joined the department in 2002.
		He specializes in 17th century French literature and intellectual history.
		His area of specialization is 19th century French and 19th and 20th century Francophone literatures.
	www.uwyo.edu /modlang/Faculty-GA's/facultyf.html (1551 words)

	Dr. Ena Vulor
		"In Search Of A Female Identity: Contending Legacies In Francophone African Literature." Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France.
		1994 Ph.D. in French/Francophone Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
		Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literature in French
	www.marietta.edu /~lang/modlangvulor.htm (1551 words)

	FREN - French
		FREN 652 Aspects of Contemporary French Literature 3 A study of contemporary French literature, including novels, plays, essays and poetry of such authors as Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Perec, Tournier, Duras, Ponge, Bonnefoy, Jacottet and Barthes.
		FREN 452 Aspects of Contemporary French Literature 3 A study of contemporary French literature, including novels, plays, essays and poetry of such authors as Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Perec, Tournier, Duras, Ponge, Bonnefoy, Jacottet and Barthes.
		FREN 451 Twentieth-Century French Literature: The Age of Anxiety and the Absurd 3 Main trends from Gide, Celine and Malraux to Camus, Sartre and Beckett, including Surrealism, Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd.
	www.udel.edu /provost/ugradcat/ugradcat96/26/list/42.html (1783 words)

	UNLV Libraries: Find Articles and More
		Godey's Lady's Book provides information on 19th century American history including important social issues of the day and information on social history, women's issues, material culture, textile studies, and contemporary literature.
		Databases compiled by the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language gather together over 2100 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century.
		The electronic versions of the books offer extensive documentaiton, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.
	www.library.nevada.edu /search/eralpha.html (1783 words)

	Italian Language, Literature, Studies Graduate Programs outside U.S.A.
		Research Areas: 18th-century literature; Critical theory; Post-structuralist theory; Contemporary French literature; Contemporary French women's writing; Feminist theory
		One of the leading centers for teaching and research in Italian language, literature and culture.
		It will cover a wide range of disciplines associated with the Renaissance: art,history, music, politics and theology, together with the languages, literatures and cultures of England,France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/out/italian_out.html (1783 words)

	French Art, Grammar, History, and Culture - French Faculty - Hollins University
		Jean is also interested in 17th and 19th century literatures, and contemporary French culture and civilization studies, particularly as they relate to post World War II identity and diversity issues.
		Her areas of specialization are 20th-century French literature and contemporary poetry.
		Her areas of specialization are medieval/renaissance French literature, computer-assisted language learning, teaching with the Internet, multimedia classroom instruction, and distance learning.
	www.hollins.edu /undergrad/french/frfac.htm (392 words)

	Adam A. Leff - Coursework
		Major trends in contemporary theory and criticism from genre debates to socio-political approaches to literature, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and reception theories.
		Major trends in contemporary critical debates of literature, civilization, and culture.
		An introduction to late medieval French literature by close reading of key representative works from hagiography, chanson de geste, romance, and lyric.
	abacus.bates.edu /~aleff/coursework.html (448 words)

	Modern Languages and Literatures Homepage French
		She holds a Ph.D. in contemporary French Literature from the University of Wisconsin, a M.S. in French from the University of Wisconsin as well as a CAPES in German and a Maitrise in German from the Universite de Paris-X. She has published articles on Duras, Barthes, Butor, Ponge, Linda Le, and Bretecher.
		Her primary field of research is 17th century French literature, and her special interests are humor, casuistry, romances, love and the erotic (their rhetoric and topoi), and fairy tales as travel literature (e.g., the use of navigation and maps in selected tales).
		She has served as a delegate to the Modern Language Association and to the Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th-Century Studies, and as a reader on the American and International Fellowships Panels of the AAUW Educational Foundation.
	www.wm.edu /modlang/french/faculty.php (448 words)

	Francophone Studies Faculty
		Maugui�re has authored numerous publications and papers on Qu�bec literature and Francophone Women�s literature, including a book on contemporary women writers in Qu�bec and another on cultural identities in Canadian literature.
		His research and teaching interests include Louisiana French language and literature, Haitian and Qu�bec literature, and Francophone culture, as well as French twentieth-century literature, philosophy and literary criticism.
		Francophone Culture and Civilization; Qu�bec Literature; Literary Theory; Women�s Studies; Literature of the Indian Ocean; Twentieth-Century French Literature.
	languages.louisiana.edu /French/faculty.html (448 words)

	Swiss Culture - Literatures.
		The uncontested giants of contemporary Swiss literature are Max Frisch (1911-1991) and Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921-1990).
		The outstanding figure in modern French Swiss literature is the Vaudois Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947).
		There is an unbroken tradition of Protestant religious literature in French-speaking Switzerland which is still alive today and whose most prominent representative was Alexandre Vinet (1779-1847).
	ch.c-d.org /ch/culture_literature.html (448 words)

	Untitled Document
		Erk Grimm, Assistant Professor of German, gave a paper, "Forgetting the Future and Digging in the Present: The Archive as a Motif in Contemporary German Literature" at the 33
		Terri Gordon, Lecturer of French, presented a paper, "Le jazz-hot: Cabaret in Paris in the Roaring Twenties" and co-chaired a panel, "Jazz in Paris: Reception and Influence of Jazz in French Culture" at the International Colloquium in 20th/21st Century French Studies at the University of Connecticut, April 5-7, 2002.
		, Professor of English, wrote the introduction for a new edition of The Critical Review; or Annals of Literature 1756-1763, 16 vols., London: Pickeringand Chatto, 2002.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /provost/newsletter/may02.html (947 words)

	Untitled Document
		Erk Grimm, Assistant Professor of German, gave a paper, "Forgetting the Future and Digging in the Present: The Archive as a Motif in Contemporary German Literature" at the 33
		Terri Gordon, Lecturer of French, presented a paper, "Le jazz-hot: Cabaret in Paris in the Roaring Twenties" and co-chaired a panel, "Jazz in Paris: Reception and Influence of Jazz in French Culture" at the International Colloquium in 20th/21st Century French Studies at the University of Connecticut, April 5-7, 2002.
		, Professor of English, wrote the introduction for a new edition of The Critical Review; or Annals of Literature 1756-1763, 16 vols., London: Pickeringand Chatto, 2002.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /provost/newsletter/may02.html (947 words)

	Modern Languages: French Division Courses Fall 2001
		Through readings about contemporary issues facing French society-such as the evolving role of women, unemployment, immigration, economic change in the new Europe and urban renewal-this course aims at developing oral communication skills in a broad cultural context.
		This course will introduce you to a selection of well-known works of French Literature and their cultural contexts.
		A survey of the major works (novels, theatre, poetry) and movements of 20th-century French literature.
	www.fsu.edu /~modlang/divisions/french/fall_2001.html (1263 words)

	KU Libraries Contemporary Authors List
		Among all new works of contemporary literature in English, those by the following authors are to be bought as the highest priority by the Bibliographer for English and American Literature and Foreign Literature in Translation.
		Blais, Marie-Claire, 1939- (French Canadian novelist and poet)
		Although authors listed in Parts I-III of the previous edition of this list who died before 1980 have been removed, any previously unpublished work and new editions of their work will be bought as published.
	www.ku.edu /~rmelton/literature/contauth.htm (1263 words)

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		Her recent research is focused upon lesbianism in medieval French and Islamic literature and on the place of Arabs in contemporary France.
		Her research centers on 12th and 13th century French literature, more particularly on questions of multiculturalism and plurality.
		Her book entitled "Esope au féminin: Marie de France et la politique de l'interculturalité" (1999) examines the multicultural dimension (Eastern and Western, Arabic and Latin) of the 12th century French fable tradition.
	filebox.vt.edu /p/pjayabal/bbritt/Amer (178 words)

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