Joie de vivre in French literature and culture : : essays in honour of Michael Freeman / / edited by Susan Harrow and Timothy Unwin.
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. Howe...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 331 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
no. 331. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Notes on contributors
- Michael Freeman: joie de vivre, joies du livre / Susan Harrow and Timothy Unwin Bristol
- Introduction / Susan Harrow and Timothy Unwin
- The joys of Romance / Rodney Sampson
- ‘Balades and Rondeaux nouueaux fort ioyeulx’: joie de vivre in a Renaissance miscellany / Jane H.M. Taylor
- Joie de vivre in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis / John Parkin
- Comic interludes in French Renaissance prose romance: Aldéno’s amours in Gerard d’Euphrate (1549) / Richard Cooper
- Melons and wine: Montaigne and joie de vivre in Renaissance France / Stephen Bamforth
- ‘Une vie douce, heureuse et amiable’: a Christian joie de vivre in Saint François de Sales / Richard Parish
- ‘Le carnaval autorise cela’: cruelty and joie de vivre in the dénouements of the comédie-ballet / Edward Forman
- ‘I told you I was ill’: joie de vivre and joie de mourir in Le Malade imaginaire / Noël Peacock
- The state of happiness? Ancient Sparta and the French Enlightenment / Haydn Mason
- Poetry and the discourse of happiness in nineteenth-century France: the case of Vigny / Patrick O’Donovan
- ‘Baisez-moi, belle Juju!’: Victor Hugo and the joy of Juliette / Bradley Stephens
- Mallarmé et Bachelard: la rêverie des mots / Hélène Stafford
- Ensor’s hyperbolic joie de vivre / Richard Hobbs
- Joie de vivre and the will to win in the literature of cycling / Edward Nye
- The joy of specs: the power of the gaze in the novels of Sébastien Japrisot / Martin Hurcombe
- Rejoicing in the Other: France, England and the case of Major Thompson / Gino Raymond
- Joie de vivre: the afterlife of a phrase / Alison Finch
- Michael Freeman: list of major publications
- Index of names.