Poemes, Pieces, Prose

Beautifully done! Good selections, extensive, broad coverage, interesting and valuable presentations. Nice textual analyses, stimulating questions and well-chosen, appropriate, attractive illustrations. D.H. Kellander, Duquesne University I have been using this text since it first appeared more than twenty years ago. Excellent choice of texts, background, and questions. Lawrence Purder, Michigan State University Nothing better really teaches the students what literature is. Very useful textbook to introduce students to the study of French literature. The questions after the texts are most helpful and thoroug. Machelidon Veronieve, university of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A comprehensive text appropriate for an introduction to textual analysis, containing some good selections in all three genres. Cynthia Hahn, Lake Forest College Quite decent choice of texts...Introductions to writers are good. Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles I like the way the book is organized: biography, literary ideas, questions, introduction to the different genres. Monique S. Aigal, Pomona College An excellent text. Catherine Jones, University of Georgia This is the best, perhaps the only, textbook for American students that truly teaches [them] how to approach French literature. Michael Vincent, Wichita State University Introductory chapters and commentary are very useful... Elisabeth Ladenson, University of Virginia