More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries includ

No other reference work is as wide-ranging or as contemporary Cross-disciplinary: useful to students of cultural disciplines other than French International aut

France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty

The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and co

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of though