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John D. Lyons

Author of French Literature: A Very Short Introduction

13+ Works 150 Members 1 Review

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John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Works by John D. Lyons

French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010) 101 copies, 1 review

The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque (Oxford Handbooks) (2019) 12 copies

Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes (Critical Studies in the Humanities) (1983) — Editor — 8 copies

The Cambridge companion to French literature (2015) 8 copies

Tragedy and the Return of the Dead (2018) 5 copies

Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau (2005) 4 copies

Exemplum : the rhetoric of example in early modern France and Italy (1990) 4 copies

The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) (2011) 2 copies

The Tragedy of Origins: Pierre Corneille & Historical Perspective (1996) 2 copies

Critical Tales: New Studies of the Heptameron and Early Modern Culture (1993) 1 copy

Kingdom of Disorder (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 17) (1999) 1 copy

The Listening Voice: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Saint-Amant (1982) 1 copy

A Theatre of Disguise: Studies in French Baroque Drama (1630-1660) 1 copy

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The Princess of Clèves (1678) — Translator, some editions — 2,592 copies, 60 reviews

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Birthdate: 1946
Gender: male

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French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons

I reviewed this excellent introduction in two posts, and recommend the book to anyone interested in literature of any kind:
https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/12/17/french-literature-a-very-short-introduction-... and
https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/12/16/french-literature-a-very-short-introduction-...

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