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[1] [2] France ranks first on the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country. One of the first known examples of French literature is the Song of Roland, the first major work in a series of poems known as, "chansons de geste". [3] The French language is a Romance language derived from Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and ...
Any texts in French from the colonies and territories that were considered to have merit were subsumed under the classification of French literature. The nature and importance of Francophone literature in various territories of the former French Empire depends on the concentration of French settlers, the length of time spent in colonial status ...
This is a list of European literatures.. The literatures of Europe are compiled in many languages; among the most important of the modern written works are those in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Czech, Russian, Macedonian, the Scandinavian languages, Gaelic and Turkish.
The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ([bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk də la ple.jad], "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the complete works of classic authors in a pocket format.
Books by country (102 C) Literary ... French literature (27 C, 57 P) ... Pages in category "Literature by country" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of ...
Sanskrit: 49 (an unwritten dead language in regards to new written texts only, primarily a source of ancient texts from Hindu religion and literature) Portuguese: 44; Bengali: 34; French: 34; Korean: 31; English: 29; Hindi: 27; Italian: 24; Pali: 23 (an unwritten extinct language, primarily a source of early Buddhist texts) Hungarian: 16 ...
This is a list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because they help define a national identity or provide a common reference point for that country's culture.
A New History of French Literature, Harvard University Press, 1989, 1150 pp. France, Peter. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, (Oxford University Press, 1995), 926 pp., ISBN 0-19-866125-8; Kay, Sarah, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie. A Short History of French Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006), 356 pp., ISBN 0-19-929118-7