FREN-3283 - Modern and Contemporary Life Narratives - French Studies - Research Guides at University of Winnipeg

UWinnipeg Calendar Description (2016)

FREN-3283 (3) Modern and Contemporary Life-Narratives - In twentieth and twenty-first-century from Proust and Colette to Annie Ernaux and Le Clezio, the representation of the self has undergone several transformations in form, content and generic boundaries. This course studies different genres: autobiography, autofiction and memoir. Students are invited to explore the meanings of these texts and what they conceal about modernity and our contemporary age.

Sample Searches in WorldCat

su:"Authors, French" AND kw:"Proust, Marcel"

au:"Le Clezio"

ti:"Le Procès-Verbal" AND au:"Le Clezio"

su:"Alzheimer's disease" AND au:"Annie Ernaux"

au:"Colette," AND (su:autobiography OR su:biography OR su:autofiction OR su:memoir)

Use Subject Headings

Use Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to find all the material on a particular subject:

su:Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Criticism and interpretation.

su:Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Critique et interprétation.

su:Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Biography (Classic Catalogue)

Subject Headings can be found in the upper right of the WorldCat interface or under "Subject" in the Classic Catalogue.

Scholarly Journal Databases

Erudit
Erudit is a disseminator of French-language resources. It offers centralized access to journals, the majority of which are francophone publications in the social sciences and humanities; including scholarly and cultural journals, books, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, as well as various research documents and data.