Background
Brosman, Catharine Savage was born on June 7, 1934 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Paul Victor and Della (Stanforth) Hill.
(This is the second of three DLB volumes to cover French l...)
This is the second of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. It offers a chronological grouping of novelists whose careers often spanned more than one period but whose literary concerns are associated mainly with the decade prior to World War II, the war and Occupation years, the apres-guerre and the 1950s. In the darkening years prior to 1939, radical social changes in France were both inevitable and desirable. Having made social criticism central in their fiction, the writers of this period were generally alike in their nihilistic viewpoints. Many French novelists were shaped in the postwar years by their desire to make their writing serve as a foundation for the radical changes they sensed should take place and to underscore weaknesses and needs of contemporary France. This period has been accurately called the generation of committed literature in French existentialism. 27 entries include: Louis Aragon, Marcel Arland, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Bernanos, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Andre Malraux, Paul Nizan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elsa Triolet, Marguerite Yourcenar and Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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(The literary landscape after 1800 is marked by monumental...)
The literary landscape after 1800 is marked by monumental achievements by fiction writers. Honore de Balzac's title La Comedie Humaine, with its suggestion of universality, fits well its creator's vast ambitions, energies, and visions, both artistic and social. Victor Hugo's first great novel, Notre-Dame de Paris dominates Romantic fiction the way the cathedral dominates the city in his masterful reconstruction. Add to the list such impressive writers as Stendhal and George Sand, as well as a score of additional well-recognized fiction writers of the century, and you'll see how dominant fiction was during this period in France. 19 entries include: Honore de Balzac, Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Gustav Flaubert, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Etienne de Senancour, Stendhal, Alfred de Vigny.
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(This is the author's seventh poetry collection. "Breakwat...)
This is the author's seventh poetry collection. "Breakwater"; Catharine Savage Brosman's new collection, presents a wide variety of lyrics, narrative poems, and meditations in free verse, blank verse, rhymed quatrains, and other forms. The initial section is autobiographical and displays her broad range as she recounts and embroiders on the experience of falling in love again, after many years, with her first husband, whom she has subsequently remarried. The second part, which includes several narrative poems, deals with others' experiences, especially women's, in their careers, their loves, their historical situations, their dramas. Among figures who appear are D. H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, and Madeleine Gide, the wife of Andre Gide. This part concludes with translations of Renaissance love poems by Pernette du Guillet, a French woman poet. The final section contains several poems on moral and religious themes - centered on famous edifices in Europe - as well as lyrics on birds and butterflies, and poems on war and associated matters. As in her previous collections, many tones are found here, from light to somber, and a range of voices, experiences, settings, and figures. Whether she is describing the flight of egrets, a bougainvillea vine, a family running from the Nazis, the beauties of Unaweep Canyon in southwestern Colorado, or adventures of the heart, Brosman's technique allows her to convey the very essence of her topic by those incantations and 'immaterial conceits' (as Mallarme, in Eventail, puts it) that are the mark of exceptional poetry.
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(Jules Roy is an Outstanding French Writer born and raised...)
Jules Roy is an Outstanding French Writer born and raised in Algiera. He gained a reputation as a major essayist and writer on military affairs and aviation, with such works as La Vallee heureuse (1946) and Le Navigateur (1954). Then--disenchanted with the debacle at Dienbienphu and the conduct of the French campaign in Algeria--Roy turned to his own history and that of Algeria for the inspiration to compose his monumental six-volume masterpiece, Les Chevaux du soleil (1965-75). Catherin Savage Brosman, Professor of French at Tulane University and a leading authority on Roy's work, has surveyed Roy's career as a whole for the first time in this concise yet thorough monograph.
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("Place is not only a metaphor for the self; it can be the...)
"Place is not only a metaphor for the self; it can be the self objectified, including the self of years ago." So writes Catharine Savage Brosman, who explores the places of her own life in Finding Higher Ground. The tour, for the reader, is one of delight and wonder. Brosman's places range from the West Texas desert of her girlhood to a chilly flat in the north of England; from the flooded streets of New Orleans to the sublimities of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Even as her meditations reflect on her connections to these places and the ways they have shaped her life, they also examine the broader connections between individual and community, culture and society, experience and memory. Her voice is unique - combining a poet's sensitivity to nuances of setting and behavior with salty good sense, passionate engagement in the world of letters, sly wit, and a rugged independence of character inherited from generations of her Western ancestors. Whether sipping wine in a Parisian cafe, partying with the jet set in Aspen, or contemplating the arid desert West that she loves so deeply, Brosman inhabits these settings, and many others, with a sense of adventure and discovery. To read these essays is to enjoy the company of a lively, thoughtful, original mind. Brosman's "higher ground" is that place we all seek - where we can find and express our own best selves.
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(To many readers of literature, in both French- and Englis...)
To many readers of literature, in both French- and English-speaking countries, the 19th century in France is preeminently the age of the novel-nearly all the important literary figures chose it as their major form of expression. Throughout the late 19th century and part of the 20th, the popularity of French fiction was demonstrated by many editions of collected works by major realist authors. Naturalism can be considered an exaggerated form of realism. In general, the naturalists' writings were characterized by emphasis on the sordid and the details of the lives of those at the lowest social levels. 20 entries include: Maurice Barres, Edouard Dujardin, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Guy de Maupassant, Jules Valles, Jules Verne, Emile Zola.
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(In Range of Light, Catharine Savage Brosman offers lyrica...)
In Range of Light, Catharine Savage Brosman offers lyrical and narrative poems about the American West and Southwest, from Wyoming to New Mexico to California. She explores three different types of ranges-mountains, grazing ranges, and the scope and spectrum of light, a constant motif. Employing a variety of verse forms, she evokes the landscapes, animals, folk art, prehistoric peoples, and historical figures of this captivating area. Scenes and objects are not inert, but humanized by the action of past figures or by observers, seeing the West, modifying it through their presence and being modified in turn: "Green emotion binds / the muscled landscape to our gaze." The region as a whole, with its tremendous differences and varied history, but shared identity, comes alive under Brosman's touch-to be experienced and admired. Catharine Savage Brosman's poetry collections include Places in Mind and The Muscled Truce, among others. A native of Colorado and a longtime resident of New Orleans, she is a professor emerita of French at Tulane University. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including La Nouvelle Revue Française, Europe (Paris), Critical Quarterly, and Sewanee Review.
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(This is the first of three DLB volumes to cover French li...)
This is the first of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. During this period, the modern French novel played the role of an instrument of social change while also reacting to change. As the individual essays in DLB Volume 65 reveal, the greatest historical upheavals of the 20th century - world war, class struggles, colonial unrest, revolutions and economic crises -- became the topics of numerous novels. The predominant literary movement of the era was toward looser forms and an ideological drift away from authoritarian structures and standards, questioning all inherited values. 23 entries include: Andre Breton,Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette),Jacques de Lacretelle,Georges Duhamel,Andre Gide,Francois Mauriac ,Roger Martin du Gard,Charles-Louis Philippe,Paul Morand,Marcel Proust,Romain Rolland,Jules Romains.
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Brosman, Catharine Savage was born on June 7, 1934 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Paul Victor and Della (Stanforth) Hill.
Bachelor, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1955. Master of Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1960.
Instructor in French Rice University, Houston, 1960-1962. Assistant professor French Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 1962-1963, University Florida, Gainesville, 1963-1966. Associate professor French Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 1966-1968.
Visiting associate professor University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1970. From associate professor French to professor emerita Tulane University, New Orleans, 1968—1997, Andrew Mellon professor humanities, 1992, professor emerita, since 1997. De Velling & Willis visiting professor University Sheffield, United Kingdom, 1996.
(To many readers of literature, in both French- and Englis...)
(In Range of Light, Catharine Savage Brosman offers lyrica...)
("Place is not only a metaphor for the self; it can be the...)
(The literary landscape after 1800 is marked by monumental...)
(This is the second of three DLB volumes to cover French l...)
(This is the first of three DLB volumes to cover French li...)
(Jules Roy is an Outstanding French Writer born and raised...)
(This is the author's seventh poetry collection. "Breakwat...)
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Married Patric Savage, 1955 (divorced 1964), Married July 11, 2008. Married Paul William Brosman Junior, August 21, 1970 (divorced 1993). 1 child, Katherine Elliott.