John O'Brien's Outputs (4)

The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing identity in The Return of Martin Guerre (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2011). The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing identity in The Return of Martin Guerre. In M. T. Burnett, & A. Streete (Eds.), Filming and Performing Renaissance History (50-64). Palgrave Macmillan

Over the last one hundred years, many of the events and personalities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences via a variety of visual media. This collection, for... Read More about The Touch of Man on Woman: Dramatizing identity in The Return of Martin Guerre.

Rabelais and Language: Change, Decay, Transition (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2011). Rabelais and Language: Change, Decay, Transition. In F. Gray, & T. Reeser (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Francois Rabelais (73-79). MLA

The works of François Rabelais--Gargantua, Pantagruel, the Tiers livre, and the Quart livre--embody the Renaissance spirit of discovery and are crucial to the development of early modern prose and to the birth of the novel. Rabelais's exuberant satir... Read More about Rabelais and Language: Change, Decay, Transition.

Sixteenth-Century Prose Narrative (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2011). Sixteenth-Century Prose Narrative. In E. Wilson, W. Burgwinkle, & N. Hammond (Eds.), The Cambridge History of French Literature (220-228). Cambridge University Press

From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinées, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the pre... Read More about Sixteenth-Century Prose Narrative.

La Verité se rencontre-t-elle au train de la contingence? (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2011). La Verité se rencontre-t-elle au train de la contingence?. In P. Desan (Ed.), Les chapitres oubliés des "Essais" de Montaigne : actes des journées d'étude à la mémoire de Michel Simonin (93-106). Honoré Champion