Through French Windows: An Introduction to France in the Nineties

by John Corbett

A cultural portrait of contemporary France and its people that dispels persistent stereotypes and myths

Genres: France

426 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 1994

About the author

John Corbett is a Capes International Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo. He was previously a Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Macao, and before that a Professor at the University of Glasgow, where he served as Head of the Department of English Language. He has published widely on diverse topics, including Scottish literature and the Scots language, literary translation, intercultural language education, and corpus linguistics. He is an Honorary Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and he has twice chaired the MLA Scottish Literature Forum.