Recently added articles from French Forum:
The conversion of Polyeucte's Felix: the problem of religion and theater.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Ekstein, Nina ... The relationship between religion and theater gave rise in seventeenth century France to much discussion and dissent, commonly referred to as the Querelle de la moralite du theatre. The 1640s were a rare period during which religious subjects were popular on the French stage; almost all of ...
Blood and rhythmic analogies in Valery's Charmes.
Jan 01, 2009; Williams, Benjamin ... <Pre> Or un architecte n'est pas necessairement lui-meme construit en materiaux precieux. Valery Les Grenades Dures grenades entr' ouvertes Cedant a 1'exces de vos grains Je crois voir des fronts souverains Eclates de leurs decouvertes! Si les soleils par vous subis, ...
A creature has passed this way: devices of generic self-situation in Colette's La Maison de Claudine.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Freadman, Anne ... In authorial studies of Colette, La Maison de Claudine has persistently been read as the first of the "maternal cycle," followed shortly after by La Naissance du jour and Sido. (1) However, thematic commonality notwithstanding, the three texts mentioned as constituting this cycle are ...
Fragmented territories: AIDS and Paris in Les Nuits fauves of Cyril Collard.(Paris, France)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Schehr, Lawrence R. ... Written at the height of the AIDS crisis, Cyril Collard's novel Les Nuits fauves (1989) is a singular approach to mapping AIDS on the body and in the city of Paris. Collard uses Paris and the ailing body as interchangeable metonyms for one another, in a style that renews classic ...
Translation and the fantastic: Nancy Huston's Instruments des tenebres.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Brownlie, Siobhan ... The starting point for this paper is "translation," translation as a vital practical activity for the author Nancy Huston, and more broadly as a metaphor for the author's situation as an expatriate bilingual. Huston's autobiographical works, Nord perdu (1999), Desirs et Realites (1995), ...
"Trois livres simultanes" de Dominique Fourcade pour une exceptionnelle triangulation poetique.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; Rince, Dominique ... En juin 2005, dans le contexte d'une poesie contemporaine soumise pourtant depuis longtemps a la "portion congrue" editoriale, Dominique Fourcade prend, avec son editeur POL, le risque d'une triple et synchrone publication de recueils titres: en laisse, sans lasso et sans flash et eponges ...
Reading through photography: Roland Barthes's last seminar "Proust et la photographie".
Jan 01, 2009; Yacavone, Kathrin ... The posthumous publication of Roland Barthes's College de France lectures and seminars (delivered between 1977 and 1980) has triggered a new interest among scholars in Barthes's late oeuvre. (1) His last seminar, however, entitled "Proust et la photographie" (2)--one Barthes never ...
Anne L. Birberick, ed. The Art of Instruction: Essays on Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Leibacher-Ouvrard, Lise ... Anne L. Birberick, ed. The Art of Instruction: Essays on Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-century France. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008. 300 pp. Ce bel ouvrage attire d'abord par la variete des themes et des genres litteraires traites, des approches utilisees et des ...
Catherine Nesci. Le Flaneur et les flaneuses: Les femmes et la ville a l'epoque romantique.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Mesch, Rachel ... Catherine Nesci. Le Flaneur et les flaneuses: Les femmes et la ville a l'epoque romantique. Grenoble: Ellug, 2007. 430 pp. Catherine Nesci's impeccably researched, rich and provocative exploration of flaneurs and flaneuses in nineteenth-century France is a reflection on the way ...
Vladimir Kapor. Pour une poetique de l'ecriture exotique.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Keohane, Elizabeth Geary ... Vladimir Kapor. Pour une poetique de l'ecriture exotique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. 303 pp. The concept of the exotic, first evoked at the end of the 1500s, has proved a continuous challenge to critics. Its definition, always relative, is nuanced by a variety of ever-changing ...
Warren Motte. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Prince, Gerald ... Warren Motte. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century. Champaign and London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. 237 pp. In this splendidly well-informed, thought-provoking, and readable book, Warren Motte continues the exploration of the (post)modern French novel that ...
Derek Schilling. Memoires du quotidien: Les lieux de Perce.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Motte, Warren ... Derek Schilling. Memoires du quotidien: Les lieux de Perec. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2006. 192 pp. Surveying his own career in 1978 for the purposes of a short essay entitled "Notes sur ce que je cherche," Georges Perec suggested that his work ...
Rene Predal. Le Cinema francais depuis 2000: un renouvellement incessant.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Massonnat, Francois ... Rene Predal. Le Cinema francais depuis 2000: un renouvellement incessant. Paris: Armand Colin, 2008. 344 pp. A mere twenty-one years after Pialat's controversial victory with Sous le soleil de Satan, Bertrand Cantet offered France a long-awaited Palme d'Or at the Cannes film ...
Books received.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Anonymous. The Good Wife's Guide: A Medieval Household Book [Le Menagier de Paris]. Translated by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xii + 367 pp. Janet Beizer. Thinking through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biographies ....
