Recently added articles from French Forum:
The conversion of Polyeucte's Felix: the problem of religion and theater.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... 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; ... <Pre> Or un architecte n'est pas necessairement lui-meme construit en materiaux precieux. ValeryLes 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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), ...