Recently added articles from French Forum:
The way of imperfection: laughter and mysticism in Marguerite de Navarre's L'Heptameron.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ... cheminons rians toujours. (1) In his classic book on rationalist thought in the sixteenth century, Henri Busson notes that the complexity of Marguerite de Navarre's religious belief, blending Catholic, Protestant, Libertine, and neo-Platonist ideas into one curious mixture, ...
Travestissement discursif et discours utopique: Marivaux et les digressions de Marianne.
Sep 22, 2008; ... En 1721, Montesquieu publie ses Lettres persanes. Ce roman epistolaire met en scene, on s'en souvient, le periple vers la France de deux Persans, Usbek et Rica, qui, parvenus a Paris, se livrent dans leur correspondance a la critique des moeurs et institutions qu'ils decouvrent. Alors ...
All that glitters: connecting baudelaire's art criticism and poetry.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In the many decades since Charles Baudelaire's death, critics have been seeking to understand the relationship between Baudelaire's extensive art critical writings and his poetic project. One of the recurrent themes in studies of Baudelaire's art criticism is the at times problematic ...
Posterite de L' Espece humaine.
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Il y a deux ans, durant les premiers jours qui ont suivi notre retour, nous avons ete, tous je pense, en proie a un veritable elire. Nous voulions parler, etre entendus enfin. (1) </Pre> Je voudrais, avant toute chose, faire resonner ces toutes premieres phrases du livre ...
History, excess and testimony in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes.
Sep 22, 2008; ... "Freres humains, laissez-moi vous raconter comment ca s'est passe. 'On n'est pas votre frere, retorquerez-vous, et on ne veut pas le savoir.'''(2) Thus begin the memoirs of Maximilian Aue, an ex-SS officer, intellectual, and doctor of political law, recounting, in 1970s France, his ...
Chanter sa vie: autobiophonie.
Sep 22, 2008; ... L'autobiographie, en tant que genre litteraire, a fait l'objet de nom-breuses etudes, mais peu semble avoir ete ecrit sur le vers autobio-graphique chante, meme si un nombre important de chansons sont decrites par leur auteurs (ou la critique) comme etant autobio-graphiques. Choisir ...
Bernanos-Bresson (Journal d'un cure de campagne): le spectateur du film/lecteur du journal, ou l'image des mots.
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Je me promettais quelques consolations de I' enseignement du catechisme elementaire, de la preparation a la sainte communion privee selon le voeu du saint pape Pic X.[ ...] J'ai tout de suite senti la resistance des garcons, je me suis tu. Apres tout, ce n'est pas leur ...
An auteur for all seasons: an interview with Eric Rohmer.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The following interview took place in April 2008 in Eric Rohmer's office in a Paris apartment building. BERT CARDULLO: I'd like to focus our discussion today on your Six Moral Tales, M. Rohmer, because they constitute your first, and arguably most important, series, to be ...
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mary Gluck. Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 224 pp. Popular Bohemia sets out to demonstrate nineteenth-century French bohemia's ongoing engagement with popular culture, urban experience ...
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Debarati Sanyal. The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. On sait comment Walter Benjamin, dans un texte desormais celebre consacre au poete des Fleurs du mal, faisait de "I' experience ...
Michel Houellebecq revisite: L'ecriture houellebecquienne.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Murielle Lucie Clement. Michel Houellebecq revisite: L'ecriture houellebecquienne. Paris: L'Harmattan, coll. "Critiques Litteraires," 2007. 205 pp. Murielle Lucie Clement. Housellebecq: Sperme et sang. Paris: L' Harmattan, coll. "Approaches"Approches Litteraires," 2003. 247 pp ....
Ecrire pour qui? L'ecrivain francophone et ses publics.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Lise Gauvin. Ecrire pour qui? L'ecrivain francophone et ses publics. Paris: Karthala, 2007. 174 pp. A 1'heure de la mondialisation et des "litterature-monde," ce livre traite de questions essentielles relatives au statut des litteratures francophones situees hors de I'Hexagone, ...
Making waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s. New York: Continuum, 2008. x + 230 pp. The 1960s is one of those periods to which die-hard cinephiles return over and over again with a deep feeling of nostalgia. Indeed, many of the "cinema is dead" pronouncements ...
Books received.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Sahar Amer. Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii + 252 pp. Anonymous. Boeve de Haumtone and Gui de Warrewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances [Boeve de Haumtone and Gui de Warewic] ....
Satirical dialogism in the paratext of Bonaventure Des Periers' Nouvelles Recreations et joyeux devis.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... We know very little about Bonaventure Des Periers' life. At a fairly young age he became "valet de chambre" of Marguerite de Navarre. In 1537, he published the Cymbalum mundi, four dialogues that attack Catholicism, which were almost immediately outlawed by the Sorbonne. As a consequence, ...
The poetry of disenchanted reenchantment (Leopardi, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Justice).(On Inventing Unknownness)(Giacomo Leopardi, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Donald Justice)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> Les inventions d'inconnu reclament des formes nouvelles. Arthur Rimbaud </Pre> Rimbaud's phrase comes near the end of a famous letter he wrote in May 1871 to Paul Demeny, one of two that are called "les lettres du Voyant." (1) "Inventions d'inconnu" is a remarkable phrase, ...
Mythologie de la chauve-souris: le vampire et ses avatars chez Baudelaire et Barbey D'Aurevilly.(mythology of bats, vampires in works of Charles Baudelaire and Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly )(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Si l'apparition du vampire remonte aux temps de l'antiquite grecque avec les lamies et si elle se presente dans les legendes celtiques a travers les Droch-Fhola ou les demons buveurs du sang, il faut attendre l'epoque romantique pour que le vampire, et d'abord ses representations ...
Literature of ideas and Paul Bourget's republican pedagogy.
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> On a oublie sur Bourget le quatrain de Becque: 'Pour obtenir enfin la vogue J'ai pris des airs de pedagogue Je pontifie et j'epilogue C'est moi qui suis le psychologue.' Paul Leautaud. </Pre> Edgar Allan Poe would have accused Paul Bourget of heresy. He would have ...
Revolution politique et verite interieure: Misere de la poesie d'Andre Breton.(Francis Guevremont)(surrealism in works of Andre Breton)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Si la position centrale d'Andre Breton dans l'histoire et l'evolution du surrealisme n'est jamais remise en question, il n'est pas difficile de trouver, meme aujourd'hui, des denonciations de son autocratisme, de la tyrannie apparemment capricieuse avec laquelle il definissait le "vrai" ...
Beauvoir speaks for Sartre: Ambiguous ethics in la Ceremonie des adieux.(Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Within a few weeks of its publication late in 1981, La Ceremonie des adieux, Simone de Beauvoir's final tribute to her long-time companion, Jean-Paul Sartre, generated a flurry of reviews, many of which were negative or at least ambivalent in their judgments. No doubt her evocative title ...