Recently added articles from French Forum:
Deadly words, captive imaginations: women and poetic creation in Jean Froissart's Prison Amoureuse.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Findley, Brooke Heidenreich ... Jean Froissart's Prison Amoureuse (c. 1372), a courtly narrative by an author better known today for his historical works, is very much a poet's poem. The most noteworthy human relationship in this self-reflexive tale is the literary friendship between the poet and his male patron, and the ...
Subject to dispute: constructions of the author in Francois Beroalde de Verville's Palais des curieux (1612).
Sep 22, 2007; Butterworth, Emily ... The emergence of the figure of the author has inspired enormous critical interest over recent years. In sixteenth-century French studies, critics have read in Clement Marot's poetry an individualism that demonstrates a decline of the poetic corporatism characteristic of the work of the ...
The prison-house of revolutionary memory: the politics of oblivion in Michelet, Hugo, and Dumas.(Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Blix, Goran ... Quand on veut oublier les gens, on n' eclaire pas les oubliettes. Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers I. Introduction The French term "oubliette de I'histoire" is one that occurs frequently in modern political discourse to name the violence of forgetting, ...
The decadent writer as collector and flaneur: on intertextual networks and literary spaces in Huysmans.(J.-K. Huysmans)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Acquisto, Joseph ... Etrange was the word most often used to describe J.-K. Huysmans' first published book, Le Drageoir aux epices (I873), and idiosyncratic group of short texts written at the borders of several genres, most notably the prose poem and the short story. Commentators most frequently call ...
Theatralisation d' Artaud des deux cotes de l' atlantique: dessins et autoportraits dans les discours contemporains.(theatricality of Antonin Artaud's self-portraits on two sides of the Atllantic)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Antle, Martine ... Artaud nous a legue une oeuvre forte, parfois violente, qui deborde largement dans le culturel et dont la dimension politique reste encore a etre revelee. Le corps, au sens physique tout autant qu' au sens metaphorique du terme, et son langage, est devenu lieu de combat chez Artaud. C'est ...
Leiris peinture, parure.(analysis of Michel Leiris' novel Le Ruban au cou d'Olympia)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Joseph, Rima ... Parer: v. t. Embellir par des ornements || Detourner de soi, se proteger contre, eviter Petit Larousse Illustre La fanfreluche rose aux cheveux, les boucles d'oreille minuscules, le mince ruban noir au cou, les mules tenant a peine au bout du pied. Pour Leiris, ces ...
Entre " femme noire" de Senghor et Femme nue, femme noire de Beyala: reseau intertextuel de subversion et d'echos.(comparison of novels 'Femme Noire' by Leopold Sedar Senghor and ' Femme nue, femme noire' by Calixthe Beyala)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Asaah, Augustine H. ... D'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), 1'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia noire notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et rapprochement, tels sont les termes qui resument, sous cet angle, ...
Linda Le's Voix and the crisis of representation: alterity and the vietnamese immigrant writer in france.(Voix: Une Crise)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Barnes, Leslie ... Pour la premiere fois, j'avais le sentiment que les mots ne me sauveraient plus. Linda Le, interview with Catherine Argand Linda Le's novels are set in a deranged world, one inhabited by ghosts and dismembered bodies. Voix: Une Crise, the second book in a trilogy on ...
Belles de jour et de nuit: les destins croises de Rene Clair et de Luis Bunuel dans le canon du cinema en francais.(comparison of French film directors Rene Clair and Luis Bunuel)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; Philippe, Antoine ... Comment les cineastes entrent-ils dans le "canon" du cinema en France? Qu'est-ce qui les en fait sortir? Et quelles sont les consequences de ces va-et-vient pour la critique de films? Nous proposons de repondre a cette triple question a partir du cas de deux realisateurs, Rene Clair et ...
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette. Zayde.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Beasley, Faith E. ... Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette. Zayde. Nicholas D. Paige, ed. and trans. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 210 pp. Lafayettr's Zayde (1670-71) is a fascinating text that has drawn increasing critical attention over the past ten years. It ...
Rachel Mesch. The Hysteric's Revenge.(The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Belenky, Masha ... Rachel Mesch. The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. 268 pp. Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Marcelle Tinayre, Renee Vivien, Liane de Pougy, Odette Dulac--these are not exactly household names in the French ...
Marina van Zuylen.Monomania.(Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Spagnoli, Laura ... Marina van Zuylen.Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. 238 pp. Monomania is a rich and compelling study of an often misunderstood condition. First named in early nineteenth-century psychiatric research, monomania ...
Dominique Viart et Bruno Vercier. La litterature franqaise au present. Heritage, modernite, mutations.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Dominique Viart et Bruno Vercier. La litterature franqaise au present. Heritage, modernite, mutations. Paris: Bordas, 2005. 512 pp. Tot ou tard, il fallait que Bordas tirat un trait sur I'histoire litteraire a l'ancienne, discours scolaire ou se melaient extraits de lecture, ...
Les Aventures de Harry Dickson. Scenario de Frederic de Towarnicki pour un film (non realise) par Alain Resnais.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; Cornette, Jerome ... Les Aventures de Harry Dickson. Scenario de Frederic de Towarnicki pour un film (non realise) par Alain Resnais. Nantes: Capricci, 2007. 376 pp., 29 ill. (1) <Pre> In memoriam Frederic de Towarnicki (1920-2008) "L'impossible etait d'instinct notre fil conducteur" (Frederic de ...
Books received.
Sep 22, 2007 ... Jeanine S. Alesch. Marguerite Yourcenar: The Other/Reader. Birmingham, AL: Sum-ma Publications, Inc., 2007. ix + 265 pp. Aubespine, Madeleine de 1'. Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition. Translated by Anna Klosowska. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago ...