• Introduction / Jean Devaux et Matthieu Marchal
• Pt. 1. Jean de Wavrin et les anchiennes cronicques d'engleterre
• L'image de la femme de pouvoir dans les Croniques de Jean de Wavrin
• "L'âpre saveur de la vie" : passions et politique dans les Croniques de Jean de Wavrin
• Définir et organiser la mosaïque sociale : les trois ordres dans les Croniques de Jean de Wavrin
• Quelques régionalismes dans les Croniques de Jean de Wavrin
• Les Mémoires de Jacques du Clercq et les Croniques de Jean de Wavrin
• Un héritage repris par les Anchiennes cronicques d'Engleterre : les Mémoires de Toison d'or, source de Jean de Wavrin ?
• Ung anchien chevallier tres notable, prudent et moult grant voiagier : les dernières années de Jean de Wavrin
• Pt. 2. L'atelier Wavrin et l'art de la mise en prose
• La diversité des régimes de mise en prose dans l'atelier de Jean de Wavrin
• L'"atelier" de Jean de Wavrin d'après les manuscrits de Jehan d'Avennes et de Gérard de Nevers : comparaisons et questions de méthode
• L'Angleterre dans les oeuvres romanesques composées dans -- l'atelier de Jean de Wavrin
• Décrire la guerre dans les romans de la collection de Jean de Wavrin
• Entre merveille et histoire : la Méditerranée dans le Florimont en prose
• Les renouvellements du Florimont bourguignon : seuil et clôture de l'oeuvre, entre histoire et fiction
• Le Livre du conte d'Artois et de sa femme : manuscrits, texte, images
• Gilles de Chin, nouveau "chevalier au lion" ?
• De l'existence d'un manuscrit de la prose de Blancandin et l'Orgueilleuse d'amours produit dans l'atelier du Maître de Wavrin
• Pt. 3. L'esthétique du maître de Wavrin ou le roman par l'image
• Pour une lecture juridique du texte : l'Histoire de Gérard de Nevers vue par le Maître de Wavrin
• Peindre, saisir sur le vif... : image, récit et narration dans Le roman de Florimont en prose
• L'image narratrice dans le roman d' Othovyen.

"Jean, bâtard de Wavrin (ca 1400-1475), fut tout à la fois homme d'armes et diplomate au service du duc de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon, mais aussi chroniqueur et amateur de livres : de même qu'il entreprit, dès 1446, la rédaction de son recueil des Croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne a present nomme Engleterre, oeuvre historique inédite vouée à ce royaume dont les ducs de Bourgogne se firent, pour un temps, les alliés, il s'appliqua à réunir, au fil des années, une collection de romans de chevalerie en prose illustrés dans l'officine du "Maître de Wavrin", artiste lillois anonyme qui doit son nom à son commanditaire principal. Conçu dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, aux confins de la philologie, de l'histoire et de l'histoire de l'art, le présent ouvrage regroupe les actes des rencontres qui se sont tenues à l'Université du Littoral - Côte d'Opale (Dunkerque) les 24 et 25 octobre 2013. Ainsi vise-t-il à éclairer d'un jour nouveau le véritable foyer littéraire et artistique dont Jean de Wavrin fut le maître d'oeuvre et la remarquable impulsion donnée par la cour de Bourgogne à l'évolution de l'art du récit."--Page 4 of cover.
Jean, a bastard of Wavrin ( ca 1400-1475), was both a man at arms and a diplomat in the service of the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, but also a chronicler and a lover of books: just as he undertook, from 1446 , the writing of his collection of Cronic and Anchovies istories of Grant Bretaigne now called England, an unprecedented historical work dedicated to this kingdom of which the dukes of Burgundy became, for a time, the allies, he endeavored to gather, over the years, a collection of novels of chivalry in prose illustrated in the dispensary of " Master of Wavrin ", anonymous Lille artist who owes his name to his main sponsor. Designed in an interdisciplinary perspective, on the borders of philology, history and history of art, this book gathers the proceedings of the meetings held at the University of Littoral - Côte d'Opale ( Dunkirk) on October 24 and 25, 2013. Thus does it aim to shed new light on the true literary and artistic home of which Jean de Wavrin was the prime contractor and the remarkable impulse given by the Burgundy court to the evolution of the art of narrative.

• Ecological subjectivity : Guattari and Darrieussecq
• Ecological dwelling : Serres and Lafon
• Ecological politics : Latour and Rufin
• Ecological ends : Schaeffer and Houellebecq.

"French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus's ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of "French ecocriticism." Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text's many interdiscursive connections. Posthumus identifies four key concepts, ecological subjectivity, ecological dwelling, ecological politics, and ecological ends, for changing how we think about human-nature relations. French Écocritique highlights the importance of moving beyond canonical ecocritical texts and examining a diversity of cultural and literary traditions for new ways of imagining the environment."-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. Popular Panoramas
• 2. The de Kock Paradox
• 3. The Adaptable Eugene Sue
• 4. Balzac, High and Low Conclusion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index.
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Mastering the Marketplace examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Anne O'Neil-Henry examines how French authors of the nineteenth century navigated the growing publishing and marketing industry, as well as the dramatic rise in literacy rates, libraries, reading rooms, literary journals, political newspapers, and the advent of the serial novel. O'Neil-Henry places the work of canonical author Honore de Balzac alongside then-popular writers such as Paul de Kock and Eugene Sue, acknowledging the importance of "low" authors in the wider literary tradition. By reading literary texts alongside associated advertisements, book reviews, publication histories, sales tactics, and promotional tools, O'Neil-Henry presents a nuanced picture of the relationship between "high" and "low" literature, one in which critics and authors alike grappled with the common problem of commercial versus cultural capital. Through new literary readings and original archival research from holdings in the United States and France, O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of a crucial moment in the development of industrialized culture. In the process, she discloses links between this formative period and our own, in which mobile electronic devices, internet-based bookstores, and massive publishing conglomerates alter-once again-the way literature is written, sold, and read.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Thought, Speech, and the Poetics of Love in Renaissance Dialogue Theory
• Introduction
• Carlo Sigonio and Torquato Tasso: The Dialectical Turn
• Sperone Speroni: Speech, Drama, and Love in Dialogue
• 2. Mimesis of Love: Dialogue and Poetics in Sperone Speroni's Dialogo d'amore
• 3. Infinite Practice of Amorous Speaking: Tullia d'Aragona and the Venetian poligrafi
• Introduction
• Infinite Speaking in Amorous Dialogue: Tullia d'Aragona's Dialogo della infinita di amore
• Love Dialogue among Venetian literati-lovers: Betussi, Sansovino, and Gottifredi
• Amorous Speaking and the Return to the Ciceronian Model: Betussi and Domenichi
• 4. Toward a French Love Dialogue: Philosophy and Literary Mimesis in Translations and Emulations by Claude Gruget, Pontus de Tyard, and Louis Le Caron
• Introduction
• Translating Speroni and Ebreo: From Paradox to Dialogical Labor of Love
• Dialogue between Amorous Philosophy and Amorous Poetry: Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire premier
• Staging the Speaking Beloved Other: Louis Le Caron's La Claire, ou de la prudence de droit
• 5. "A l'imitation ... d'un Bembe j'ay un peu voulu fourvoyer de ma course encommencee". Innovation and Gender in French Love Dialogues: Claude de Taillemont, Etienne Pasquier, Marguerite de Navarre, and Louise Labe
• Introduction
• Collective Speaking of Love: Adapting and Emulating Bembo's Gli Asolani in France: Claude de Taillemont and Etienne Pasquier
• Toward a Female French Love Dialogue: Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche and Louise Labe's Debat de Fotie et d'Amour
• Conclusion
• Amor ordinem nescit: Montaigne's Dialogue on Love in "Sur des vers de Virgile."

• Cover
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Writing against Theodicy: Secularization in Baudelaire's Poetry and Critical Essays
• Chapter Two: The Mourning of God and the Ironies of Secularization in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
• Chapter Three: Sublimation and Conversion in Zola and Huysmans
• Chapter Four: The Staging of Doubt: Zola and Huysmans on Lourdes
• Chapter Five: Religious and Secular Conversions: Transformations in Céline's Medical Perspective on Evil
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Book
• About the Author.

Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting influence on modern French thought, author Scott M. Powers enlists psychoanalytic theory on mourning and sublimation, the philosophical concept of the sublime, Charles Taylor's theory of religious and secular "cross-pressures, " and William James's psychology of conversion to account for the survival of religious themes in Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Celine. For Powers, Baudelaire's prose poems, Zola's experimental novels, and Huysmans's and Celine's early narratives attempt to account for evil by redefining the traditionally religious concept along secular lines. However, when unmitigated by the mechanisms of irony and sublimation, secular confrontation with the dark and seemingly absurd dimension of man leads modern writers such as Huysmans and Celine, paradoxically, to embrace a religious or quasi-religious understanding of good and evil. In the end, Powers finds that how authors cope with the reality of suffering and human wickedness has a direct bearing on the ability to sustain a secular vision.
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• Introduction / Antony Soron
• De l'épreuve d'écrire avant toute autre chose...
• Pt. 1. Écrire ou "rééprouver" l'événement
• Contre "la conspiration du silence", "écrire pour rester en vie". L'écriture d'auteures (franco-)algériennes d'expression française à l'épreuve des violences de genre pendant la "décennie noire" en Algérie / Isabelle Charpentier
• Du tiers porte-parole à l'être traversé : écrire ou la passation risquée de la mémoire. Le cas des fictions consacrées au génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda en 1994 / Virginie Brinker
• Pt. 2. Écrire l'épreuve ou éprouver l'écrire
• Pierre Michon entre "volonté d'écrire" et "impossibilité d'écrire" / Souad Yacoub Khlif
• Exil, douleur et écriture dans les Tristes et les Pontiques d'Ovide : du non-être à l'être ? / Géraldine Puccini-Delbey
• écriture comme affranchissement et délectation. Réflexion sur l'oeuvre riccobonienne / Wafa Elloumi
• Pt. 3. De la nécessité de s'autoréférencer
• Passion simple d'Annie Ernaux : écrire certes, mais publier / Antony Soron
• L'autoréférentialité comme stratégie identitaire et scripturaire dans le récit narratif francophone au féminin / Bernadette Kassi
• Pt. 4. La folie à la marge du texte
• Écrire la souffrance ou de la souffrance d'écrire : la poésie de la souffrance dans Opium de Jean Cocteau / Éléonore Antzenberger
• Héliogabale ou l'Anarchiste couronné, le double glorieux d'Antonin Artaud / Sandrine Chérat
• Pt. 5. L'écriture en équilibre instable
• L'épreuve de l'écriture fragmentaire et de la pensée messianique dans l'oeuvre de Maurice Blanchot / Éric Hoppenot
• Gilles Deleuze et la mise en tension de l'écriture / Marco Salucci
• Pt. 6. L'écriture : le jeu et/ou l'épreuve du miroir
• Le romancier en "vaillant petit tailleur" : les digressions métapoétiques d'Éric Chevillard / Agnès Lhermitte
• L'avarice et le vertige de la perte -- ou l'écriture à l'épreuve d'elle-même -- dans Noé de Jean Giono / Jean-Marc Pilorget
• L'oeuvre à l'épreuve d'elle-même : le jeu agonistique de Michel Leiris / Kamel Skander.

"L'épreuve de l'écriture a été souvent attestée dans les journaux intimes des écrivains. Toutefois, à l'époque contemporaine, dans sa propension à investir tous les genres, le roman a très souvent annexé le "Journal" s'autorisant une écriture bipolaire qui se focalise plus ou moins alternativement sur le "je" narré et le "je" narrant. Le romancier contemporain et/ou ultra-contemporain en serait-il venu à réinterpréter le fameux vers de Baudelaire, "Sois sage, ô ma douleur et tiens toi plus tranquille" ? Au lieu d'étouffer l'expression de l'épreuve de l'écriture, ne tend-il pas à lui lâcher la bride, habité par la conviction symbolique qu'il n'est plus temps simplement de raconter des histoires mais aussi et surtout d'exposer aux yeux du lecteur le sens et le prix même de l'écriture ? On mesure ici à quel point la figure même de l'écrivain trouve une place de choix dans le champ de l'interrogation. Le présent ouvrage se propose d'appréhender le caractère digressif de l'oeuvre littéraire afin d'observer quelles images de l'écrivain en train d'écrire elle met en perspective et de dessiner en creux par voie de convergence la silhouette protéiforme de l'écrivain en situation."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. States of Postcolonial Reading
• 2. The Orient in Question
• 3. Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
• 4. Unfinished (Literary) Business: Orientalism and the Maghreb
• 5. Andre Gide and Imperial Dystopia
• 6. Fables of Maghreb Nationhood
• 7. A View from Diversite: Writing and Nation
• 8. The Challenge of Identities and the French Republic Conclusion: Elusive Convergence?
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Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism within postcolonial discourse, Farid Laroussi offers a cultural tour d'horizon which considers Andre Gide's writing on Algeria, literature by French authors of Maghrebi descent, and the conversation surrounding secularism and the headscarf in France. A provocative investigation of the place of Muslims and Islam in Francophone culture, Postcolonial Counterpoint asks how we must proceed if postcolonial studies is to make a difference in reconciling history, identity, citizenship, and Islam in the West.
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• Sample from Table of Contents: Foreword by Chris Dearden-- Part I Arion: The Legend and its Context:
• 1. Arion and the Dolphin in Classical Antiquity, Herodotus/Aulus Gellius/Ovid/Plutarch/Hyginus/Lucian, Overview--
• 2. Of Dolphins and Music, Dolphins and their cultural Depictions Ancient Greek Music and Arion the Poet-Musician-- Part II The Legend of Arion in French Reimaginings:
• 3. Arion in Visual Artworks, The European context, Arion in French Works--
• 4. Arion in French Poetry, Sceve/Du Bartas/Sieur d'Arion/Saint-Amant--
• 5. Airs in a Royal Ballet: Chastillon--
• 6. Arion in Cantatas, Campra and Roy/Le Bailly--
• 7. An Opera Libretto: Le Brun--
• 8. A Complete Opera: Matho and Fuzelier--
• 9. An Act in an Opera-Ballet: Destouches and Roy-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Arion was a famed poet-musician, born in Lesbos in the seventh-century BC. A few generations later, Herodotus, in a parenthesis within his Histories, included a legendary account of Arion's rescue by a dolphin from treacherous sailors while returning from Italy to Corinth. Herodotus prefaced this with a few details about the historical Arion, thus preserving the memory of the real person. Other versions of the legend followed, in Greek or Latin, over a period of several hundred years. The intention throughout has been to apply both a broad and a fine brush. Therefore, the content is wide-ranging, but it is also specific in the detail. Complementing its primary function of bringing together and examining diverse French works on the same theme, the book should therefore also be useful as a reference tool for those interested in one or more particular areas.
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• Women in Dialogue through the Centuries
• Journals, Journaux and Networks
• Solidarity and Estrangement in Contemporary Writings.

Solitaires, Solidaires stems from the 2013 Women in French conference, which celebrated twenty-five years since the creation of the network of the same name, and brought together the Women in French UK and Women in French in Scotland meetings, which had, until then, been running en solitaire on each side of the border. It therefore seemed opportune to reflect on the theme of female solidarity, its various shapes and constructions, and its meaning.Studies included in this bilingual volume focus on the representation of female solidarity and solitude in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history, covering texts ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The various contributions explore how the construction of female solidarities and identities has depended not only on networks, dialogues and correspondences, but also (and often simultaneously) on isolation, confrontations and rivalry between women, and on unconventional representations of femininity and motherhood.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter one: Introduction: Writing (from) the Banlieues Chapter Two: Criminal Identities Banlieue Parades Violence, Alterity on the Inside, and Second-Class Citizenship Chapter Three: Recasting Juvenile Delinquency Chronicle of Youth in the Galley From Social Disqualification to Delinquency Chapter Four: The Islamist Threat Terrorist in spite of Himself: The Amalgamation of Religion, Ethnicity, and Topography The Enemy Within: Islam and Integration in France Chapter Five: The Feminist Metaphor Oderint Dum Metuant: Feminine Revolt, Urban (Dis) Order, and Rights of Citizenship Transgressive Women, Gender Democracy, and Rediscovery of the Ordinary in the Banlieues Conclusion: Urban Riots and Youth Resistance in the Banlieue: Towards a Coming Community Bibliography.
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State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship foregrounds the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literature in France. It uses postcolonial theory, sociology, and political philosophy to investigate the modalities surrounding the question of citizenship in a country where citizens of African descent are not only considered a threat to national identity, but also caught between inclusion and exclusion. By examining the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literatures produced after the 2005 riots, this book interrogates the questions of citizenship, belonging, and coexistence in a context where literature from the "periphery" has become a site where "central" political power and "mainstream" French literary canons are contested. Moreover, these productions clearly reveal an unexplored correlation between geo-aesthetics and contemporary French national geopolitics. Ultimately, this book is a plea for a serious approach to social formation in postcolonial France in a way that transcends skin color, and instead is based on a shared colonial past, as well as current social disqualifications.
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• Introduction
• 1. Allegory Is a Woman
• 2. From douce France to the dame renommee: Figuring the French Body Politic
• 3. Jean Gerson and the University of Paris
• 4. Envisioning the Body Politic before and after the Treaty of Troyes Coda: What to Say about Joan of Arc?
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Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380-1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu's book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
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Dans ce nouveau millénaire, le champ littéraire en France continue à nous offrir des écrivains et des écrivaines étincelant(e)s, qui ne craignent pas de provoquer et de prendre des risques littéraires et philosophiques. Plus que jamais, les écrivaines, qui ont longtemps lutté pour être reconnues comme artistes et penseuses égales aux hommes, se trouvent au premier plan des expérimentations littéraires contemporaines. Aventures et expériences littéraires identifie et explore les mouvements clés de l'écriture des femmes au cours de la première décennie du vingt-et-unième siècle, regardant en arrière afin de remarquer l'évolution des thèmes féminins et féministes précédents, et s'ouvrant à de nouveaux horizons et à "l'encore à venir". Les aventures et expériences des femmes sont explorées ainsi que les parcours littéraires suivis par des écrivaines reconnues telles que Christine Angot, Nina Bouraoui, Virginie Despentes, Régine Detambel, Annie Ernaux et Marie NDiaye au côté de nouvelles voix comme Gwenaëlle Aubry, Chloé Delaume ou Sumana Sinha.

• Note on Translations and Manuscripts Acknowledgements Prologue
• Chapter 1: Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian Feud: Kingship and Regency
• Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Feud and Christine's Political Poetry, 1393-1401
• Chapter 3: The Point of No Return and the Political Allegories, 1401-1404
• Chapter 4: The Entrance of Jean of Burgundy and Reconfiguring Regency, 1405
• Chapter 5: Heading Toward Showdown and the Prose Treatises, 1405-1407
• Chapter 6: The Great Feud, After 1407 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
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In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine's poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time.
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• Contents: Introduction. Part I Women Writ: Recuperating women and the man behind the screen: (un)classical bodies in Les caquets de l'accouchee (1622)?-- The daughters' sacrifice and the paternal order in Racine's Iphigenie en Aulide-- The female mind reformed: pedagogical counter-discourses, radical and regressive, under Louis XIV. Part II Women Writing: The heroine at war: self-divisions in La Guette's `extraordinary' memoirs-- From the maternal metaphor to metonymy and history: 17th-century discourses of maternity and the passion of Mme de Sevigne-- Overreading, without doubt: ambiguity and irony in La Princesse de Montpensier. Afterword-- Bibliography-- Index.
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In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fenelon, Poulain de la Barre, in the first part; La Guette, La Fayette and Sevigne, in the second. These studies thus also take up different genres: satire, tragedy and treatise; memoir, novella and letter-writing. Since gender is a relational construct, each chapter considers as well specific textual and contextual representations of men. In every instance, Stanton looks for signs of conformity to-and deviations from-normative gender scripts. The Dynamics of Gender adds a new dimension to early modern French literary and cultural studies: it incorporates a dynamic (shifting) theory of gender, and it engages both contemporary critical theory and literary historical readings of primary texts and established concepts in the field. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as a practice. The Afterword examines some of the meanings of reading-as-a-feminist.
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• Introduction Part I: The Staircase
• Chapter 1. Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola's Au Bonheur des dames
• Chapter 2. Ups and Downs: Sartorial Spectacle in Texts by Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet Part II: The Antechamber
• Chapter 3. Waiting for Change: Zola's Au Bonheur des dames and Nana
• Chapter 4. Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic Part III: The Fashion Atelier
• Chapter 5. Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La Curee
• Chapter 6. A Woman's Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans's En Menage and Rachilde's Late-Century Novels Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
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In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years between 1870 and 1900 the chroniclers of Parisian modernity depicted the urban landscape not just in public settings such as boulevards and parks but also in "dislocations, " spaces where the public and the intimate overlapped in provocative and subversive ways. Stairwells, theatre foyers, dressmakers' studios, and dressing rooms were in-between places that have long been overlooked but were actually marked as indisputably modern through their connections with high fashion. Fashioning Spaces engages with and thinks beyond the work of critics Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin to arrive at new readings of the French capital. Examining literature by Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, and others, as well as paintings, architecture, and the fashionable garments worn by both men and women, Brevik-Zender crafts a compelling and innovative account of how fashion was appropriated as a way of writing about the complexities of modernity in fin-de-siecle Paris.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Beyond the Binary-Triangulating Colonial Discourse
• 2. A War of Words: The Politics of Nomenclature
• 3. Villains and Heroes: Ventriloquizing the "Revolutionary'
• 4. Massacring the Myth: Telling Tales of Revenge
• 5. Compensating for l'Inde perdue: France's "Civilizing Mission" Conclusion: From Empire to Republic Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author.
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The French Colonial Imagination examines France's critical response to the Indian uprisings of 1857-58 and their brutal suppression by the British. Drawing from texts produced during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, Nicola Frith foregrounds the extent to which British India acted as a counter-narrative in the construction of France's rival colonial discourse and its emerging "civilizing mission" alongside France's persistent desire to compensate for its "loss" of India at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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• Preface Introduction: mapping French memories of the Second World War
• 1. Resisters and the resistance: challenging the epic in French crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s
• 2. Forgotten crimes: representing Jewish wartime experience in French crime fiction of the 1950s and 1960s
• 3. Resurgent collaboration: revisiting collaboration in French crime fiction of the 1980s
• 4. Survivor stories: representing persecution and extermination in French crime fiction of the 1980s and 1990s
• 5. Mobilising memory: reading the Second World War in children's crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000s Conclusion: Memories past, present and future Bibliography Index
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This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and how they relate to post-war debates over memory, culture and national identity. Starting with narratives of the Resistance in the late 1940s and concluding with contemporary crime fiction for younger readers, Gorrara examines popular memories of the Second World War in dialogue with the changing social, cultural and political contexts of remembrance in post-war France. From memories of the persecution of Jews and French collaboration to the legacies of the concentration camps and the figure of the survivor-witness, all the crime novels discussed grapple with the challenges of what it means to live in the shadow of such a past for generations past, present and future. -- .
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• Note on translations
• Introduction: foundations for a dissident surrealism
• Spanish surrealism's absent father: sub-realism from Juan Larrea to Federico García Lorca
• Burning in the void: an aesthetics of informe in Lorca's New York
• Truth, mutation, and the closure of representation: sovereign identity in Lorca's Retablillo and El público
• Rotten roses and other botanical bereavements: vanguardist floral (dis)arrangements and Lorca's Doña Rosita
• Lorca and Bataille beyond surrealism: Sonetos del amor oscuro and the erotic imperative
• Conclusion: an ethics of informe.

"García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). In contrast to the idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader André Breton, which focus on the marvelous, automatic creative processes, and sublimated depictions of reality, Lorca's surrealist impulse follows a trajectory more in line with the theories of French intellectuals such as Georges Bataille (1897-1962), who was expulsed from Breton's authoritative group. Bataille critiques the lofty goals and ideals of Bretonian surrealism in the pages of the cultural and anthropological review Documents (1929-1930) in terms of a dissident surrealist ethno-poetics. This brand of the surreal underscores the prevalence of the bleak or darker aspects of reality: crisis, primitive sacrifice, the death drive, and the violent representation of existence portrayed through formless base matter such as blood, excrement, and fragmented bodies. Drawing extensively on the theoretical, cultural, and poetic texts of the period, García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism offers the first book-length study to consider Bataille's thinking within the Spanish context, examined through the work of Lorca, a singular exponent of what is here referred to as a dissident Spanish surrealism. By reading Lorca's "surrealist" texts (including Poeta en Nueva York, Viaje a la luna, and El público) through the Bataillean lens, this volume both amplifies our understanding of the poetry and drama of one of the most important Spanish writers of the twentieth century and also expands our perspective of what surrealism in Spain means"-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents: Lisa Jeschke/Adrian May: Matters of Time: Introduction - Alexandra Paulin-Booth: A Period of Transition: Political Time in the Work of Jean Jaures - Lisa Jeschke: To Refuse to Imagine: Simone Weil's Materialism - Daniel Poitras: Time Matters: The Mouvement du 22 mars and the Dawn of May '68 - Andrew Otway: Rhythmanalysis and Bertin's Les Heures Marseillaises - George Tomlinson: Totalisation, Temporalisation and History: Marx and Sartre - Adrian May: A Meteorology of the Times: Bataille, Blanchot, Lignes and the Twentieth Century - Martin Crowley: Existence - Politics / Exposure - Sacrifice - David Grundy: What's the Matter with Antonin Artaud? Or, Why the Soul is a Pile of Shit - Rye Holmboe: Merdre - Jessica Stacey: 'Doing Time': Bastille Martyrs/ Modern Saints - Jennifer Johnson: Surface Matters: Georges Rouault's Materiality - Louis Daubresse: Quand l'endroit du temps rencontre son envers au cinema: une dialectique des opposes - Christina Chalmers: Frank O'Hara's Anti-Cocteau Movement - Joanna Brueton: A Stitch in Time: Temporal Threads in Jean Genet - Daniel Finch-Race: Fluid Temporality and Identity in Verlaine's 'Ariettes oubliees' I, III, VI, VIII, IX.
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Matters of Time provides an unorthodox array of perspectives on materialist thought and representation in twentieth-century French intellectual culture. Time is figured as the quintessential revolutionary concept, through key historical moments from Jean Jaures' orientation of the socialists at the turn of the century to the inter-generational conflict and politicization of everyday life in May '68. Essays on dialectics and theories of teleological progress are placed side by side with accounts of the existential turn in Marxist thought in France. Contributions on Heidegger and Sartre inject meditations on human mortality into considerations of a new politics of finitude. The volume also emphasizes the inseparability of aesthetic and political thought for the French avant-gardes: chapters on Sade, Artaud and Jarry place Marx's theories of production and commodity fetishism into contact with bodily abjection. The manipulation of time in cinema and matter in painting are examined as a testament to the twentieth century as a period of continuing experimental tension between form and signification. Generational futurity is explored through Genet's spatial representations of filiation and Verlaine's proto-ecological attunement to nature. The volume as a whole constructs a necessarily fragmented timeline of the breaks, tensions and antagonisms in twentieth-century French thought, culture and politics, with particular focus on questions of late capitalism and political, intellectual and aesthetic progress and regress.
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• Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Humanism and History
• Chapter 1: A Humanism of the Sun
• Chapter 2: Of Chronological Others and Alternative Histories Part II: Deconstructing Binaries
• Chapter 3: On Gender
• Chapter 4: Shifting Geographies Part III: Crossing the Straits and Moving the Center
• Chapter 5: (E)migration, Imagination And Dissonance
• Chapter 6: Addio Faranca: Into the 21st Century Conclusion: Reflections on a Future Bibliography About the Author.
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The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting identity of the modern Mediterranean. A transnational rather than binary interpretive framework transcends a colonial and postcolonial bind in which France is the dominant point of reference. While focusing on works in French, this book also examines Maghrebi authors who write in Italian.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy and the Modern Reader
• 2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnes Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
• 3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna's La grammaire est une chanson douce as a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants
• 4. Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif Kechiches Lesquive
• 5. Writing on Walls: Laicite and Literary Form in Francois Begaudeau's Entre les murs.

French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from "what" literature and film say about education to "how" they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of French education in recent years-the works of Agnes Varda, Erik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Begaudeau-do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore questions of education through experiments with form. The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of active, experiential learning-principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diffusion of republican ideology.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; INDEX.

Quand la folie parle presents a timely reinvigoration of the complex subject of madness and its literary manifestations. This stimulating study, authored by a range of young and talented international scholars, is of key importance in defining and refining our ongoing endeavours to theorise and analyse the literary representations of the problematics of mental health. By including discussions of texts that speak of madness as well as those that speak from madness, this volume demonstrates that, in fact, the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression often more powerful than the usual order of logic. Embracing the scientific, the religious, the medical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the erotic, and, of course, the properly literary, this wide-ranging, historically-informed collection is particularly significant in its exploration of both the "madwoman" and the "madman, " and exhibits an inclusiveness which extends to the genres and modes of the texts examined. The authors discussed, from Nerval and Houellebecq to NDiaye and Le, provide a refreshingly "balanced" picture of mental illness, presenting madness or depression as a contestatory, creative stance against often mind-numbing social, racial or consumerist conventions, while refusing to play down the inevitable difficulties accompanying this isolating condition. The "dialectic effect" referenced in the title of the collection extends not only to the dynamics at work within the volume itself, as the different contributions implicitly dialogue with one another, but equally to the reader of these essays, who is engaged throughout in the debates put forward.
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• Inscribed readers : the invention of the lay reader in text and image
• Intermediary readers and their shaping of Machaut's Voir dit
• Inventive readers and the struggle for control.

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely hybrid form: sixty-three poems and ten songs invite an oral performance, while forty-six private prose letters as well as elaborate illustration and references to it's own materiality promote a physical encounter with the book. In Controlling Readers, Deborah McGrady uses Machaut's corpus as a case study to explore the impact of lay literacy on the culture of late-medieval Europe. Arguing that Machaut and his bookmakers were responding to contemporary debates surrounding literacy, McGrady first accounts for the formal invention of the lay reader in medieval art and literature, then analyses Machaut and his bookmakers' innovative use of both narrative and bibliographical devices to try to control the responses of his readers and promote intimate and sensual reading practices in place of the more common public performances of court culture. McGrady's erudite and exhaustive study is key to understanding Machaut, his works, and his influence on the history of reading in the fourteenth-century and beyond.
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• pt. I. Historical background
• pt. II. Monsieur Vénus
• pt. III. La Marquise de Sade
• pt. IV. La Jongleuse.

During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at the Salpetiere. This book examines the emergence of hysterical discourse and its influence on women's writing, specifically focusing on the presentation of female sexuality in three different narratives.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. Patriarchy and Abolition: Germaine de Stael
• 2. Fathers and Colonization: Charlotte Dard
• 3. Daughters and Paternalism: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
• 4. Voices of Daughters and Slaves: Claire de Duras
• 5. Uniting Black and White Families: Sophie Doin Postscript Bibliography Index.
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Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. The book enriches our understanding of French and Atlantic history in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary years when Haiti was menaced with the re-establishment of slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated. It offers in-depth readings of works by Germaine de Stael, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. In addition to these now canonical French authors, it calls attention to the lives and works of two lesser-known but important figures-Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin. Approaching these five women through the prism of paternal authority, Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores the empathy that daughters show toward blacks as well as their resistance against the oppression exercised by male colonists and other authority figures. The works by these French women antislavery writers bear significant similarities, which the book explores, with twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone texts. These women's contributions allow us to move beyond the traditional boundaries of exclusively male accounts by missionaries, explorers, functionaries, and military or political figures. They remind us of the imperative for ever-renewed gender research in the colonial archive and the need to expand conceptions of French women's writing in the nineteenth century as being a small minority corpus. Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves contributes to an understanding of colonial fiction, Caribbean writing, romanticism, and feminism. It undercuts neat distinctions between the cultures of France and its colonies and between nineteenth and twentieth-century Francophone writing.
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• List of Tables and Figures ... ix Acknowledgements ... xi Preface ... xiii
• 1. Introduction ... 1
• 2. Joachim Du Bellay: Language and Culture ... 23
• 3. The Neo-Catullan Revolution ... 55
• 4. Martial, Marot, and `le petit mot pour rire' ... 97
• 5. Epitaphs and tombeaux ... 127
• 6. The Latin Ronsard ... 159
• 7. The Morel Salon: A Microcosm of the Res publica litterarum ... 203 Conclusion ... 227 Appendix: List of French Authors ... 235 Bibliography ... 257 Index ... 265.
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In Virgil's third Eclogue, Palaemon concludes the poetry competition between Menalcas and Damoetas by saying that he cannot choose between them, a judgment that is emblematic of the contest between Neo-Latin and vernacular poetry in Renaissance France. Both forms of poetry draw on similar roots, both are equally accomplished, and the contest between them is largely amicable. The Judgment of Palaemon illustrates the almost symbiotic relationship between Renaissance Latin and French poetry, while exploring poets' motivation for choosing one language over another, the different challenges each form of writing involved, and the extent of the collaboration between different language communities. It focuses on some of the major writers of the period, as well as less well known ones, and on genres specific to humanist poetry. It shows that composing in Latin was often considered more natural, at a time when many Frenchmen's mother tongue was a non-standard French dialect or distinct language.
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• Acknowledgments A Note on Translations Introduction: Mimesis and Transcendence 1) The Heart's Knowledge in Pascal 2) Divine and Human Creation in Bouhours 3) Boileau and the Sublime 4) From Transcendence to Virtue in Rapin 5) Dennis's Theory of Mind 6) Dubos and the Faculty of Sentiment Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author.
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This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism during that period in order to show how the rising interest in the sublime pushes literary critics to entirely alter their approach to theorizing works of literature. It provides a new approach to understanding how eighteenth-century aesthetic theories are indebted to seventeenth-century religious, philosophical, and literary ideas.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Colonial Encounters and Empires in Contact
• 2. Tahiti: La Nouvelle Cythere, the Morality of Colonialism, and Pseudo-Foreign Letters
• 3. Martinique, Slavery, and Emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's Outre-mer
• 4. `Une effrayante epidemie': The Red Threat, Indian Decolonization, and Desordres a Pondichery
• 5. Competing Colonialisms, Competing Memories: The After-lives of Empire Conclusions Bibliography.
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Using fiction as a historical source, this study investigates how the French empire was construed and infused with meaning at three historical moments: 1784, 1835, and 1938. Showing how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers had negotiated conquest and disengagement from empire, it illustrates how perceived loss and nostalgia for imperial pasts helped shape the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.
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• List of figures Acknowledgements Part I Introduction
• 1. Genet and commitment: politics and aesthetics
• 2. Tracing the shift: the event of the wound
• 3. Aesthetic politics: staging the wound Part II
• 4. Exploding the bordello in The Balcony: spectacle, allegory and the wound of theatre
• 5. Detournement, abjection and disidentification in The Blacks
• 6. Bringing it all back home: 'The battle of The Screens'
• 7. Conclusion: Genet our contemporary Part III
• 8. Interview with Lluis Pasqual
• 9. Interview with JoAnne Akalaitis
• 10. Interview with Ultz
• 11. Interview with Excalibah Appendix 'Preface to The Blacks', trans. Clare Finburgh References Index
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Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars have tended to bracket Genet as either an absurdist, ritualistic or, more recently, a resistant playwright, this study argues that his theory and practice of political theatre have more in common with the affirmative ideas of thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. By doing so, the monograph positions Genet as a revolutionary playwright, interested in producing progressive forms of democracy. This original and interdisciplinary reading of Genet's late work will be of interest to students and practitioners of Theatre, as well as those interested in French and History. -- .
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• Contents Introduction
• 1. Proust in School French Education and Pastiche Proust the Schoolboy, or, Pastiche Revisited The "Pedagogical Scene" in A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs An Apple for Andree: Pedagogy and Education Reform in Proust's Recherche
• 2. Parody and Pastiche in Nineteenth-Century French Literature Parody vs. Pastiche A few examples of nineteenth-century pastiche
• 3. Why Proust's pastiches are neither parodic, nor a proof of mastery over the predecessor Proust's Pastiches The "Affaire Lemoine" Pastiches Why Proust Wrote Pastiche (Critical Views of the Last Four Decades) Self-pastiche
• 4. What can pastiche do? Pastiche as Performance Retroactive literature Flaubert, a la Proust Je me suis toujours fait une certaine idee de Balzac... How to Make Friends With Words (Literature as Socially Performative) On the "Seriousness" of Pastiche
• 5. Pastiche as Politically and Economically Performative in the RecherchePerformative styles and imperative politics: Proust's "optatif" Buy! Proust: Copiest, Pasticheur, or Pierre Menard? A genetic examination of the manuscript. The politics of media and advertising
• 6. Proust's Goncourt Pastiche and the Postmodern Proust Postmodern? What is Postmodernism? A Theoretical Introduction. Postmodern Pastiche From the "first style" to the "neo" Glimmerings of Postmodern Nostalgia: The Goncourt Pastiche The End of Influence, the Beginning of Postmodernity
• 7. Literary Pastiche Since Proust Proustian Pastiche after Proust Martin-Chauffier, Maurois, and Modiano, or "Pasticheur pastiche" OuLiPo: Potential Literature Right-Wing Pastiche (Vichy and the Collaborationists)Pastiche: Literary Genre, or Mere Moment?
• 8. Pastiche Proustian, Postmodern, and Purloined in the Cinema, or, Where's the pastiche in French Film? Jameson's mode retro: Filming "the imaginary style of a real past" Ruiz's Le temps retrouve Stan Douglas's "Overture": An adaptation counterexample to heritage pastiche
• 9. Postmodern Pastiche in the Films of Rohmer and Gans Rohmer's L'anglaise et le duc: The Eighteenth Century as You Have Always/Never Seen It Hutcheon and Jameson on pastiche: the critical potential of postmodernism Critical malgre soi: Le pacte des loups Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author.
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Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern, or Why Style Matters argues against the traditional view that Marcel Proust wrote pastiches, that is, texts that imitate the style of another author, to master his literary predecessors while sharpening his writerly quill. On the contrary, James F. Austin demonstrates that Proust's oeuvre, and In Search of Lost Time in particular, deploy pastiche to other ends: Proust's pastiches, in fact, "do things with words" to create powerful real-world effects. His works are indeed performative acts that forge social relationships, redefine our ideas of literature, and even work against oppressive political and economic discourses. Building on the "speech-act" theory of J.L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, and J. Hillis Miller, and on the postmodern theory of Fredric Jameson, this book not only elucidates the performative nature of pastiche, but also shows that the famous "Goncourt" pastiche from In Search of Lost Time has attracted so much attention because it already attained the postmodern; that is, it eliminated temporal depth and experience, transforming time itself into a nostalgic style of an era, and into the sort of aestheticized surface that came to define postmodernism decades later. To reflect this transformation of pastiche, this work rearticulates its history in France around Proust. Reconfiguring a scholastic, classically-inspired pedagogical tradition based on imitation, and breaking with the dominant satirical practice, Proust's work opened up possibilities in the twentieth century for a new kind of pastiche: playful and performative in the literary field, and postmodern in a French cinema that, as with the Goncourt pastiche, represents time as the visual style of an era, whether unreflexively in "heritage" films such as Regis Wargnier's Indochine, or discerningly in Eric Rohmer's Lady and the Duke, which uses period pictorial and painterly conventions to illustrate how the representation of history onscreen typically flattens time into style.
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• PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues
• 1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye
• 2. What 'passes'?: French women writers and translation into English Lynn Penrod
• 3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller Diana Holmes PART TWO: Society, Culture, Family
• 4. Vichy, Jews, enfants caches: French women writers look back Lucille Cairns
• 5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis Susan Ireland
• 6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and 'blank' metissage Andrew Asibong
• 7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu Lori Saint-Martin
• 8. Babykillers: Veronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood Natalie Edwards PART THREE: Body, Life, Text
• 9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amelie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim Amaleena Damle
• 10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity? Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
• 11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing Helen Vassallo
• 12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary Barbara Havercroft
• 13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts Simon Kemp PART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics
• 14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq Helena Chadderton
• 15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French Shirley Jordan
• 16. 'Autofiction + x = ?': Chloe Delaume's experimental self-representations Deborah B. Gaensbauer
• 17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong theorie)? Anne Garreta's sphinxes Owen Heathcote
• 18. Amelie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amelie Nothomb Anna Kemp
• 19. Conclusion Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye.
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction, Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye2. What `passes'?: French women writers and translation into English, Lynn Penrod3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller, Diana HolmesPART TWO: Society, Culture, Family4. Vichy, Jews, enfants caches: French women writers look back, Lucille Cairns5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis, Susan Ireland6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and `blank' metissage, Andrew Asibong7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu, Lori Saint-Martin8. Babykillers: Veronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood, Natalie EdwardsPART THREE: Body, Life, Text9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amelie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim, Amaleena Damle10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity?, Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing, Helen Vassallo12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary, Barbara Havercroft13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts, Simon KempPART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Helena Chadderton15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French, Shirley Jordan16. `Autofiction + x = ?': Chloe Delaume's experimental self-representations, Deborah B. Gaensbauer17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong theorie)? Anne Garreta's sphinxes, Owen Heathcote18. Amelie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amelie Nothomb, Anna Kemp19. Conclusion, Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye.
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Women' s Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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• 1. Olympe de Gouges and Marie-Joseph Chenier--
• 2. Brutus--
• 3. Setting the Feminist Stage--
• 4. Gender and Primogeniture in Racine's Andromaque--
• 5. Racine's Phedre as the Criminalized Femme Fatale--
• 6. Iphigenie.
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This is the first study to account the origins of French feminism to Neoclassical theatre and the court of Louis XIV. Through feminist revisionist histories of French literature, the Neoclassical plots and female archetypes from Racine's "Phedre" and "Andromache", Voltaire's "Brutus" (Catherine Bernard), and Marmontel's "Belisarius" (Stephanie Genlis) were transposed by women writers and patrons onto actresses and the queens, empresses, and mistresses of the French ruling dynasties from Louis XIV- to Napoleon at a time when women were denied the rights of citizenship. This study argues that contemporary French feminism is a function of historicism that defines female identity through parallel constructs between regency and theatre, Neoclassicism and modernity, authors of an emerging body of French feminist writings ineluctably reconcile sadist and pacifist incongruities between gendered roles in tragedy.
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This is the first book to do a detailed study of the illustrations in two important fifteenth century novels. Christine de Pizan was one of the few authors of late medieval France involved with all aspects of her manuscripts' production. Her work has received enormous scholarly attention as their subject is nothing less than the history and education of women. This book fills a gap in the scholarship by shifting the attention from their literary content to the imagery chosen to illustrate these two pioneering books on women and their worth. This new focus includes artists of Christine's own choosing to those illustrating "The City" and "The Treasure" after her death throughout the peak of the two works' popularity. The social context and iconographic content of the miniatures accompanying these texts provides a broad, often diverse view of the role and image of the fifteenth century woman. In "The City", the illustrations often focus on intellectual discussion rather than heroic action of women. In "The Treasure", typically the pictures show scenes of stately lectures and well-dressed students, usually nobility, crowded into classroom settings, which illuminates the advances in education for women at that time.
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• Introduction / Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts
• The word on the street : remembering the Paris Commune in the twenty-first century / Colette Wilson
• Staging La Fête des fous et de l'âne in 1898 : a commemoration of literary middle ages / Elizabeth Emery
• La Composante populaire de l'Affaire Dreyfus et ses effets d'oubli ultérieur / Luc Nemeth
• Spectres de Madame Bovary : la transfictionnalité comme remémoration / Richard Saint-Gelais
• Napoleonic memory and memoir : military friendship and the memoirs of Colonel Combe / Brian Martin
• Myth-making and memento : l'Expédition des Portes de Fer / Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski
• La Fête nationale, espace de construction d'une mémoire nationale au XIX siècle / Rémi Dalisson
• Reporting on the nineteenth century : Catulle Mendès, Le Mouvement poétique française de 1867 à 1900 / Ben Fisher
• Balzac's 'mal d'archive'? 'Lieux de mémoire' in Le Lys dans la vallée / Owen Heathcote
• L'Ecriture du souvenir dans les 'Journaux' de Stendhal / Lucy Garnier et Cécil Meynard
• Remémorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siècle : un souvenir d'avenir? / Tim Farrant
• Souvenirs zutiques, en vers et coutre tous / Denis Saint-Amand
• Cultural history in question : Flaubert's La Légende de saint Julien l'hospitalier and the genres of collective memory / Mary Orr
• Memory, vision and meaning in La Tentation de saint Antoine : the mechanics of a narrative hallucination / Carmen Mayer-Robin
• Territoire de la mémoire, territoire du réel dans La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret d'Emile Zola / Emilies Piton-Foucault
• Prophesying the past : memory and sacrifice in Barbey d'Aurevilly's Un prêtre marié / Francesco Manzini.

Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists, art historians, and literary scholars, the theme of memory - individual memory and memoir, collective memory, official memory and oral memory, cultural memory and popular memory - has informed academic discourse and formed institutional structures. Yet, the matter of memory is, paradoxically, under-explored in studies of the ' long nineteenth century' in France. Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture focuses critical attention on that neglected century when France was struggling to negotiate the serially renewed memory of revolutionary turmoil and socio-cultural redefinition. This volume explores the spaces that the memory process claims and shapes, and it works to identify the crosscurrents that connect those spaces. It asks how memory resists - or cedes to - colonisations by authority, by official discourse, by history, and by aesthetics. It asks how memory-work coincides with or morphs into the processes of the imagination. Eschewing diachronic approaches, the contributors to this volume explore sites around which memory is concentrated or which it shapes and informs: Memory on the Street; Sites of National Memory; Metamorphoses: Memory and Literary Practice; and Memory' s Imaginary Spaces.
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• Introduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France * Front Matter: Placing Descarte's Meditations* A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's Judgment of Solomon* The Witch from Colchis: Coreneille's M dee, Chim ne's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius* Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Moli re's Sganarelle* The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics*Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, "Sur l'Equivoque".
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What influence did Rene Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between Descartes and the myth of the 'modern subject' to post-structuralist assessments. The Matter of Mind presents studies drawn from a range of disciplines and examines the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the drama of Pierre Corneille, and the theology of Blaise Pascal. Braider argues that if early modern thought converged on a single model, then it was the experimental picture based on everyday experience proposed by Descartes' sceptical adversary, Michel de Montaigne. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1. ""Bucharest-on-the-Seine"": The Anatomy of a National Obsession;
• 2. The Orientalism of Anna de Noailles;
• 3. Before They Were Famous: Tristan Tzara, Nationhood, and Poetry;
• 4. The Surrealist Group of Bucharest: Collective Works, 1945-1947;
• 5. The Trans-cultural Journey of Benjamin Fondane;
• 6. French as the Language of Libre Échange in the Works of Panaït Istrati;
• 7. Home Is Elsewhere: Exile in the Theatre of Ionesco;
• 8. Traditionalism and Protochronism in the European Context.

• 9. Isidore Isou's Spirited Letters10. Emile Cioran and the Politics of Exile; Notes on Contributors.

This collection of essays presents new research on the work of Romanian writers who chose French as a literary language. Romanian is itself, of course, a Romance language, and there is a long history of close Franco-Romanian ties. But given the complex and often multilingual cultural heritage of these writers-whose influences included German, Russian, and Ottoman-their contribution to French literature represents a unique hybrid form of francophonie. And yet unlike the literary production of former French colonies, this work has received little scholarly attention as a contribution to French literature. This book aims to rectify this situation. Focusing on the historical, cultural, and artistic links between France and Romania in the twentieth century from the standpoint of such figures as Tristan Tzara, Anna de Noailles, Panait Istrati, Eugene Ionesco, Isidore Isou, and E.M. Cioran, the essays develop innovative and insightful perspectives with regard to the work of individual authors. The volume as a whole will thus serve to reshape prevailing conceptions of Francophone literary production and to expand fundamentally the conceptual boundaries of Francophone Studies.
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• Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept
• 1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces
• 2. Michel de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces
• 3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places
• 4. Marc Augé: Non-Places
• 5. Paul Virilio: Speed Space
• 6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming
• 7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces
• 8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions
• Conclusion: Future Spaces
• Bibliography
• Index.

Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture.
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• Introduction: Alexandre Dumas as a francophone writer / Eric Martone
• The paternal mystery of Alexandre Dumas / Simone Dubrovic
• "White Negroes, nothing more": the ambiguous role of the "mulatto" in Alexandre Dumas's Georges / Molly Krueger Enz
• Monte Cristo brings the empire home: Alexandre Dumas and the promise of postcolonial philology / Indra N. Mukhopadhyay
• Georges, or the "mixed-blood" settles scores / Claudie Bernard
• From the literary myth to the lieu de mémoire: Alexandre Dumas and French national identity(ies) / Roxane Petit-Rasselle
• "Dent pour dent": injustice, revenge, and storytelling in The Count of Monte Cristo and Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Barbara T. Cooper
• "A French precursor of Obama": the commemoration of General Alexandre Dumas and French reconciliation with the past / Eric Martone.

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask, is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Pantheon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial. Contemporary France, struggling with the legacies of colonialism and growing diversity, has transformed Dumas, grandson of a slave from St. Domingue (now Haiti), into a symbol of the colonies and the larger francophone world in an attempt to integrate its immigrants and migrants from its former Caribbean, African, and Asian colonies to improve race relations and to promote French globality. Such a reconception of Dumas has made him a major figure in debates on French identity and colonial history. Ten tears after Dumas's interment in the Pantheon, the time is ripe to re-evaluate Dumas within this context of being a representative of la Francophonie. The French re-evaluation of Dumas, therefore, invites a reassessment of his life, works, legacy, and previous scholarship. This interdisciplinary collection is the first major work to take up this task. It is unique for being the first scholarly work to bring Dumas into the center of debates about French identity and France's relations with its former colonies. For the purposes of this collection, to analyze Dumas in a "francophone" context means to explore Dumas as a symbol of a "French" culture shaped by, and inclusive of, its (former) colonies and current overseas departments. The seven entries in this collection, which focus on providing new ways of interpreting The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Georges, are categorized into two broad groups. The first group focuses on Dumas's relationship with the francophone colonial world during his lifetime, which was characterized by the slave trade, and provides a postcolonial re-examination of his work, which was impacted profoundly by his status as an individual of black colonial descent in metropolitan France. The second part of this collection, which is centered broadly around Dumas's francophone legacy, examines the way he has been remembered in the larger French-speaking (postcolonial) world, which includes metropolitan France, in the past century to explore questions about French identity in an emerging global age.
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• Contents: Introduction-- Part I Textual Strategies: Between oral and print cultures-- Authorial anxieties. Part II Topoi: Perceptions of motherhood-- Maneuvering new social spaces-- Marriage and its disillusions. Part III Reception: The cultural landscape of the18th-century press-- Anne-Therese de Lambert's Avis d'une mere a sa fille-- Madeleine de Puisieux's Conseils a une amie-- Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's Magasin des adolescentes and Instructions pour les jeunes dames-- Louise d'Epinay's Conversations d'Emilie-- Graillard, Cerfvol and Reyre-- Conduct books in early literary history-- Editorial fortunes in the 19th century-- Bibliography-- Index.
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During the eighteenth-century, at a time when secular and religious authors in France were questioning women's efforts to read, a new literary genre emerged: conduct books written specifically for girls and unmarried young women. In this carefully researched and thoughtfully argued book, Professor Nadine Berenguier shares an in-depth analysis of this development, relating the objectives and ideals of these books to the contemporaneous Enlightenment concerns about improving education in order to reform society. Works by Anne-Therese de Lambert, Madeleine de Puisieux, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Louise d'Epinay, Barthelemy Graillard de Graville, Chevalier de Cerfvol, abbe Joseph Reyre, Pierre-Louis Roederer, and Marie-Antoinette Lenoir take up a wide variety of topics and vary dramatically in tone. But they all share similar objectives: acquainting their young female readers with the moral and social rules of the world and ensuring their success at the next stage of their lives. While the authors regarded their texts as furthering the common good, they were also aware that they were likely to be controversial among those responsible for girls' education. Berenguier's sensitive readings highlight these tensions, as she offers readers a rare view of how conduct books were conceived, consumed, re-edited, memorialized, and sometimes forgotten. In the broadest sense, her study contributes to our understanding of how print culture in eighteenth-century France gave shape to a specific social subset of new readers: modern girls.
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• Contents: Preface--
• Part 1 Approaches: Medieval childhood in literature-- Who was the medieval child? A repertoire of traditional images.
• Part 2 Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Chanson de Geste and Romance: Changing models of childhood and youth in the Chanson de Geste-- Childhood and youth in romance: love, learning and the drama of identity-- Childhood and youth in Enfances poems.
• Part 3 Conclusion: A slow conversion of sensibility-- Works cited-- Index.
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What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's innovative book reveals contrast and change in the portrayal of childhood and youth by looking at vernacular French narratives composed between 1100 and 1220. Covering over sixty poems from two major genres - epic and romance - she traces a significant evolution. While early epics contain only a few stereotypical images of the child, later verse narratives display a range of arguably timeless motifs, as well as a growing awareness of the special characteristics of youth. Whereas juvenile epic heroes contribute to the adult agenda by displaying precocious strength and wisdom, romance children are on the receiving end, requiring guidance and education. Gaffney also profiles the intriguing phenomenon of enfances poems, singing the youthful deeds of established heroes: these 'prequels' combine epic and romance features in distinctive ways. Approaching the history of childhood and youth through the lens of literary genre, this study shows how imaginative texts can both shape and reflect the historical development and cultural construction of emotional values.
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