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L’Habitation de la ville: Écriture de la mémoire urbaine et recomposition identitaire dans deux textes de Régine Robin French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Ramona Mielusel
My article aims to analyse two essays by Régine Robin, Cybermigrances: traversées fugitives (2004) and Mégapolis: les derniers pas du flâneur (2009), in the light of Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. I am interested in highlighting the concept of writing seen by the writer as a patchwork of spaces and as a protective site. I suggest theorizing it as a memorial writing or a form of urban memory
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From Madame Chrysanthème to Madame Prune: Triads and Tribulations in Pierre Loti’s Japanese Novels French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Roderick Cooke
The lack of scholarly interest in Pierre Loti’s second Japanese novel, La Troisième Jeunesse de Madame Prune (1905), has obscured the fact that it modifies our understanding of how Japan functions in the author’s imaginary. This article begins by offering a new reading of its better-known predecessor, Madame Chrysanthème (1887), concentrating on the insistent and proliferating use of triads. These
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Miroir, mouroir: (Dis)figuring the Ageing Woman in Simone de Beauvoir’s La Vieillesse French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Siobhán McIlvanney
This article looks at Simone de Beauvoir’s pioneering text, La Vieillesse, the most significant female-authored text on ageing published in France in the twentieth century. It examines in particular the text’s quasi-occlusion of a female-centred perspective on the role played by the body and sexual expression in women’s experience of ageing. Often viewed as a(n older) sister text to the feminist treatise
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Dementia and Relational Forms in Gaspar Noé’s Vortex (2021) French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Emilija Talijan
As the number of diagnoses grows, dementia increasingly seems to represent old age and the cultural fears that surround it. Representations of dementia have recently begun to multiply in a range of cultural forms as their authors rise to the challenge of exploring a condition that is frightening and hard to grasp. This article examines how Gaspar Noé’s latest film, Vortex (2021), provides a unique
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Ageing and Care in Agnès Varda French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Shirley Jordan
This article analyses selected works of Agnès Varda as original contributions to cultural gerontology. It focuses on Varda’s pronounced interest in older people throughout her career and explores how, in experimental portraits and self-portraits, she approaches ageing by harnessing surprising devices — temporal, spatial, aesthetic, haptic, and affective — to challenge ageism and assumptions of disability
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New Bonds of Intimacy: In/ter/dependence and Ageing in Recent Women’s Writing in French French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Kate Averis
This article examines how female francophone authors in the twenty-first century are re-envisaging modes of love, intimacy, and connectedness in old age, in the process moving away from an ideal of independence towards a valorization of interdependence. While second-wave feminism concentrated its efforts on women’s bodily, reproductive, and financial autonomy as a reflection of the concerns of the
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Embracing Decline: Gérard Depardieu and the Problem of ‘Successful Ageing’ French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Stuart Bell
This article posits film star Gérard Depardieu as a ubiquitous figure — French cinema’s ultimate monstre sacré — who both self-stages, and is staged, as a radical pioneer of alternative forms of ageing. In France and on the international stage, Depardieu eschews traditional notions of ageing masculinity on screen, making space for bolder, if not uniquely tender, visions of what it means to embrace
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French Literature of the British Isles after the Norman Conquest: A Digital, Data-Driven Investigation French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Krista A Milne
According to the traditional model, the use of French in Great Britain was fundamentally tied to the Norman Conquest of 1066. The language of the conquerors rapidly replaced English within administrative and cultural domains, and it maintained its foothold in these domains until the thirteenth century, when English began to regain prestige. Yet research of the past few decades has shown that this model
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Literature between Collecting and Hoarding: Revisiting the Object in François Bon, Lydia Flem, and Georges Perec French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Gai Farchi
Recent readings in literature stress the interdependence of the mental and the material, hence offering a bridge between material culture and literary interpretation. This article develops this line of thought using the concepts of collecting and hoarding as two configurations that undermine both the logic of the commodity and the opposition between materiality and semiotics. Specifically, it discusses
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Virginie Despentes, Autotheory, and the Media French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Anne Brancky
In 2006, Virginie Despentes published King Kong théorie, a feminist work of autotheory that explores pornography, sex work, rape, violence against women, and general issues of gender inequity in France. In it, she discloses details of her own personal history, connecting them directly to narrative elements in her first novel Baise-moi (1993), and reflecting specifically on the experience of publishing
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Moving Pictures of the French Wars of Religion: Articulating Attachment in Guillaume Bouchet’s ‘Des peintres & peintures’, Les Serées (1584–98) French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Luke O’Sullivan
This article examines a peculiar reworking of the ‘moving artwork’ motif in early modern French culture. In the midst of civil war, the devisants of Guillaume Bouchet’s fictional dinner club gather to discuss paintings that are so ‘parfaite’ that they must be restrained with ‘chainons et liens’ lest they wander away. One of their examples, an image borrowed from Antiquity and revived in the early modern
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Knowledge in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Lucy O’Meara
This article considers late-nineteenth-century questioning of the progressive power of accumulated knowledge by examining two novels: Gustave Flaubert’s final, incomplete novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881), and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871–72). Few scholars have analysed Eliot and Flaubert comparatively. Indeed, there is a habit in criticism of regarding them these exact contemporaries as almost
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Literature for All: On Designation and Interpretation in Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Alexandre Dubois
This article contends that Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris is a novel that follows a democratic principle by opening up its meaning, and that of its titular cathedral, to anyone and everyone. Whereas Hugo’s novel and his famous syntagm ‘ceci tuera cela’ have been extensively studied as an examination of the fall of architecture in favour of the printed book, this article will argue that a semiotic
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‘Promettez-moi de me supprimer gentiment’: War Violence and Gendered Intimacy in Two Epistolary Novels of the First World War French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo
The article examines two novels that use epistolary writing conventions to portray the blurred lines between intimacy and violence during the First World War. The forgotten writings of Jeanne Delorme-Jules-Simon and Jeanne Landre go against the grain of wartime discourses and current historiography by linking the First World War’s destabilizing effect upon gender relations not primarily to women’s
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Maps to the Other: The carte galante Tradition and Émile Zola’s ‘Dossiers préparatoires’ French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Matthew Yost
The deployment of natural spaces as explicit metaphors for the female body dates, in the western tradition, to Plato’s Timaeus. In French literature, this femino-spatial commonplace is at least as old as the Roman de la rose and endures into the present. Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie (1654–60) represents a pivotal moment in this tradition by expanding the novel’s textual metaphor to include a map of
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Rewilding with the cri in Medieval French Texts: Yvain and Mélusine French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Liam Lewis
Focusing on two medieval narratives about identity transformation, Yvain and Mélusine, this article explores areas of dialogue between medieval literary studies and current perspectives on sound and rewilding the environment. Sound studies have in recent times enabled a more expansive philosophical reflection on the intersections between language, ecology, and identity. This article uses a friction
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Stendhal’s Consumptive Heroine: Lamiel and Tuberculosis French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Sarah Jones
This article offers a close reading of Stendhal’s Lamiel, arguing that the eponymous heroine suffers from, but also manipulates the symptoms of, the quintessentially nineteenth-century disease, consumption. It first establishes Lamiel as a consumptive heroine by comparing the novel to contemporary medical discourse on the disease, most notably to the work of René Laënnec. It then analyses the fausse
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The Rat de l’Opéra and the Social Imaginary of Labour: Dance in July Monarchy Popular Culture French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Olivia Sabee
Mid-nineteenth-century literary and theatrical depictions of rats de l’Opéra (young girls training and performing with the Paris Opéra) emphasize their physical and material hardships, dubious morals, and shapeshifting abilities. Physiologies, tell-all histories of the Paris Opéra, and vaudeville livrets each underscore these qualities of the rat in their portrayals of her, yet they also emphasize
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Monstruosité de l’héroïne: réécriture de Médée dans Chanson douce de Leïla Slimani French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 David Franco
Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce draws an explicit parallel between its protagonist, Louise, a nanny who eventually kills the children she looks after, and the mythological figure of Medea, specifically Pierre Corneille’s version of the Princess of Colchis. This article argues that the analogy between Louise and Medea, rather than restricting Louise to being exclusively monstrous because of the infanticide
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Of No One Born: Queering Motherhood in Marivaux’s La Vie de Marianne French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Tracy L Rutler
This article proposes that, rather than a sentimental love story, Pierre de Marivaux’s unfinished novel, La Vie de Marianne ou les aventures de Mme la Comtesse de *** (1731–41), presents a form of queer motherhood that provides a counterpoint to the form of Republican motherhood and the ‘cult of domesticity’ championed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (among others) and critiqued by feminists such as Adrienne
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Talking Heads? Guillotined Women in the Revolutionary Afterlife French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Jessica Goodman
During the early months of the Terror, five notable women were guillotined within months of one another. Charlotte Corday, Marie-Antoinette, Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Jeanne Roland, and Jeanne Du Barry are also among the handful of female voices featured in two turn-of-the-century collections of dialogues des morts (one anonymous; one by François Pagès); a genre which came to serve a commemorative and
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Periodicals as proxènètes: Erotic Complicity in Don Juan (1895–1900) French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Helen Craske
Abstract The illustrated review Don Juan published an eclectic array of literary and artistic works, ranging from the popular to the avant-garde. By exploiting sex appeal, shared humour, and textual structures, the review created forms of erotic complicity between text, collaborator, and reader. This article suggests that Don Juan enacted a form of proxénétisme by encouraging, enabling, and profiting
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Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts. By Marion Schmid French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Keith Reader
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Émile Zola, Œuvres complètes: Critique littéraire et artistique, I: Écrits sur l’art. Édition de Robert Lethbridge French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Claire White
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Romanciers fin-de-siècle. Sous la direction de Edyta Kociubińska French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
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Artmedia: une histoire du cinéma français. Par Dominique Besnehard et Nedjma Van Egmond French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Edward Ousselin
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Life in Revolutionary France. Edited by Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Peter McPhee
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To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII. By Ambrogio A. Caiani French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Colin Jones
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The ‘French of Wales’? Possibilities, Approaches, Implications French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Matthew Siôn Lampitt
In a groundbreaking 1994 article, David Trotter outlined an ‘enquête préliminaire’ into the presence, functions, and dynamics of ‘Anglo-French’ in medieval Wales, concluding that it should be viewed as ‘une langue non pas de l’Angleterre, mais des Îles Britanniques’. This article is an attempt to follow up and fill out Trotter’s work from a literary perspective in the hope of establishing a dialogue
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Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution: Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France. By Stephen Miller French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Colin Jones
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Usages du copier-coller aux xvie et xviie siècles: extraire, réemployer, recomposer. Édité par Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand et Miriam Speyer French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Jonathan Patterson
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Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks. Edited by Lauren R. Cannady and Jennifer Ferng French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 David Andress
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Le Roman de Troie en prose: prose 5. Édition critique par Anne Rochebouet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Alexandra Ilina
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Perceval le Galloys en prose (Paris, 1530), chapitres 94–110. Édition de Maria Colombo Timelli French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Michelle Szkilnik
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Dictionnaire des figures du 7e art d’origine littéraire. Par Michel Serceau French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Edward Ousselin
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Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet. By Ziad Elmarsafy French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Sura Qadiri
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Sociologie du cinéma. Par Aurélie Pinto et Philippe Mary French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Edward Ousselin
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The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. By Owen White French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Philip Dine
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Screenwriters in French Cinema. By Sarah Leahy and Isabelle Vanderschelden French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Julia Dobson
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Claude Buffier, Traité des premières vérités. Édition, présentation et notes par L. Rouquayrol French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Ruggero Sciuto
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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. By Bronwyn Reddan French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Paul Scott
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Bayle calviniste libertin. Par Hubert Bost French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Jean-Christophe Abramovici
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The Cambridge History of the Novel in French. Edited by Adam Watt French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Oana Panaïté
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Victor Segalen, Essai sur l’exotisme, une esthétique du divers: scénario. Édité et annoté par Valérie Bucheli French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Edward J Hughes
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Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative. By Edward J. Hughes French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Jeremy F Lane
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Contre le luxe (Xviie–Xviiie siècle). Sous la direction d’Élise Pavy-Guilbert et Françoise Poulet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Élise Urbain Ruano
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Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing. Edited by Sara R. Horowitz, Amira Bojadzija-Dan, and Julia Creet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Helena Duffy
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The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630. By Mack P. Holt French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 George Hoffmann
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Gastrono(r)mie: naissance de la littérature gastronomique. Par Nelly Labère French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Christine Ott
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Contemporary Fiction in French. Edited by Anna-Louise Milne and Russell Williams French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Elise Hugueny-Léger
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Le Manuscrit littéraire à la Renaissance. Sous la direction de Frank Lestringant et Olivier Millet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Anton Bruder
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Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World. By Aro Velmet French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Sophie Fuggle
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Raoul de Houdenc, Chrétien’s Equal: Complete Works. Translated by Nigel Bryant French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Anton Bruder
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The Atheist’s Bible: Diderot and the ‘Éléments de physiologie’. By Caroline Warman French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 James Fowler
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Diamant obscur: interpréter les manuscrits de Christine de Pizan. Par Sarah Delale French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Rosalind Brown-Grant
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Nerval ou la pensée du poétique: essai de philosophie à l’œuvre. Par Martin Mees French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
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Artus de Bretagne. Traduit et présenté par Christine Ferlampin-Acher French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Cat Watts
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The Michelin Guides to the Battlefields of the First World War: The Destruction of War as a Tourist Attraction French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Hadas Zahavi
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Racismes de France. Sous la direction de Omar Slaouti et Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison French Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-12 Jim Wolfreys