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Representing Trauma: Minotaurs, Myths and l’Indicible in Qui se souvient de la mer French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Benjamin J Sparks
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A Rediscovered Manuscript Translation of the First History of the French Language French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Anton Bruder
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‘Ou L’art d’amors est tote enclose’: Dreams, Truth and Authorial Reinforcement as ‘Garant’ in Lorris’s Roman de la Rose French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Hicks-Bartlett A.
Written between 1225 and 1230 by Guillaume de Lorris and completed around 1270 by Jean de Meun, the Roman de la Rose initially presents itself as a love manual or amorous compendium.11 Anchored in the tradition of courtly love, Lorris’s part of the Rose is an ‘histoire allégorique’ or ‘involved allegorical and didactic tale’ that promises to serve as a sort of ars amatoria: ‘ce est li Romanz de la
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News Spring 2022 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-01-17
SFS Annual Conference in 2022: The 63rd annual conference of the Society for French Studies will take place in person at Queen’s University Belfast from 27th to 29th June 2022. We are delighted to be offering a full and varied range of papers following a very strong response nationally and internationally to our call. We are also delighted to announce keynote presentations by Professor Michelle Bolduc
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The Cartographic Joke in Pantagruel’s Mouth French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Inverso S.
In the thirty-second chapter of Rabelais’s Pantagruel (1532),11 the giant Pantagruel’s army is on its way to fight the enemy Dipsodes. Suddenly, they find themselves caught in a downpour. To protect his troops from the rain, Pantagruel sticks out his enormous tongue, which covers all of his soldiers except one, the human narrator Alcofrybas. Alcofrybas climbs onto Pantagruel’s tongue and wanders into
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Ubu on the Hill, by Alfred Jarry A reduction in two acts of King Ubu Translation and Introduction by Gabriel Emmett Quigley, New York University, USA French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Gabriel Emmett Quigley
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French Studies BulletinPostgraduate Bulletin Board Winter 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-09-30
Recent Doctorates Awarded in French/Francophone Studies by Institutions in the UK and Ireland
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News Winter 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Inston K.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the journal, French Studies is delighted to announce an essay competition, on the theme of ‘The Future of French Studies’. We invite submissions in French or English, of no more than 3,000 words; the winning submission, as selected by the journal’s editors, will be published in the journal and made freely available on the journal’s website, and will form the subject
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The Unquiet Grave—What an Old Soldier’s Death Tells us about Race in France French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Christopher Hogg
France’s favorite old soldier, General Marcel Bruno Bigeard, Grand Croix de la Légion d’Honneur, laden with multiple medals, could find no resting place when he died on 18 June 2010 at the ripe old age of 94. Les Invalides seemed a natural, even obvious choice. But the French Government refused. How could it be that France would turn its back on the solider who had won so many of its battles?
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Récit initiatique et poétique de la quête dans Un pèlerin d’Angkor de Pierre Loti French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Bidaud S.
C’est au cours de la deuxième moitié du dix-neuvième siècle que les temples d’Angkor sont ‘redécouverts’ par les Européens, d’abord par Charles-Émile Bouillevaux, puis par Henri Mouhot.11 En 1901, Pierre Loti entreprend, à la suite de ces derniers, une excursion à la cité khmère, d’abord dictée par la curiosité pour des monuments dont on parle abondamment dès cette époque22 mais qui très vite revêt
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Boarding La Petite auto: Object-Led Research and Passing Between Disciplines In The Study Of French Poetry Of The First World War French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz
This paper aims to explore the challenges involved in letting research objects lead the way and guide scholars in passing through disciplines, as well as how my own research is responding to these challenges. Interdisciplinary research is often talked about in terms of ‘crossing’ disciplines, understood as simply going from one discipline to another as one would cross a boundary, immediately placing
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A Mes Escrits, a Mes Enfans: Catherine Des Roches and the Book-as-Child Topos French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Nupur Patel
Catherine des Roches, poet, writer and salon hostess of late-sixteenth-century Poitiers, has been identified by scholars as one half of the Dames des Roches. She exercised a level of freedom from her deliberately unmarried and childless lifestyle, and her choice to stay with her mother, Madeleine, up until her own death. In fact, both women exercised a surprising level of autonomy, partly through writing
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Rereading La Vagabonde: Ways of Seeing and Moving of a Single Woman French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Lang Wang
La Vagabonde (1910) is the first novel that Colette (1873–1954) wrote in her own name after her divorce from Willy.1 The novel is a milestone in Colette’s oeuvre because it marks her first attempt to stand in her own right and on her own terms. Here, for the first time, we see her as Colette the artist-writer, and not as a mere helpmeet to Willy. The plot of La Vagabonde corresponds nicely with the
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Undoing Realism: Reclaiming the Garden of Eden in George Sand’s Isidora (1845) French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Jayne Duffy
George Sand’s idealist novel Isidora (1845) can be read, I argue, as a feminist re-writing of the Biblical Fall and the Garden of Eden.11 In Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1980), Julia Kristeva notes that ‘le récit de la chute met en scène une altérité diabolique par rapport au divin’.22 It is specifically a covetous desire for woman which Kristeva states as rupturing the divine in paradise, as Adam is torn
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Language in Time: Assessing Medieval French Registers in a Quest for Accuracy in Historical Linguistics French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Marc Olivier
Historical linguistics can resort to neither recordings nor interviews of native speakers. The only type of material that can be dissected is of a textual nature. This leads to two main issues: first, it has been widely observed in the literature that the choice of a certain register over another shapes the results of the investigation.11 For instance, the syntax of a poem will offer different perspectives
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French Studies Bulletin Postgraduate Bulletin Board Autumn 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-06
Recent Doctorates Awarded in French/Francophone Studies by Institutions in the UK and Ireland
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Introduction French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Melissa Pawelski
To introduce this special issue following our Postgraduate Conference ‘Passages’ that took place online on 29 July 2020, let me offer you a brief philosophical reflection. The word passage immediately appears translatable because of its cognate ‘passage’ in English. The OED indeed notes that ‘passage’ is a borrowing from the French. I chose this word as the conference title not only because of its
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SFS News Autumn 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-06
Virtual SFS Annual Conference 2021: After having taken the difficult decision to move this year’s Annual Conference online due to the ongoing crisis relating to COVID-19, we are very pleased nevertheless to be welcoming our members and delegates in virtual form in 2021. SFS’s first Virtual Conference is being held from 28 to 30 June 2021 and, although very different in format, the Society is pleased
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News from the Societies French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-08-06
Taking place online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) was hosted by Professor Mary Orr and Dr David Evans on behalf of the Society at the University of St Andrews (UK). The conference was held from 22 to 24 March 2021 and opened by the Society’s President, Professor Jennifer Yee. 115 participants joined the event from universities based
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News Summer 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Richards S.
COVID-19 and SFS activities: Due to the ongoing crisis relating to COVID-19, the Society for French Studies has again decided to move the postgraduate conference online. The postgraduate conference will take place on 28 May 2021.
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French Studies Bulletin Postgraduate Bulletin Board Summer 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-09
Recent Doctorates Awarded in French/Francophone Studies by Institutions in the UK and Ireland
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Compare and Contrast the Relationship Between Voice, Space, and Forms of Intimacy in Two or More of the Films Studied on this Unit French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Ellen Kemp
In both Sud and E-muet, voice and space inform the ethical as well as the aesthetic. Voice in documentary may be taken literally to mean the voices of social actors, or that of the author. However, as Bill Nichols suggests, it may also be used as a catch-all term for the director’s ‘voice’, often expressed through non-verbal means (1983). This essay will refer to the latter definition, but in view
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Discovery of Zobel’s Lost Wartime Short Story: ‘Bo-bo-bo-o’ or ‘up Yours, Hitler!’ French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Hardwick L.
In the course of my research into Joseph Zobel, I have frequently found myself tracking down, examining and comparing different editions of the author’s work. As I argue in my most recent monograph, Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel,11 Zobel’s extensive project of revisions and rewriting reveals much about the shifts in his relationship with, and attitudes towards, Négritude, and about the evolution
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On the Frontispiece of Bernardin De Saint-Pierre’s Études de la nature French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Robin Howells
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s three best-known works all included illustrations. More unusually, these plates were also foregrounded by Bernardin in his text: titled individually, listed collectively and increasingly explicated. His first published work, the Voyage à l’île de France (1773), contained—despite its author’s penury—three full-page plates by the leading illustrator Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune
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Homage to Her Indian Ancestors in Minatchy-Bogat’s Terre d’exil et d’adoption French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Ramakrishnan M.
Following the abolition of slavery in 1848, approximately 75,000 Indian indentured workers were brought to the French Caribbean regions of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guiana to work on the sugar plantations in order to fill the void left by the recently freed Africans.11 More than a century later, in 1972, Maurice Virassamy’s novel Le Petit coolie noir became the first literary work centered primarily
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‘Cactus’ by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Grasping Prickly Subjects and their Teaching in Francophone (Post-)Colonial (ECO)Criticism French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Orr M.
Among my many satisfactions as a research-led learner is to take my students at all degree levels on a journey that trains their fresh pairs of eyes on seemingly impenetrable pre-1945 texts to discover ‘topical’ issues they care passionately about. This article therefore derives from my grasping of two singular opportunities as an academic teacher, the first already known. I am the new convenor of
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French Studies BulletinPostgraduate Bulletin BoardSpring 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-03-12
Recent Doctorates Awarded in French/Francophone Studies by Institutions in the UK and Ireland
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An Artistic Dedication by Apollinaire French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Bohn W.
While going through a file that I began around 1970, containing various documents by or on Guillaume Apollinaire, I discovered a caricature of the poet that Prof. Leroy C. Breunig sent me many years ago. Where he obtained it I unfortunately no longer remember. Occupying a single sheet of paper, which somebody subsequently folded into quarters, the drawing is inscribed at the bottom ‘Caricature américaine
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L’origine De Quelques Mots Insolites Chez Baudelaire French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Hambly P.
Commentant une lettre de Baudelaire à Alphonse Toussenel, Claude Pichois affirme que le poète ‘a été sympathisant fouriériste avant la Révolution de 1848’ mais il semble croire qu’il n’ait retenu de cette idéologie que l’idée de l’analogie universelle.11 Cependant si l’on veut comprendre certains mots insolites chez Baudelaire et leur origine, il faut consulter le corpus fouriériste. Ce corpus comprend
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News Spring 2021 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2021-03-12
SFS Annual Conference in 2021: The 62nd annual conference of the Society for French Studies will take place on 28–30 June 2021. We are delighted to be offering a full and varied range of papers following a robust response nationally and internationally to our supplemental call for papers. The Society will circulate more information regarding the conference shortly. See for more information.
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Proust’s Metaphorical Technique in Combray: The Child Hero’s First Meeting with Gilberte Swann French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Maureen A Ramsden
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French Studies Bulletin Postgraduate Bulletin BoardSummer 2020 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Melissa Pavelski
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À Propos d’un nom de bateau dans Tintin: Le Karaboudjan French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Samuel Bidaud
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Recent Discoveries of Significant Old French Manuscripts French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Marianne Ailes
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Récit ou roman? Faïza Guène comme porte-parole de la banlieue French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Tiffane Levick
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Wither 68?: The Gilets Jaunes Movement and the Return of the Intellectual French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Solange Manche
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Le Retour d’un auteur: Jean Giono dans l’immédiate après-guerre French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Annabelle Marion
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Maurice Blanchot, Thomas L’Obscur, Chapter I French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 John McKeane
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Testimonial Wellness: The Case of Soha Béchara French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Claire Launchbury
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L’Auteur-cinéaste polonais face aux critiques français dans les années 1970 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Katarzyna Lipinska
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Talking Holes and Meaningless Sex: Exploring Gender and Signification in the Old French Fabliaux French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Kathleen Mitchell-Fox
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A Defence and Illustration of Marie de Gournay: Bayle’s Reception of ‘Cette Savante Demoiselle’ French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Derval Conroy
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Estienne Tabourot Des Accords and the Catholic League in Dijon French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2019-01-01 John O’Brien
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If the ‘Schu’ Fits: Translating a Moment of Song in Proust’s Le Temps Retrouvé French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jennifer Rushworth
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The Names of the Legendary Hero Haveloc The Dane French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-12-26 William Sayers
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Portrait of the Writer: Photography and Literary Culture in France French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Kathrin Yacavone
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The Historical Politics of Volney’s Leçons d’histoire (1795) French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Minchul Kim
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Flaubert, Edmond De Goncourt, and Gavarni’s ‘Immoral’ Débardeurs French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Michael Tilby
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Un Poème sur le vieillir seul, de Florian-Parmentier French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Stephen Steele
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Le Jardin d’Épaphus: Gabriel Chappuys laudateur de Jean-Baptiste Bellaud dans Phaëton (1574) French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 François Rouget
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Deux lettres inédites de Banville à Élémir Bourges French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Evrard d’Ableiges
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‘The Insane Root’ in Maeterlinck’s Serres Chaudes French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Natasha Ryan
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Félibien’s Biography of ‘Le Sodoma’ and the Politics of Immorality French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi
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The Apparatus of La Librairie des frères captifs French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Alexandra Reider
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Valéry’s Joseph de Maistre: Iconoclast or Catalyst? French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Daniel Rosenberg
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French Studies Bulletin Postgraduate Bulletin BoardAutumn 2017 French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Charlotte Thevenet
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Arthur Rimbaud’s Poem ‘H’: A New Exegesis through Restif de la Bretonne French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Christophe Wall-Romana
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Diderot-Voltaire: la co-édition comme coalition? French Studies Bulletin Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Kate E Tunstall