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Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Annie Ernaux's Passion Simple And Se Perdre: Proust's 'Amour-Maladie' Revisited And Revised, Elizabeth Richardson Viti

French Faculty Publications

At first blush it may seem that Marcel Proust and Annie Ernaux have little in common. The author a A la recherche du temps perdu depends extensively on metaphor and serpentine sentences which culminate in a three-thousand-page work while the more contemporary writer rejects prolixity and imagery and produces dramatically briefer texts. [excerpt]

A Literary Form For Love: Yves Navarre's My Friends Are Gone With The Wind, Richard M. Berrong

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In My Friends Are Gone with the Wind (Ce sont amis que vent emporte, 1991), one of his last and most innovative texts, Yves Navarre (1940-1994), one of the most important contemporary French novelists to deal significantly and regularly with gay themes, returns to his preoccupation with the dangers that the forms inherent in traditional literary narrative pose for the expression of authentic human experience. The narrator, Roch, wants to capture the reality of his love for David, in part to prove to what he sees as a largely hostile heterosexual world that gays are as capable of loving …

Patrick Chamoiseau Et Le Gwo-Ka Du Chanté-Parlé , Pim Higginson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Numerous critics have explored the use of orality in Patrick Chamoiseau's work. Solibo Magnificent adds to the opposition between the oral and the written the third term of the musical. Western artistic expression maintains a neat border between the media (e.g. literature, music, the plastic arts) because it helps legitimate the essentialization of (racial, ethnic, sexual) alterity: white maleness writes; the musical is instead associated with otherness (and orality). This hinged or articulated connection between alterity and the musical (and sameness and the literary) assures and assumes that the musical does not signify. This essay contends that Chamoiseau's novel responds …

For-Giving Death: Cixous's Osnabrück And Le Jour Où Je N'Étais Pas Là , Eilene Hoft-March

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In her early writings, Hélène Cixous earned recognition as the feminist proponent of a theory of gift economy that challenges the patriarchal practice of giving. Patriarchal giving, she contended, enacts the master-slave dialectic, maintaining power differentials by indemnifying and reducing the other to the one who gives. Cixous imagined an alternate practice whereby the gift incurs no debts and no death for the other, a giving without expectation of return, a generosity that enriches all who participate. More than two decades after those theoretical essays, Cixous continues to explore in her fiction the relationship to the other as mediated by …

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Bohn, Willard. The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous Reviewed by Elena Cueto As

Folkart, Jessica A. Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas Reviewed by Jorge Marí

Marí, Jorge. Lecturas espectaculares: El cine en la novela española desde 1970 Reviewed by Salvador A. Oropesa

Meredith, James H. Understanding the Literature of World War II: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Reviewed by Cornelius Partsch

Moran, Michael G. and Michelle Ballif, eds. Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources Reviewed by David Malcolm

Hesitating Between Irony And The Desire To Be Serious In Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire De Salem: Maryse Condé And Her Readers , Sarah E. Barbour

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In writing her fifth novel, a fictive autobiography of the title character, Maryse Condé has said that she "felt a strong solidarity with Tituba," and at the same time she admits hesitating "between irony and a desire to be serious" in the invention of this "mock-epic character." This article explores the reader's relationship to the novel as a variation on this hesitation. Once Condé sets up Tituba's authority to narrate her story, the reader is left in the precarious position of hesitating between getting the author's irony and desiring to be serious about Tituba's narrative of a painful history. By …

Fluidity In Marguerite Duras' Le Vice-Consul : An Architectural Reflection On Culture And Consciousness, Holly Ann Macdonald

Masters Theses

This thesis explores Marguerite Duras’ Le Vice-consul (1966) through an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and literature. Five architectural elements found within the novel – path, park, grille, octagon, and study—are explored through the concept of the “fluid” mise en abyme outlined in Lucy Stone McNeece’s Art and Politics in Duras’ “India Cycle” (1966). The contrasting theme of fluid versus rigid assumed a physical and symbolic meaning in both architectural and literary realms.

The analysis reveals a connection between the fluid framework of this nouveau roman and the structure of the built environment, which impacts our surroundings and psyche. Exploring …

La Mise-En-Scène De La Femme-Écrivain : Colette, Anna De Noailles And Nature, Tama L. Engelking

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

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Graham A. Runnalls, Les Mystères Provinciaux - Book Review, Vicki L. Hamblin

Modern & Classical Languages

Published in the long-standing series Bibliotheque du XVe siecle, Graham A. Runnalls's volume on late-medieval mystery plays from the provinces of France reminds its readers that archival research remains essential to understanding these spectacles. In fact, Runnalls contends that too few scholars are studying the diverse and rich resources held in municipal and regional archival records in France. As our attitudes about medieval performance evolve, he maintains, so, too, should our assumptions about what the archival record has already yielded and what that record might still be able to tell us. Thus, while acknowledging that Louis Petit de Julleville's monumental …

Allusions And Historical Models In Gaston Leroux's The Phantom Of The Opera, Joy A. Mills

Honors Theses

Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, has a considerable number of allusions, some of which are accessible to modern American audiences, like references to Romeo and Juliet. Many of the references, however, are very specific to the operatic world or to other somewhat obscure fields. Knowledge of these allusions would greatly enhance the experience of readers of the novel, and would also contribute to their ability to interpret it. Thus my thesis aims to be helpful to those who read The Phantom of the Opera by providing a set of notes, as it were, …