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Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire, Printemps 2024, Pascale-Anne Brault

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire

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André Gide Ou L'Ecriture Bifide, Abdelkhaleq Jayed

Dirassat

Andre Gide or Bifid Writing

This study on the relationship between space and writing in Gide aims to show that this category of experience, quite often considered in its apparent stasis as sterile and less relevant, and having suffered unfairly, in the innumerable works that have been done on the work and life of Gide, of a certain marginalization, fulfills and fully accomplishes its role of revealing the great themes deeply and firmly anchored in the psyche of the writer.

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire, Printemps 2022, Pascale-Anne Brault

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire

Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir vous présenter le vingt-septième numéro de Mille-Feuille et remercions tous les participants ainsi que le Doyen de Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, le Département de Langues Modernes et ses professeurs, le Study Abroad Office de DePaul University, ainsi que Collegiate School de NY, Curie High School, Ecole franco-américaine de Chicago, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Princeton Charter School et Saint Ignatius College Prep, qui nous ont permis, grâce à leurs subventions généreuses et leurs nombreuses contributions, de donner suite à nos premiers numéros. Bonne lecture!

Le Portrait Du Poète En Barbare Dans L’Œuvre D’Henri Michaux, Taoufiq Moueddene

Dirassat

The article highlights the imprint and poetic requirement of Henri Michaux in his work on the portrait of the poet in barbarian. The author returns, from a complex game, to the question of the plural being. Michaux diverts from the recognition and republic of letters, to make of it to be, not only the barbarian and the pariah of French literature but also his «Mlecha». Michaux’s work and life are part of a reflection on literature in its relation to being as a machine to be and to think.

Often called experimental thinking, Michaux is a discreet poet, painter painterand …

Courtney Sullivan. The Evolution Of The French Courtesan Novel: From Chabrillan To Colette. London: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2016., Zoe Petropoulou

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Courtney Sullivan. The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel: From Chabrillan to Colette. London: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2016. ix +127pp.

Leslie Barnes. Vietnam And The Colonial Condition Of French Literature. Lincoln: U Of Nebraska P, 2014., Michele L. Gerring

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Leslie Barnes. Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Thomas Baldwin, James Fowler And Ana De Medeiros, Eds. Questions Of Influence In Modern French Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Xxvii + 223 Pp., Audra L. Merfeld-Langston

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Thomas Baldwin, James Fowler and Ana de Medeiros, eds. Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xxvii + 223 pp.

Fiona Barclay. Writing Postcolonial France. Haunting, Literature, And The Maghreb. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. Xliv + 152 Pp., Anna Rocca

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Fiona Barclay. Writing Postcolonial France. Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xliv + 152 pp.

Contemporary French Fiction In And Out Of Screens, Eliane Dalmolin

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay explores the ways in which the widespread craze for reality TV has now extended its contamination to the comparatively more traditional discipline of literature. Today, there is no use denying that, acknowledging, and internalizing, the American domination in the creation of reality shows, French television has followed suit and, as a result of the cultural flooding of such a model, recent French literature has also been swayed by the empire of television in general, and the power of reality TV in particular. The author delineates the increasingly porous frontier separating and conjoining reality TV and literary representation, questions …

Pierre Bayard's Wormholes, Warren Motte

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The recent work of Pierre Bayard is trenchant, original, and deeply engaging. From Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? (1998) Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? (2001) onward, Bayard's books have piqued the interest of readers well beyond the limited circle of those who habitually consume French criticism and literary theory, and have served thus to expand the horizon of possibility of critical writing in significant ways. Bayard writes in a conditional, hypothetical mode, rather than a declarative one, keenly aware of how very mobile literary objects are. Bayard is not afraid to take risks, and he searches for new forms through a …

Marguerite Duras Et Le Nouveau Roman, Brianne Yancy

The Corinthian

Puisque Marguerite Duras s'est distinguee avec son propre style a elle, elle n'est consideree que rarement comme ecrivain du nouveau roman. Quoiqu'elle soit un ecrivain couronne de succes, elle n'est pas consideree parmi les ecrivains les plus celebres du nouveau roman. Neanmoins, comme je vais le demontrer, son oeuvre a beaucoup de caracteristiques en commun avec les autres oeuvres du nouveau roman.

Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Jacques Jouet has emerged over the past ten years as one of the most consistently intriguing voices in contemporary French literature, and one of the most versatile, as a glance at his bibliography will clearly show…

The "Incongruous Stranger" As Structural Element In The Novels Of Elsa Triolet, Lorene M. Birden

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In Language in Literature, Roman Jakobson underlines the presence of a certain device, which he calls he superfluous passerby, in Russian realist literature. This element has traveled into French literature with a Russian-born expatriate novelist. Several works by Eisa Triolet present this type of character, and extend the device structurally. In this device a character can provoke a new development in plot or character relations. Such a character has no direct relationship to the characters or events portrayed. Therefore, as opposed to classic novelistic perspective, this incongruous and unknown character shifts and blurs characterial hierarchy. The superfluous passerby displaces …

The Dialogic Self: Language And Identity In Annie Ernaux , Warren Johnson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The nine largely autobiographical texts that Annie Ernaux (1940- ) has published to date, which range stylistically from early strident outpourings to the willed transparency of an "écriture plate," all reveal the narrator as a patchwork subjectivity comprised of the discourses surrounding the child, adolescent, and adult against which she reacts, frequently without comprehending her own motivations. I try to unravel the strands that make up Ernaux's language and explore how the self that emerges is an aggregate of the discursive spaces she has inhabited. I trace as well how her gender identity impacts her capacity and willingness to struggle …

Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban

Quidditas

Arthur, Ross G., and Noel L. Corbett, trans. The Knight of the Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. 188 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.

Review Essay: Robert Levine, Trans., France Before Charlemagne: A Translation From The Grandes Chroniques, Harry Rosenberg

Quidditas

Robert Levine, trans., France before Charlemagne: A Translation from the Grandes Chroniques, Studies in French Civilization 3, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 287 pp., $89.95.

Introduction, Lynn A. Higgins

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

From an issue of the Magazine Litteraire featuring the work of Fernand Braudel to an article by Hayden White on the "Absurdist moment" in criticism, it is clear that the disciplines of history and literary studies are converging. Historians like White and Dominick La Capra in the United States, and Michel de Certeau and the members of the Annales School in France are investigating the rhetorical modes of their craft and exploring implications of the fact that it is historians themselves who "make history." At the same time, literary scholars, emerging from Structuralism and the New Criticism, are seeking with …