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Superb Jules Verne Translations. [Review Of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Trans. William Butcher, Oxford Up, 1992, And Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, Trans. William Butcher, Oxford Up, 1995], Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

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Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Adelson, Leslie A. Making Bodies Making History: Feminism and German Identity by Sander L. Gilman

Barrat, Barnaby B. Psychoanalysis and the Post-Modern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud's Psychology by Mitchell Greenberg

Calinescu, Matei. Rereading by Laurence M. Porter

Donahue, Neil H. Forms of Disruption: Abstraction in Modern German Prose by Burton Pike

Feminisms of the Belle Epoque, A Historical and Literary Anthology. Jennifer Waelti-Walters and Steven C. Hause, Eds. (Translated by Jette Kjaer, Lydia Willis, and Jennifer Waelti-Walters by Christiane J.P. Makward

Hutchinson, Peter. Stefan Heym: The Perpetual Dissident by Susan M. Johnson

Julien, Eileen. African Novels and …

Aping The Ape: Kafka's "Report To An Academy", Ziad Elmarsafy

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The "Report to an Academy" narrates a curious situation: an ape presents (or rather, performs) a report to an academy. What he presents is an autobiography. Like so much in Kafka, the "Report" is a parable about writing in general and about the writer's identity in particular. This essay attempts to address these issues through a close reading of Kafka's text against Blanchot's L'espace littéraire. Central to this endeavour is an analysis of the ape's use of the first-person pronoun as someone who fashions himself while, at the same time, presenting a theatrical autobiography featuring the self in question. …

The Perilous Journey From Melancholy To Love: A Kristevan Reading Of Le Médianoche Amoureux, Karen D. Levy

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Since the publication of Michel Tournier's first novel Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique in 1967, in which his protagonist Robinson makes fruitful the very earth of his desert island and eventually accedes to the cosmic transcendence embodied in his mentor and companion Vendredi, this contemporary French writer has boldly explored alternative forms of sexual expression that challenge traditional biological definitions of identity as well as norms of accepted behavior. The basis of his investigations is the anguish-ridden separation from the maternal, as experienced under diverse manifestations usually by male characters, and the irremediable solitude which then stretches over that …

Hervé Guibert: Writing The Spectral Image, Donna Wilkerson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This paper explores the relationship existing between AIDS (in particular the body-with-AIDS or the corps sidaïque), writing, and the spectral image in Hervé Guibert. While taking into account postmodern theory on the image, photography, and the notion of the "real," this essay examines the similitude between the image as plague and AIDS in order to reveal some central components of Guibert's postmodern conceptualization—namely the complex interplay of fact and fiction as it pertains to the body-with-AIDS. For example, the body is a privileged site from which the text radiates. It can also be mistaken for the "real" body of …

The Conspiracy Of The Miscellaneous In Foucault's Pendulum, Ken Kirkpatrick

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Like Name of the Rose, Foucault 's Pendulum grows out of and comments on Umberto Eco's theoretical work. Eco's decision to turn to a conspiracy, rather than a straight detective format for his second novel fits with his recent concern about how interpretative communities function in a period of divisive, diffuse critical theory. Yet Foucault's Pendulum does not merely amplify or dramatize his position; rather, it undermines it by becoming excessively involved in generating conspiracy. It is a satire in which the thing satirized proves more interesting and engaging than the satirical position. Nevertheless, Eco does raise concerns about …

The Lessons Of The Living Dead: Marcel's Journey From Balbec To Douville-Féterne In Proust's Cities Of The Plain: Part Two, Jonathan Warren

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

By analyzing the narrative of Marcel's journey by the "little train" from Balbec to Douville-Féterne the essay engages with the Proust criticism of Georges Poulet, Paul de Man, and Julia Kristeva to support Hayden White's claim that "it is legitimate to read Proust's narrative as an allegory of figuration itself." Like the Madeleine episode, this one serves as a point from which retrospection and prospection radiate. Central to the discussion is the description of Verdurins' dinner party guests as they stand ready to board the train on the platform at Graincourt: their vivacity, compared to a sort of extinction, suggests …

The "New" Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

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The 'New' Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Le Mot De Cambronne: An Excremental Exclamation And Its Implications In A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Elizabeth Richardson Viti

French Faculty Publications

Very early in A la recherche du temps perdu, when Oriane is still the Princesse des Laumes and has yet to assume her more imposing role of Duchesse of Guermantes, she engages in one of those tac a tac conversations she so enjoys with Swann. Thinly veiling her dislike of the younger Mms de Cambremer, who has just prevented a candelabra from plummeting to the ground during a piano recital and thus, to Oriane's mind, made a spectacle of herself, the future duchess remarks that this family name is quite astonishing. "Il finit juste a temps, mais il finit mal! …

Reviews Of Recent Publications, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Elisabeth Bronfen. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Feminity and the Aesthetic by Lisa Maruca

Jacques Dupin: Selected Poems. (Translated by Paul Auster, Stephen Romer, and David Shipiro.) by Maryann De Julio

Carolyn A. Durham. The Contexture of Feminism: Marie Cardinal and Multicultural Literacy by Yolanda Astarita Patterson

Mike Gonzalez and David Treece. The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth-Century Poetry of Latin America by Steven F. White

Emily D. Hicks. Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text by Roselyn Constantino

Robin Régine. Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic by Peter Hitchcock

Kari Weil. Androgyny and the Denial of Difference by Brigitte Roussel

Medieval French Literature: An Introduction, Michel Zink

Jeff Rider

Zink's book critically reviews and reforges everything that is currently known about medieval French literature and its development. Rider's translation will be useful for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.