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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGUSTAVE Moreau occupe une place particuliere dans les textes de Marcel Proust. Proust ne pouvait ne pas etre insensible a Moreau qui a exerce une fascination considerable autant sur la scene litteraire que sur la scene...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMauritian author Natacha Appanah (b. 1973) worked as a journalist for several years for publications such as Le Mauricien , a popular French-language newspaper in the island nation. In 1998 Appanah moved to France. Her...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Rene, published in 1801 but set in 1727, Chateaubriand traces the geographical displacements and temporal excavations of a Frenchman who has forsaken his native French soil and social milieu for a new life in America...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedD'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), 1'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia noire notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis article approaches the text of Balzac's Gobseck through Barthes's general reflections, in Comment vivre ensemble, on the private room as a symbolic space of seclusion. Barthes's comments on the value of excrement...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor several years, I have taught a course on Approaches to the French Fairy Tale for our Freshman Seminar program at Vanderbilt University. As many Marvels & Tales readers who teach similar classes can relate, a course...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 34, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedRoman populaire avant la lettre, le roman frenetique a connu en France un grand engouement sous la Restauration. Il reprend generalement les formes stereotypees du melodrame, mais s'en demarque par la puissance...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaule Constant's first novel, Ouregano (1980), is set in the early 1950s, at the height of existentialism's colonization of French consciousness and just a few years before the demise of the French colonial empire. In...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJean Genet's outcast status is called an aesthetic one. (1) One of his earliest experiences of being an outcast was at Mettray, a colony for young male delinquents near Tours. Genet was sentenced to the colony from the...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe malady that D.A.F. Sade complained about to his wife in the famous "La Vanille et la Manille" letter from the Bastille at the end of 1784 has never been satisfactorily identified. Sade thought his suffering was due...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA un demi siecle d'ecart, Vigny, dans Chatterton, et Mallarme dans Variations sur un sujet, confrontent la question des modes de symbolisation poetique a l'interieur de l'economie de marche. Du romantisme au symbolisme,...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedArguing for a reconsideration of Stendhal's unfinished novel, this article shows how Lamiel renders evident the tensions between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century narrative models and social contexts. Its unfinished...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French StudiesPeer-ReviewedDue to sociological and aesthetical factors, the description of precious bibelots and trifles becomes a recurrent motif in decadent and symbolist novels. But behind their seductive appearance, these objects often...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 82, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedScholars considering the relationship between Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and its source generally assume that the tale is simply a relentlessly faithful rendition of Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence....
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMarcel Proust is a definitive example of gayness as sophistication and intelligence in Western literary canon. Proust's sophistication carries a naive aspect called a 'second naivete,' which can be interpreted as a gay...
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From:Biography (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNapoleon is reputed to have said, "impossible n'est pas francais" ("Lettre" 296), but he also exclaimed, "Quel roman que ma vie!" (Memorial 342)--"My life, what a novel!" In France today, life writing seems impossible,...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedBeginning in the early 1880s, the Third Republic pursued a cultural politics that increasingly placed the Symbolist esthetic in an oppositional position to norms promulgated by the government. The interest of Symbolists...
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From:Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture (Vol. 11, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhile Sartre scholars cannot fairly be described as being opposed to science, they have, for the most part, stayed aloof. The field of psychology, of course, has been an exception. Sartre himself felt compelled to...
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From:Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture (Vol. 11, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedOn first reading Les Mots, it was as much of a surprise to note that references to religion and belief were both so frequent and so central to Sartre's unconventional autobiography as it was to learn that the famous...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT In 1996, Calixthe Beyala was twice accused of plagiarism. One of the accusations led to her being found guilty in the High Court in Paris. Pardoxically, in that same year she was awarded the highly...