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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSi le masque se revele un motif capital de la litterature fin de siecle, la logique du deguisement et de la tromperie se developpe egalement dans l'environnement du texte: c'est ce que cet article se propose...
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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:French Forum (Vol. 32, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedLa Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, ecrite entre 1212 et 1219, est le produit de deux auteurs successifs: Guillaume de Tudele et un autre ecrivain reste anonyme. Ces deux auteurs ecrivent non seulement a chaud, mais...
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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: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: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:College Literature (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is an ancient, immemorial scene, and it does not take place just once, but repeats itself indefinitely, with regularity, at every gathering of the hordes, who come to learn of their tribal origins, of their origins...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 33, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWithin a few weeks of its publication late in 1981, La Ceremonie des adieux, Simone de Beauvoir's final tribute to her long-time companion, Jean-Paul Sartre, generated a flurry of reviews, many of which were negative or...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 169)Since its founding, the United States has elicited much curiosity and commentary from European intellectuals. Oscillating between paternal interest and fraternal rivalry, Europe's ambitious scribes have braved the...
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From:Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the neighborhoods where Dora Bruder once lived are now crowded with more recent immigrants, Modiano seems to have erased the contemporary French immigrant community from his narration. Yet immigrants and their...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the paean to colonial expansion Zola had developed at the end of Fecondite, it comes as a surprise perhaps that Justice, Zola's unwritten conclusion to the Quatre Evangiles, should promise so consistently to...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 35, Issue 1)J.-M. G. Le Clezio and the Nobel Prize: This year's Nobel Prize for Literature selection has proven controversial, and to some, disappointing. One French critic fumed that the winner's fiction lacked "universality," and...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInsofar as one could describe Le temps retrouve as the locus from which A la recherche du temps perdu reads itself, this final book hints at a strategy for its own aesthetic analysis. Marcel reveals himself as...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 93, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe manuscript of Voyage au centre de la terre has recently surfaced. The seventy-nine sheets made available contain a large number of deletions and insertions in Verne's hand. Professor Lidenbrock's domestic situation,...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedChateaubriand's many works set in exotic places speak in several voices: that of l'enchanteur, the spell-binding descriptive prose poet and rhetorician; of the scholar drawing on accounts by travelers and historians;...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedFrom the eighteenth century, interest in Hellenism had been stimulated by early travel accounts, and by researches into Greek religion. In France, archaeological findings and enthusiasm for Greek literature induced...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 32, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedL'Exil et le royaume est publie en 1957, annee de dechirement et de violence ultime entre la France et l'Algerie: bataille d'Alger, paroxysme d'un terrorisme urbain et recours systematique a la torture ponctuent alors...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLloyd charts the ubiquity, fluidity, and dynamism of sculptural metaphors in the texts of an array of Romantic writers to reveal the paradoxes and anxieties underlying the growing perception that the statue is no longer...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French StudiesPeer-ReviewedIn the early 1900s Gabrielle Reval wrote several semi-autobiographical bestsellers about the first graduates of the Ecole normale secondaire de jeunes filles. Participating in a major shift in educational institutions...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn South Africa during the month of March writers are known to migrate to Durban for the annual 'Time of the Writer' festival, where a meeting of Anglophone and Francophone African practitioners is generally an...