French: Recent submissions
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From Commonplace to Common Ground: Facial Injury in Kader Attia's Continuum of Repair
(Taylor & Francis, 26 August 2016)This essay assesses the ambivalent gesture of repair in the work of the Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia, as it is brought to bear upon the history of the facially injured soldiers of the First World War. Attia mobilises ... -
Ancients, moderns, gender: Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier’s Le Parnasse reconnoissant ou le triomphe de Madame Des-Houlières
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 18 November 2016)This article examines the relationship between the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the Querelle des femmes as it was articulated in Le Parnasse reconnoissant ou le triomphe de Madame Des-Houlières by Marie-Jeanne ... -
Portraits by the artists as young men: Proust, Valéry, Colour
(Oxford University Press for Society for French Studies, 1 July 2017)Marcel Proust and Paul Valéry have received very little comparative critical attention. An exception is Adorno’s essay ‘Valéry Proust Museum’ (1955). Here Adorno notes that these writers are ‘the two most knowledgeable men ... -
Troubadour biographies and the value of authentic love: Daude de Pradas and Uc de Saint Circ
(Università degli Studi di Milano, 1 July 2017)The idea of an essential connection between the quality of a song and the sincerity of the emotion it expresses (‘I sing because I love’) is a topos used in various ways by troubadours, one which lent itself naturally to ... -
Everything and Nothing - Hugo and Shakespeare
(Taylor & Francis for Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, 21 December 2016)This article re-evaluates Hugo’s relationship with Shakespeare, by analysing his literary criticism, in particular William Shakespeare (1864), which offers us a vivid portrayal of the ways in which Hugo both negotiated ...