A Writer's Topography examines French-Algerian Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus's intimate yet often unsettled relationship with natural and human landscapes. Much like the Greek hero Sisyphus about whom he wrote his famous philosophical essay, Camus sustained a deep awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde--the face of this earth. This wide-ranging collection of essays by Camus scholars from around the world demonstrates to what extent topography is omnipresent in Camus's life and works. Configurations and contemplations of landscape figure...

Here is presented for the first time an extraordinary medieval text, the first Old French Vie des Peres. The Vie des Peres is in fact a collective text comprising three branches and, at its fullest, over seventy individually enclosed pious tales / miracles. The first Vie - the first forty-one or -two tales - dates from the first third of the thirteenth century. It is a vitally significant but hitherto neglected part of the Old French canon. Indeed, in his preface to this volume Michel Zink, one of the most respected medievalists of his generation, notes that the qualities of the Vie des Pers...

These essays are a tribute to one of North America's most distinguished scholars of Old French literature, Norris J. Lacy. Dealing with a wide range of medieval works, they reflect the honorand's own scholarly interests in medieval narrative and its reception in later periods. Together, the contributions are witness not only to the esteem in which Norris Lacy is held by the profession but also to the collegial spirit of the international community of medievalists.

Andre Malraux's output, spanning some 55 years, ranges from novels to philosophical essays, studies on the plastic arts and memorialist essays. The present volume is significantly innovative in that it sets out to elucidate this diversity by focusing, for the first time and from a variety of perspectives, on the erosion of boundaries which characterises Malraux's work. This erosion is multi-faceted and includes the crossing of genre boundaries; the appropriation of the literary text as political vehicle; the exploitation of the literary text as historical document; contemporary history as a...

Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy government during the Occupation of France. Abandoning the terse, glittering portraits of the contemporary era that had garnered him early fame, he turned to the past and to historical fiction, biography and autobiography.Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Post-War France, the first full-length study of Morand in English and the first ever of his post-war works, traces Morand's...

This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important trends in the formal and semiotic analysis of visual media in the past decade. The various essays discuss paintings, the illustrated covers of books, comics or graphic novels, photo-stories, postcards, television and video art, as well as aesthetic practices that defy categorization such as Chris Marker's masterpiece La Jetee. The range of works and practices examined is reflected in the different...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Cinquieme Colloque de Linguistique Romane/Fifth Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, which was held at Groningen University in September 1998. The theme of the colloquium was 'adverbial modification in Romance languages'. Therefore, adverbial modification is the common denominator of the works in this volume. However, and interestingly enough, the viewpoints taken by the Various authors differ considerably: some of the works deal with traditional adverbs (Ocampo, Kampers-Manhe, Bok-Bennema, Molendijk), others with elements such as mood...

Sartre et Beauvoir constituent un des couples litteraires les plus celebres du XXe siecle, meme, s'ils n'ont jamais collabore a un projet litteraire. Pourtant leur relation est fondee sur l'ecriture et c'est l'ecriture de leur lien qui en assure en grande partie la posterite. Sartre et Beauvoir ont en effet mis en scene leur rapport : transpose dans la fiction, theorise dans le journal ou expose dans la lettre ou l'entretien, ce qu'on appellera ici le nous autobiographique de Sartre et Beauvoir peut etre considere comme leur /uvre commune, menee en contiguite avec leur /uvre personnelle. ...

This volume presents a series of studies which analyze the anaphoric relationship in French from a non-traditional angle. Concentrating on indirect anaphora and bridging phenomena rather than on "classical" anaphoric expressions whose referent does not change, they analyze the anaphoric use of expressions such as I'un / l'autre, le premier / le second and le meme rather than the well-known pronouns and noun phrases. Furthermore, they look at the anaphorical functioning of expressions such as en or ca in order to get a better grasp of their nature and use rather than having it the other way...

A la Recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust est en premier lieu une construction complexe. La composition y est au service du desir, car elle seule permet de faire apparaitre la verite de l'inconscient qui ne saurait s'exprimer par des efforts de memoire ou par des esquisses psychologiques, mais bien par des figures telles que le cercle, l'ellipse ou l'etagement. Ce sont des formes dynamiques qui surgissent et reviennent, qui tournent et montent, acte de perlaboration au service de l'inconscient dont seules les traces mouvantes permettent de deviner la pertinence.