En France, les annees 1990 constituent une periode charniere pour la litterature et le feminisme. Cette decennie marque l'emergence d'une nouvelle generation d'ecrivaines ainsi que d'une nouvelle generation de militant.e.s feministes. Une troisieme vague feministe et litteraire de Michele A. Schaal constitue une approche inedite car elle est la premiere a etablir une connexion entre les deux mouvements. A travers une analyse interdisciplinaire--feministe, culturelle et litteraire--Schaal demontre comment ces deux mouvances ont aborde de maniere similaire les questions identitaires et...

Jeux de mots célèbre le pouvoir créateur des jeux de langage dans la littérature de Rabelais à Richard Millet. Calembour, mot-valise, bon mot, néologisme, mot-fétiche : ce volume collectif explore la productivité des mots en prose et en poésie. Jeux de mots celebrates the creative power of wordplay from Rabelais to present times. Puns, portmanteaus, ‘bon mots’, neologisms, fetish-words: this collective volume explores the productivity of words in prose and poetry.

Can it be ever possible to write about war in a work of fiction? asks a protagonist of one of Makine’s strongly metafictional and intensely historical novels. Helena Duffy’s World War II in Andreï Makine’s Historiographic Metafiction redirects this question at the Franco-Russian author’s fiction itself by investigating its portrayal of Soviet involvement in the struggle against Hitler. To write back into the history of the Great Fatherland War its unmourned victims — invalids, Jews, POWs, women or starving Leningraders — is the self-acknowledged ambition of a novelist committed...

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the...

En tant que spectateurs de peinture, Diderot et Baudelaire furent aussi toujours et d’abord créateurs. Ce livre montre comment leurs écrits ouvrent la voie à une approche moderne de l’art, où les œuvres sont recréées librement par l’imagination du spectateur. Diderot and Baudelaire were viewers of paintings, but they were first and foremost artistic creators. This book shows how their writings open the way to a modern conception of art, where the works of art are freely recreated in the imagination of the viewer.

Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and...

In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of...

Les études réunies dans Natura in fabula envisagent les questions de la nature et de l’environnement dans le roman sous l’angle de la topique en s’appuyant sur le repérage de configurations narratives récurrentes. Natura in Fabula brings together papers dealing with nature and environment-related issues in the novel, addressing them from the perspective of topics through the identification of recurrent narrative patterns.

Dans Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime, Isabelle Tremblay analyse les modes de présence de l’interlocuteur absent à l’aide de l’étude des indices explicites et implicites permettant d’en déchiffrer le discours et même d’en esquisser un portrait. Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime demonstrates that the apparent one-sided structure of monophonic epistolary novels is in fact a uniquely crafted dialogical structure founded on both explicit and implicit references to the seemingly silent and absent writer.

Marguerite Duras. Un théâtre de voix / A Theatre of Voices propose une relecture originale du théâtre de Marguerite Duras. Les travaux ici réunis témoignent des dernières avancées de la recherche, particulièrement dans les domaines de la voix et du son, et démontrent que le théâtre durassien est parmi les plus novateurs du vingtième siècle. Marguerite Duras. Un théâtre de voix / A Theatre of Voices presents a radical reappraisal of the plays of Marguerite Duras. Cutting-edge research, particularly in relation to the vocal and auditory dimensions of her plays, establishes...