Handbook of French literature; historical, biographical, and critical.

Preface signed: Margaret Foster.

A history of French literature,

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History of French literature,

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French authors; a hand-book of French literature. Froissart --Living writers.

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The history of French literature from the Oath of Strasburg to Chantieler,

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Contemporary British literature,

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Contemporary American literature,

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Contemporary American literature and religion,

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The narrative construction va + infinitive in contemporary French:a linguistic phoenix risen from its medieval ashes?

In Old and Middle French (12th-16th centuries), va ["goes"] + inf was used in narrations in the past. A similar usage seems to have reappeared and be spreading today. However, the old construction combined with past Tenses whereas the new one is found only with forms anchored in present and future. We argue that the conTemporary construction derives not from the old one, but from a metanarrative construction. On the basis of its future in Terpretation, va + inf aids the organization of the narration, announcing subsequent events through a hypernymic process. The periphrasis thus approaches a narrative value by projecting the time of events onto that of narration. With the disappearance of all deictic markers, the go-periphrases are no longer hypernyms: they appear on the same temporal line of events as the neighboring situations and are understood as fully completed. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

"From the hidden side of dictatorship to the filter of memory: contemporary Brazilian literature - resistance and exile"

The article analyzes several aspects related to memoirs texts from the banished people of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), mainly the domino effect of the narratives about resistance, the intertextuality among these works and the role of the banished ones in the effort of constructing a revolution which passed over national limits. Using autobiographical works such as the trilogy started by Fernando Gabeira with O que é isso, companheiro? [What is this, comrade?], the narratives of Alfredo Sirkis (Os carbonários and Roleta chilena) [The carbonari and Chilean roulette], Flávio Tavares (Memórias do esquecimento) [Memoirs of forgetfulness], Alex Polari (Em busca do tesouro) [In search of the treasure], and Carlos Eugênio Paz (Viagem à luta armada) [Trip to the armed struggle], among others, and as theoretical references authors like Andreas Huyssen, Beatriz Sarlo, Leonor Arfuch, Tzvetan Todorov and Michael Pollak, the article aims at reflecting about the memories of the banished and the political prisoners as a bruising affirmation of a crucial period of the Brazilian History and collective memory.

Nouvelles approches de la ville dans la littérature française contemporaine : Thomas Clerc et Philippe Vasset

On the basis of two indecidable texts (Thomas Clerc, “Paris, musée du XXIe siècle. Le dixième arrondissement”, Gallimard 2007 and Philippe Vasset, “Un livre blanc”, Fayard 2007), we will reflect on new approaches to the city in contemporary French litterature. Clerc and Vasset, in their respective texts, suggest considering litterature as a series of practices connected with the exploration of the city (Clerc) and of the urban area (Vasset) according to the idea of an arbitrary itinerary. The image of the city whose space, subject to a permanent process of museifi cation, is constantly considered to be a work of art (Clerc) contrasts with a project of viewing the deserted areas of the city and of its surroundings as an infinite collection of “artistic installations” created in daily life (Vasset). Clerc’s and Vasset’s artistic mentality leads them to the fascination with “works of involuntary art”, both concrete signs and tangible proof of the transitional period which they try to describe systematically, following, at the same time, the principles of an axonometric city map.

Une tentatrice redoutable : la télévision chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint et Serge Joncour

Si, depuis son apparition, la télévision suscite de nombreuses réactions de mépris chez les élites cultivées, son emprise sur l’individu et la vie en société est indéniable. La littérature ne pouvait manquer de s’intéresser à la nature et à l’évolution de ce média si discuté avec lequel elle entretient des relations plus complexes qu’il n’y paraît. Cette étude porte sur deux romans qui proposent une représentation très élaborée et singulière du petit écran et de son rôle, La Télévision de Jean-Philippe Toussaint et Que la paix soit avec vous de Serge Joncour. Chacun d’eux fait l’objet d’un chapitre. En plus de procéder à une critique incisive du média télévisuel, ces fictions mettent en évidence ses liens avec l’imaginaire social contemporain. Toussaint accorde une importance particulière aux bouleversements socioculturels causés par la télévision et montre qu’elle a si bien investi la place de la vie quotidienne que les mondes réel et virtuel risquent désormais constamment de se confondre. Joncour décrit avec soin l’influence qu’elle exerce sur notre perception de la réalité et critique la lecture superficielle du monde qu’elle impose. Cependant qu’elles effectuent ce travail critique, les deux œuvres se rejoignent pour souligner son pouvoir de fascination et la présentent telle une tentatrice redoutable. Parce qu’elle part d’une lecture interne des textes pour les mettre en relation avec la façon dont la télévision, en tant que dispositif sémiotique, c’est-à-dire en tant que machine à produire du sens, informe la réalité humaine, notre étude se situe sur le terrain de la sociocritique des textes.