Framed ! Essays in French Studies, Lucy Bolton, Gerri Kimber, Ann Lewis, Michael Seabrook (eds)

Framed! Essays in French Studies

Bolton, Lucy / Kimber, Gerri / Lewis, Ann / Seabrook, Michael (eds)

(Modern French Identities,  61)

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 235 pp.

ISBN 978-3-03911-043-8  pb.

Broaching the notion of the 'frame' from a variety of analytic perspectives, and employing a range of approaches, this collection of articles engages with contemporary debates on text and image relations, literary reception and translation, narratology and cinematographic technique.
The various contributions to this collection provide new readings in their respective fields, and share a common concern with exploring the productive and problematic notion of the 'frame' and of 'framing' in a wide variety of cultural media in French Studies. This interdisciplinary analysis of literary and theoretical texts, visual art and film allows for fruitful connections to be made at the level of analysis of themes and of methodology. It thus provides material that is of interest both to specialists in these fields, and also to those seeking a more general introduction to each area.
This collection of articles is selected from the proceedings of the 'Framed! in French Studies' workshop, held at the Institut Français in London in February 2006.

Contents:

Ann Lewis: Introduction: Reading and Writing the Frame

Nicola Jones: Seeing Through the Pictures: The Importance of Perspective in Manuscript Frames

Katherine Shingler: Framing the Text: Mallarmé's Un Coup de dés and the Arts of the Book

Hazel Beale: Framing the Fairy Tale: French Fairy Tales and Frame Narratives 1690-1700

Kristy Guneratne: Framing and Authority in Genet's Miracle de la rose

Rachel Douglas: Transformation of the Framing Mise en Abyme in Frankétienne's Rewriting

Catherine Wheatley: Unseen/Obscene: The (Non)Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste

Hunter Vaughan: The Travelling Frame: The Tracking Shot in Resnais and Godard

Michael Seabrook: Beyond the G(u)ilt Edge: Flaubert's Framing of the Bourgeois Mentality in Bibliomanie

Charlie Mansfield: Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing the City

Gerri Kimber: Translation as Hagiographical Weapon or How the French Framed Katherine Mansfield

Ruth Hemus: Outside the Frame? Women in Paris Dada.

The Editors:

Lucy Bolton has a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Westminster and is currently completing her Ph.D. thesis at Queen Mary, University of London.
Gerri Kimber is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis on Katherine Mansfield at Exeter University and is the author of articles on Katherine Mansfield, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Ann Lewis is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She completed a Ph.D. on the topic of sensibility in eighteenth-century French fiction at Queen Mary and is the author of several articles (on Rousseau, Graffigny and illustrations to eighteenth-century novels).
Michael Seabrook holds a Joint Honours degree in French and German and a Masters in Literary Translation, both from the University of Exeter. He is currently completing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Southampton.