French Forum, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2006

French Forum is a journal of interest to all scholars and students of French and Francophone literatures. It accepts articles of all critical persuasions on all periods and genres of French and Francophone literary production. Founded by Virginia and Raymond La Charité, French Forum is produced by the French Section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2006

CONTENTS :

Lauersdorf, Josée S. J., La guerre des sexes dans les Égarements du coeur et de l'esprit de Crébillon

Phillips, Jennifer, 'Vox populi, vox dei': Baudelaire's Uncommon Use of Commonplace in the Salon de 1846

Motte, Warren F., Raymond Queneau and the Early Oulipo

Kapanga, Kasongo M., L'OEuvre romanesque de Mudimbe et le discours identitaire zaïro-congolais

Willging, Jennifer, Existential Angst and Role-Playing Revisited in Paule Constant's Fiction

Baetens, Jan, Hergé, auteur à contraintes? Une relecture de L'Affaire Tournesol

Thomas, Jean-Jacques, OuLiPotemkin: Down with the Tyranny of Constraints!

Book Reviews :

McCready, Susan, Dramaturgies de l'ombre (review)

Blatt, Ari J., Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life (review)

Spagnoli, Laura, The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (review)

Hippolyte, Jean-Louis, Paradis: Une métaphysique de l'infini (review)

Yaari, Monique, We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930 (review)