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French Studies Bulletin 37, 140

French Studies Bulletin 37, 140

Publié le par Romain Bionda (Source : Alex Beaumont)

Référence bibliographique : French Studies Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 140, Autumn 2016.

 

French Studies Bulletin

 

*With apologies for cross posting*

In light of the UK’s EU referendum result, it was decided that it would be not merely appropriate but imperative to include some reflection on the implications of the Leave vote. This issue of French Studies Bulletin therefore includes four comments on ‘Brexit’.

Full table of contents available at http://bit.ly/2cSV7Yc

 

Contents:

Comments:

Brexit: An Abreaction
by Mairéad Hanrahan
(English)

The Spectacle of Boris Johnson
by Charles Forsdick
(English)

What Does the Brexit Vote Mean for Us?
by Michael Kelly
(English)

Brexit
by Keith Reader
(English)

 

Articles:

‘La Bête e(s)t le souverain’: Discuss with reference to the First Session of Jacques Derrida’s La Bête et le souverain
by Daniel P. Daly
(English)

‘Nubiles plis l’astre mûri des lendemains’: Mallarmé’s Verlaine
by Liesl Yamaguchi
(English)

 

Postgraduate Bulletin Board:

Features details and short abstracts of recent doctorates awarded in French/Francophone studies by institutions in the UK and Ireland:

  • The Heuristics of Narrativity in the Works of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
    by Will Crichton (University of Warwick)
  • Ideal Beauty in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century French Art and Art Criticism with Special Reference to the Role of Drapery and Costume
    by Fiona Gatty (Somerville College, University of Oxford)
  • Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
    by Hannah Mowat (University of Cambridge)

http://bit.ly/2d1Wa50

 

News from Societies:

Features reports on three events:

  • ASMCF and SSFH Postgraduate Study Day 2016: Patrimoine
    Report by Clare Siviter (University of Warwick)
  • Protests in French and Francophone Arts and Cultures
    Report by Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Manchester)
  • The Battle of Algiers at 50: Legacies in Film and Literature
    Report by Beatrice Ivey (University of Leeds) and Alex Hastie (University of Sheffield)

http://bit.ly/2cBYAci

 

Society for French Studies News - Summer 2016:

Includes:

  • Announcement of the Society for French Studies’ International Visiting Fellow for 2016/17
  • The winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize
  • The R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize
  • Research Support Funding
  • Conference Grants

http://bit.ly/2cJUHTg