French Studies, January 2006

French Studies is published on behalf of the Society for French Studies. The journal publishes articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics (historical and contemporary), all periods and aspects of literature in France and the French-speaking world, thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, film, and critical theory.

Volume LX, Number 1, January 2006

ARTICLES :

Ben Ramm, Making Something of Nothing: The Excesses of Storytelling in the Lais of Marie de France and La Chastelaine de Vergi 

Jean-Pierre Montier, Dessins et écriture dans le manuscrit des Travailleurs de la mer de Victor Hugo

Jill Anderson, The Meaning Beyond the Dress: Alterity and Economy of Desire in Mallarmé's Berthe Morisot  

Nathalie Aubert, Les Logogrammes de Christian Dotremont

Nicole Fayard, The Rebellious Body as Parody: Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes

ÉTATS PRÉSENTS :

Bill Burgwinkle, Queer Theory and the Middle Ages  

REVIEWS