French Studies, vol. 58, no. 4, October 2004

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.

The journal's review section is unmatched in its breadth and its quality, providing prompt coverage of work published in French, English, German and Italian.

Volume 58, Number 4, October 2004:

Hugh Roberts: Too Paradoxical for Paradoxes: The Role of the Cynics in Two Mid-Sixteenth-Century French Texts, Charles Estienne's Paradoxes and Philibert de Vienne's Le Philosophe de Court 

Marieke Dubbelboer: Un univers mécanique: la machine chez Alfred Jarry 

Marie-Chantal Killeen: Pour une lecture girardienne des Bonnes de Genet

Akane Kawakami: Nathalie Sarraute's Accent: The Poetry of Tropismes 

Nick Hanlon: Death, Subjectivity, Temporality in Baudrillard and Heidegger   

John O'Brien: Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote? 

Michael Holland: Maurice Blanchot

REVIEWS:

Emma Campbell :Review: Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost 

Rebecca Dixon: Review: Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture 

Jane Gilbert :Review: The Curse of Eve, The Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender and Medieval Literature 

Keith Busby: Review: Chrétien de Troyes: An Analytic Bibliography. Supplement 1 

A. E. Cobby :Review: Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie

Alan Hindley: Review: oeuvres polémiques rédigées sous le règne de Louis XII 

Katherine M. MacDonald :Review: L'Étude de la Renaissance: nunc et cras Actes du colloque de la Féderation internationale des Sociétés et Instituts d'Étude de la Renaissance (FISIER) 

John Parkin: Review: Études rabelaisiennes 

Margaret M. McGowan :Review: Le Dernier Montaigne 

Mary B. McKinley :Review: Le Visage changeant de Montaigne The Changing Face of Montaigne 

Dennis Wood: Review: Causeries sur Montaigne 

Nicholas Hammond :Review: Entretien avec Sacy sur la philosophie 

Edward James: Review: The Cambridge Companion to Pascal 

Ronald W. Tobin :Review: The Molière Encyclopedia 

Noël Peacock: Review: Molière l'inventeur: c't avec du vieux qu'on fait du neuf'

Noël Peacock :Review: Time and Ways of Knowing under Louis XIV: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette 

D. J. Culpin :Review: La Bruyère, I: Brèves questions d'herméneutique. II: Rhétorique du discontinu

Ursula Haskins: Review: Montesquieu historien de Rome: un tournant pour la réflexion sur le statut de l'histoire au XVIIIe siècle 

J. E. Fowler: Review: Diderot's Endgames 

David Adams :Review: Figures de l'éclectisme dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle 

Laurence Brockliss: Review: The Making of Revolutionary Paris  

Christopher Thompson :Review: Dictionnaire de Stendhal 

Michael Tilby: Review: Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre  

David H. Walker :Review: For the People by the People? Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris': A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature 

Sara James :Review: Mysterymania: The Reception of Eugène Sue in Britain 1838-1860 . Review: Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Spain 

Stephen Goddard: Review: Madame Bovary': Representations of the Masculine

Roger Pearson: Review: oeuvres complètes, 2  

Peter Dayan: Review: Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence 

Anne Holmes: Review: Romances sans paroles

Anne Holmes: Review: Marges du premier Verlaine 

Henry Phillips: Review: L'Actrice et ses doubles: figures et représentations de la femme de spectacle à la fin du XIXe siècle

Charles Forsdick :Review: Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry 

Phil Powrie :Review: Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics   

Ursula Tidd: Review: Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux  

Margaret Atack: Review: Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony

Jane Hiddleston :Review: Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question 

Ian James: Review: Badiou: A Subject to Truth

Peter Hawkins: Review: Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society

Douglas Morrey: Review: Leos Carax 

Rodney Sampson: Review: The Sounds of Contemporary French: Articulation and Diversity 

Roger Hawkins: Review: French Prepositions: Forms and Usage 

Sophie Marnette: Review: La Préposition et son régime: étude des cas atypiques