Literature and Art (French Studies, January 2007)

 

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 61, Number 1, January 2007

 

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Paul Smith : LITERATURE AND ART

This special issue of French Studies examines a body of narrativesfeaturing French art and artists published at representativeperiods during the nineteenth century (in both French and English).There are strong thematic continuities between many of the examplesdiscussed, particularly as regards their concern over the socialand economic position of the artist, and the nature and genderingof creativity. The topoi of the genius and the raté alsorecur throughout. Several texts are vehicles for voicing aestheticand political positions. And many draw closely on contemporaryfigures, events, and debates for their content. Yet this specialissue does not aim to identify a discursive unity so much asto exhibit the variety and richness of the art novel's evolution.It is also concerned to address some of the methodological issuesinvolved in reading this kind of text, including the selectivityof the canon, intertextual connections, and the relationshipbetween fiction and fact. It is hoped it will not only plotsome new and unfamiliar material in an area still representedfor most by a mere handful of ‘major’ texts, butalso bring some of the questions involved by this expanded configurationof the field into sharper focus.

 

Marc Gotlieb : PEDAGOGICAL DISASTER IN ROMANTIC ART FICTION   Stephen Bann : THE STUDIO AS A SCENE OF EMULATION: MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE'S L'ATELIER D'UN PEINTRE   Joy Newton : CEZANNE'S LITERARY INCARNATIONS   Anna Gruetzner Robins : GEORGE MOORE'S A MODERN LOVER: INTRODUCING THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS TO LONDON   Peter Read : PIERRE LOUS, RODIN AND APHRODITE: SCULPTURE IN FICTION AND ON THE STAGE, 1895–1914   ÉTAT PRÉSENT :   Jane H. M. Taylor : RESEARCH ON THE FRENCH MEDIEVAL LYRIC   REVIEWS :   Helen J. Swift : Agincourt: A New History   Ann Moss : Tous vos gens à latin: le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe–XVIIe siècles)   Paul Nelles : Les Échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance   Roger Pensom : Structures sonores de l'humanisme en France: de Maurice Scève: ‘Délie, object de la plus haulte vertu’ (Lyon 1544) à Claude Le Jeune, ‘Second livre des Meslanges’ (Paris, 1612)   Ian Maclean : Autour de Ramus: le combat   Cordelia Bradby : Jean de Léry; ou, l'invention du sauvage — Essai sur l'‘Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil’   Richard Parish : La Conversation intérieure: la méditation en France au XVIIe siècle   Henry Phillips : Molière: dramaturge libertin   Michael Hawcroft : Jean Racine   John Campbell : La Réception de Racine à l'âge classique: de la scène au monument   David Maskell :  De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France   John Renwick : uvres complètes de Montesquieu. Volume VIII. uvres et écrits divers I   Haydn Mason : Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom   Jennifer Birkett : The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France   John Phillips : Les Baisers des Lumières   Mark Darlow : Musique et langage chez Rousseau   Susanne Kord : From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary Canon 1770–1936   Haydn Mason : Le Siècle des Lumières: bibliographie chronologique   William Doyle : The Origins of the French Revolution   Margaret MacNamidhe : Letters d'Ingres à Gilibert   Emma Wagstaff : Transposing Art into Texts in French Romantic Literature   Yann Fremy : Scènes d'aumône: misère et poésie au XIXe siècle   Maria Scott : Stendhal's Parallel Lives   David Baguley : Leconte de Lisle: entre utopie et république   Barbara Wright : Baudelaire's World   Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe : Baudelaire's ‘Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives   Roger Pensom : Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé   Helen Abbott : ‘Le Coup de dés’ de Mallarmé: un recommencement de la poésie   Hannah Thompson : Zola: ‘Nana’   Marieke Dubbelboer : Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt   John Gaffney : French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation   Dee Reynolds : Dance, Desire and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater: Playing Identities   Thomas Baldwin : Proust's English   Adam Watt : Proust at the Movies   Anne Freadman : Colette and the Conquest of Self   Gavin Bowd : Pour la défense de la culture: les textes du Congrès international des écrivains. Paris, juin 1935   Christopher Shorley : French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s   Jean H. Duffy : Le Chant de l'arabesque: poétique de la répétition dans l'uvre de Claude Simon   Mary Orr : Cahiers Claude Simon: no. 1, 2005   Jean H. Duffy : Romans à contraintes   Shirley Ann Jordan : A New Generation: Sex, Gender, and Creativity in Contemporary Women's Writing in French • Hybrid Voices, Hybrid Texts: Women's Writing at the Turn of the Millennium   Andy Stafford : Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies   Tom Conley : The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture   Ian James : Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy   D. S. Bell : The French Communist Party during the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology   Marion Demossier : Redefining the French Republic   Rosemary Lloyd :  Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture   Katherine Astbury : Le Spectacle du secret   Sophie Marnette : Nouveaux développements de l'imparfait   Maeve Conrick : Identités de genre, identités de classe et insécurité linguistique