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 narratives featuring French art and artists published at representative periods during the nineteenth century (in both French and English). There are strong thematic continuities between many of the examples discussed, particularly as regards their concern over the social and economic position of the artist, and the nature and gendering of creativity. The topoi of the genius and the raté also recur throughout. Several texts are vehicles for voicing aesthetic and political positions. And many draw closely on contemporary figures, events, and debates for their content. Yet this special issue does not aim to identify a discursive unity so much as to exhibit the variety and richness of the art novel's evolution. It is also concerned to address some of the methodological issues involved in reading this kind of text, including the selectivity of the canon, intertextual connections, and the relationship between fiction and fact. It is hoped it will not only plot some new and unfamiliar material in an area still represented for most by a mere handful of ‘major’ texts, but also bring some of the questions involved by this expanded configuration of 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 (XIV^e–XVII^e 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 XVII^e 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 XVII^e 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 XIX^e 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