...David Carroll Jay Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xi + 632 pp. $35.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 David Carroll is professor of French at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent books are Paraesthetics...

... the least, to find the following note, which is typical : Cazotte’s Mkmoire to Choiseul (Arch. des. Aff. e‘trun., etc.) on the govern- ment of Martinique is a highly important document in the history of French colonial policy. It is unfortunately too long to be quoted (p. 17, n. 76...

... importance. The mechanical accuracy in even the smallest details is remarkable. URBANT. HOLMES,JR. University of North CuroZitEa French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI and the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792. By H...

... instead of applying to him the traditional yardstick of the French and German classical drama. Naumann’s “characteristic” approach is sufficient to present Grillparzer’s poetic world naturally and convincingly, and yet leaves room for the reader’s imagination and for future contributions...

... and to sustain, as contemplated by writers who, at one time or other, suffer the crisis of exile in their own land. Victoria Silver, University of California, Irvine Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment. By Thomas M. Kavanagh. Philadelphia...

... in twentieth-century France. Resisting the Plague: The French Reactionary Right and Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty Constance Spreen uring a lengthy, hostile divorce from the surrealist circle in 1926, DAntonin Artaud reiterated his eschewal of political engagement in the most vigorous terms...

...Aimée Boutin © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Aimée Boutin is associate professor of French at Florida State University. She is author of Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine (2001) and“Inventing the 'Poétesse': New...

...Sara E. Melzer Orientalism in French Classical Drama . By Michèle Longino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 274 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Sara E. Melzer is professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles...

... French are well aware, a group project to publish the Roman d’Alexandre and affiliated romances has been under way for years at Princeton University under the direction of the distinguished mediaevalist, Professor Edward C. Armstrong. The labors of Mr. Armstrong and his asso- ciates...

...A. F. B. Clark Henry Carrington Lancaster. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1942. Pp. 235. $5.00. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 504 Reviews A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Cen- tury. Part V, Recapitulation...

...John D. Lyons Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama . By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French...

...David Huntsperger Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes . By David LeHardy Sweet. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Department of Romance Languages, 2003. 318 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005...

...Andrea Frisch University of Washington 2006 Andrea Frisch , author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (2004), is assistant professor of French at the University of Maryland. She is writing a book on the impact of post-civil war discourses...

... Studies . He is author of two forthcoming books, Spenser's International Style and Virgil in the Renaissance . The French Aesthetic of Spenser’s Feminine Rhyme David Scott Wilson-Okamura ne of Edmund Spenser’s greatest experiments, which does not Oseem like an experiment anymore...

...Nicholas Paige University of Washington 2006 Nicholas Paige is associate professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France (2001) and is currently researching...

...Andrea Goulet University of Washington 2007 Andrea Goulet is associate professor in the Department of French and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern...

...- and eighteenth-century France and Britain. University of Washington 2007 Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture . By Thomas M. Kavanagh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Reviews Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French...

...Andrea Frisch Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine . By Bilis Hélène . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2016 . xx + 258 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Theatrical tragedy has long served...

...Wang Ning Abstract Of all the Western critical theories received in China, French theories have exerted the greatest influence on China’s literary theory and criticism. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist philosophy and literary theory have had tremendous influence not only on China’s contemporary...

...Hannah Freed-Thall Abstract The rhetoric of revulsion has shaped French cultural modernity. This essay examines salient forms of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literary disgust, then turns to écœurement (heartsickness) as a contemporary case study. Écœurement is key to the work...