...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san THE POETICS AND PERILS OF FACTION: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION AND THE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II I n an essay published in the summer 2011 special issue of Le Debat entitled "L'Histoire saisie par la...

...Kathrina A. Laporta Nicholas D. Paige Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . Pp. 304 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Nicholas D. Paige. Before Fiction: The Ancien...

...Rachel Mesch Nicholas White . French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War . London : Legenda , 2012 . Pp. 205 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS problems are, as the author suggests, matter for another book entirely...

...Lucas Hollister Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Lucas Hollister ON THE USES AND ABUSES OF "RETURN": REFLECTIONS ON JEAN ROUAUD'S L'IMITATION DU BONHEUR AND ITS "HISTOIRE CRITIQUE DE LA FICTION" Rien de plus militaire qu'un [critique] plaidant pour ['ineffable...

...Bruce Robbins Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Bruce Robbins INFORMATION AND EMOTION: ON THE AMBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION "Information has become the new character James Wood, "Hysterical Realism" Critic James Wood, in a review of Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth...

...Kris Vassilev Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Kris Vassilev FICTION THEORIQUE: LA PLANCHE ANATOMIQUE DE L'ECRITURE DANS LA]ALOUSIE D 'abord relegue en marge de la "bonne litterature", La Jalousie d'Alain Robbe-Grillet acquiert ses lettres de noblesse quelques annees...

...Ali Nematollahy Peter Schulman . The Sunday of Fiction. The Modern French Eccentric . West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press , 2002 . Pp. 196 . Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 478 BOOK REVIEWS ration is either a conscious or unconscious...

...Derek Schilling Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Derek Schilling LE CHIENDENT ENTRE HISTOIRE ET FICTION OU LES PARFAITS BANLIEUSARDS DE RAYMOND QUENEAU Le "Nouveau Roman" des annees trente? aAlain Robbe-Grillet, qui Ie gout de la provocation n'a jamais fait defaut...

..., are created from (and attached to) the elements of the earth, and the celestial realm of the stars and planets, as well as the supernatural world of creatures, such as jinn and demons. 1 The medium for this encounter in the fictional City of Brass is copper, manifest in the vessels, statues, walls...

...Anna Arzoumanov Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Columbia University 2018 Anna Arzoumanov LE STYLE COMME BOUCLIER JURIDIQUE: L ARGUMENT DU STYLE DANS LES PROCÈS DE FICTION Depuis les années 2000, les médias s intéressent de près à ce qu ils considèrent comme une judiciarisation de l édition...

...Thomas Dodman Maria C. Scott , Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction. Readings in French Realism ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020 ). 284 pp. ISBN: 9781474463034. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020...

...Pericles Lewis Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Pericles Lewis PROUST, WOOLF, AND MODERN FICTION V irginia Woolf began reading Marcel Proust in 1922. In an essay "On Rereading Novels," published in the Times Literary Supplement on July 20, 1922, she comments...

... of the theme of ageing and, in particular, the theme of women's ageing, Dugast-Portes examines the effect which the exploration of the subject has on narrative speed and temporality, and the link between the evocation of 'Ie vieillir' and the emergence of a 'discours de moraliste.' 'Realite et fiction du...

...Aurelie Renaud Andrea Goulet . Optiques. The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2006 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Book Reviews Andrea Goulet. Optiques...

...Gisèle Séginger Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Gisele Seginger FICTION ET HISTOIRE. LA SORe/ERE DE JULES MICHELET M ichelet veut etre la voix de ceux qui en sont prives afin de reparer l'injustice d'une histoire evenementielle centree sur les hauts faits des grands...

...Christine Bourgeois Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Christine Bourgeois THE OLD FRENCH GUILLAUME DE PALERNE AND THE STAG OF SAINT EUSTACE: A STUDY IN THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF MEDIEVAL FICTION The anonymous late twelfth-­or early thirteenth...

...Éric Trudel Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Éric Trudel LA FICTION « POUR VIATIQUE » ? ÉCRITURE ET RÉÉCRITURE DES MARGES DE PARIS CHEZ PHILIPPE VASSET . . . m e laissant porter par un départ de fiction suggéré par un petit immeuble...

... echoing his work, the fictionalization of his prophecies of doom, and even a direct mention of his person. La felicidad del malvado (2023), José A. Cano’s second novel, provides an illuminating example of the reception and adaptation of Cioran’s philosophy of failure in Spain today. Cano (b. 1954...

...Robert Lethbridge Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Robert Lethbridge AGAINST RECUPERATION: THE FICTIONS OF ART IN L'CEUVRE T he exact status of Zola's L'(Euvre has always been problematic. For Pissarro, it was "un livre romantique," for Edmond de Goncourt...

...Joanna Augustyn Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Joanna Augustyn SUBJECTIVITY IN THE FICTIONAL RUIN: THE CAPRICE GENRE "What a clever chap that architect is, though; how he takes his client's measure!" Edith Whartonl A fter Roland Mortier's La Poetique des ruines en...