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...Nicholas White Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Nicholas White INTRODUCTION: ZOLA, CULTURAL HISTORIAN AVANT LA LETTRE? Dans Ie texte de plaisir, les forces contraires ne sont plus en etat de refoulement, mais de devenir : rien n'est vraiment antagoniste, tout est...

...John Lytle Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 John Lytle THE HISTORIAN'S DILEMMA: THE QUEST FOR MASTER NARRATIVE IN PROSPER MERIMEE'S "LA VENUS D'ILLE" Prosper Merimee's tale "La Venus d'llle" (1837) leaves readers at an interpretative crossroads by suggesting both...

... structure that coincided with contemporaneous work by historians of the Annales School on lineage and by structuralists on the linguistic patterns underpinning kinship. This led to a book, Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages . But other strong strains...

.... A second and more recent trend has been the opening of foreign language departments to scholars who do not work primarily on literary texts, and especially to historians, in a move toward a larger field of "French and Francophone studies." Both these tendencies have been widely documented, and sometimes...

..., your own work as a historian? Where could there be some points of contact and points of divergence between historians and novelists? HR: Indeed, the current enthusiasm for this period seems to me to be of another order. First, the writers you cite and those that are the most talked about no longer have...

... seem a latterday work of popularization to Jane Gallop and Marianne Hirsch, was an important introductory work on French feminism for many of us in medieval studies. The beginnings of feminism among medievalists owe more to historians of the Annales School, and in particular to Georges Duby's books...

... of their own history, then they were subjects of the history of despotism and tyranny, not that of emancipation and freedom. For some French historians, the only true Algerian nationalists were the Algerian communists, European or Europeanized in their majority, for whom political "engagement" was not linked...

.... Therefore the authors of The Book ol Hospitality are obviously divided into two groups: on the one hand, historians and sociologists describing the "real" hospitality within different civilizations (frol11 ethnographical societies up to post-Inodern France, and fronl ancient China to contelnporary...

... gaze can nevertheless be myopic. Cultural historians may turn to literary fiction under the aegis of their own linguistic and deconstructive turns, but as a literary critic (or, dare I say, literary historian), as I turn to the literary interpretations of such cultural historians, I invariably...

... but radical reconceptualization of the family effected by Revolutionary laws before it was redirected in the Code, presented family narratives that put into question the dominant bourgeois hierarchical articulation of family relations. 1. See also Nancy Armstrong for the British domestic novel and historian...

... was featured as an exercise in a French grammar book for English-speaking students, published in 1768. With the space for verbs left blank (Perrin 175–78). But even though a misogynistic bias singles out “angry” women of letters for special blame, we should remember that eighteenth-century historians...

... in the 1980s-a period Daniel Bensaiod characterized as one of massive judiciary escalation.3 Bensald was referring in part to the trend that flourished in the 1980s involving historians showing up in trials in France as expert witnesses. (The historian Henry Rousso, who figures prominently in Phil's book...

... by which the courtly and the popular in the thirteenth century at once collide and are mutually absorbed" (p. 147). Butterfield is one of the few literary historians capable of working on a sophisticated level with the melodies as well as with the texts of medieval French song, and she knows both...

... ilnpact on his intellectual fortuation. Dur- ORIENTALISM AND TIlE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NATIONALIST 235 ing these years, he would become both an Orientalist (he took up the study of Arabic only after his move to Paris, at the age of 36) and a Republican. Amari's work as a historian provoked his Parisian...

... to flourish in its extra-hexagonal interpretation. Departments of literary study became the laboratories of the new during the 1970s and the 1980s. I mean this very seriously. Other fields began to look to literature departments for new methods and paradigms: historians, art historians, architects...

..., it is instead the epithet of friendship that best appeals to the historian s imagination: C est une grande gloire pour nos vieilles com­ munes de France, d avoir trouvé les premières le vrai nom de la patrie. Dans leur simplicité pleine de sens et de profondeur, elles l appelaient l Amitié (199).1 Patriotism...

... fiction," the British historian Anthony Beevor describes and denounces the proliferation in contemporary culture of fictional works he labels "faction." As Beevor describes them, these works include novels, films, television shows, and other entertainments that take as their subject matter important...

.... ,,4 I had no patience with these fancy dressmaking metaphors when I first read the book ten years ago. At that point I was still trying to decide whether or not to attempt the task Aragon despised above all: to write a biography, "to take on the role of historian to Matisse"S, or - another favourite...

... with literary precedence and the evolution of taste, the ancient historians devoted their attention to the historiographic 2. This task has been accomplished by Marcel Tetel, Presences italiennes dans les Essais de Montaigne (Paris: Champion, 1992) and Nicola Panichi, I vincoli del disinganno: Per una nuova...

... . “ Clerc, Chevalier, Aucteur: The Authorial Personae of French Medieval Historians (12th–15th c.) .” In Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles , edited by Dresvina Juliana and Sparks Nicholas , 231 – 59 . Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars , 2012 . Bratu...