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...Christine Chism Simon Gaunt . Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde . Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity . Series: Gallica , v. 31 . Cambridge, UK : D.S. Brewer , 2013 . Pp. 212 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Book Reviews Simon Gaunt...

...Anna Blase Provitola Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Anna Blase Provitola FEMINISM IN THE "FATHER BOOK": COMPLICATING THE EMANCIPATION NARRATIVE IN ASSIA DJEBAR'S NOWHERE IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE But you-I am speaking to myself, like a sarcastic stranger-, where have you...

...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...

...James Fujitani Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Book Reviews Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact...

...Angela S. Moger Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Angela S. Moger DRESSING AND UNDRESSING THE PRINCESS OF CADIGNAN: FEMALE DRAPERY/NARRATIVE STRIPTEASE T hat storytelling is a time-honored means of inciting passion is clear if one considers only Ovid's advice in Ars...

...Max McGuinness [email protected] Edward J. Hughes , Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative . Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 75. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2022...

..., as a narrative device, is both a mark of identity and a hardened, and at times enigmatic, thread that initiates a story line. Mackendrick focuses especially on Odysseus’s scarring at the hands of a boar while hunting with his grandfather, which, later in the epic, is how a servant identifies the itinerant...

...Éric Le Calvez Christophe Ippolito : Narrative Memory in Flaubert’s Works . New York, Washington, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna and Oxford : Peter Lang, “Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures,” vol. 99 , 2001 ( 248 pages). Copyright © 2000...

...Andrea Goulet Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Andrea Goulet BLIND SPOTS AND AFTERIMAGES: THE NARRATIVE OPTICS OF CLAUDE SIMON'S TRIPTYQUE Blind Orion Tu sembles privih~gier de plus en plus l'image, la description. [ ] II y aurait donc une sorte de cOIncidence entre...

...Matthew Elbert Rodriguez Abstract This article reads Hervé Guibert’s 1989 novella Fou de Vincent in dialogue with his writings on photography to analyze the novella’s representation of homosexual intimacy in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The peculiar narrative form of the novella—diary...

...Michelle Miller Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Michelle Miller KEEPING TIME WITH THE TALES: REPETITION, EPIPHANY, AND THE HEPTAMERON'S NARRATIVE CHANGE D espite the Heptameron's near-pastoral setting, its characters appear strikingly attentive to the passing of time...

...Peter Shoemaker Peter Shoemaker THE FURNITURE OF NARRATIVE IN CREBILLON'S LE SOPHA AND LACLOS'S LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES M ay argument begins with a fashionable item of eighteenth-century furniture. The canape confidents, or confidente, was a sofa with two extra seats attached at the ends (fig. 1...

...Jason Jacobs Luke Sunderland . Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality , Gallica 15. Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 2010 . Pp. xiii + 204. ISBN: 978-1-84384-220-0. Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Book Reviews Luke Sunderland. Old...

...Amr Kamal Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Amr Kamal UNDOING ODYSSEUS'S PACT: MARGINAL FACES AND VOICES IN THE NARRATIVES OF ASSIA DJEBAR AND AGNES VARDA W hile reading Ces Voix qui m'assiegent . .. en marge de ma francophonie, Assia Djebar's collection of writings...

...Simone Ventura Catherine E. Léglu . Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State UP , 2010 . Pp. 216 . Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Book Reviews Catherine E. Leglu...

...Peter Poiana Peter Poiana FIGURES OF SCANDAL IN THE LATER NARRATIVES OF MARGUERITE DURAS I f Duras' writing has always addressed key existential questions, it has also shown a noticeable trend over the decades away from its earlier preoccupation with social mores and towards the exploration...

...Anne McCall Anne McCall FONCTIONS NARRATIVES, DYSFONCTIONS FAMILIALES: LE "PARLER-PERE" DANS LES LETTRES A MARCIE L 'audace de George Sand se mesure en partie a la gamme etendue de protagonistes peuplant ses reuvres 1. Paysans, aristocrates, artistes et artisans, ouvriers, speculateurs et erudits...

...Daniel Just Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Daniel Just AESTHETICS OF BLANKNESS: POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN MARGUERITE DURAS'S HYBRID NARRATIVES II y aurait une ecriture du non-ecrit. Un jour ~a arrivera. Une ecriture breve, sans grammaire, une ecriture de mots seuIs...

...Hanan Elsayed Abstract This essay focuses on Kamel Daoud’s “response” to Albert Camus’s L’Étranger by highlighting the differences in and implications of their writing styles and narrative voices. Daoud’s narrative refigures the concept of the absurd and his linkage of Camus’s silences...

... the question by reading the narrative of incest that dominates the “prehistory” of the prose Tristan against two key concepts that inform Michel Foucault’s 1971 essay “Nietzsche, la généalogie, l’histoire.” First, Foucault’s focus on the succession of discursive formations allows for a reinterpretation...