Books Received

William Beik. Louis XIV and Absolutism. A Brief Study with Documents. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv + 247 pp.

Miguel Benitez, Antony McKenna, Gianni Paganini et Jean Salem. Materia actuosa. Antiquité, Age classique, Lumi, Age classique, Lumières. Mélanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch. Paris: Champion, 2000. 747 pp.

Alice Fiola Berry. The Charm of Catastrophe. A Study of Rabelais's "Quart Livre". Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 170 pp.

Norma Bouchard. Céline, Gadda, Beckett. Experimental Writings of the 1930s. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000. 233 pp.

Dominique Boutet. Formes littéraires et conscience historique. Aux origines de la littérature française (1100-1250). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999. 295 pp.

Keith Cameron. Concordance des oeuvres poétiques de Philippe Desportes. Geneva: Droz, 2000. cd-Rom + 53 pp.

Alain Cernuschi. Penser la musique dans l'"Encyclopédie". Paris: Champion, 2000. 792 pp.

Patricia Francis Cholakian. Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000. 219 pp.

Tom Conner (ed). André Gide's Politics. Rebellion and Ambivalence. New York: Palgrave, 2000. vii + 296 pp.

François Cornilliat and Richard Lockwood. Ethos et pathos. Le statut du sujet rhétorique. Actes du Colloque international de Saint-Denis (19-21 juin 1997). Paris: Champion, 2000. 416 pp.

Martin Crowley. Duras, Writing and the Ethical. Making the Broken Whole. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 323 pp.

Colin Davis and Elizabeth Fallaize. French Fiction in the Mitterand Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 160 pp.

Daniel Desormeaux. La Figure du bibliomane. Histoire du livre et stratégie littéraire au XIXè siècle. Paris: Nizet, 2001. 254 pp.

André-François Deslandes. Réflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont morts en plaisantant. Avec des Poésies diverses. Ed. Franck Salaün. Paris: Champion, 2000. 178 pp.

Laurie Edson. Reading Relationally. Postmorder Perspectives on Literature and Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xii + 187 pp.

Etudes rabelaisiennes, tome XXXIX. Geneva: Droz, 2000. 175 pp.

Gisèle Féal. Ionesco—un théâtre onirique. Paris: Imago, 2001. 263 pp.

Svein-Erik Faushevag. Sade ou la tentation totalitaire. Paris: Champion, 2001. 199 pp.

Christopher Flood, Nick Hewlett. Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. ix + 248 pp.

Anne-Marie Fortier. René Char et la métaphore Rimbaud. Montréal: Presses de l'universitéde Montréal, 1999. 260 pp.

Martine Guyot-Bender. Mémoire en dérive—poétique et politique de l'ambiguïté chez Patrick Modiano. Paris-Caen: Minard. 132 pp.

Stirling Haig (ed). Resonant Themes. Literature, History, and the Arts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 213 pp.

Carla Hesse. The Other Enlightenment. How French Women Became Modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xix + 233 pp.

Alan Hindley, Frederick W. Langley, Brian J. Levy. Old French-English Dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 621 pp.

Alex Hughes. Heterographies. Sexual Difference in French Autobiography. New York: Berg, 1999. vii + 186 pp.

Ann Jefferson. Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 214 pp.

Caroline A. Jewers. Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000. xii + 210 pp.

Claudine Jomphe. Les Théories de la "dispositio" et le Grand Œuvre de Ronsard. Paris: Champion, 2000. 416 pp.

Roberta L. Krueger (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. New York: Cambridge, 2000. xix + 290 pp.

Kathy M. Krause (ed). Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 187 pp.

Marc Kober. Entre Nil et sable: écrivains d'Egypte d'expression française (1920-1960). Paris: Centre national de documentation pédagogique, 1999. 332 pp.

John D. Lyons. Kingdom of Disorder. The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1999. xv + 251 pp.

Donald Maddox. Fictions of Identity in Medieval France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xx + 295 pp.

Olivier de Magny. Oeuvres poétiques I: Amours-Hymne-Gayetes. Ed. François Rouget. Paris: Champion...