Project MUSE®: French Studies: A Quarterly Review - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in French Studies: A Quarterly Review.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 60 (2006) through current issueLatest Articles: French Studies: A Quarterly ReviewTWOProject MUSE®French Studies: A Quarterly Review1468-29310016-1128Latest articles in French Studies: A Quarterly Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Aural Anti-Judaism in the épître farcie de la Saint-Étienne
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985180
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As scholars across the humanities have recognized, the acoustic world is one through which categories of identity can be constructed. Members of social and cultural groups can bear sonic markers of identity or respond to, give value to, and understand the sounds that make up a given soundscape in different ways.1 These acoustic practices can in turn distinguish groups from one another, sometimes in injurious ways.2 As Sarah Kay and François Noudelmann note, 'The political dimensions of a soundscape are manifest in how it reflects and determines relationships between individuals and groups and how it intersects with gender, race, and class, with an urban or rural setting'.3 Their observation has been borne out in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallAural Anti-Judaism in the épître farcie de la Saint-Étienne2026-04-24text/htmlen-USAural Anti-Judaism in the épître farcie de la Saint-Étienne2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1090282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24La Lettre sur les sourds et muets de Diderot et les études Sourdes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985181
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Qu'est-ce qui intéresserait un lecteur Sourd dans la Lettre sur les sourds et muets à l'usage de ceux qui entendent et qui parlent de Diderot?1 Ce serait peut-être moins les aspects largement discutés par les chercheurs entendants depuis de nombreuses années: le concept de poésie, la théorie esthétique, l'épistémologie, la relation avec la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, le lien avec les écrits du contemporain de Diderot, Charles Batteux, ou en effet la relation avec ce que l'on pourrait appeler son texte 'jumeau': la Lettre sur les aveugles.2 Le lecteur Sourd remarquerait plutôt que Diderot semble considérer la langue des signes comme une langue à part entière, une langue humaine parmi d'autres, parfois
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallLa Lettre sur les sourds et muets de Diderot et les études Sourdes2026-04-24text/htmlen-USLa Lettre sur les sourds et muets de Diderot et les études Sourdes2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1025952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24A Noblewoman's Gothic: Aristocratic Domesticity, Political Medievalism, and Ancien Régime Family Strategy in Caroline Wuiet's Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine (1810)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985182
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A protégée of Marie Antoinette under the Ancien Régime, an émigrée under the Terror, and a baroness under the Empire, Caroline Wuiet (1766–1835) experienced first-hand many of the disorienting political fluctuations that upended the status of elite French women in the revolutionary era. Perhaps the sole constant across her mercurial life was that she earned her living by her pen, composing a rich corpus of novels, newspapers, and operas. The last of Wuiet's novels was the two-volume Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine, ou Les mœurs du xiiie siècle (1810).1 Set on the southern coast of England during the reign of the Plantagenet kings, Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine charts the trials of three generations of women from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallA Noblewoman's Gothic: Aristocratic Domesticity, Political Medievalism, and Ancien Régime Family Strategy in Caroline Wuiet's Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine (1810)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USA Noblewoman's Gothic: Aristocratic Domesticity, Political Medievalism, and Ancien Régime Family Strategy in Caroline Wuiet's Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine (1810)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1535592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Anarchist Tales for Rebel Children: Reading, Writing, and Revolution in Louise Michel's Children's Stories
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985183
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Louise Michel (1830–1905) was one of the most important figures in French anarchism, and revolutionary politics more broadly, at the end of the nineteenth century. Her participation in the 1871 Paris Commune swiftly established her legendary status amongst contemporaries. Indeed, it is perhaps this image of Michel as pétroleuse, as one of the militant fire-starting Communard women, with which we are most familiar today. Yet, this is just one instance of her political engagement. Other examples include: her participation in the 1878 Kanak revolt while exiled in New Caledonia; her extensive lecture tours across France and abroad; her involvement in anarchist newspapers; and her lengthy teaching career. Michel was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallAnarchist Tales for Rebel Children: Reading, Writing, and Revolution in Louise Michel's Children's Stories2026-04-24text/htmlen-USAnarchist Tales for Rebel Children: Reading, Writing, and Revolution in Louise Michel's Children's Stories2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1252052026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24'Ma vision harmonieuse et transparente': The Sound of Words in Proust's Argument against Obscurity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985184
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Il m'est difficile de lire son œuvre au lieu de l'entendre […]. Personne au monde ne faisait mieux obéir la voix.In 1923, when the Nouvelle Revue française published 'Hommage à Marcel Proust', a special edition to commemorate the author's death, of the many literary figures praising his 'lyrisme' and 'poésie', Jean Cocteau was the only one to explicitly make the link to the function of sound in the text of his novel. Significant critical attention has now been devoted to music in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, but, as Sindhumathi Revuluri highlights, the distinction between music and sound 'has not usually been taken seriously in the study of Proust, and works that attempt to "hear" Proust focus primarily
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmall'Ma vision harmonieuse et transparente': The Sound of Words in Proust's Argument against Obscurity2026-04-24text/htmlen-US'Ma vision harmonieuse et transparente': The Sound of Words in Proust's Argument against Obscurity2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®984012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Sophocles with a Spanner: Simone Weil's Radical Use of Paul Valéry's Thought for the Dignification of Labour
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985185
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There has been a very great deal of work written, in English or translated into English, on Simone Weil. One might expect, as a result, that the prevailing anglophone fashions in the history of ideas (namely, the practice of intellectual history) should have been directed onto her work. This does not, on the whole, seem to have taken place. The bulk of anglophone work on Weil is rich in 'comparisons' and 'parallels' but not in 'contexts'. Commonly compared are canonical figures: Platonist philosophers, not least Plato himself; Stoics, notably Spinoza; Christian mystics, particularly St John, St John of the Cross, and Meister Eckhardt; classical Greek playwrights; French, English, and German modern literature; and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallSophocles with a Spanner: Simone Weil's Radical Use of Paul Valéry's Thought for the Dignification of Labour2026-04-24text/htmlen-USSophocles with a Spanner: Simone Weil's Radical Use of Paul Valéry's Thought for the Dignification of Labour2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®918012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Human Insufficiency in Marguerite Duras's Le Camion (1977) and Le Navire Night (1979): Ontology, Politics, Aesthetics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985186
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'Que le cinéma aille à sa perte, c'est le seul cinéma. Que le monde aille à sa perte, qu'il aille à sa perte c'est la seule politique.' With these words, Marguerite Duras concluded a short article published in Le Monde on 12 May 1977.1 The same phrases take centre stage in her film Le Camion, which premiered a few days later at the Cannes Film Festival. In the article's opening lines, Duras formulates her position more explicitly, arguing that there is no longer any value in making a cinema of socialist hope, of revolution, or of class struggle. As she specified in an interview shortly thereafter, she preferred to discard all these notions, and by extension 'l'idée politique, des exigences politiques […] cette
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallHuman Insufficiency in Marguerite Duras's Le Camion (1977) and Le Navire Night (1979): Ontology, Politics, Aesthetics2026-04-24text/htmlen-USHuman Insufficiency in Marguerite Duras's Le Camion (1977) and Le Navire Night (1979): Ontology, Politics, Aesthetics2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1097042026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Jodorowsky, L'Incal et Dune: L'androgyne sacré et la malédiction ancestrale
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985187
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Les frères Strougatski affirmaient qu'il est difficile d'être un dieu.1 Alejandro Jodorowsky répliquerait qu'il ne s'agit pas de l'être mais de le devenir.L'Incal, magnifiquement dessiné par Mœbius, a commencé à paraître en album en 1981.2 Il constitue une étape fondamentale de la créativité jodorowskienne appliquée au neuvième art mais son point de départ est, comme l'a dit Jodorowsky lui-même, une frustration. Son œuvre cinématographique aurait en effet dû être couronnée par l'adaptation, dont il avait pris l'initiative, du célèbre roman de Frank Herbert, Dune. Ce film ambitieux — 'the most influential movie never made'3 — au budget pharaonique, n'a pu être mené à bien. C'est donc de ce projet inabouti que
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallJodorowsky, L'Incal et Dune: L'androgyne sacré et la malédiction ancestrale2026-04-24text/htmlen-USJodorowsky, L'Incal et Dune: L'androgyne sacré et la malédiction ancestrale2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®894072026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24A History of France ed. by Shen Jian (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985188
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Owing to the language barrier and other factors, French historical studies within Chinese academia have received limited attention from the western academic world. In fact, China hosts a substantial scholarly community dedicated to the research of French history, and it is highly active within China's academic sphere. A notable recent achievement of this community is the publication of the six-volume A History of France. This work, edited by Shen Jian, Professor of Zhejiang University, involved contributions from dozens of scholars affiliated with universities and research institutions across mainland China. Before the publication of this six-volume series, the only multi-volume general histories of France
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallA History of France ed. by Shen Jian (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USA History of France ed. by Shen Jian (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®86702026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Les Traductions médiévales des compilations de Justinien Par Frédéric Duval (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985189
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The period between c. 1230 and 1270 witnessed an explosion of French translations of the Corpus juris civilis, compiled and promulgated by Emperor Justinian (r. 527–65) and revived in Bologna in the late eleventh century. Frédéric Duval, professor at the École nationale des chartes, and his collaborators have brought out an impressive compendium of historical, linguistic, and literary analyses of those translations from the Middle Ages. The remarkable textual mass consists of the Digestum, the Codex, the Institutiones, the Authenticum (novellae), and the Tres libri (the last three books of the Codex rediscovered later), accompanied by the Summa super Codicem and Summa institutionum by Azo and the Codi written in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallLes Traductions médiévales des compilations de Justinien Par Frédéric Duval (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USLes Traductions médiévales des compilations de Justinien Par Frédéric Duval (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®63022026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Verginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy: An Edition and Translation of Episodes from Pierre Bersuire's 'Tite-Live' and Jean de Meun's 'Roman de la Rose' ed. by Noah D. Guynn et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985190
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Roman history fascinated French authors from the beginnings of vernacular literature with such texts as the verse Roman d'Énéas (c. 1160) and the prose Faits des Romains (c. 1212–13). But it was not until the mid-fourteenth century that the great wave of classical translations began in earnest. The proto-humanist Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362), a Benedictine newly returned to Paris around 1350 after thirty years at the papal court in Avignon, embarked on a translation of the Roman historian Livy's Ab urbe condita in the 1350s. Commissioned by king Jean le Bon, Bersuire's Les Décades de Tite-Live, finished in 1358, comprised books i, iii, and iv of the Décades, the only parts known in the Middle Ages. It was a huge
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallVerginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy: An Edition and Translation of Episodes from Pierre Bersuire's 'Tite-Live' and Jean de Meun's 'Roman de la Rose' ed. by Noah D. Guynn et al. (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USVerginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy: An Edition and Translation of Episodes from Pierre Bersuire's 'Tite-Live' and Jean de Meun's 'Roman de la Rose' ed. by Noah D. Guynn et al. (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®61542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Loups-garous du Moyen Âge par Corinne Pierreville (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985191
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This new compendium of medieval texts about werewolves, by Corinne Pierreville, reinvigorates the study of medieval lycanthropy and opens up new possibilities for the study of medieval metamorphosis. An insightful Introduction discusses the development of the werewolf motif in the Middle Ages in reference to St Augustin and metaphorical illusion, the motif of the merveilleux, medieval understandings of medical lycanthropy, metamorphosis, hybridity, monstrosity, and womanhood. The Introduction is also a welcome bibliographical resource for scholars already familiar with the literature and for those who are just beginning to explore the scholarship. Distinguishing the collection from previous, more limited
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallLoups-garous du Moyen Âge par Corinne Pierreville (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USLoups-garous du Moyen Âge par Corinne Pierreville (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®58892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Descartes politique: nouvelles considérations sur la pensée cartésienne dir. by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin et Clément Raymond (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985192
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In his letter to Père Dinet, written in Latin in 1642, Descartes distinguishes between two types of academic: junior teaching staff, who have to rely on their 'strength of mind', and established professors, who 'prefer to appear learned, rather than actually learning anything'. No doubt bearing this caustic analysis in mind, the very established field of Descartes studies tends to be quite open to new and different approaches. Here, colleagues at all career stages look beyond the closed-off Descartes of critical tradition to consider, instead, 'la variété de sa réflexion sur la chose publique sous des impulsions et dans des contextes divers' (p. 7). Although there is no direct 'political theory' to be found in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallDescartes politique: nouvelles considérations sur la pensée cartésienne dir. by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin et Clément Raymond (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USDescartes politique: nouvelles considérations sur la pensée cartésienne dir. by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin et Clément Raymond (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®59612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Théâtre complet by Isaac de Benserade (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985193
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Bernard J. Bourque has given the world the very first complete edition of Isaac de Benserade's dramatic works. The author's six plays were published separately in the period 1636–42. There are four tragedies: La Cléopâtre (1636), La Mort d'Achille et la dispute de ses armes (1636), Méléagre (1641), and La Pucelle d'Orléans (1642). The latter is the versified form of a prose tragedy of the same title and of disputed authorship. It is sometimes attributed to La Mesnardière and sometimes to the Abbé d'Aubignac. There is also one comedy, Iphis et Iante (1637), and one tragicomedy, Gustaphe, ou l'heureuse ambition (1637) about a Persian prince. None of these works seems ever to have been reprinted prior to the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallThéâtre complet by Isaac de Benserade (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThéâtre complet by Isaac de Benserade (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®53892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Histoire d'Hyppolite, comte de Douglas by Madame d'Aulnoy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985194
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As Marie-Agnès Thirard remarks in her Introduction, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's Histoire d'Hypolite was a bestseller for some two centuries. In a 2023 article, I documented thirty-seven editions and reissues in eighteenth-century France alone ('Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: ses contes et leur prolifique héritage', Œuvres et critiques, 48.1), and in her bibliography Thirard makes note of sixteen more in the nineteenth century. Given that the most recent critical edition was by Shirley Jones Day in 1994, it is exciting to see Thirard's edition, which hopefully will stimulate renewed interest in d'Aulnoy's important novel. The Introduction provides a biography of d'Aulnoy and shows how the novel's themes anticipate the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallHistoire d'Hyppolite, comte de Douglas by Madame d'Aulnoy (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USHistoire d'Hyppolite, comte de Douglas by Madame d'Aulnoy (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®64632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Théâtre by Louis de Boissy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985195
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The second volume of Ioana Galleron's edition of Louis de Boissy's theatre contains fifteen plays, written between 1731 and 1736. This dynamic period in Boissy's career is characterized by his satirical engagement and dramaturgical innovation. While Boissy continued to enjoy considerable success, his theatrical output at this time — largely consisting of 'petites pièces' (p. 7) — did little to establish him as a serious playwright. Ten of the fifteen plays in this volume are one-act comedies, a form which Boissy developed and refined across the period; six never saw print publication in Boissy's lifetime. As opposed to works written at other points in Boissy's career for the more prestigious Comédie-Française, this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallThéâtre by Louis de Boissy (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThéâtre by Louis de Boissy (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®60472026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité dir. par Pauline Beaucé et Jeffrey M. Leichman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985196
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Rassemblés sous le thème de la virtualité, les chapitres qui composent cet ouvrage portent sur des lieux de spectacle pour la plupart oubliés, et dont certains sont demeurés à l'état de projet, situés à Bordeaux, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Feltre (Italie), Morlaix, Nantes, la Nouvelle-Orléans et Paris. Certains contiennent des renseignements souvent inédits sur des lieux de spectacle méconnus tels les vastes espaces parisiens que louent les acrobates Jeanne Godefroy et Maurice Vonderbeck analysés par Bertrand Porot, et ceux qu'occupent les salles de bal semi-éphémères (wauxhalls) qu'étudie Magaly Piquart-Vesperini. D'autres présentent des salles de spectacle, imaginées mais jamais réalisées. Alors que le théâtre
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallNouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité dir. par Pauline Beaucé et Jeffrey M. Leichman (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USNouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité dir. par Pauline Beaucé et Jeffrey M. Leichman (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®55352026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France: Essays in Honor of Lynn Hunt ed. by Victoria E. Thompson et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985197
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Lynn Hunt is a central force in cultural analyses of the French Revolution: she has underlined the role of seemingly everyday objects and practices during the birth of modern democratic politics. This volume's Introduction, by Victoria E. Thompson and Suzanne Desan, offers a remarkably clear overview of the main developments in the field from François Furet's seismic Penser la Révolution française (Paris: Gallimard, 1978) to more recent shifts to the archive and the granular level of politics. The eight essays — substantial contributions by leading experts in the field — are linked by their investigations of grass-roots politics, the Revolution's impact on daily life, and its legacy on memory and identity. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallEveryday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France: Essays in Honor of Lynn Hunt ed. by Victoria E. Thompson et al. (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USEveryday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France: Essays in Honor of Lynn Hunt ed. by Victoria E. Thompson et al. (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®54922026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24The Soldier's Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985198
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Jennifer Ngaire Heuer has delivered a fascinating study of how war reshaped private life and civic engagement during a transformational period of French history. Heuer describes the effects of war and peace on families, gender roles, and state policies, drawing from methodologies in social, cultural, and military history. By integrating legal documents, soldiers' petitions, plays, government decrees, personal letters, and more, Heuer shows how emotional life was bound to the ideological and bureaucratic machinery of war. The book's central question — how France negotiated soldiers' claims to emotional fulfilment, financial stability, and familial legitimacy — is pursued through a series of chapters, organized
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallThe Soldier's Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThe Soldier's Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®56102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24L'Affaire Lacenaire: portrait d'un criminel en monstre Par Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985199
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This essay was first published in 2001, but the present edition may well serve to attract a generation of readers freshly accustomed to cultural and intellectual histories in the style of Michel Foucault and Alain Corbin. The brand of French historiography to which Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini owes allegiance is uninhibited by competition — common in the anglophone academy — between intellectual history on the one hand, and social history on the other. That openness allows L'Affaire Lacenaire to be an essay about discourse and representation, about literature, journalism, and philosophical thought, all understood symbiotically while being analysed serially. The author refers in her conclusion to 'l'épaisseur de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallL'Affaire Lacenaire: portrait d'un criminel en monstre Par Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USL'Affaire Lacenaire: portrait d'un criminel en monstre Par Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®54142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Alexandre Dumas ou la curiosité moderne Par Steffie Van Neste (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985200
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S'appuyant sur une connaissance exceptionnellement approfondie de la vaste œuvre dumasienne, l'autrice applique une grille de lecture originale qui établit la curiosité sous toutes ses formes en tant que vecteur de la modernité de l'écrivain romantique (1802–1870) panthéonisé en 2002 et bénéficiant depuis d'un renouveau d'interêt critique. Comme le signale Steffie Van Neste, la curiosité a longtemps été considérée comme un vice par les théologiens catholiques, avant d'être éventuellement associée de façon laudative aux progrès de la science, à la quête du savoir ou à la libido sciendi. Célèbre de nos jours avant tout pour ses romans historiques pleins d'aventures et de rebondissements (bien qu'il ait également
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallAlexandre Dumas ou la curiosité moderne Par Steffie Van Neste (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USAlexandre Dumas ou la curiosité moderne Par Steffie Van Neste (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57262026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Théâtre complet, I: Elën by Auguste de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985201
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Parue en 1865, Elën ne connut la scène que trente ans plus tard. Ce fut un échec. On ne pourra en dire autant de cette édition critique, fouillée et soignée — on a presque envie de dire 'totale'. Elle vient après la parution anticipée, en 2021, du tome ii (La Révolte, L'Évasion). La belle s'est donc fait attendre, pour la chronologie désormais rétablie et pour l''Introduction générale', essentielle: le théâtre de Villiers n'avait encore jamais fait l'objet d'une édition séparée (trois autres tomes sont prévus). Ces pages assurent l'immersion dans le contexte théâtral du temps et dans la création dramatique de l'auteur, avec son imaginaire, ses postures, ses décalages et ses provocations tant esthétiques
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallThéâtre complet, I: Elën by Auguste de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThéâtre complet, I: Elën by Auguste de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®62862026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Rewriting the Orient: Asian Works in the Making of World Literature by Yunfei Bai (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985202
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Investigating — with surgical precision — the transformation of a body of primary texts by canonical nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers, translators, and adapters, from classical Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan to English, French, and Spanish, Yunfei Bai's hugely impressive and unique scholarship openly defies Anglocentrism and presentism prevalent in our current approach to world literature. The author excels at tracing, uncovering, and translating the philological minutiae in Théophile Gautier's, Stéphane Mallarmé's, Victor Segalen's, and Jorge Luis Borges's works, which were sourced from classical Asian literature and mediated through translations and adaptations. By 'translingual adaptation', Bai
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallRewriting the Orient: Asian Works in the Making of World Literature by Yunfei Bai (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USRewriting the Orient: Asian Works in the Making of World Literature by Yunfei Bai (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®62012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 by Sebastian P. Klinger (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985203
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'To sleep: perchance to dream'. Through its aspirational positioning of oneiric possibility, Hamlet's soliloquy tells us that dreams matter more than mere sleep. Those of us imbued with Shakespeare and Freud take for granted that dreams are worthy of poetic narration and critical interpretation. But what of the other sleeping hours in our lives, those elusive moments that exist according to the passing of clocks but not in our conscious memories? Sebastian P. Klinger's magisterial Sleep Works calls our attention to those hours so often left in the dark. Drawing on extensive literary, scientific, medical, and philosophical materials, Klinger provides a thought-provoking cultural history of sleep understood in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallSleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 by Sebastian P. Klinger (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USSleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 by Sebastian P. Klinger (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®54912026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Makandal en métamorphoses: héroïsmes et identités dans la littérature caribéenne par Marine Cellier (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985204
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Marine Cellier has written the definitive tome on the eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary Makandal. At 685 pages, it is monumental and thorough, and accomplishes the near-impossible task of gathering all information published on Makandal — fiction or non-fiction, francophone or otherwise. Further, Cellier carefully provides a 'réalité caribéenne' for this portrait of Makandal (p. 11). Although Cellier draws on established scholarship, it is the comprehensive gathering of historical with literary sources that makes this a remarkable text. The volume can, on first encounter, be overwhelming, but its structure makes it very accessible. It is divided in two halves, each subdivided into three parts. The first part
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallMakandal en métamorphoses: héroïsmes et identités dans la littérature caribéenne par Marine Cellier (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USMakandal en métamorphoses: héroïsmes et identités dans la littérature caribéenne par Marine Cellier (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®60062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Des colonisés ingouvernables: adresses d'Algériens aux autorités françaises (Akbou, Paris, 1919–1940) par Emmanuel Blanchard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985205
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Emmanuel Blanchard's new book is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship devoted to questions of colonialism, power, and discourse in the Franco-Algerian context. Cognizant of the fact that Algerian historiography (as practised in the French language) is undergoing a kind of 'linguistic turn' — evidenced by increased attention to sources in Arabic — Blanchard wonders whether French-language sources still have anything to offer the historian who aims to 'remettre le colonial à sa place' (p. 23). His book is a compelling response to this rumination: working in the mode of new imperial history, Blanchard unearths an archive nearly lost to history — twenty years' worth of correspondence between Algerian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallDes colonisés ingouvernables: adresses d'Algériens aux autorités françaises (Akbou, Paris, 1919–1940) par Emmanuel Blanchard (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USDes colonisés ingouvernables: adresses d'Algériens aux autorités françaises (Akbou, Paris, 1919–1940) par Emmanuel Blanchard (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57182026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Proust, a Jewish Way by Antoine Compagnon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985206
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The analogy remains startling. In Sodom and Gomorrah, the Proustian narrator likens homosexuals to Jews as outsiders, a comparison often read as barely concealed self-hatred. Biographers note that Proust did not quite consider himself gay or Jewish. While queer theorists have explored the implications of the closeted juxtaposition, and cultural historians have studied the depictions of Jews in À la recherche du temps perdu, Antoine Compagnon's characteristically erudite and engaging study shifts focus to how interwar readers reacted to Proust's relation to Judaism, his Jewish characters, and above all his maternal heritage from the Baruch-Weil family, who favoured civic integration over full assimilation for French
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallProust, a Jewish Way by Antoine Compagnon (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USProust, a Jewish Way by Antoine Compagnon (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®61342026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Représentation du discours autre et ironie dans 'À la recherche du temps perdu' par Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985207
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Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud's book begins with a meditation on Proust's title, establishing the novel as a quest narrative to describe the ways it retrieves its object: lost time. Her specific take on this search materializes itself through the intervention of discourse analysis as theorized by the linguist Jacqueline Authier-Revuz. The author succinctly crystallizes this approach by asking the following question: 'Comment un énonciateur définit-il ses frontières, sa distance, avec la voix des autres?' (p. 75). The concept of the other's discourse is more capacious than reported speech — the latter is shown to be only one variety of the former — and this framework allows for Proust's prodigious marking of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallReprésentation du discours autre et ironie dans 'À la recherche du temps perdu' par Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USReprésentation du discours autre et ironie dans 'À la recherche du temps perdu' par Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57312026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Colette, My Literary Mother by Michèle Roberts (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985208
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The accomplished novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist Michèle Roberts has given us an interesting and elegantly readable short book about Colette. Colette has always proved challenging to intelligent commentary. Her reader-friendly, deceptively simple- and girly-seeming writing barely conceals a heart of steel, a vocabulary of cast iron, and a merciless, nuanced take on the behaviour of humans and other beasts. In the hands of most commentators her complicated life and equally complicated writing are both reduced to clichés about her being 'une femme libre' (as in the title of a 2003 French TV miniseries) and 'ahead of her time'. Roberts has no trouble sidestepping such pitfalls, and delivers instead a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallColette, My Literary Mother by Michèle Roberts (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USColette, My Literary Mother by Michèle Roberts (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®51392026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24The Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens by Anthony Rudd (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985209
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It would be easy to start the review by claiming that Anthony Rudd does what the title suggests, and reinterprets Albert Camus's thought by comparing it with Søren Kierkegaard's existential framework. But the more you read this intriguing book, the more you realize that the comparative structure is just one layer of a more ambitious enterprise. Declaratively, Rudd attempts to present the consequential cycles of Camus's philosophy, Sisyphus, Prometheus, and Nemesis, by comparing and — importantly — contrasting them with the Kierkegaardian aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages. Rudd offers an excellent study in hermeneutics, showing how knowledge of Kierkegaard can help us look at the Camusian themes of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallThe Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens by Anthony Rudd (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThe Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens by Anthony Rudd (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®55872026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency by Terrence G. Peterson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985210
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L'ouvrage de Terrence G. Peterson propose d'étudier comment la pratique de la contre-insurrection par l'Armée française en Algérie a influencé le retour de la contre-insurrection au sein des armées occidentales des vingtième et vingt-et-unième siècles. Ce volume convaincant revient sur les origines et la genèse de la pacification coloniale française, en s'appuyant particulièrement sur les derniers prolongements de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne (1954–62). La réussite indéniable de ce livre est qu'il permet de mettre en perspective historique et critique le concept français de guerre antisubversive, alors que les praticiens militaires contemporains ont eu tendance à voir derrière ce terme une simple doctrine
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallRevolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency by Terrence G. Peterson (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USRevolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency by Terrence G. Peterson (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence: The Importance of Lacan as Irritant by Jean-Michel Rabaté (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985211
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This book brings together articles previously published elsewhere in different forms for a comprehensive examination of some of the animating principles of psychoanalysis. Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence takes up psychoanalysis theoretically, though not always within the strict purview of psychoanalytic theory, making it a unique and welcome addition to the scholarship. Acknowledging the oft-voiced complaints about the irritation provoked by Lacan, Jean-Michel Rabaté celebrates the French psychoanalyst's role as, like Socrates before him, a 'gadfly' who 'introduced a principle of style, hence also of tact and taste, in issues that have to do with ethics and politics' (pp. 3, viii–ix). Rabaté interrogates the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallLacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence: The Importance of Lacan as Irritant by Jean-Michel Rabaté (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USLacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence: The Importance of Lacan as Irritant by Jean-Michel Rabaté (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®58492026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Féminités spectaculaires: figures de l'actrice dans le roman français et américain (1946–2013) par Thibaut Casagrande (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985212
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Thibaut Casagrande's first monograph offers a rich exploration of actress characters in French and American novels over a period that spans seven decades. An impressive work of comparative literature, forty-eight texts (twenty-six American and twenty-two French) comprise its hefty corpus. Some of these, such as Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays (1970) and Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde (2000), will be familiar to readers (and Andrew Dominik's 2022 film adaptation of the latter brings particular relevance), but lesser-known works by authors such as Marie Darrieussecq and Françoise Sagan also feature. Actresses from screen and stage populate the novels examined: although the 'Hollywood novel' may have a storied history in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallFéminités spectaculaires: figures de l'actrice dans le roman français et américain (1946–2013) par Thibaut Casagrande (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USFéminités spectaculaires: figures de l'actrice dans le roman français et américain (1946–2013) par Thibaut Casagrande (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®59612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24A New History of Theatre in France ed. by Clare Finburgh Delijani and Christstian Biet (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985213
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This edited collection covering theatre in France from the Middle Ages to the present gives anglophone readers the opportunity to delve into a history that has been under-explored in French studies. Editors Clare Finburgh Delijani and Christian Biet have curated the first English-language volume dedicated to examining an unprecedented range of theatre-makers in France across such an extensive historical period. The focus of this book is not only to provide a comprehensive history of French-language theatre but also to showcase artists and practitioners who have typically been overlooked by scholars in the past. Marginalized and minoritized voices thus take centre stage in this collection of twenty-two chapters
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallA New History of Theatre in France ed. by Clare Finburgh Delijani and Christstian Biet (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USA New History of Theatre in France ed. by Clare Finburgh Delijani and Christstian Biet (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®55592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24From Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and Foucault ed. by Martin Procházka (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985214
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This collection selects significant episodes in the evolution of the concept of authorship within what Foucault would call the modern episteme. Deleuze and Guattari provide the theoretical framework for the Introduction, which presents chapters as 'plateaus', multiple and rhizomatically related manifestations of forms of authorship. However, the volume's concern with the cultural and historical construction of the author and the function of the author's name makes Foucault the main theoretical presence, alongside Bourdieu's sociology of literature. Jean-Christophe Mayer traces the cultural capital attached to Shakespeare back to readers' inscriptions on the First Folio, revealing a desire to enter into a direct
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallFrom Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and Foucault ed. by Martin Procházka (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USFrom Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and Foucault ed. by Martin Procházka (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®61162026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Xala by James S. Williams (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985215
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James S. Williams's volume for the BFI Film Classics series marks a welcome uptake in scholarship on African film, and on the works of Ousmane Sembene in particular, on the part of Bloomsbury. In 2025, Vlad Dima's study on Sembene's first feature film La Noire de… (1966) also appeared, making Sembene the African director whose work receives the most attention in this wide-ranging (more than 260 titles) but also largely Global North-focused series. While many excellent studies of Xala exist, these often appear in the form of journal articles or as chapters in books. Memorable scenes from the film, such as the African takeover of a French-run nation followed by the re-employment of French 'advisors' shortly after
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallXala by James S. Williams (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USXala by James S. Williams (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®55132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education by Jeremy F. Lane (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985216
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This book presents one of the most substantial, rigorous, and coherent analyses of Jacques Rancière's thought to date. Grounded in its author's formidable expertise in French sociology — including two earlier books on Pierre Bourdieu — the study reflects a late conversion to Rancière's critical departure from sociology, envisaged less as discipline than as a culturally pervasive 'mode of interpretation' (p. 7). Jeremy Lane carefully draws together, explicates, and substantiates Rancière's numerous insinuations that the French sociological tradition — from Comte and Tocqueville through to Durkheim, Aron, and Bourdieu — is fatally compromised by its foundations in counter-revolutionary and anti-democratic sentiment:
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallRancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education by Jeremy F. Lane (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USRancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education by Jeremy F. Lane (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24L'Instant critique du contemporain dir. by Corinne Grenouillet (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985217
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Antidote contre les jugements à l'emporte-pièce pour Milan Kundera, révélatrice de significations latentes selon Jacques Derrida, la critique littéraire — et sa légitimité — n'a cessé d'alimenter les débats et les passions, jusqu'aux cénacles universitaires, comme en témoigne ce recueil d'articles étoffés, publié sous la houlette de Corinne Grenouillet. Mobilisant ses lectures antérieures, le critique, commentateur érudit ou chroniqueur dilettante, crée des passerelles avec le présent, opérant les rapprochements de type allusif chers à l'inventeur de la textanalyse, Jean Bellemin-Noël. Une filiation temporelle qui se retrouve en amont dans le lien même que l'écrivain tisse avec ses aïeux. Malgré le passage du temps
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallL'Instant critique du contemporain dir. by Corinne Grenouillet (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USL'Instant critique du contemporain dir. by Corinne Grenouillet (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®56252026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing by Hannie Lawlor (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985218
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Hannie Lawlor's book takes the strikingly original step of comparing two literatures which have played very different roles in critical thinking on life-writing and autobiography. While French women's writing has been at the forefront of wider international debates on life-writing, Spanish women's writing has been less visible in these theoretical discussions outside Hispanic studies. For various reasons — partly differing socio-political context, partly different literary traditions — writing by women in French has tended, Lawlor argues, to be more directly and overtly personal and autobiographical than Spanish equivalents. This sort of explicitly comparative work is relatively rare and also proves to be
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallRelational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing by Hannie Lawlor (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USRelational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing by Hannie Lawlor (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®55302026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National ed. by Michael Gott and Thibault Schilt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985219
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There were few films made in Quebec during the last forty years of the twentieth century that did not evoke, directly or indirectly, the national question: will the province accede to political independence and at last form the sovereign home of the French-Canadian people? The subtitle of Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt's timely collection on Quebec cinema, Transcending the National, speaks to the change in focus brought by the chiasmatic intersection of the strongly anchored nationalism that had so dominated Québécois politics and culture prior to the 1995 referendum and the unprecedented effects of globalism felt across many if not most cultural spheres in the ensuing period. As the editors point out in their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallQuebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National ed. by Michael Gott and Thibault Schilt (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USQuebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National ed. by Michael Gott and Thibault Schilt (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®58232026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Le Cube: révélations sur les dérives de l'enseignement supérieur privé par Claire Marchal (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985220
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En France et ailleurs, l'enseignement supérieur privé est en expansion continue depuis de nombreuses années, en grande partie parce que les établissements privés et spécialisés permettent aux étudiants d'éviter l'étape anxiogène de la plate-forme Parcoursup, qui depuis 2018 gère, non sans difficultés, la répartition des étudiants à travers le système universitaire public. L'autrice dit avoir passé deux ans à enquêter sur la plus grande entreprise dans le secteur privé en France et en Europe, Galileo Global Education (GGE), un holding qui regroupe plus de deux cents écoles aux noms souvent prestigieux: Paris School of Business, Bellecour, EM Lyon, Hetic, Cours Florent, Penninghen, etc. La palette d'enseignements
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallLe Cube: révélations sur les dérives de l'enseignement supérieur privé par Claire Marchal (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USLe Cube: révélations sur les dérives de l'enseignement supérieur privé par Claire Marchal (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®57592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Que peut Littérature quand elle ne peut? par Patrick Chamoiseau (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985221
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Ni ontologie, ni épistémologie, ni pragmatique, l'essai recoupe et rassemble ces différentes approches pour offrir ce que l'on pourrait appeler une praxéologie utopique nourrie aux sources archipéliques de l'histoire, de l'éthique et de la poétique. Divisé en deux grandes parties, chacune dotée d'un double titre, l'un renvoyant à 'l'art de vivre du bèlè en Martinique' (p. 11) et l'autre, à l'art littéraire — 'Grand son. L'Écrire au monde' et 'Mazonn. Notes de sentimenthèque' —, le livre affiche son programme d'entrée de jeu: 'Aujourd'hui, puisqu'il nous faut questionner les littératures dans leur rapport au monde, donc à chaque être vivant, il serait indécent de parler d'autre chose que de l'irruption de l'extrême
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallQue peut Littérature quand elle ne peut? par Patrick Chamoiseau (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USQue peut Littérature quand elle ne peut? par Patrick Chamoiseau (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®59422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Histoire linguistique de la Suisse romande par Andres Kristol (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985222
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Dans cet ouvrage imposant, illustré par une cinquantaine de photographies et de cartes, Andres (Max) Kristol, spécialiste renommé de linguistique gallo-romane, retrace l'évolution ethnoculturelle, géopolitique et multilingue de la Suisse occidentale, scrutant la complexité de cette région qui, depuis deux millénaires, a été le creuset de populations et de langues. L'ouvrage est divisé en trois parties, dont la première traite de l'histoire de la Suisse romande, depuis les vestiges préhistoriques et la période celtique jusqu'au Moyen Âge. La deuxième englobe la période de la Renaissance jusqu'à la fin du dix-huitième siècle. La troisième est consacrée à la 'question de la langue' en Suisse romande aux dix-neuvième
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallHistoire linguistique de la Suisse romande par Andres Kristol (review)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USHistoire linguistique de la Suisse romande par Andres Kristol (review)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®61032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Timo Obergöker (1973–2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985223
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Timo Obergöker was an esteemed scholar and teacher, whose death in spring 2025 following a brief but aggressive illness leaves a huge gap in the lives of his family, friends, colleagues, and students, and in the wider French studies community.Timo was a prolific and highly respected researcher. His diverse output, published in French, English, and German, spanned disciplinary boundaries and is testament to his passion for a wide range of interests including literature, popular music, language, film, and travel, among many other subjects, as well as to his impressive intellect. He published three monographs, all of which centred on French culture, with a particular focus on literature. His first book, Écritures de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/346/image/coversmallTimo Obergöker (1973–2025)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USTimo Obergöker (1973–2025)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®71112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24