{"title":"Aoife Connolly, Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen","authors":"Charlotte ann Legg","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117084043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loïc Bourdeau (ed.), The Films of François Ozon","authors":"Darren Waldron","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"50 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117174437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mathew Rickard, Against the Grain: The Poetics of NonNormative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature","authors":"Amy McTurk-Starkie","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134603175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Rí Úbú","authors":"Alfred Jarry","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125230486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Payne, Reimagining the Family. Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature","authors":"Eglė Kačkutė","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130677425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Une Affirmation Politique: Despentes Essayiste","authors":"Michèle A. Schaal","doi":"10.7173/164913322836020875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913322836020875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133484279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Steven Wilson, The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Legenda, Research Monographs in French Studies 62, 2020) 145 pp.","authors":"Sarah Jones","doi":"10.7173/164913321833983015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913321833983015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127307803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baudelaire's Creole Gothic : A Postcolonial Afterlife for Les Fleurs du mal","authors":"Mary Gallagher","doi":"10.7173/164913321833983033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913321833983033","url":null,"abstract":"Baudelaire’s verse poetry is informed by a pervasive Creole Gothic resonance. Two separate but related topoi, the Undead and the Living Dead, lie at the heart of the collection’s necrological imaginary of slave and zombie labour. It is this Gothic double-trope of death-in-life/life-in-death\u0000 that activates the Gothic Creole strain running through Les Fleurs du mal. Ironically, those poems that seem to evoke most directly the Creole world that Baudelaire encountered in 1841, firstly in Mauritius and then in Réunion, avoid all evocation of plantation slavery. Conversely,\u0000 the city poems associate modern metropolitan life with the idea of slavery, representing it as a living death and death as a merely temporary and reversible escape. The collection’s representation of this ‘living death’ foreshadows the construction (by Orlando Patterson,\u0000 most notably) of transatlantic chattel slavery as ‘social death’. As for the poetic representation of the ‘Undead’, this centres on the figure of the zombie. The zombie is essentially a slave for whom death has proved no guarantee against an endless ‘living death’\u0000 of hard labour. If the Creole inflection of Baudelaire’s imagery relates primarily to the realities of industrialized plantation labour and to the chattel slavery on which it was based, it is further reinforced by indices of tropical localisation and of racial difference, more specifically\u0000 pigmentation. However subliminal its resonance, this Creole Gothic strain guarantees for Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal a vivid postcolonial afterlife.","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'La Vérité emphatique du geste dans les grandes circonstances de la vie' : Baudelaire, Barthes and the Hysterical Gesture","authors":"Douglas Smith","doi":"10.7173/164913321833983079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7173/164913321833983079","url":null,"abstract":"To associate Baudelaire and Barthes may seem a somewhat unlikely gesture. Barthes wrote about Baudelaire in a sustained way only once and with reference to a marginal part of the poet’s work, namely his failed theatrical projects. Yet Baudelaire remains a point of reference across\u0000 the entire span of Barthes’s career, in particular as the author of a frequently cited quotation from ‘Exposition Universelle’ (1855): ‘la vérité emphatique du geste dans les grandes circonstances de la vie’. This phrase punctuates Barthes’s\u0000 published work throughout, from one of his earliest essays to his very last book on photography, and is closely associated with another persistently recurring motif: the concept of numen, a term used to designate a static gesture expressing divine authority. The aim of this article\u0000 is to examine the significance of Baudelaire for Barthes by investigating how he deploys the quotation from the ‘Exposition Universelle’ essay and the intertwined concept of numen. Its guiding questions are: what does Baudelaire mean for Barthes? And what does that tell\u0000 us in turn about Baudelaire? Answering these questions involves tracing the intersecting trajectories of quotation and concept across Barthes's work, with a particular focus on the value to be attributed to exaggeration or excess in the communication of meaning through gesture and language,\u0000 a phenomenon that both Barthes and Baudelaire associate with hysteria, as either something to be ironically assumed (Baudelaire) or ambivalently exorcized (Barthes).","PeriodicalId":102367,"journal":{"name":"Irish Journal of French Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127878926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}