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{"title":"Monstruosité de L'héroïne: Réécriture de Médée dans Chanson douce de Leïla Slimani","authors":"D. Franco","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac163","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce draws an explicit parallel between its protagonist, Louise, a nanny who eventually kills the children she looks after, and the mythological figure of Medea, specifically Pierre Corneille's version of the Princess of Colchis. This article argues that the analogy between Louise and Medea, rather than restricting Louise to being exclusively monstrous because of the infanticide, highlights the paradoxical dimension of her character. Her monstrosity, in fact, is inseparable from her heroism. We will call upon Aristotle's principles of tragedy as well as Corneille's own theoretical writings—in which the playwright himself explains that his Médée, while a criminal, remains admirable—to show how Louise is able to portray herself as a simultaneously laudable and blameable character by affirming her allegiance to a classical ideal of dignity. The dramaturgical approach of the article shines a new light on the protagonist of this controversial novel, winner of the 2016 Prix Goncourt.Abstract:Dans Chanson douce de Leïla Slimani, le parallélisme est donné de manière assez explicite entre la protagoniste, Louise, une nourrice qui finit par tuer les enfants qu'elle garde, et la figure mythique de Médée, particulièrement celle de la version de Pierre Corneille. Nous avançons l'idée que le rapprochement entre Louise et Médée, plutôt que de figer le personnage dans la catégorie du monstrueux à cause de l'infanticide, apporte en fait une dimension paradoxale à sa caractérisation, rendant sa monstruosité indissociable de son héroïsme. En partant donc des préceptes aristotéliciens relatifs à la tragédie ainsi que des écrits théoriques de Corneille, où le dramaturge explique lui-même que sa Médée, tout en étant criminelle, reste digne d'admiration, nous verrons comment le personnage de Louise se rend en même temps louable et blâmable en affirmant son allégeance à un idéal classique de la dignité. Aussi cette approche dramaturgique, qui s'appuie sur la peinture classique des caractères théâtraux, nous permet-elle de porter un regard novateur sur le personnage central de ce roman controversé qui a gagné le Prix Goncourt en 2016.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115712731","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":"Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture. Edited by Polly Galis, Maria Tomlinson, and Antonia Wimbush","authors":"Dominique Carlini Versini","doi":"10.3726/b15848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3726/b15848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115490918","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":"Moroccan Cinema Uncut: Decentred Voices, Transnational Perspectives by Will Higbee, Flo Martin, and Jamal Bahmad (review)","authors":"Patricia Caillé","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122762962","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":"The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett (review)","authors":"W. Doyle","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116297104","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":"Of No One Born: Queering Motherhood in Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne","authors":"Tracy L Rutler","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac135","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes that, rather than a sentimental love story, Pierre de Marivaux's unfinished novel, La Vie de Marianne ou les aventures de Mme la Comtesse de *** (1731–41), presents a form of queer motherhood that provides a counterpoint to the form of Republican motherhood and the 'cult of domesticity' championed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (among others) and critiqued by feminists such as Adrienne Rich and Élisabeth Badinter. Grounding the maternal experience in discourses of traumatic memory, it argues that, contrary to Sigmund Freud's assertion that repeating is an act of repression (rather than working through), in this novel we see the opposite. The article demonstrates how trauma brings women together into polymaternal communities based on mutual affection that bypass the patriarchal structure that tends to shape eighteenth-century sentimental novels. For Marianne, re-enacting childhood trauma with others allows her to share the burden of pain and strengthen intimate bonds between women. More than being just a unique literary experiment, the queer articulation of family throughout this novel might help us to imagine an ontology of motherhood that is unencumbered by patriarchy.Abstract:Cet article vise à montrer que La Vie de Marianne ou les aventures de Mme la Comtesse de *** (1731–41) de Pierre de Marivaux, loin de présenter une histoire d'amour hétérosexuel, nous propose un désir entre femmes sous forme d'une maternité queer. Ce genre de maternité nous offre un contrepoint à la maternité républicaine et son 'culte de la domesticité' prôné par des philosophes tels que Jean-Jacques Rousseau, et tant critiqués par des féministes comme Adrienne Rich ou Élisabeth Badinter. Cet article propose de considérer les multiples façons dont l'expérience maternelle chez Marivaux est liée à une forme de mémoire traumatisante, et soutient par voie de conséquence que, contrairement à l'affirmation de Sigmund Freud selon laquelle la répétition constituerait un acte de répression et que seule la mémoire peut guérir, ce que nous voyons dans le roman de Marivaux relève d'une toute autre logique. L'article montre la manière dont le traumatisme rassemble les femmes dans des communautés polymaternelles où les femmes se lient les unes aux autres autour d'une pelote d'affection mutuelle, contournant ainsi la structure patriarcale que l'on voit si souvent dans les romans sentimentaux du dix-huitième siècle. Plus qu'une expérience littéraire unique, l'articulation queer de la famille tout au long du roman nous permet d'imaginer une ontologie de la maternité qui ne soit pas prédéterminée par des structures, formes ou discours patriarcaux.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114979650","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":"Rumours of Revolt: Civil War and the Emergence of a Transnational News Culture in France and the Netherlands, 1561–1598 by Rosanne M. Baars (review)","authors":"S. Barker","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129743035","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":"Law and Literature in French Studies","authors":"Horsley Adam, Jonathan Patterson","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac131","url":null,"abstract":"Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, the law and literature movement has been enriched by contributions from the field of French studies. The purpose of this etat pr esent is to assess the breadth and collective significance of these contributions. First, some brief background. In the 1970s, legal scholars in the anglophone world began to revitalize the study of law by working with literary sources and techniques. This paved the way for ongoing dialogue between legal experts and literary specialists who, in turn, have incorporated elements of legal study into their scholarly remit. Today, ‘law and literature’ comprise a movement that makes a virtue of its interdisciplinary exchanges. Numerous monographs, edited series, and three leading journals — Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Law and Humanities, and Law and Literature (formerly known as Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature) — have established the movement’s scholarly credentials, and, moreover, have enlarged its remit. The study of law and literature may begin (and in some cases end) with texts; but increasingly legal-literary research is framed as part of a broader cultural enquiry into the arts of writing, reading, interpretation, representation, performance, and persuasion. Surveys of these new directions in law and literature have tended to focus on the English-speaking world, and predominantly on English-language sources. There is nonetheless a turn towards recognizing the significance and scope of legal-literary research beyond the anglophone world. Studies of French-language sources constitute a prominent subdomain within the global purview of law and literature. Over the last forty years, one can trace a","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115328111","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":"Periodicals As Proxénètes: Erotic Complicity in Don Juan (1895–1900)","authors":"H. Craske","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The illustrated review Don Juan published an eclectic array of literary and artistic works, ranging from the popular to the avant-garde. By exploiting sex appeal, shared humour, and textual structures, the review created forms of erotic complicity between text, collaborator, and reader. This article suggests that Don Juan enacted a form of proxénétisme by encouraging, enabling, and profiting from erotic relations within and beyond its pages. The review's advertising columns regularly featured products such as sex toys, condoms, and aphrodisiacs, which, in enabling non-procreative and pleasure-centred sexual liaisons, brought obscenity trials against the businesses that sold them. Much like the sex shop Maison A. Claverie, the revue légère crossed moral and legal boundaries by offering sexual pleasure to a diverse clientele. Through its playful manipulation of a wide variety of advertising formats, such as personal ads, book catalogues, and réclame, Don Juan provided space for creative forms of erotic textual production, frequently blurring generic and structural boundaries between advertising and main copy, pecuniary interest and artistic expression.Abstract:La revue illustrée Don Juan publiait diverses œuvres artistiques et littéraires, visant un public aussi bien populaire qu'avant-gardiste. Le pouvoir séduisant de ses pages, à la fois satirique et visuel, tisse des rapports de complicité érotique entre collaborateurs et lecteurs. Cet article propose que les 'revues légères' telles que Don Juan représentent un journalisme 'proxénète' qui encourage et facilite des relations érotiques (réelles et imaginaires) dont il tire indirectement profit. Les colonnes publicitaires de la revue font régulièrement la promotion de sex-toys, pré-servatifs et produits aphrodisiaques. Facilitateurs de rapports sexuels non-procréatifs, ces produits valent aux entreprises qui les vendent des procès pour 'outrages aux bonnes mœurs'. Comme le sex-shop Maison A. Claverie, Don Juan dépasse les limites imposées par les mœurs et par la police correctionnelle, offrant à ses lecteurs-clients un plaisir moralement suspect. Habile à manipuler le pouvoir ludique de sous-genres publicitaires, comme les petites annonces, les catalogues de l'éditeur et la réclame, Don Juan propose une production érotique où se brouillent les divisions génériques et structurelles entre contenu traditionnel et publicitaire, à savoir entre intérêt pécuniaire et expression artistique.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"176 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114000896","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":"Rushing to Judgement: Houellebecq's Soumission as Formative Fiction","authors":"Jason Lewallen","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac113","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:With his 2015 novel, Soumission, Michel Houellebecq entered the debate, yet again, over the place of Islam in France, this time inspiring defences and condemnations of his depiction of a dystopian Islamic French future. This postsecular novel also intervenes in an academic debate within the field of postsecular studies: the question of passing judgement upon other cultures. In light of Houellebecq's novel, this article re-examines the question of postsecular judgement as it has been treated by Judith Butler, Talal Asad, and Saba Mahmood. Using Joshua Landy's idea of 'formative fiction', I show how the novel's blend of genres and thematic treatment of judgement invites readers to train their capacities to slow down their pace of judgement in order to consider the ethical ramifications of judgement itself. Landy's approach not only sheds light on an overlooked ethical dimension of the novel, it also reconciles the novel's form with its sensational content, revealing a common thread between Houellebecq's novel, Landy's formative approach, and postsecular studies.Abstract:À l'occasion de la sortie de son roman de 2015, Soumission, Michel Houellebecq participe, une fois encore, au débat sur la place de l'Islam en France, provoquant des réactions variées (défenses et condamnations) au sujet de sa représentation dystopique d'une France qui serait devenue musulmane. Ce roman post-séculier fait son intervention aussi dans un débat académique au sein du domaine des études post-séculières. Ce débat s'articule autour de la question des jugements portés sur des cultures différentes. À partir d'une analyse de ces problématiques dans le roman de Houellebecq, cet article réexamine la question du jugement post-séculier telle qu'elle a été considérée par Judith Butler, Talal Asad et Saba Mahmood. S'appuyant sur l'idée de 'formative fiction' développée par Joshua Landy, l'article explique comment le mélange de genres et la thématisation du jugement invitent les lecteurs à atténuer leurs jugements et considérer la portée éthique de l'acte de juger. Cette approche éclaire non seulement sur une dimension morale négligée du texte, mais aussi sur la consubstantialité entre la forme le contenu du roman, particulièrement suggestif. De plus, elle révèle un fil conducteur qui relie le roman de Houellebecq, l'approche formative de Landy, et la critique post-séculière.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130885792","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":"Le Débat européen sur la guerre de religion (1679–1714): mémoire confessionnelle et politique internationale à l'époque de Louis XIV par Christian Mühling (review)","authors":"David Parrott","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130118740","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}