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{"title":"Les Abécédaires: les besoins en matière éditoriale","authors":"Y. Greub","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAB053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAB053","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Dans cet article, on examine l’état des matériaux textuels qui serviront à l’étude des abécédaires menée dans le cadre du présent dossier. La situation est contrastée sous deux aspects. D’abord, dans l’ensemble les éditions disponibles sont insuffisantes, en particulier du point de vue de leur attention à la variation textuelle entre les différents témoins et de la cause de cette variation. Ensuite, les problèmes objectifs posés par les textes examinés sont assez différents. Ils peuvent être banals (établissement de la filiation des témoins, localisation du lexique, distinction entre leçons originales et innovées) ou spécifiques. On analyse quelques situations textuelles notables ou illustrant la typologie générale qu’on s’est efforcé de tracer. Les conclusions sont qu’il faudra chercher à atteindre, au delà des témoins conservés, un état textuel antérieur et que la démarche d’établissement du texte permet d’atteindre certains aspects de l’histoire de la réception des poèmes abécédaires.\u0000 This article examines the textual sources of a group of ABC poems, drawing on two main features. Firstly, the existing editions are on the whole unsatisfactory; specifically, they almost completely ignore textual variation between sources and the reasons for this variation. Secondly, the texts raise very different issues, some very traditional (such as the genealogy of the texts, the lexis used, and the distinction between original and innovative readings), while others are highly specific. The article examines a series of textual situations that are either notable in their own right, or illustrate a more general typology. The main conclusion is that we need to go back beyond the surviving testimonies to try to establish an earlier state of the texts. In so doing we will uncover some aspects of the history and reception of the ABC poems.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115466404","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":"Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy by Julia Caterina Hartley (review)","authors":"Hugues Azérad","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAB105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAB105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115578378","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":"L'ABC par ekivoche et les abécédaires français du XIIIe siècle","authors":"D. Moos","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAB054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAB054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Parmi les poèmes abécédaires français du treizième siècle, les prières de Ferrant et de Plantefolie relèvent manifestement d’une même tradition mariale. Ces textes didactiques délivrent des odes à la Vierge composées selon l’ordre alphabétique, qui revendiquent, en ce sens, une forme de complétude et qui constituent, pour le poète comme pour le lecteur, une voie, un chemin métaphorique vers le salut. Mais le troisième abécédaire du siècle, La Senefiance de l’ABC de Huon de Cambrai, poème à visée morale dont le contenu semble radicalement différent, participe-t-il de cette tradition? Tel est le cas selon l’hypothèse que défend le présent article. Pour ce faire, nous proposons une analyse en trois temps du poème. D’abord, une étude des modalités de glose des lettres mettra en évidence l’attention portée par le poète à chacun des signes de l’alphabet. Ensuite, nous montrons comment ces modalités permettent de faire de l’ABC une entité homogène et complète. Finalement, nous étudions la façon dont le texte est structuré à l’image d’un chemin vers le salut. Ainsi, notre étude démontre que la Senefiance de l’ABC partage les trois caractéristiques définitoires des ABC de Ferrant et de Plantefolie et appartient, donc, bel et bien à la même mouvance abécédaire. Among the three French ABC poems of the thirteenth century, the prayers of Ferrant and Plantefolie belong to the same Marian tradition. These didactic texts deliver odes to the Virgin composed in alphabetical order, which lay claim to a form of completeness and constitute, for the poet as well as for the reader, a metaphorical path towards salvation. However, the third ABC poem turns out to be radically different: La Senefiance de l’ABC by Huon de Cambrai proposes a moralizing gloss of the letters. Nevertheless, this poem can also be affiliated to the same register as its two counterparts. This article aims to demonstrate this through detailed analysis of Huon’s ABC. First, a study of the forms of the glosses will highlight the attention paid by Huon to each of the letters of the alphabet. Subsequently, we deal with the modalities that confer to the whole ABC a homogeneity and a coherence close to those of the two Marian prayers. Finally, we study the structure of the text, which is organized as an alphabetical path to salvation. Our study shows that the Senefiance de l’ABC shares the three defining characteristics of Ferrant and Plantefolie, and thus belongs to the same ABC trend.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115734182","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 Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, I: The Nineteenth Century; II: The Twentieth Century ed. by Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon (review)","authors":"M. Sonenscher","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAA266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAA266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"164 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131000695","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 European ‘Roman d’Analyse’: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal by Adele Kudish (review)","authors":"Maria Scott","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAA265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAA265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116513706","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":"'Aveugle comme le destin': Blindness and its Inevitability in Samuel Beckett's Theatre","authors":"Marjorie Crozier","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAB098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAB098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Blindness proliferates throughout the oeuvre of francophone Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. It is one of many forms of disability to appear in Beckett's theatre, but is notable for the simultaneous uncertainty and certainty which surround it. While the audience can rarely be sure whether the characters they observe can see or not, and indeed must enter into a generalized structure of doubt as regards sight, the characters seem to understand blindness as an inevitability. This article examines three characters explicitly identified as blind—Pozzo in En attendant Godot, A in Fragment de théâtre I, and Hamm in Fin de partie—in direct relation to their blindness, using disability theory to examine the status of sightlessness within these texts, as opposed to viewing it as metaphor or allegory. It furthermore considers responses to blindness, from both the blind characters and their sighted companions as well as from the audience, whose potential responses to this particular disability are considered in the light of Ato Quayson's concept of 'aesthetic nervousness'.Abstract:La cécité est partout dans l'oeuvre du dramaturge francophone irlandais Samuel Beckett. Elle est une des nombreuses formes du handicap dans le théâtre de Beckett, mais elle est notable pour l'incertitude et la certitude qui la caractérisent simultanément. Le public ne sait jamais si les personnages sur scène sont voyants ou pas, et se trouve même dans une atmosphère de doute généralisée en ce qui concerne la vue, mais les personnages paraissent penser que la cécité est inéluctable. Cet article considère trois personnages identifiés comme aveugle dans leurs textes—Pozzo dans En attendant Godot, A dans Fragment de théâtre I, et Hamm dans Fin de partie—par rapport direct à leur cécité, plutôt que la regarder comme métaphore ou allégorie. L'article considère en outre les réponses aux aveugles, soit des personnages aveugles eux-mêmes, soit de leurs compagnons, soit du public. Les réponses potentielles du public sont considérées au regard du concept de 'aesthetic nervousness' de Ato Quayson.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126752682","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 Luxe de L’écriture: Writing Luxury in Annie Ernaux’s Passion Simple and Les Années","authors":"Alice Blackhurst","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the concept and experience of luxury in Annie Ernaux’s work, starting from an observation made towards the end of Passion simple (1991) that luxury no longer represents for the author ‘manteaux de fourrure, [des] robes longues et [des] villas au bord de la mer’, but ‘aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion’. Though the temptation, given Ernaux’s stated admiration for Pierre Bourdieu’s œuvre, is to approach luxury through a lens of sociological distinction, the article argues that a more intricate unfolding of the concept can be traced within her texts. Through readings of Passion simple and Les Années, I suggest that Ernaux’s search for a writing outside the self that stringently rejects bourgeois literary values echoes visions of writing — such as those found at various points in the work of Hélène Cixous, Roland Barthes, and Georges Bataille, for example — as a form of total expenditure that cannot be harnessed to late capitalism’s exchange economy. Additionally borrowing from the thought of Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, I argue that the thrilling loss of sovereignty Ernaux finds in the experience of absolute eroticism and écriture in Passion simple is extended in Les Années into a sociology of writerly vacation, where the luxurious dispersal of the first person makes way for a situated, politically operative being-in-common.Résumé:Cet article propose une ré-examination du concept du luxe dans l’œuvre d’Annie Ernaux, à partir d’une observation faite à la fin de Passion simple (1991) sur le fait que le luxe, au-delà des ‘manteaux de fourrure, [des] robes longues et [des] villas au bord de la mer’, c’est ‘aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou pour une femme’. Malgré la tentation, étant donné l’influence de Pierre Bourdieu sur Ernaux, d’aborder la question du luxe par l’angle du concept sociologique de la distinction, l’article suggère qu’une version plus complexe du luxe émerge des textes ernausiens. En lisant Passion simple et Les Années, nous postulons ici que la recherche ernausienne d’une écriture ‘impersonnelle’ et radicale trouve un écho dans la vision chez Maurice Blanchot et Jean-Luc Nancy d’une écriture ‘intransitive’. S’appuyant aussi sur les philosophies de l’érotisme proposées par Roland Barthes et Georges Bataille, l’article suggère que chez Ernaux, le luxe cesse d’être une expérience consumériste, pour devenir une sensation extatique de la communauté, d’une écriture ‘transpersonelle’, porteuse de la vie des autres, et ainsi, pour reprendre les mots de Nancy, de ‘l’être-en-commun’.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"553 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116237640","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 Sud global et la shoah: perspectives littéraires de Michèle Maillet, de Nathacha Appanah et de Louis-Philippe Dalembert","authors":"J. Borst, Natascha Ueckmann","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab035","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé:Cet article porte sur des romans écrits par des écrivaines et des écrivains contemporains francophones du Sud global qui traitent de la Shoah et de la persécution des Juifs au vingtième siècle sous le régime nazi: L’Étoile noire (1990) de Michèle Maillet (Martinique), Le Dernier Frère (2007) de Nathacha Appanah (île Maurice) et Avant que les ombres s’effacent (2017) de Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haïti). Ayant recours au concept de la mémoire multidirectionelle de Michael Rothberg et à la pensée décoloniale, qui critique l’unilatéralité d’épistèmes hégémoniques et dénonce l’absence relative des personnes du Sud global dans l’historiographie occidentale sur la Shoah, nous analysons la manière dont ces textes révèlent des perspectives marginalisées par un discours eurocentrique, pour souligner les ramifications des mémoires multidirectionnelles. Reprenant la critique des métarécits, ils racontent la Shoah différemment à partir de l’expérience de l’oppression et du racisme propre aux personnes (jadis) colonisées. Nous constatons que les textes décolonisent notre savoir sur la Shoah non seulement en révélant les expériences de personnes africaines ou d’ascendance africaine dans les camps concentrationnaires, mais aussi en soulignant la situation de la Shoah par rapport à une continuité de violence raciste qui caractérise la modernité occidentale.Abstract:This article analyses three novels that deal with the Shoah and the persecution of Jews in the twentieth century under the Nazi regime, authored by contemporary francophone authors of the Global South: L’Étoile noire (1990) by Michèle Maillet (Martinique), Le Dernier Frère (2007) by Nathacha Appanah (Mauritius), and Avant que les ombres s’effacent (2017) by Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti). Identifying with Michael Rothberg’s concept of multidirectional memory and with decolonial thinking that criticizes the bias of hegemonic epistemes and denounces the Global South’s relative absence from Western historiography about the Shoah, we show how the texts reveal perspectives that are marginalized by a Eurocentric discourse, bring home the ramifications of multidirectional memories, echo a critique of master narratives, and tell the story of the Shoah differently given the experience of oppression and racism of (formerly) colonized people. We argue that these texts decolonize our knowledge about the Shoah not only because they reveal the experiences of Africans and Afrodescendants in the concentration camps but also because they emphasize the place of the Shoah in relation to a continuity of racist violence, which characterizes Western modernity.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"1997 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132491486","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":"Mapping Social Networks in La Princesse de Clèves: The ‘Commerce’ of Lafayette’s Court","authors":"H. Bilis, Peter A. Mawhorter","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:With the goal of analysing social commerce in Lafayette’s 1678 novel, La Princesse de Clèves, from an approach that diverges from the usual emphasis on character psychology, this article turns to the tools of the digital humanities to reflect on what is gained by considering the text via a form of ‘distant reading’. Through a variety of character-interaction measurements and network maps depicting the geography of social exchanges within the novel, the article offers new ways of apprehending character relationships in Lafayette’s text. Our computational analysis considers the interplay between major and minor characters, between the fictional love plot and the historical setting, and between male and female protagonists in La Princesse de Clèves. We also isolate the varying modes of commerce that occur, such as spoken versus unspoken, physical versus verbal, and narrated versus quoted. Ultimately, we put forward this approach as a means of reflecting on what Ryan Cordell has termed ‘humanistic data’, a resolutely subjective collection and application of data with the goal of interpreting humanistic material. We believe this approach offers a new line of questioning, and a different perspective on the text.Résumé:Ayant comme objectif l’analyse du commerce social dans le roman de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves (1678), nous adoptons une approche qui se démarque des lectures focalisées sur la psychologie des personnages en faveur des méthodes des humanités numériques afin d’établir ce qu’une ‘lecture à bonne distance’ peut élucider. L’étude propose une variété de quantifications des interactions entre les personnages du roman et une analyse de leurs réseaux sociaux pour mieux comprendre leurs relations, ainsi que les dynamiques entre les personnages majeurs et secondaires, ceux de l’intrigue fictionnelle en contraste à ceux du contexte historique, et les différences entre personnages masculins et féminins, entre autres. Nous parvenons aussi à isoler la variété des modes de commerce, tels que les échanges parlés et les échanges silencieux, les échanges physiques et les échanges verbaux, et les échanges narrés contre ceux qui sont cités dans le texte. L’objectif ultime de cette approche consiste à proposer une réflexion sur ce que le critique littéraire Ryan Cordell nomme ‘les données humanistes’, une collection et application de données résolument et ouvertement subjectives mobilisées pour l’interprétation de textes littéraires. Nous proposons que cette approche offre un mode de questionnement nouveau, entrainant la possibilité d’une perspective renouvelée d’un texte classique.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122640690","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":"Cruautés et tendresses: vieilles mœurs coloniales françaises, précédé de Les Vies légères: évocations antillaises par Drasta Houël (review)","authors":"Maeve McCusker","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"27 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120809556","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}