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{"title":"Albert Béguin's Reception of German Romanticism in L'Âme romantique et le rêve (1937) and French Ontological Film Theory (1940s-1950s)","authors":"Karel Pletinck","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932967","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In the late 1930s, literary critic Albert Béguin traced the poetics of Symbolism and Surrealism back to German Romanticism, in his influential doctoral dissertation L'Âme romantique et le rêve. Essai sur le romantisme allemand et la poésie française (1937). The understanding of poetry as a genuine means to acquire knowledge, as developed by the German Romantics, proved extremely influential in French poetics from the 19th century onwards. The central thread of this approach is its 'revelationism', i.e. the idea that the artwork does not merely copy exterior reality, but reveals its hidden sense. Due to the popularity of Béguin's work, and because of certain biographical details, it is interesting to examine the influence his doctoral dissertation had on French 1940s-1950s ontological film theory. The way in which, most eminently, the film critic André Bazin, yet also the filmmaker Robert Bresson, understood cinema has much in common with the revelationist poetics of German Romanticism. Furthermore, Béguin's review of Bresson's Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) established an influential 'symbolist' reading of the filmmaker's oeuvre. This reading was not only adopted by Bazin, but seems to have left its mark on Bresson, too. The scope of this transfer can be better grasped by situating this movement within the legacy of German Romanticism.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marcher au hasard: Clinamen et création dans la prose du XX siècle by Morgane Cadieu (review)","authors":"Peter Schulman","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932975","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Marcher au hasard: Clinamen et création dans la prose du XX siècle&lt;/em&gt; by Morgane Cadieu &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Peter Schulman &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Morgane Cadieu, &lt;em&gt;Marcher au hasard: Clinamen et création dans la prose du XX siècle&lt;/em&gt;. Paris: Garnier, 2019, 214 pp. &lt;p&gt;Ancient atomic theory has enjoyed a type of renaissance since Steven Greenblatt's groundbreaking and highly successful book &lt;em&gt;The Swerve: How the World Became Modern&lt;/em&gt; (2011) launched a new examination of Lucretius' tantalizing philosophy surrounding the clinamen, the one atom that deviates and swerves from the regular trajectories of the rest of the atoms. For Greenblatt, and other literary scholars such as Harold Bloom, whose earlier revolutionary book &lt;em&gt;The Anxiety of Influence&lt;/em&gt; (1973) also spawned a reawakening in terms of the early atomists, the clinamen can be seen as a metaphor or spark of creativity that separates everyday artists from pedestrian ones. Morgane Cadieu stakes her own claim to this scholarly heritage by examining the clinamen not necessarily in terms of creativity, but in a manner more scientifically in line with the early theorists: in terms of chance, and even, when she writes of the Oulipo movement, in terms of constraint.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cadieu thoroughly walks us through the atomic debates between Democritus and Lucretius with great agility while leading us to the modern chronotopes of André Breton, Georges Perec in particular, Oulipo, Anne Garetta, and Sophie Calle. With an emphasis on Perec's &lt;em&gt;Un homme qui dort&lt;/em&gt;, which Cadieu analyzes with depth and elegance, the clinamen can be read through the lens of the seemingly aimless protagonist's peregrinations through Paris. As Cadieu sees it, \"&lt;em&gt;Un homme qui dort&lt;/em&gt; est un récit exemplaire pour penser l'interaction entre hasard et espace. Le projet d'amnésie du narrateur repose sur une régulation du hasard figurée dans la cartographie parisienne\" (84). Through a painstaking &lt;em&gt;va-et-vient&lt;/em&gt; between classical atomic theory and Oulipian craftsmanship, she posits that &lt;em&gt;Un homme qui dort&lt;/em&gt; can even be read as a type of twentieth-century &lt;em&gt;De Rerum Natura&lt;/em&gt;. It is a very thought-provoking reading of Perec.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cadieu goes on to re-evaluate Perec's fascination with lists and counting in such texts as &lt;em&gt;Penser/Classer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien&lt;/em&gt; as a counterweight to Bloom's understanding of the clinamen by focusing on &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 119]&lt;/strong&gt; Perec's deliberate interest in a reorganization of the accepted order of things rather than a complete break from it. As she explains: \"Perec change et complique ce phénomène en ajoutant une inversion de la flèche temporelle. Son clinamen n'est pas, comme pour Bloom, une déviation hors d'un système, mais une réorganisation, une recombinaison\" (139). Th","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Novel Clues about Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Childhood: Newly Uncovered Lettres de Cachet Reveal Maternal Dérèglement de Mœurs","authors":"Marijn S. Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792), one of the foremost proto-feminist women writers of Enlightenment France, has offered conflicting and enigmatic information about her childhood.</p><p>While her desire for privacy regarding her own biography can be understood and respected, when (new) personal details elucidate her published oeuvre, both her fiction and her correspondence, they hold a particular fascination for readers and scholars alike. This essay will shed light on a notoriously blank page of Riccoboni's life, her childhood, through two newly uncovered <i>lettres de cachet</i> pertaining to her mother Marie Marguerite Dujac and her grandfather Jean Baptiste Dujac. An analysis of these documentsas <i>lettres de cachet</i>through the lens of royal and paternal authority as well as female agency, will provide new context for Riccoboni's biography regarding her relationship with her mother and her childhood, as well as offer important clues for some essential elements of her fiction, including her proto-feminism.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France by Eliza Jane Smith (review)","authors":"Carolyn Betensky","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932973","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France&lt;/em&gt; by Eliza Jane Smith &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Carolyn Betensky &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Eliza Jane Smith, &lt;em&gt;Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France&lt;/em&gt;. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 280pp. &lt;p&gt;Eliza Jane Smith's &lt;em&gt;Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France&lt;/em&gt; takes a sociolinguistic approach to the cultural work of &lt;em&gt;argot&lt;/em&gt; in texts by Eugène Vidocq, Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Sue, Victor Hugo, the brothers Goncourt, and Emile Zola, among others. Smith shows that the slang that these authors put in the mouths of their poor and criminal characters was not simply out there for the taking and reproducing; it was, rather, the product of what was effectively a collaboration between those who spoke elements of slang and the bourgeois writers who massaged it into a shorthand for an experience they portrayed as alien. Slang was not, in other words, an authentic language unto itself that intrepid literary adventurers stumbled upon and made available to their readership. It was an invention that packaged the fascination and anxieties of the bourgeoisie and projected them repeatedly onto the \"dangerous\" and \"laboring\" classes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Smith divides her study into chapters on slang as criminal code, slang and embodiment, and slang and the politics of language, as well as separate chapters on slang as the language of misery, of Parisians, and of prostitutes. Each meticulously researched section explores a different way in which slang came self-evidently to articulate something about the population said to speak it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;One of the many virtues of &lt;em&gt;Literary Slumming&lt;/em&gt; is that it explores lexical, social, and political change over the course of the period, which is to say that it does not present \"&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; nineteenth century\" as a monolith. Smith demonstrates, for instance, that it is not just the slang vocabulary itself deployed by Hugo in &lt;em&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/em&gt; that worked differently from Sue's in &lt;em&gt;Les Mystères de Paris&lt;/em&gt;; meanings of the &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; of slang in literature by bourgeois authors fluctuated as France underwent significant historical change. Hugo's slang-speakers in 1862 thus not only spoke a different slang from Sue's but signified differently themselves as slang-speakers. By the time Hugo wrote, slang conferred an honorable authenticity on its speaker that would have never occurred to Sue, for whom slang connoted criminality and poverty, some twenty years earlier. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 115]&lt;/strong&gt; Another example of Smith's careful practice of distinguishing literary uses of slang from period to period within the nineteenth century is her discussion of the way authors came to mobilize slang in the service of changing gender profiles. Slang does not sully th","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Œuvres complètes, Tome II,1: Solitaire premier, ou, Discours Des Muses, Et de la fureur Poétique by Pontus de Tyard (review)","authors":"Roberto E. Campo","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932972","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Œuvres complètes, Tome II,1: Solitaire premier, ou, Discours Des Muses, Et de la fureur Poétique&lt;/em&gt; by Pontus de Tyard &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Roberto E. Campo &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Pontus de Tyard, &lt;em&gt;Œuvres complètes, &lt;span&gt;Tome II,1&lt;/span&gt;: Solitaire premier, ou, Discours Des Muses, Et de la fureur Poétique&lt;/em&gt;, Ed. Jean-Claude Carron, Dir. Eva Kushner. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019, 264pp. &lt;p&gt;As the latest addition to Eva Kushner's collection of critical editions of the poetic and prose works of the sixteenth-century French author and Pléiade affiliate Pontus de Tyard, Jean-Claude Carron's presentation of the Mâconnais's &lt;em&gt;Solitaire premier, ou, Discours des Muses, Et de la fureur Poétique&lt;/em&gt; is elaborate in every important regard.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1950, Silvio Baridon published an edition of the first &lt;em&gt;Solitaire&lt;/em&gt; that offered a brief (nine-page) introduction explaining the editor's plan to reproduce the work's 1587 edition (the last one published during Tyard's lifetime, preceded only by the editions of 1552 and 1575), his approach to variants (thereafter &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 112]&lt;/strong&gt; appended as footnotes throughout the text), and his own orthographic modifications. After the discourse, Baridon also supplied a table of the work's principal topics, likewise derived from the 1587 version.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;By contrast, Carron's volume opens with a fifty-seven-page Introduction consisting of seven subsections. These divisions afford analyses of Tyard's application of the dialogue genre, the &lt;em&gt;Solitaire&lt;/em&gt;'s place in the author's works, the discourse's status as an \"art poétique,\" its topical structure, its dual function as an amorous dialogue and philosophical treatise, and its role in establishing Tyard's impact on the poetic theory of the Pléiade. The Introduction includes a history of the discourse's editions as well. Here, Carron focuses on the variants and additions that account for what he calls \"le caractère évolutif du processus de l'édition\" (69).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;To complement the &lt;em&gt;Solitaire&lt;/em&gt; text, Carron provides a set of 463 endnotes, many of which present detailed discussions of the inspirational sources and critical literature surrounding Tyard's writings in addition to helpful explanations of the mythological references and elaborations on the textual variants. This apparatus is followed by the first &lt;em&gt;Solitaire&lt;/em&gt;'s table of topics (apparently based, although never acknowledged, on the list from the 1587 edition), an appendix comprised of the liminary pieces from the work's 1552 and 1575 editions (themselves supplemented by fifty-two elucidative footnotes), a glossary of words likely to challenge today's reader (highlighted by an asterisk within the text of the discourse). The backmatter closes with an extensive bibliography of Tyard's works, his principal sources or influen","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Gnostic Noir: Y.B.'s Explication of the Algerian Crisis","authors":"Trudy Agar","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Algerian writer Y.B. (Yassir Benmiloud) originally established himself as a satirical journalist and critic of the Algerian regime before publishing his first novel, <i>L'Explication</i>, from exile in Paris in 1999. Although it was met with a relative lack of critical attention, reserved more for his third novel <i>Allah Superstar</i> (2003), which examines the place of Muslims in post 9/11 France, <i>L'Explication</i> is a dynamic reimagining of noir that \"others\" the classically Western genre. While respecting many of the tropes of detective and noir fiction, including the gradual unveiling of the criminals and their motives for murder, an investigator-focused narrative, temporal doubling, and sassy one-liners, <i>L'Explication</i> deviates from reader expectations with its autobiographical elements, hybridity, and its refusal to provide a rational resolution to the investigation. The novel is imbued with a Sufi mystical structure and ideology that exist uncomfortably alongside, and call into question, French rationalism, the underpinning of a classical detective story. Y.B.'s criminal investigation proceeds along unexpected lines to become an esoteric interpretation of the history of Islam in North Africa and the rise of Algeria's <i>cabinet noir</i> during the 1990s civil war. This article will show that <i>L'Explication</i> is at once a detective novel and a parody of both that genre and of Islamic exegesis. The parodic elements allow Y.B. to circumvent censure, while offering an indirect means of giving voice to national trauma as he endeavors to explain the seemingly inexplicable Algerian civil war.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enacting National Trauma on the Female Body in Aubigné's Misères: An Epic Motif","authors":"Jessica Appleby","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932964","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The French Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century coincided with a literary desire to validate French cultural dominance through poetry. As part of this goal, a traditional epic would establish a Virgil for France and a heroic story to equal Rome's. Though the civil wars prevented the composition of such an epic, they opened the path for Agrippa d'Aubigné's <i>Les Tragiques</i>, an epic account of the Wars themselves. As a Protestant poet on the losing side of national conflict, Aubigné rests upon epic traditions while using them to garner support for his faction and to blame Catholic leadership vehemently for the national crisis. This article examines the epic tradition (seen in Helen, Dido, Bramimonde, and others) by which national trauma and epic conflict are enacted upon female bodies. Aubigné uses this epic motif to specific rhetorical ends: gaining sympathy for the Protestant cause and lamenting Catholic oppression. He adapts the epic tradition to emphasize mothering bodies (pregnant or nursing) to heighten the horror of the war and win the audience to the poet's side. This adaptation of epic tradition takes two forms: the anthropomorphization of France herself and the presentation of victims of civil war. The <i>Misères</i> of the nation, lamented in the poem's first book, resonate in female reproductive bodies to universalize the trauma, thereby aligning the reader with Aubigné's outrage and grief. Though female embodiment of national trauma is traditional to epic, <i>Les Tragiques</i> finds a new angle that serves its rhetorical goals.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charlemagne: les temps, les espaces, les hommes, Construction et déconstruction d'un règne ed. by Rolf Grosse & Michel Sot (review)","authors":"Anthony Smart","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932971","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Charlemagne: les temps, les espaces, les hommes, Construction et déconstruction d'un règne&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Rolf Grosse &amp; Michel Sot &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Anthony Smart &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Rolf Grosse &amp; Michel Sot (eds.), &lt;em&gt;Charlemagne: les temps, les espaces, les hommes, Construction et déconstruction d'un règne&lt;/em&gt;. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, 604pp. &lt;p&gt;Charlemagne stands as the most important of all Carolingian kings and emperors. It was he who not only forged an empire, but had that empire branded as both Frankish and Roman. He developed strong links with the papacy in Rome, was a feared and capable military commander, and remained an unflinching defender of Christianity. He was also an agent of change, bringing to his court the most learned figures of the age. Their task was to transform his empire into a new Christian state, of learning, literature and correct religious practice. And yet there are questions over the planned longevity of the Carolingian experiment with empire. It may have called itself Roman, but to what extent is it really an incarnation of the classical past? Charlemagne himself sought to divide his empire between his male heirs, and only fate meant that it was bestowed instead fully upon his surviving son Louis. There are also darker elements to Charlemagne's rule that belie the favourable image contemporaries and later interpreters have offered. Recent research has begun to consider whether we can ever really know a person from the early Middle Ages. So much of the rhetoric on Charlemagne rests on how kingship was understood by contemporaries and how his learned elite sought to align Frankish regnal customs with a pre-existing classical model of imperial rule. These models were also then bridged with Christian ideas of ruling, and the result provides a complex network of competing ideologies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The excellent volume edited by Grosse and Sot contributes to this reconsideration of Charlemagne. There is a temptation to think that the Carolingian period under Charlemagne can offer little in the way of substantive new scholarship—and there is not much chance, barring archaeological finds, that we will discover new writings and sources for the late eighth and early ninth &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 109]&lt;/strong&gt; centuries. However, Grosse and Sot demonstrate just how valuable and valid the study of this dynamic period (and the character at its heart) can be. The editors also make it clear that their focus is not just on providing a new window into this world, but on moving away from the more typical approaches that provide a superficial perspective on Charlemagne: \"Le but de notre colloque n'est pas de commémorer en Charlemagne le père de l'Europe ni le fondateur d'empire, mais de situer le demi-siècle de son gouvernement dans un jeu d'échelle spatial et temporal, en faisant la ","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flaubert's Love Topoi: The Aesthetics of Prostitution","authors":"Carsten Meiner","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The article shows how Flaubert dismantles the notion of romantic love in <i>L'Education sentimentale</i> through a double use of traditional love topoi. Flaubert stages a number of literary scenes where romantic love usually is at large, scenes where authentic or spontaneous feelings of love historically have thrived. At the same time, he inserts unconventional elements into these scenes. In that way Flaubert not only disassembles the notion of romantic love but he also signals how post-romantic love can be reactivated through the idea of prostitution. The article then analyzes what consequences such a substitution has for the very notion of topos. It is argued that Flaubert's reworking of topoi can be theorized by way of a new, not rhetorical, but aesthetic idea of literary topology. The article identifies how Flaubert invents non-typical topoi, which rely on aesthetic meaning and not rhetorical verisimilitude.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le Passé recomposé. Le roman historique français du XIXe siècle by Claudie Bernard (review)","authors":"Marie-Agathe Tilliette","doi":"10.1353/frf.2023.a932974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2023.a932974","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Le Passé recomposé. Le roman historique français du XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle&lt;/em&gt; by Claudie Bernard &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Marie-Agathe Tilliette &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Claudie Bernard. &lt;em&gt;Le Passé recomposé. Le roman historique français du XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle&lt;/em&gt;. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021, 614pp. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Passé recomposé&lt;/em&gt;, sous-titré &lt;em&gt;Le roman historique français du XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle&lt;/em&gt;, paru en 2021 chez Classiques Garnier, est la version retravaillée d'un précédent ouvrage de Claudie Bernard publié en 1996, sous le même titre, chez Hachette Supérieur. Cette nouvelle édition en reprend les trois premières parties, qui formaient déjà une longue et puissante réflexion théorique sur le genre du roman historique au XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle, et elle les précise, les nourrit et les affine de manière remarquable. La bibliographie est soigneusement mise à jour, tant pour les études littéraires que pour les réflexions historiographiques, et l'empan considéré est étendu, non seulement par un éclairant épilogue sur le roman historique contemporain, français et francophone, mais aussi par l'extension des références vers le XX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle tout au long de l'ouvrage. L'ajout d'un index des noms propres est un outil précieux pour se retrouver dans des analyses foisonnantes d'exemples, qui font le choix d'une progression problématisée autour des différents rapports entre roman historique et Histoire, plutôt que d'un fil chronologique unique ou d'approches strictement monographiques. La quatrième partie du premier &lt;em&gt;Passé recomposé&lt;/em&gt;, qui était constituée de cinq études de cas (Vigny, Mérimée, Balzac, Gautier et Vallès), a, quant à elle, été reprise et considérablement développée par Claudie Bernard dans un autre volume paru chez Classiques Garnier, également en 2021, &lt;em&gt;Si l'Histoire m'était contée… Le roman historique de Vigny à Rosny aîné&lt;/em&gt;. La réunion de ces deux ouvrages, &lt;em&gt;Le Passé recomposé&lt;/em&gt; et &lt;em&gt;Si l'Histoire m'était contée&lt;/em&gt;, qui forme un ensemble de près d'un millier de page, réussit le tour de force d'être à la fois une base incontournable pour l'étude du roman historique français (du XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle, mais pas seulement) et un approfondissement de cette étude, et d'être ainsi tout autant destinée aux étudiantes et étudiants qu'aux chercheuses et chercheurs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Passé recomposé&lt;/em&gt;, dans sa version du XXI&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle, se divise en trois grandes parties. La première, \"Histoire et roman historique,\" interroge les relations complexes entre Histoire et roman, en les replaçant dans un large panorama qui aboutit à leur rencontre au XIX&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt; siècle, en l'espèce du roman historique. Cette profondeur de champ permet à Claudie Bernard de proposer une définition du roman historique, \"genre à degré d'historicité variable\" (157), à la f","PeriodicalId":42174,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH FORUM","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}