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The general issue normally appears twice a year, usually in the Summer and Autumn, as part of a three part volume of Nottingham French Studies. Articles are on any aspect of French and francophone literature, language, history and culture. Contributions are welcome.

Volume 49.1- Spring 2010

HÉLÈNE DENIS  L’Angleterre, paradis des arbres ? Un aspect du voyage outre-manche des Français de la Restauration 

RORI BLOOM    Monkey-girls of Old Regime France: Babiole and Ourika  

GILLES CASTAGNÈS  Entre Musset et Beckett, Le Faiseur de Balzac : l’intertextualité en question 

ANNE HOLMES  The Creation of ‘suspens’ in Mallarmé’s Prose (pour des Esseintes) 

SARAH TRIBOUT-JOSEPH     Ruskin, Reflection, Self Recognition and Self Creation in Proust 

GLENN W. FETZER  Emmanuel Hocquard ou la poétique de la grammaire

Volume 48.1 – Spring 2009

THOMAS M KAVANAGH   Roulette and the Ancien Régime of Gambling

ALI NEMATOLLAHY   Anarchist Dandies, Dilettantes and Aesthetes of the Fin de Siècle

PAUL RYAN   Valéry’s Pocket Notebooks: Redefining a Corpus

JEAN-LOUIS CORNILLE   Derniers tours

SYLVIE VANBAELEN   Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes de Jacqueline Harpman : Récit d’une genèse de femme

NJERI GITHIRE   The Semiotics of Hunger: Fasting, Anorexia, & Hunger Strike in Ananda Devi's Le voile de Draupaudi)

HELENE JACCOMARD   Eclats ou écarts de mémoire ? La guerre d’indépendance algérienne dans l’œuvre écrite de Mehdi Charef

Volume 47.1 – Spring 2008

Peter SHOEMAKER   His Master’s Voice: Authorship and Patronage in Théophile de Viau and Charles Sorel

Stephanie SCHECHNER Words as Subjects: The Personification of Language in Three Texts by Nathalie Sarraute

Eamon MAHER  Spirituality on the Margins – the Writings of Jean Sulivan

Michel AROUIMI   Le Double et sa violence : Le Protocole compassionel d’Hervé Guibert

Françoise GRAUBY   De « ceci n’est pas un corps » à  « ceci est mon corps » : le body-art de Catherine Millet

Ian McCALL   ‘Merry Christmas Amélie-san’: Filmic Intertext in Nothomb’s Stupeur et tremblements

Joanne LANGLEY   Pierre Albert-Birot: A New Mimesis, Another Modernism

Volume 46.1 – Spring 2007

ALISON WILLIAMS Courtly lady, starving spouse and partner in crime: the shifting roles of Hermeline in the Roman de Renart

JOSEPH HARRIS Corneille confronts the ridiculous: Mélite

MICHAEL TILBY Tours or Dis? Balzac’s Tale of Two Cities (Le Curé de Tours)

WILLIAM JENNINGS The physical maze and the spiritual labyrinth of Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican

SUSAN PETIT From the “Pierre Oku” to Pierre Abélard: A Back Door to Subtext in Tournier’s Les Météores

MARY JEAN GREEN Echoes of the Casbah: From Pépé le Moko to Bab el-Oued City

OWEN HEATHCOTE The Revolutionary Poetics of Pierre Guyotat

DEBORAH WALKER La Réappropriation de l’hypotexte: Etude de l’adaptation théâtrale dans l’œuvre d’Alain Resnais

Volume 45.2 – Summer 2006

HELENE DENIS Le Rire et les deux royaumes. Les Français de la Restauration face au jeu comique des acteurs anglais

CHARLES O’KEEFE The Odyssey and Signs to the Rescue: Escaping the Labyrinth and Enjoying Gaps in Patrick Modiano’s Rue des boutiques obscures

PHILIP WATTS Sartre’s Republic, 1953

DERVILA COOKE and COLIN NETTELBECK Modiano in the Feminine: A nous deux, Madame la vie

SONIA ASSA Un monde à l’usage des petites filles: La fille du Gobernator ou la magie de l’horreur

JOYCE CARLTON JOHNSTON In Search of an Audience: Madame Ancelot’s Theatre for Women

PASCALE PERRAUDIN Theatrical Violence in Rakotoson’s Un Jour, ma mémoire.

WILLIAM SAYERS A Critical Appraisal of Sailing Scenes in New Editions of Le Conte de FloireetBlanchefleur, La Vie de saint Gilles, Le Roman de Tristan and the Folies Tristan

Volume 44.2 - Summer 2005

Stéphane NATAN Les Pensées de Pascal et la force des détours

Benjamin THURSTON Prophecy and Politics: Biblical Rhetoric of the Restoration

Bernard HAEZEWINDT La Parure de Guy de Maupassant ou l'intrusion du réalisme du XIXe siècle dans le conte de Cendrillon

Michael O'SULLIVAN Metaphor's Lost Time: Notes on the new translations of Proust

José SANTOS Au pays du mufle, le borgne est roi: Laurent Tailhade polémiste

Christopher DAWSON Menus propos modernistes: Absurdity in Erik Satie's 'La Journée du musicien'

Jean-Louis CORNILLE Les emprunts d'un bibliothécaire

Joel SWOFFORD Permancency, Coherency and Transparency in Daniel Pennac's Monsieur Malaussène

Volume 43.3 - Autumn 2004

Anne QUINNEY The Cioran Exception

Alistair ROLLS Into or out of the Metro? - Defining a Carrollinian Space in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle's Zazie dans le métro

Richard-Laurent BARNETT Le postmoderne à la dérive: parcours dubouchettien

Elizabeth RICHARDSON VITI Annie Ernaux's Passion simple and Se perdre: Proust's 'amour-maladie' Revisited and Revised

Ayo Abietou COLY Court Poet and Wild Child: Two Readings of Calixthe Beyala's Les Honneurs perdus

Rosemary ARNOUX Voice and Silence in Savannah Bay and La Musica Deuxième

Nathalie MORELLO Un coupable peut cacher une autre : Lutte 'à mort' avec la mère dans trois rolans de Lorette Nobécourt - La Démangeaison, La Conversation et Horsita

Volume 43.2 - Summer 2004

Giulia PACINI Women and the Sociable Contract in Les Liaisons dangereuses

Sonia WILSON Reading the Details of Dress in Marie Bashkirteff's Journal intime

Julie SOLOMON Feuille à feuille: The Coming of Spring in Colette's La Vagabonde

Peter BROOME Michaux: Music from the Edge

Carole SWEENEY Resisting the Primitive: The Nardal Sisters, La Revue du Monde Noir and La Dépêche Africaine

Marja WAREHIME Hospitality and Violence: Parasites and Hosts in Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol and Karim Dridi

Olivier HAMBURSIN Quand le détour mène au cnetre: littérature de voyage et excentricité. Le cas des Autonautes de la cosmoroute de Julio Cortázar et Carol Dunlop

Jane HIDDLESTON The Identity of the French Language and the Language of French Identity

Volume 42.2 - Autumn 2003

Mary REILLY 'Infernal Visions: Death and the Afterlife in Racinian Tragedy'

Nicola COTTON 'The Pun, the Pear and the Pursuit of Power in Paris. Caricatures of Louis-Philippe (1830-1835)'

Hannah THOMPSON 'Rewriting the Perverse: Rachilde and the Erotic'

Stephen STEELE 'L'aprés-guerre de Gustave Cohen et les institutions françaises'

Amanda MACDONALD 'Ce qui va de soi: the Agonistics of Motility in Barthes' Mythologies'

Sean HAND 'The Quick and the Dead: Riffaterre's Hypogrammatic Reading of Leiris'

Helen E BEALE 'From Iconic to Protean: The Representation of the Male Body in the Paintings of Edouard Pignon (1905-1993)'

Emma WEBB 'Annie Leclerc's Exercices de mémoire: Writing Inside Otherness'

Françoise MUGNIER 'De l'Impertinence à la subversion dans Célanire cou-coupé de Maryse Condé'

Guy OSSITO MIDIOHOUAN 'Lilyan Kesteloot et l'Histoire de la Littérature Négro-Africaine

Stamos METZIDAKIS 'Postmodern Neutralizing of Nineteenth-Century Imagery'

Luce IRIGARAY Towards a Wisdom of Love. Dialogue between Luce Irigaray and Judith Still around Dialogues and The Way of Love at the ICA 16 December 2002

Volume 41.2 - Autumn 2002

Alex SOKALSKI 'Choose Your Weapon': Duelling French Women in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Jacqueline DUTTON Feeding Utopian Desires: Examples of the Cockaigne Legacy in French Literary Utopias

Owen HEATHCOTE 'Cet être amphibie qui n'est ni homme ni femme': Marginalizing Gender and Gendering the Marginal in Balzac's Camille Maupin

Angela KERSHAW The Body of the Hero in French Political Fiction of the 1930s

Richard J.GOLSAN Alphonse de Châteeaubriant and the Politics of French Literary History.

Jean MALAVIÉ Une Rencontre féconde: Roger Martin du Gard lecteur enthousiaste de Flaubert

Bernadette DEJEAN DE LA BÂTIE Manifestations of Serail Mentality in Driss Chraïbi's Detective Stories: Arab-Muslim Masculinity Portrayed, Displayed and Caricatured

Carolyn STOTT The Image of the Tattoo in Pennac's Belleville: the Search for a Permanent Fixture in a Changing LandscapeJulia WALTERS TheAuthor is Dead, Long Live the Author: Authorship and Mortality in the Last Works of Duras and Robbe-Grillet

Colin NETTELBECK Bazin's Rib? French Women Film-Makers and the Evolution of the Auteur Concept

Volume 40.2 - Autumn 2001

Nina EKSTEIN Uncertainty in Corneille's Héraclius

Rosemary LLOYD Mallarmé and the Bounds of Translation

Valerie HOWELLS 'Une aventure spirituelle': Bernanos's Journal d'un curé de campagne as a self-reflexive text

John ROTHENBERG The Problem of Character in the Theatre of Nathalie Sarraute

Andy LEAK Some Ramifications of the Theme of Laterality in the Work of Georges Perec

Caroline SHEAFFER-JONES The Anonymous Community: A Reading of Maurice Blanchot's 'L'Indestructible' (L'Entretien nfini)

Jennifer FORREST The Moral Legacy of Les Mille et une nuits: Where the Postcolonial East Opens its Portals onto the West in Late Twentieth-Century Literature

Gil ZEHAVA HOCHBERG, 'Colonial Hospitality': False Hosts and Ill-Mannered Guests in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia

Volume 39.2 - Autumn 2000

Juliette CHERBULIEZ Before and Beyond Versailles: The Counter-Court of the Duchesse de Montpensier, 1652-1660

Claudine GIACCHETTI La Comtese de Ségur et ses expatriés

Moishe BLACK Félicité and the Imperfect of Repetition in 'Un Cour simple'

Gerald MACKLIN Defamiliarization and Discontinuity: Rimbaud's 'Parade'. 'Angoisse', 'Soir historique'

Rebecca FREE 'In a Regime of Liberty': The Theatrical Coquette in the Belle Époque

Robin MACKENZIE Calembour, Cuir and Corps bon conducteur: Towards a Proustian Poetics of Word-Play

Alistair ROLLS Boris Vian's L'Écume des jours: The Pulls of Froth and Days

Raylene RAMSAY The Nature of Hybridity in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove

Volume 38.1 - Spring 1999

David SHAW Legal Elements in Le Misanthrope

Mary REILLY Racine's Visions of Violence: the Case of Bajazet, Britannicus and Bérénice

Geert MISSOTTEN L'écriture spéculaire dans les romans donjuanesques de Marcel Jouhandeau, homme sans nom

Martine DANAN Birth of a National-popular Cinema in France

Edward OUSSELIN The Uses of a National Icon: The Eiffel Tower in René Clair's Paris qui dort

Nicholas HARRISON Camus, écriture blanche and the Reader, between Said and Barthes

Mary NOONAN Performing the Voice of Writing in the In-between: Hélène Cixous's La Ville Parjure

Nathalie MORELLO 'Faire pour la mère ce qu'elle [n']avait [pas] fait pour le père'; étude comparative du projet autobiographique dans La Place et Une femme d'Annie Ernaux

Volume 37.2 - Autumn 1998

Renée MOREL Sight Unseen: Fénelon and the Myth of Invisibility

Anne De SOLA Héroïsme et vraisemblance romanesque: Le cas des Illustres Françaises

John PHILLIPS Sade in the Corridor

Robert ZIEGLER From the Flower to the Ruby: Creativity and Object Loss in Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte

Jean-Louis CORNILLE Ubu Chassé

Anissa TALAHITE Odalisques et pacotille: Identity and Representation in Leïla Sebbar's Shérazade, 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts

Bernadette DEJEAN DE LA BÂTIE L'inspecteur Ali enquête sur Driss Chraïbi: Une Place au soleil et L'Inspecteur Ali à Trinity College comme nouvelle version ou subversion du roman policier

Volume 36.2 - Autumn 1997

David CARON Deux récits, deux exigences; Les jours de notre mort de David Rousset et La nuit d'Elie Wiesel

Dr Pat MINES The Role of the Marquis de Sade in the Late Novels of Victor Hugo

Edward JAMES Euripidean and Christian cross-currents in the problematic morality of Racine's Phèdre

Nina HELLERSTEIN Phenomenology and Ekphrasis in Claudel's Connaissance de l'Est

Leslie-Anne BOLDT-IRONS The Fall from and into Grace: Camus and Bataille on Happiness and Guilt

Dr Mary ORR The Cloaks of Power: Custom and Costume in Flaubert's Salammbô

Katya ZISSEMAND and Social Exclusion and Artistic Inclusiveness: the Quest

Colin NETTELBECK for Integrity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine

Victoria KORZENIOWSKA Elementary Ecofeminism or Patriarchal Paradigm?: Giraudoux's Suzanne et le Pacifique and Supplément au Voyage de Cook

Volume 35.2 - Autumn 1996

Linda GOWANS The Grail in the West: Prose, Verse and Geography in the Joseph of Robert De Boron

Véronique WAKERLEY Heloys: André or Andreas? A problem of authorship in MS Royal 16F II in the British Museum Library

Jan HERMAN Abelard en Travesti: Valmont et la Coupure du Sexe

Catherine R. MONTFORT Vigée le Brun: Une Artiste Exemplaire (1755-1842)

Anne-Marie SMITH-DI BIASIO 'Le Texte de la Vie des Femmes': Female Melancholia in Eugénie Grandet

G M MACKLIN The Reinvention of Time and Space in Rimbaud's Illuminations

Glenn W. FETZER André du Bouchet: Imaging the Real, Seeing the Unseeable

Alison SMITH Strategies of Representation in Sans Toit Ni Loi

Volume 34.2 - Autumn 1995

M J MURATORE Theatrical conversion in Molière's Dom Juan

Monica NURNBERG Art, irony and nature in 'Le Premier Parnasse contemporain'

John ROTHENBERG The hunter hunted: social strategies in Sarraute's theatre

Johnnie GRATTON Autobiography and fragmentation: the case or Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance

John PHILLIPS The mathematics of meaning: Marguerite Duras's Moderato Cantabile

Wendy EVERETT Slipping in and out of focus: words and images in the filmic discourse of Marguerite Duras

S D MÉNAGER Traces: Leïla Sebbar atteint au silence des rives

Volume 33.2 - Autumn 1994

Gerry McCARTHY Jouvet and the playing of Molière

Michael GLENCROSS Le débat romantique et le littérature française du moyen age dans la critique littéraire de la Restauration

Raylene RAMSAY George Sand vue du XXe siècle

Nichola Anne HAXELL Baudelaire, Barbey d'Aurevilly and the art of translating poetry: a possible source for 'Un Hémisphere dans une chevelure'

E Nicole MEYER Facts into fiction in Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet

Michael HAWCROFT Gide's Corydon, 'mise en abyme', and autobiographical fiction

Jean-Louis CORNILLE Le parlant (feu Cendrars)

Jean DUFFY Claude Simon's Photographies: a formal and thematic analysis

Claire OBOUSSIER Barthes and femininity: a synaesthetic writing

Volume 32.2 - Autumn 1993

Penny SIMONS Pattern and process of education in Le Conte du Graal

John PHILLIPS Racine's Andromaque: a semiotic approach

John CAMPBELL Playing for time in Bérénice

Joy CHARNLEY 'On n'est point en sûreté quand on dort proche d'un serpent: il peut arriver qu'il ne morde pas, et il peut arriver qu'il morde': Pierre Bayle et les femmes

David WILLIAMS The Desfontaines translation of Voltaire's Essay upon the Epick Poetry

Geoffrey EDWARDSand Ryan EDWARDS Carmen's transfiguration from Mérimée to Bizet:beyond the image of the femme fatale

Robert ZIEGLER The story as commodity in Lorrain's Hélie, garçon d'hôtel

Patricia O'FLAHERTY Mythopoeic process in Montherlant's Thrasylle

Owen HEATHCOTE Masochism, sadism, and women's writing: The examples of Marguerite Duras and Monique Wittig

Volume 31.1 - Autumn 1992

Leigh WHALEY A radical journalist of the French Revolution: Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Patriote Français, 1789-1791

E. GREAVES The consular correspondence- the novelist's workshop

G. M. MACKLIN Patterns of elemental imagery in Rimbaud's Illuminations

Russell S. KING Gide's La Porte étroite: unclosed gaps and competing discourses

Andrew ROTHWELL The 'Querelle du poème en prose': Pierre Reverdy's polemical portraits of Max Jacob, 1915-1925

S. D. MÉNAGER Disparaître! De l'invisibilité comme technique de survie chez Jean Genet

John C STOUT Reorientating lyric: Philippe Jaccottet's and Guillevic's transformations of haiku aesthetics in Airs and Du Domaine

Volume 30.1 - Spring 1991

David SHAW Theatrical self-consciousness in Molière

Mireille MELARA Money matters: identity and its values in Stendhal's definition of self

L H GINN 'Il a vu les choses de trop haut': Henri Chambige and his literary destiny

S D MENAGER Horticouture proustienne

Joy NEWTON Camille Mauclair and Auguste Rodin

Christopher SHORLEY 'L'irruption de l'histoire': 6 February 1934 in the French novel

Bill MARSHALL From Guevara to Mitterrand: the masks of Régis Debray

Volume 29.1 - Spring 1990

Mary J BAKER Contest and conflict in the Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeux Devis

Noël PEACOCK Lessons unheeded. the dénouement of stories in Le Misanthrope

Peter HAMBLY Mallarmé et la musique: réflexions sur 'Sainte', 'Feuillet d'album' et 'Une Dentelle s'abolit'.

Dorothy BRYSON Lucifer as Oedipus: the fate of Ferral in La Condition humaine

J ROTHENBERG Jean Anouilh and his directors

J McCANN The verdict on Meursault

Volume 28.1 - Spring 1989

Marc S RIVIÈRE Voltaire, Hénault and Le Siècle de Louis XIV

Ceri CROSSLEY Flowers, fragrance and woman: the vegetarian vision of Jean-Antoine Gleizes (1773-1843)

Richard D E BURTON Baudelaire and Lyon: a reading of 'Paysage'

Moishe BLACK Camus's 'L'Hôte' as a ritual of hospitality

Barbara MASON Language and ideology in Michel Butor's Improvisations sur Flaubert

Volume 27.2 - November 1988

P.W.M COGMAN The narrators of Mérimée's Carmen

Joy NEWTON Zola and Théodore Duret: portrait of an art critic - 11

Claude DEBLAUWE L'espace circulaire, symbole de l'obsession dans Pierre et Jean

Ben FISHER Jarry and Florian: Ubu's debt to Harlequin

R. ZIEGLER Mending dolls and stealing souls; the identity quest in Julien Green from Mont-Cinère to Si j'étais vous

Peter G. CHRISTENSEN The anti-manichean vision in André Malraux's L'Espoir and Miguel de Unamuno's Peace in War

Volume 27.1 - May 1988

Roger MIDDLETON Le Grand d'Aussy and the Bibliothèque universelle des romans

Joy NEWTON Zola and Théodore Duret: portrait of an art critic I

Michael J. TAYLOR Martin du Gard's Jean Barois: a study in irony

Cathy LINSTRUM L'Asile des femmes: subjectivity and femininity in Breton's Nadja and Wittig's Le Corps lesbien

Michael CARDY Some contextual approaches to Hervé Bazin's L'Eglise verte

Volume 26.2 - October 1987

Nicholas HAMMOND The Theme of Ennui in Pascal's Pensées

Monica NURNBERG The Play and the Book: some reflections on the function of Gringoire in Notre-Dame de Paris

T. PRATT Léopoldine revisited: a reading of Victor Hugo's 'Demain, dès l'aube'

Ian PICKUP Elements of BaIzacian Portraiture in the early novels of Eugène Sue

Marie WEGIMONT Description du Jardin de Fongueusemare dans La Porte étroite: structure, signification et distanciation

Bernard McGUIRK On misreading Mallarmé: Rubén Darfo and The Anxiety of Influence

Volume 26.1 - June 1987

M.S. RIVIERE Voltaire and the Fronde

Roger MIDDLETON Le Grand d'Aussy's unpublished Extraits

C.H. MANN The Moon and the Sun in A la recherche du temps perdu

Françoise UGOCHUKWU Blancheline - la littérature pour enfants à l'assaut du racisme

J.P. SZARKA The Farce of consciousness: a study of Pinget's Passacaille and Fable

Volume 25.2 - October 1986

John HOLYOAKE Is ignorance desirable? A new approach to a persistent puzzle in Montaigne's Essais

Roger MIDDLETON Le Grand d'Aussy's Erec et Enide

Joy NEWTON Emile Zola and Octave Mirbeau, with extracts from their unpublished letters

Gillian HORROCKS A semiotic study of Carmen

Alec HARGREAVES Caught in the middle: the liberal dilemma in the Algerian War

Volume 25.2 - May 1986

N.A. HAXELL The image of the Republic in 1848: an exercise in "imagery ekphrasis"

Peter HAMBLY Lecture d'un sonnet de Mallarmé: "Une dentelle s'abolit"

Charles P. MARIE La haine d'Electre - un regard essentiel sur Jean Giraudoux

Malcolm OFFORD Imagery in Colette's Le Blé en Herbe

Volume 24.2 - October 1985

Peter WAGSTAFF Utopia under siege: the first phase of Rétifs reforming vision

David KINLOCH The art of the missing postscript: some unpublished manuscripts of Joseph Joubert

Ceri CROSSLEY Emile Souvestre's anti-utopia - Le Monde tel qu'il sera

Elisabeth A. HOWE Repeated forms in Laforgue

Joy NEWTON Zola and Gide, a reflection: La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret and l'Immoraliste

Volume 24.1 - May 1985

Judith STILL The Disfigured Savage: Rousseau and de Man

Denise Bourassa KNIGHT Diderot's La Religieuse: Suzanne Simonin and the 'Youthful' Men who See Her

Robin WILLIAMS "Deux vieux amateurs du beau sexe": Balzac and Hulot

Harold WATSON Cosmic Continuity in L'Annonce faite à Marie

Jeanne-Andrée NELSON Récit et discours dans La Chambre secrète

Volume 23.2 - October 1984

Michael O'DEA The Double Narrative of the Stolen Ribbon in Rousseau's Confessions

Russell KING De-marginalizing a Throw-away Line: Baudelaire's Heroic Soldier

Francis HECK Baudelaire and Proust: Chance Encounters of the Same Kind

Gabriel JACOBS Aveline's Le Temps mort: a Question of Survival

Helen WATSON-WILLIAMS Hadrian's Story Recalled

Volume 23.1 - May 1984

David SHAW Harpagon's Monologue

R.A. FRANCIS Prévost's Cleveland and its Anonymous Continuation

Marshall LINDSAY Gide's Ethic of the Moment: L'Immoraliste

Nicholas HEWITT Victor Margueritte and the Reception of La Garçonne: Naturalism, the Family and the 'Ordre moral'

Felicia GORDON A Parodic Strategy - Sartre's Les Mots

Volume 22.2 - October 1983

Ian PICKUP Balzac and the Dynamics of Passion: the Case of Véronique Graslin

Matthew MACNAMARA Description, Rhetoric and Realism in Bouvard et Pécuchet

Christopher SHORLEY On the Way to the Summit: Narrative Modes in La Porte étroite

Malcolm OFFORD Colours in Colette's Le Blé en herbe

Alan WAITE Ponge's Oyster - Poetry and Reading Cues

Volume 22.1 - May 1983

Pierre HAN "Adieu: Raison d'état as Dramatic Motivation in Bérénice

Philippe DESAN L'Autorité orientaliste de Flaubert

Barbara MASON Mathematics and the Love of Freedom in Michel Butor's La Rose des vents

David WHITTON Arrabal's Guerrilla "Politics"

Mick MARTIN Theatre of Cruelty: Artaud's Impossible Double

Volume 21.2 - October 1982

Pauline McLYNN The Franco-Prussian War in La Débâcle - an Examination of Zola's Method

Timothy UNWIN Flaubert's Early Philosophical Development: the Writing of Smarh

Ceri CROSSLEY La Création d'Edgar Quinet: le témoignage et le temps

Joy NEWTON and La Thématique assommer dans le cycle Gervaise des

Claude SCHUMACHER Rougon-Macquart

Trevor FIELD The Critical Purgatory of Maurice Barrès

Philippe JOLIVET Réflexions sur la poésie au XXème siècle

Volume 21.1 - May 1982

Howard DAVIES Waiting for Gonzo: Irony in La Chartreuse de Parme

Joy NEWTON La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon: II

Nicole THATCHER Plot, time and space in Jules Renard's Novels

Sheila PERRY La Vie d'Artiste by Albert Camus: the Artist - innocent or guilty?

Derek W. ALLAN The Psychology of a Terrorist: Tchen in La Condition Humaine

Volume 20.2 - October 1981

Francis S. HECK The evolution in Baudelaire's later poetry from Eternal Beauty to the Goût de L'Infini

Lily Ann LILLEY La Tentation de Saint Antoine de Flaubert: Hilarion, La Clef du Mystère

Pauline MCLYNN The Franco-Prussian War in La Débâcle: An examination of Zola's method

Kathleen M. McKILLIGAN The trials and tribulations of a symbolist editor: Edouard Dujardin and the Revue Indépendante

Volume 20.1 - May 1981

Alegria BENDELAC Ombre et Lumière dans le Théatre Cornélien: Nicomède L'Epiphané

John JEREMY Samuel Cramer - eclectic or individualist?

Michael WEATHERILT Champfleury: a little-known precursor of Zola

Joy NEWTON La chauve-souris et le papillon: correspondance Montesquiou - Whistler: 1

F. D. ASTI Failures in communication in "La Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette" by Georges Bernanos

Volume 19.2 - October 1980

Timothy M. SCANLAN Silence in "La Princesse de Cleves"

A. GREAVES A Question of Life or Death: A Comparison of "Le Reve" and "La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret"

Patrick POLLARD Incest and "Sin" in Gide's "Oedipe" and "Les Faux-Monnayeurs": A Thematic Structure

Redmond O'HANLON The Life-Death Nexus in 'L'Etranger"

Volume 19.1 -May 1980

David SHAW The Ambiguity of Phèdre

Thomas M. CARR, Jr. Voltaire's Concept of Enlightened Eloquence

Michael EVANS Two Uses of Intertextuality : Reference to Impressionist Painting and Madame Bovary in Claud Simon's Leçon de choses

Tony CHAFER Antonin Artaud and the Critique of Language

Volume 18.2 - October 1979

L. W. RIGGS The Optics of Power and the Hazards of judgment in Molière's "Le Misanthrope"

J. HALL "Cérémonies et coutumes qui s'observent aujourd'hui parmi les juifs": an important but little-known work by Richard Simon

L. D. MATHIEU-KERNS "Le Télémaque". une utopie dynamique

J. NEWTON and A PRESCOTT Religious Imagery in Mallarmé's "Las de l'mer repos"

J. AUSTEN-SMITH A Zola Short Story: the origins of a political mythology

Volume 18.1 - May 1979

J. A. NELSON La Fonction de la Connaissance dans Esther

M. J. POLLOCK Montesquieu on the Patriarchal Family: a Discussion and Critique

P. E. J. ROBINSON Awaking to music: two autobiographical passages of Rousseau

E. ZANTS Trois Contes: a New Dimension in Flaubert

R. E. BATCHELOR André Malraux's Les Conquérants and the Art of Focussing

Volume 17.2 - October 1978

R. L. BARNETT Le Conflit du non Conflit: Egocentrisme et Disjonction Multilatérale dans Britannicus

G. M. MACKLIN The Dialectic of "Force" and "Faiblesse" in Rimbaud's Illuminations

M. DONALDSON-EVANS The Archetypal Mother: Aquatic Imagery in Maupassant's Pierre et Jean

M. KILBORN The Theme of Suffering in the works of Louis Guilloux

C. P. MARIE A re-examination of 'form and meaning' in Camus' Le Malentendu

R. L. SIMS Myth and Historical-Primordial Memory in Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres

Volume 17.1 - May 1978

Patrick BYRNE Dizain 299 of Scèves Délie

Malcolm OFFORD Oratorical Devices in Etienne de La Boétie's Discours de la servitude volontaire

Robert LETHBRIDGE Zola: Decadence and Autobiography in the Genesis of a Fictional Character

Joy NEWTON and Zola et l'expression du temps: horlogerie obsessionnelle

Basil JACKSON dans L'Assomoir

Brian NELSON Zola and the Bourgeoisie: a Reading of Pot-Bouille

Michael WORTON Obsessional Theatre? the Role of the Father-Figure in Arthur Adamov's early Plays

Volume 16.2 - November 1977

Lionel P. HONORÉ Quelques idées de Corneille sur la femme - La déchéance du généreux dans le théatre cornélien

Malcolm CARROLL Method and Intention in Rousseau's Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard

R.BUTLER Balzac's Jean Louis: Some links between a "Roman de jeunesse" and the Comédie humaine

Howard DAVIES The Relationship of Language and Desire in Le Lys dans la vallée

Owen N. HEATHCOTE Balzac and the Personal Pronoun: Aspects of Narrative Technique in Le Lys dans la vallée

Volume 16.1 - May 1977

SAUNDERS The influence of Ovid on a Sixteenth-century emblem book: Barthelemy Aneau's Imagination Poétique

W. S. BROOKS Boffrand, Boscheron, and Biographies of Quinault

M. J. NURNBERG Tactile Imagery in the Poetry of André Chenier

D.G.BURNETT The Thematic Function of Sexual Identity in Théophile Gautier's Comédie De La Mort

P.POLLARD Le Traite du Narcisse: A Point of Contact between Gide and Schopenhauer

M.CAGNOL Marguerite Duras: Willed Imagination as Release and Obstacle

Volume 15.2 - November 1976

R. S. KING Jules Laforgue's Symbolist Language: stylistic anarchy and aesthetic coherence

D. PARMÉE "Cric? Crac!": Fables of La Fontaine in Haitian Creole: a literary ethno-socio-linguistic curiosity

R. JONES Modes of discourse in "La Chute"

R. J. PARISH Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages": a Pascalian reading

R. F. E. DE RÔME Du nouveau sur Proust?

Volume 15.1 - May 1976

G. PADGET Senancour, Napoleon and Louis XVIII (1814-1815)

Joy NEWTON and Monique FOL Robert de Montesquiou et Gustave Moreau

R. F. E. DE RÔME Du Nouveau sur Proust?

Volume 14.2 - October 1975

G. PADGETT Senancour, Napolean and Louis XVIII (1814-1815). Part I

Jennifer BIRKETT The Theme of Love in the Work of Léon Bloy

Peter ROSS Emile Zola, the Teachers and the Dreyfus Affair

Susan E. BEYNON Life, Time and Art in Proust's "Le Temps Retrouvé"

Volume 14.1 - May 1975

Jennifer BIRKETT Barbey D'Aurevilly and Léon Bloy: Love and Morality in the Catholic Novel

C.A. BURNS Henry Céard (1851-1924): Two Unpublished Diaries of 1878

David BEVAN C.F. Ramuz: The Path of the Antipoet

J.K. NEWBERRY The Evolution of the Dramatic Technique of Eugène Ionesco

Volume 13.2 - October 1974

R.A. FRANCIS Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's "Paul et Virginie" and the Failure of the Ideal State in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel

Michael G. LERNER Pierre Loti as Dramatist: "Judith Renaudin"

G.M.W. ROE Paul Valéry as a Literary Critic: Theory and Practice, Part II

Dennis H. DRYSDALE Simenon and Social Justice

Volume 13.1 - May 1974

F.K. DAWSON Cosroes

Timothy M. SCANLAN The Notion of "Paradis sur la Terre" in Rousseau's "La Nouvelle Héloise"

G.M.W. ROE Paul Valéry as a Literary Critic: Theory and Practice

P.A. JOLIVET Reflexions sur le Théâtre du Vingtième Siècle

Volume 12.2 - October 1973

David BURNS Malraux's Renunciation of the Novel

Howard D. LEWIS The Dramatic Theory of Jean Giraudoux: The Primacy of Style

J.B. HOWITT Michel Butor and Manchester

Peter BROOME A New Mode of Reading: Pinget's "Passacaille"

Volume 12.1 - May 1973

F.K. DAWSON Rotrou's Tragic Characters

R.E. MATTHEWS Political Allusions in Voltaire's "Les Lois de Minos"

Russell S. KING Syntactic Compensation in Two Versions of Baudelaire's "L'Invitation au Voyage"

R.E. BATCHELOR Art and Theology in Mauriac's "Le Noud de Vipères"

Volume 11.2 - October 1972

John CHRISTIE "An Interview with Emile Zola": an Unpublished Manuscript by Saint-Georges de Bouhelier

William S. SHIVER L'Ecole de Toulouse

G.T. HARRIS Malraux et les "Ecrits Farfelus"

Colin RADFORD Theatre within the Theatre

Volume 11.1 - May 1972

Russell S. KING Romanticism and Musset's "Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle"

Alexandre MAVROCORDATO El Desdichado Revisited

Michael G. LERNER A Literary Age in Evolution: "Les Idées Morales du Temps Présent" of Edouard Rod

Volume 10.2 - October 1971

Lewis THORPE The Chamier Manuscripts

Michael G. LERNER Edouard Rod and the Naturistes

R.A. FRANCIS Romain Rolland and Science, Part II

Volume 10.1 - May 1971

F.K. DAWSON Rotrou and Tragedy

David WESTGATE The Augustinian Concept of Amour-Propre and Pascal's "Pensées"

R.A. FRANCIS Romain Rolland and Science, Part I

John F. DAVIS "La Nausée": Imagery and Use of the Diary Form

Volume 9.2 - October 1970 (out of print)

Janis L. PALLISTER Béroalde De Verville's "Stances De La Mort" and "Soupirs Amoureux": Specimens of Baroque Poetry

Michael G. LERNER Edouard Rod's Last Novel: "La Vie"

Lionel CARLEY Jelka Rosen Delius: Admirer and Friend of Rodin. The Correspondence 1900-1914 (Concluded)

Volume 9.1 - May 1970

Jasmine DAWKINS The Sea in Sixteenth-Century French Poetry

Lionel CARLEY Jelka Rosen Delius: Admirer and Friend of Rodin. The Correspondence 1900-1914

Michael G. LERNER Edouard Rod and the Russian Novelists in France

R.E. BATCHELOR Gide et Unamuno: Sotie ou Nivola?

Volume 8.2 - October 1969

Russell S. KING Indecision in Musset's "Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie"

Réné DÉMORIS Hierarchie et Dualisme dans la Critique Picturale chez Baudelaire

John CHRISTIE Zola and Bouhelier: Their Times and Relationship, based on the Unpublished Correspondence of Saint-Georges de Bouhelier

Volume 8.1 - May 1969

Jasmine DAWKINS Provincial Entertainment in the Renaissance: "Le Triomphe de Diane" by Pierre de Brach

Russell KING Alfred de Musset: Some Problems of Literary Creativity

Michael G. LERNER Edouard Rod and Emile Zola, II: from "La Course à La Mort" to Dreyfus

R.A. FRANCIS Romain Rolland and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Volume 7.2 - October 1968

F.K. DAWSON The Notion of Necessity in Mairet's "Sophonisbe"

David WESTGATE The concept of Amour-Propre in the "Maximes" of La Roche-Foucauld

A.A. GREAVES Some contradictions in the Work of Guy de Maupassant

Michael G. LERNER Edouard Rod and Henry Brewster: An Unpublished Tribute

Volume 7.1 - May 1968

Jasmine DAWKINS Pierre de Brach (1547-?1605): A Poet Honoured in his own Century

Colin BURNS Le Réel Quotidien dans le Roman Naturaliste Française

R. POSEN Aspects of the Work of Henri-René Lenormand, Part II

C.B. RADFORD Simone de Beauvoir: Feminism's Friend or Foe? Part II

Volume 6.2 - October 1967

Malcolm SCOTT The Romanticism of "Adolphe"

Russell KING Prosper Mérimée: Attempts at Romantic Drama

D. BAGULEY Maupassant avant la Lettre? A Study of a Zola short story: "Les Coquillages de M. Chabre"

C.B. RADFORD Simone de Beauvoir: Feminism's Friend or Foe? Part I

Volume 6.1 - May 1967

G. PADGETT Senancour's Ennui and its Relation to his Ideas

O.R. MORGAN The Plays of Léon Hennique, Part II

R. POSEN Aspects of the Work of Henri-René Lenormand, Part I

R.E. BATCHELOR François Mauriac et la Technique du Flash-Back

Volume 5.2 - October 1966

G. PADGETT The Idea of Nature in Senancour's "Sur les Generations Actuelles"

Colin BURNS "Architecture Secrète": Notes on the Second Edition of "Les Fleurs du Mal"

A.A. GREAVES Paul Bonnetain: His Attitudes to Naturalism

O.R. MORGAN The Plays of Léon Hennique

Volume 5.1 - May 1966

A.A. GREAVES Paul Bonnetain (1858-96): An Introduction Story

John CHRISTIE The Enigma of Zola's Madame Sourdis

Russell KING André Gide: Pour et Contre la Littérature Engagée

R.E. BATCHELOR L'Art de l'Allusion dans Moïra

Volume 4.2 - October 1965

F.K. DAWSON The Ideal Hero: A Seventeenth-Century Choice

J.F. FALVEY The Individualism of La Mettrie, Part II

P.A. JOLIVET Leon Bloy et J.K. Huysmans

C.B. RADFORD The Authenticity of Simone de Beauvoir

Volume 4.1 - May 1965

D. WESTGATE La Mariane and the Formation of the Classical Tragedy

J.F. FALVEY The Individualism of La Mettrie, Part I

John MOORE Poetry Betrayed? Approaches to commitment in French Poetry between 1930 and 1942

John FLETCHER Becckett's Debt to Dante

Volume 3.2 - October 1964

Colin BURNS Emile Zola: Pages d'Exil (suite et fin)

Graham E. RODMELL Laclos' Other Novel

John CHRISTIE Saint-Georges de Bouhélier (1876-1947)

R. BATCHELOR Unamuno devant la Littérature Française (suite et fin)

Volume 3.1 - May 1964

Colin BURNS Emile Zola: Pages d'Exil

Volume 2.2 - November 1963

F. K. DAWSON An idea of tragedy: Tristan l'Hermite's Mariane and La mort de Sénèque

John CHRISTIE Naturalisme et naturisme: les relations d'Emile Zola avec Saint-Georges de Bouhélier et Maurice Leblond

P. A. JOLIVET À Rebours, tournant dans l'ouvre de J. K. Huysmans

R. BATCHELOR Unamuno devant la Littérature Française

Volume 2.1 - May 1963

Lewis THORPE The letters of Louis Philippe to Lord William Bentinck (continued)

C. A. BURNS Notes on the first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal

Pat G. HASTINGS Symbolism in the adaptations of Greek Myth by Modern French Dramatists

C. MICHAEL-TITUS Aspects et Orientation de la Pensée Bourgeoise Laïque en France

Volume 1.2 - October 1962

F. K. DAWSON An important aspect of Théophile de Viau's "Pyrame et Thisbé"

Lewis THORPE The letters of Louis Philippe to Lord William Bentinck. Part I

R. MORGAN Léon Hennique and the disintegration of naturalism

Peter BROOME The introversion of Henri Michaux: his aims, techniques and shortcomings

Volume 1.1 - May 1962

James PANTER Aspects of the development of French Drama in the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with special reference to Schelandre's "Tyr et Sidon"

Eva BIRD The French Epicurean poets of the second half of the Seventeenth Century

John CHRISTIE Zola, Labori and Frédéric Passy, an unpublished correspondence concerning Zola's "Travail" (1901)

Philippe JOLIVET "Les hommes de bonne volonté," technique et style

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