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Marisa Verna deposited « Des images en quête de sens. Par les écrans du monde de Fanny Taillandier » in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 weeks ago
This paper analyses the category of space in Fanny Taillandier’s last novel Par les
écrans du monde. We argue that Taillandier tries to “make sense” of 9/11 terrorist attack
through a stylistic recomposition of the dimension of space, while situating it in a
“geometry of words” that makes it meaningful and human again. In effect, in Taillandie…[Read more] -
Marisa Verna deposited “Proust politique : De l’Europe du Goncourt 1919 à l’Europe de 2019” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Le livre constitue les actes du colloque qui s’est tenu en mai 2019 à la Università Cattolica du Sacré-Coeur de Milan.
Ce livre examine les relations que l’œuvre de Proust entretient avec l’histoire, avec la société de son temps et du nôtre, les conflits ouverts ou souterrains qu’elle révèle ou recèle, et, plus contemporainement, se demander s’i…[Read more] -
Katina Rogers deposited Translations from ALLADA and EXPERIENCE D’EDWARD LEE, VERSAILLES by Gérard Gavarry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore simil…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino’s Oulipian Clinamen in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 months ago
The Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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May Spangler deposited Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years ago
“Notre-Dame in Jean Fouquet’s Hours of Etienne Chevalier, ca. 1452-52” is a book excerpt of May Spangler’s “Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art,” recently published at Peter Lang. Designed for an interdisciplinary course in Cultural Studies, the book capitalizes on the little exposure liberal arts students have to architecture, and the wid…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Il giardino, la nebbia e il cioccolato. Un inverno con Proust, in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
La poesia dell’inverno (del letargo, dice Proust) è materia della Recherche che coniuga arte e vita, o piuttosto impasta i materiali della vita, per farne arte. In un passo del Côté de Guermantes l’eroe del romanzo si trova a trascorrere una notte nella guarnigione di Doncière. L’associazione di diverse sensazioni fisiche (il freddo, la luminosit…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Review of Anne Simon, Trafics de Proust. Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Deleuze, Barthes in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Review of the recent book of Anne Simon, about Proust and / with philosophers
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Marisa Verna deposited Pour une pédagogie créative de la littérature. Enseigner la littérature au musée, « La Nuova Secondaria », 3 Novembre 2018, pp. 87-89. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This article describes a pedagogical project that took place between 2015 and 2016, and involved my students of the French Literature class, third year of Bachelor of Arts (foreign languages). The intersection and interrelation between figurative art and poetry were at the centre of the theoretical insight, whereas the necessity of adapting our…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Ces traîtres qui affament notre peuple. Argent et antisémitisme dans la « Recherche » proustienne in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
The Jewish ‘question’ is treated in the Recherche by way of the Dreyfus Affaire, which is not spoken of but scattered in the discourses of different characters. Definitions, opinions, even facts are, therefore, spread in the ubiquity of social instability, so that it is impossible for the reader to identify any of Proust’s ideologies.In our paper…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
This article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Digital Oulipo: Programming Potential Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years ago
To understand the Oulipo’s forays into computer science and more importantly, why they abandoned them, I designed and carried out one of the inaugural projects of the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. The goal was twofold: first, through exploratory programming, I intended to create interactive, digital annexes to accompany my doctoral…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Art and poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Teaching material online course
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
This is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, Experimentation' in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago
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Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA)
This inte…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
This paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months ago
“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
Send 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Jennifer Cazenave…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions Needed for Next Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
When it meets during the upcoming convention in Philadelphia, this forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for the fall 2017 election of a new forum representative in the Delegate Assembly. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who has b…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited L’urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
The “Urlo”. From the deconstructive rage/fury to the ‘yes’ assertion.
In this article we offer a series of tableaux belonging to contemporary Romance literatures written by women, through a focus on a common feature which is that of the “urlo” (scream). Based on a selection of works mainly Italian, but also taken from other literatures of the Rom…[Read more] - Load More