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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 month ago
This panel seeks to examine contemporary Francophone cultural productions (broadly defined from comics to novels and films) which provide a rich ground for imagining Blackness in the future. Is there a future after anti-Blackness? How do these cultural productions imagine collective liberation? Papers are invited to discuss joy and sorrow in…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Disgust in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 month ago
This roundtable explores the rhetoric of disgust—along with its conceptual cousins (spleen, nausea, informe, abjection, etc.)—as generative forces for 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone thought. Speakers will examine dégoût as a complex, historically situated feeling that connects and binds even as it repels, drawing attention to margins,…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months ago
Dear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TOMORROW SUNDAY: Panel “Words on Food” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Please join us tomorrow Sunday for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee, “Words on Food.” Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent?
Sunday, J…[Read more]
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Morgane Cadieu started the topic TODAY: Panel “French Eyes on California” in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Please join us today for a session sponsored by the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Executive Committee. Panelists will examine the role, symbol, and landscapes of California in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought.
Saturday, January 7
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Marriott Marquis – Nob Hill C (Lower B2 Level)
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic TODAY: Roundtable on Démission/resignation in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Please join us today for a roundtable on démission/resignation as a multifaceted motif and a critical stance in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone cultural and literary imagination, and on the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this dual phenomenon, whether it proceeds from the stasis of discontent or as an…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Contrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
In this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited E|C Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 11 months ago
Thisarticleaims at a better comprehension of the series of lectures that Joseph Czapski gave in the Soviet camp of Grazovietzbetween 1940 and 1941. The case of Czapski is well known, but his exceptional performance (of memory, and critical inquiry) deserves further investigation. Not surprisingly, the Polish painter…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic CFP – 2023 MLA Convention – LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Words on Food
Proust’s madeleine conjures pleasure and memories. What of food in French literature and thought since then, especially in times of scarcity or hunger? How to interpret food that is odd, inedible, absent? Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio to Priya Wadhera at wadhera@adelphi.edu by March 15, 2022. (Guaranteed s…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2023 through the close of the January 2028 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members also include…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust à l’écoute de Senancour. Du silence des montagnes au silence de la musique. Questions de style in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
The tunefulness of Proust and Senancour. From the silence of mountains to the silence of music
For Proust, great books are the “children of silence” (CSB, p. 309), and his novel endeavors to express what could not, in principle, be formulated: nature, sensations, in brief the physical and psychic existence as a whole. In his vision, lan…[Read more]
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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 2 years, 3 months 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 years, 4 months 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 2 years, 8 months 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 2 years, 9 months 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 2 years, 10 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 3 years, 6 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 4 years, 3 months 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 4 years, 3 months 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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