30
December
2007
We are pleased to inform you that Oxford Journals has published Joy Charnley’s article entitled Ni ennemie, ni rivale: Female friendship in works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Noëlle Revaz in Forum for Modern Language Studies.
Abstract
This article studies the theme of female friendship in work by three women writers from French-speaking Switzerland: La Paix des ruches by Alice Rivaz (1947), Pour mourir en février by Anne-Lise Grobéty (1969) and Rapport aux bêtes (2002) by Noëlle Revaz. The writers chosen for this study represent three generations, having been born in 1901, 1949 and 1968 respectively. The article compares and contrasts their different representations of friendships between women. Rivaz, writing before Le Deuxième sexe and the modern women’s movement, has a very idealistic view of relations between women, which she contrasts strongly with male–female interaction; Grobéty, writing in the wake of 1968 and during the early days of modern feminism, is perhaps more realistic but again sees men as potential threats to relationships between women; finally, Revaz is completely different since her female character is isolated from other women, dominated by the male narrator and sidelined. This article thus seeks to show how, over a period of sixty years, the theme of female friendship has been dealt with in different ways by women writers, and establishes links with changing attitudes to the women’s movement.
Key Words: Switzerland • women’s writing • feminism • friendship • littérature romande • novel • Rivaz, Alice • Grobéty, Anne-Lise • Revaz, Noëlle
Here are the free-access links to the online article:
Abstract: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/cqm118?
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8
October
2007
Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France. Stages and Histories, 1553-1797
Amy Wygant
Published by Ashgate Publishing
www.ashgate.com
217 pages, hardback, $99.95/ £50.00
ISBN 978-0-7546-5924-2
Synopsis: This study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell she cast, was set on course, over a span of almost three hundred years, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. The antique heroine Medea, revived on the stage of modernity by La Péruse, Corneille, and the operatic composer Cherubini, is the vehicle of this development.
Psychoanalytic thought about the behaviour of casual groups constituted by ephemeral events is brought to bear on the question of “what happened” when the early modern witch was staged. But the illusion generated by the witch is fundamentally demonic and only secondarily theatrical, and this study defines the link between the witch and the stage with an analysis of the little-read early demonology treatises of the two major theatrical theorists of the French seventeenth-century stage.
The study concludes with an analysis of Diderot’s claim that the historical process itself is magical, and with the moment in Revolutionary France when the slight and fragile body of the golden-throated singer, Julie-Angélique Scio, became a Medea for modernity.
Contents:
Introduction: Stages and Histories
1. Glamour and its Discontents
2. Medean Renaissance
3. Of Glammatology
4. The Question of Illusion
5. Narcissus, and the Devils of Loudun
6. The Magic of Modernity
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
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20
April
2007
Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York (Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections, vol. 11)www.berghahnbooks.com
252 pages, hardback, $80/ £47
ISBN 978-1-84545-178-3
Synopsis:
The notion of ‘magic’ is a current popular culture phenomenon: Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings, the commercial glamour of the footballer and the pop idol surround us with their charisma, enchantment, and charm. But magic also exerts a terrifying political hold upon us: the alleged 28 March bin Laden email message spoke of the attacks on the U.S. in form of ‘crushing its towers, disgracing its arrogance, undoing its magic’. The nine scholars included in this volume consider the cultural power of magic, from early Christianity and the ancient Mediterranean to the curious film career of Buffalo Bill, focusing on topics such as Surrealism, France in the classical age, alchemy, and American fundamentalism, ranging from popular to elite magic, from theory to practice, from demonology to exoticism, from the magic of memory to the magic of the stage. As these essays show, magic defines the limit of both science and religion but as such remains indefinable.
Contents:
Amy Wygant: Introduction: Magic, Glamour, Curses
David S. Katz: Magic and the Millennium Mark Brummitt: Showman or Shaman? The Acts of a Biblical Prophet
John G. Gager: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Greco-Roman World
Justin Meggitt: Magic, Healing and Early Christianity: Consumption and Competition
Nicholas Hammond: All the Devils: Port-Royal and Pedagogy in Seventeenth-Century France
Sara E. Melzer: The Magic of French Culture: Transforming ‘Savages’ into French Catholics in Seventeenth-Century France
David Weston: A Magus of the North? Professor John Ferguson and his Library
Amy Wygant: The Golden Fleece and Harry Potter
Ronald G. Walters: Cowboys and Magicians: Buffalo Bill, Houdini and Real Magic
Alyce Mahon: The Search for a New Dimension: Surrealism and Magic
About the editor: Amy Wygant lectures in French at the University of Glasgow and publishes on tragedy, witchcraft and psychoanalysis.
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16
March
2007
Sous la direction de Frédérique Chevillot qui enseigne la littérature contemporaine des Femmes à l’Université de Denver et Anna Norris qui enseigne la littérature et la culture françaises à l’Université d’État du Michigan.
Écrire la guerre. Laquelle ? pourquoi et comment ? Telle est l’immense question posée à des femmes qui l’ont écrite, par les auteur/e/s du présent collectif.
INTRODUCTION
Frédérique Chevillot, Université de Denver, États-Unis
Anna Norris, Université d’État du Michigan, États-Unis
I. VOIX, FEMMES, GUERRES
Les Récits des infirmières de 1914-1918 / Ruth Amossy, Université de Tel-Aviv, Israël
Clara Malraux : Les Femmes et la Résistance au quotidien /
Colette Trout, Collège Ursinus, États-Unis
Alice Rivaz et Yvette Z’Graggen : L’Invivable neutralité helvétique / Joy Charnley, Université de Strathclyde, Royaume Uni
Andrée Chedid : Des Actes de violence aux actes parole / Debbie Mann, Université de l’Illinois du Sud à Edwardsville, États-Unis
II. HISTOIRE(S) DE GUERRE(S)
Les Femmes, le civil et le soldat dans les romans de la Grande Guerre / Nancy Sloan Goldberg, Université d’État du Tennessee, États-Unis
Journal de guerre de Simone de Beauvoir / Valérie Baisnée, Université de Paris XIII, France
Figuration de la guerre dans l’œuvre d’Assia Djebar / Milouda Louh, Collège Université de Cork, Irlande
Le Mythe de la guerrière : Yamina Mechakra et Ly Thu Ho / Pamela Pears, Collège Washington, États-Unis
III. DES FEMMES, APRÈS LA GUERRE
Marguerite Duras : La Douleur d’écrire le crime de guerre / Sandrine Rabosseau, Université de la Rochelle et Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Le Genre à l’épreuve de la guerre chez Marguerite Yourcenar / Nicolas di Méo, Université de Bordeaux III, France
Viviane Forrester : Une Guerre qui n’en finit pas / Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Université de Drexel, États-Unis
La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans la littérature de jeunesse / Éléonore Hamaide, doctorante à l’Université de Reims-Marne la Vallée, France
IV. ELLES ÉCRIVENT LEUR GUERRE
Colette et la guerre : Sur Le Front et de sa fenêtre…/ Josette Rico, Université de Bordeaux IV, France
Chantal Chawaf : La Déchirure originelle, le mal initial / Metka Zupančič, Université de l’Alabama à Tuscaloosa, États-Unis
L’Innommable en abyme : La trilogie d’Agota Kristof / Catherine Bouthors-Paillart, Lycée Thuillier, Amiens, France
La Métaphore cognitive de la guerre chez Nina Bouraoui / Martine Fernandes, Université de la Floride du Sud, États-Unis
« Que savent les femmes de la guerre ? » écrit Leïla Sebbar dans une nouvelle intitulée « Les mères » tirée du recueil Soldats (2000). C’est à cette question que cet essai tente de répondre.
From http://www.editions-complicites.com/index.asp?navig=livre&no=54
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