James T. Day

Stendhal's narrators explicitly put forth an ethos of realism, yet their self-conscious voice calls attention to artifice in fictional texts that readily depict their own elaboration. This study examines the integration of various patterns of self-consciousness into works whose -textual realism- encourages readings that respect the novels as both textual construct and referential illusion. In reflecting their own structures en abyme through various embedded narratives, in thematizing the heroes' and the narrators' self-consciousness, in exalting literariness through patterns of novelistic and theatrical imitation, Stendhal's novels problematize fictional narrative discourse and language itself while affirming their referential appeal to the reader's imagination."

Patterns of Self-consciousness in His Novels

Stendhal's Paper Mirror

James Day

Contents Hélène Maurel-Indart: Literary Plagiarism Awa C. Sarr: Plagiat, négriat littéraire et institution littéraire Roxanna Curto: Senghor and Heidegger: Negritude¿s Appropriation of German Phenomenology Patrick D. Murphree: Sentimental Invraisemblance and Post-revolutionary French Identity: Three Parodies of Misanthropie et repentir Fayçal Falaky: L¿originalité du plagiat Barbara T. Cooper: Purloined Property: A Study of Madame Reybaud¿s Les Épaves and Its Theatrical Adaptation, Le Marché de Saint-Pierre Corry Cropper: Call Me Clara: Prosper Mérimée¿s Hoax Ethos Bertrand Bourgeois: Le Muséum de Bouvard et Pécuchet: Parodie, kitsch et ruine du musée moderne Paola Scarpini: Quand les topoi ne sont plus les mêmes: d¿Ipomédon de Hue de Rotelande Nora Cottille-Foley: Un texte en cache-t-il un autre? Le palimpseste chez Marie Darrieussecq Trae DeLellis: Copycat, Copycat: The Anxiety of Influence in Irma Vep Patricia Reynaud: Le goût des autres d¿Agnès Jaoui: de l¿adaptation de P. Bourdieu au cinéma à sa subversion Nathalie Wourm: Non-readings, Misreadings, Unreadings: Deleuze and Cadiot on Robinson Crusoe and Capitalism Corinne François-Denève: L¿homme qui racontait des histoires: Paul Pavlowitch Alexander Hertich: Erratum... Errata... Erasum...: The Selection of Sources for Raymond Queneau¿s Le Chiendent Peter Sorrell: ¿Cette nouvelle réalité¿: at the Mouviez with Raymond Queneau

Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Stealing the Fire

Stories of violence — such as the account in Genesis of Cain's jealousy and murder of Abel — have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature — its appeal, forms, and consequences? Anchored by Alice Kaplan's substantial contribution, the thirteen articles in this volume cover diverse epochs, lands, and motives. One scholar ponders whether accounts of Huguenot martyrdom in the sixteenth-century might suggest more pride than piety. Another assesses the real versus the true with respect to a rape scene inThe Heptameron. Female violence in fairy tales by Madame d'Aulnoy points to gender politics and the fragility of female solidarity, while another article examines similar issues in the context of Ananda Devi's works in present-day Mauritius. Other studies address the question of sadism in Flaubert, the unstable point of view of Emmanuel Carrère'sL'Adversaire, the ambivalence toward violence in Chamoiseau's Texaco, the notions of “terror” and “tabula rasa” in the writings of Blanchot, the undoing of traditions of narrative continuity and authority in the 1998 film,À vendre, and consequences of the power differential in a repressive Haiti as depicted in the filmVers le Sud (2005). Paradoxes emerge in several studies of works where victims may become perpetrators, or vice versa.

Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film

This volume collects papers presented at the annual French Literature Conference, sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of South Carolina.

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