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Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning (2013)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2013). Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155813501118

This article gives a critical assessment of the relationship between the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Cubist painting and collage of Pablo Picasso. Taking in a range of critical sources that have insisted on Picasso’s ‘mallarmisme’, the articl... Read More about Poetry into painting: Mallarmé, Picasso, and punning.

‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec (2013)
Journal Article
Walsh, O. (2014). ‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec. Journal of French Language Studies, 24(3), 423-449. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269513000227

It is often claimed that France is a particularly purist country; the Acad´emie franc¸aise is seen to be representative of a purist outlook and popular works such as ´Etiemble’s attack on English influence Parlez vous franglais? (´Etiemble, 1964) hav... Read More about ‘Les anglicismes polluent la langue française’. Purist attitudes in France and Quebec.

Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) (2013)
Journal Article
Norris, D. A. (2013). Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music). Modern Language Review, 108(2), https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0597

In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in... Read More about Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music).

Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil (2013)
Book Chapter
Collins, J. Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil. In Intimacy and Inequality: female histories and feminist readings of manumission and motherhood in Brazilian slave society (Bahia 1830-1888). Liverpool University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Margarida Ignácio de Medeiros was one of up to twelve million enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. She did not, however, remain enslaved all her life. Margarida’s trajectory from enslavement to freedom was typical of many enslaved African women labou... Read More about Mãe Africana, Pátria Brasileira: negotiating the racial politics of identity, freedom and motherhood in nineteenth-century Bahia, Brazil.

Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke (2012)
Journal Article
Stollhans, S. (2012). Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke. Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 39(6),

Ausgehend von Überlegungen zu Kontrastivität und Transfer in DaF und einem kurzen Vergleich des deutschen und französischen Artikelsystems, werden in diesem Beitrag bestimmte generische Ausdrücke untersucht, bei denen im Deutschen häufig der Nullart... Read More about Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke.

An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack (2012)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2013). An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack. French Studies, 67(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kns229

This article considers Blaise Cendrars's novel Dan Yack (1929) as a variation on the art novel genre, arguing that it rewrites and adapts well-worn art narratives — most notably various iterations of the Pygmalion myth — in order to question the natu... Read More about An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack.

Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits (2012)
Journal Article
Yacavone, K. (2012). Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits. Nottingham French Studies, 51(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0025

The year 1978 saw the first exhibition of photographic portraits of Marcel Proust's family, friends and acquaintances taken by Paul Nadar, an event leading to renewed interest in the subject of À la recherche du temps perdu as a roman à clef. This ar... Read More about Photography and the ‘Jeu des clefs’: À la recherche du temps perdu in the light of Paul Nadar's portraits.

Jacques Monod, François Jacob, and the Lysenko affair: boundary work (2012)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (2012). Jacques Monod, François Jacob, and the Lysenko affair: boundary work. Esprit Créateur, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2012.0020

This article looks at the highly influential scientific work of François Jacob and Jacques Monod in the context of the Lysenko affair. It argues that Lysenkoism provided a stimulus to understand and interpret the science they were doing in the field... Read More about Jacques Monod, François Jacob, and the Lysenko affair: boundary work.

El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre (2012)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. G. (2012). El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 17(2/3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2011.637404

This article considers the profound influence that puppet theatre had on Federico García Lorca’s poetic vision and practice at the time that he was writing the poems that would eventually make up the Romancero gitano (1928). Taking the ‘Romance sonám... Read More about El retablo de Maese Federico: Lorca’s Romancero gitano as puppet theatre.

Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004) (2012)
Journal Article
Sabine, M. (2012). Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004). Journal of African Cinemas, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.3.2.201_1

This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an exploration of post-conflict Angolan screen culture and of its impact both at home and internationally. It considers how O Herói’s depiction of a war-torn natio... Read More about Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004).

Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos (2012)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2012). Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos. French Cultural Studies, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155811427631

This article examines Michel Georges-Michel’s 1924 novel Les Montparnos as a study of the myths circulating around the Montparnasse avant-garde of the 1920s, and their function in relation to art. Key amongst these myths is the idea of art as a relig... Read More about Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos.

Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism (2012)
Journal Article
Göttsche, D. (2012). Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism. German Life and Letters, 65(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2011.01563.x

This article maps four different types of cross-cultural experience in contemporary historical novels about colonial Africa (colonialist, exoticist, intercultural, and transcultural) before focusing on Buch’s Sansibar Blues (2008) as a case study in... Read More about Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism.

Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman (2012)
Book Chapter
Knight, D. (2012). Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman. In M. Atack, D. Holmes, D. Knight, & J. Still (Eds.), Women, genre and circumstance: essays in memory of Elizabeth Fallaize. Legenda

‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps (2011)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (in press). ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps. Modern and Contemporary France, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2011.610166

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps is analysed as a cartographic rendering of post-Fordist labour. The film creates a pervasive ambiance of liminality and dreamlike di... Read More about ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps.

‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’ (2011)
Journal Article
Sharman, A. (2011). ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00528.x

The article examines two ‘postmodern’ critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric. It argues that to u... Read More about ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’.

Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes (2011)
Journal Article
Shingler, K. (2011). Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes. Paragraph, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2011.0006

Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that su... Read More about Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes.

A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea' (2011)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2011). A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'. German Life and Letters, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01519.x

In the extensive tradition of adaptations of the Medea myth in German-speaking literature Paul Heyse’s novella Medea (1898) has been often overlooked. However, the fact that it is the first text to introduce the tragic heroine from classical mytholog... Read More about A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'.

Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’ (2010)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (in press). Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’. Paragraph, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/E0264833410000945

This article explores literary interrogations of the bioethical implications of cloning. It does so by outlining the basic science of cloning before going on to question the dominance of the Freudian notion of the ‘uncanny’ in the critical theoretica... Read More about Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’.

Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s (2010)
Journal Article
Göttsche, D. (2010). Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s. German Life and Letters, 63(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01482.x

Since the 1980s African migrants’ writing in German has seen significant development, establishing itself as one of the few examples of a German postcolonial literature in the literal sense, undercutting traditional notions of national literatures, a... Read More about Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s.