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A new history of French literature
Denis Hollier and R. Howard Bloch
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Frontmatter
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Introduction (page xix)
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On Writing Literary History (Denis Hollier, page xxi)
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778: Entering the Date (John Benton, page 1)
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842: The Birth of Medieval Studies (R. Howard Bloch, page 6)
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1050? Saints' Lives (Brigitte Cazelles, page 13)
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1095: The Epic (Joseph J. Duggan, page 18)
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1123? Manuscripts (Laura Kendrick, page 23)
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1127: The Old Provençal Lyric (Stephen G. Nichols, page 30)
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1152: The Romances of Antiquity (Jean-Charles Huchet, page 36)
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1165: Erec et Enide (Eugene Vance, page 41)
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1175: Fables and Parodies (Kathryn Gravdal, page 46)
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1180? Marie de France (Joan M. Ferrante, page 50)
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1181? The Grail (Alexandre Leupin, page 56)
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1202: Old French Prose Historiography (Gabrielle M. Spiegel, page 61)
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1209? Arthurian Romance in Prose (E. Jane Burns, page 66)
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1210: The Fabliaux (Charles Muscatine, page 70)
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1214, 27 July: Literature and History (Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, page 75)
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1215, November: The Impact of Christian Doctrine (Evelyn Birge Vitz, page 82)
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1225? Generic Hybrids (Kevin Brownlee, page 88)
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1267: Medieval Rhetoric (Douglas Kelly, page 93)
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1277, 7 March: Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose (David F. Hult, page 97)
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1300? Medieval Vernacular Drama (Donald Maddox, page 103)
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1342? Lyricism in the Age of Allegory (Kevin Brownlee, page 109)
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1401, St. Valentine's Day: Trials of Eros (Jacqueline Cerquiglini, page 114)
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1456: "I the Scholar François Villon" (Nancy Freeman Regalado, page 118)
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1460? Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties (Barbara C. Bowen, page 124)
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1493: The Rhétoriqueurs (François Rigolot, page 127)
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1512: Writing without Reserve (Terence Cave, page 133)
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1517: Humanist Models (Timothy Hampton, page 136)
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1526, July: Life-Saving Stories (Natalie Zemon Davis, page 139)
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1527: Margaret of Navarre (Carla Freccero, page 145)
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1528: Manners and Mannerisms at Court (Nancy J. Vickers, page 148)
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1532: Rabelais and Textual Architecture (Edwin M. Duval, page 154)
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1534, Fall: Literary Banquets (Michael Jeanneret, page 159)
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1534, 17-18 October: Evangelism (Gérard Defaux, page 162)
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1536: Emblems (Daniel S. Russell, page 167)
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1536, Summer: The Sonnet (François Rigolot, page 171)
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1538, 6 March: Dialogue (Jean-Claude Carron, page 174)
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1539: The Birth of French Lexicography (Terence R. Wooldridge, page 177)
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1541, July: Translation as Literature (Glyn P. Norton, page 180)
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1541, September: Calvin the Writer (Francis M. Higman, page 184)
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1542: The Neoplatonic Debate (Lawrence D. Kritzman, page 187)
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1544: The Architecture of Poetic Sequences (Doranne Fenoaltea, page 189)
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1549: A New Intellectual Elite (Margaret Ferguson, page 194)
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1550: Inspiration and Poetic Glory (Michel Beaujour, page 198)
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1552: Renaissance Comedy (Donald Stone, Jr., page 202)
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1553, March: The Origin of French Tragedy (Timothy J. Reiss, page 205)
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1553, June: Antiquities and Antiquaries (Eric MacPhail, page 209)
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1555, July: Petrarchism with a Difference (Ann Rosalind Jones, page 213)
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1555, 13 September: Books in Print (Antoine Compagnon, page 216)
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1562: Scientific Poetry (Dudley B. Wilson, page 220)
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1563, 18 August: Anti-Dictator (Stephen Greenblatt, page 223)
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1566: History and Vernacular Humanism (Donald R. Kelley, page 228)
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1572, 24 August: Poetry and Action (Ullrich Langer, page 231)
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1573: From Mannerism to Baroque (Lance K. Donaldson-Evans, page 236)
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1578: Antarctic France (Michel Jeanneret, page 240)
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1581: The Spectacle of Power (Margaret M. McGowan, page 243)
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1595: Montaigne and His Readers (Richard L. Regosin, page 248)
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1609: Devout Humanism (Paul A. Chilton, page 253)
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1619: Pastoral Fiction (Louise K. Horowitz, page 258)
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1627: The Age of the Technician (John D. Lyons, page 262)
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1634, 13 March: The Académie Française (Timothy Murray, page 267)
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1637: Toward French Classical Tragedy (Mitchell Greenberg, page 273)
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1640: Problems in Logic and Rhetoric (Timothy J. Reiss, page 278)
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1647: The Subject of Modern Discourse (Thomas G. Pavel, page 284)
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1648, 26-28 August: The Sound of the Fury (Pierre Ronzeaud, page 288)
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1651: Cultural Life outside Paris (Bernard Beugnot, page 292)
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1654: The Salons and "Preciosity" (Joan DeJean, page 297)
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1657: Figures of Social and Semiotic Dissent (Jean Alter, page 303)
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1660: Autocritical Dramaturgy (Marcel Gutwirth, page 309)
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1661: From Roi Soleil to Louis le Grand (Jean-Marie Apostolidès, page 314)
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1664: Jansenist Tragedy (Philip E. Lewis, page 320)
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1668: Moralists (Georges Van Den Abbeele, page 327)
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1673, 17 February: The Comic at Its Limits (Gérard Defaux, page 334)
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1674: On the Sublime, Infinity, Je Ne Sais Quoi (Louis Marin, page 340)
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1677: Historiography in the Age of Absolutism (Roger Chartier, page 345)
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1678: The Emergence of the Novel (John D. Lyons, page 350)
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1680, 21 October: The Comédie-Française (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 354)
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1685: Religious Controversies (Domna C. Stanton, page 358)
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1687: The Ancients and the Moderns (Robert J. Nelson, page 364)
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1689: Pedagogy (John D. Lyons, page 369)
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1694: Linguistic Absolutism (Alain Rey, page 373)
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1697: Marginal Writing (Lionel Gossman, page 379)
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1699: Racine and the French New Criticism (Jean Alter, page 386)
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1700: Classics in the Making (Joan DeJean, page 391)
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1704: Sunset Years (Walter E. Rex, page 396)
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1707? Fêtes Galantes (Thomas Crow, page 402)
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1721: Others (James Creech, page 409)
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1725: The Politics of Epistolary Art (Janet Gurkin Altman, page 415)
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1727: Portrait of the Philosopher as a Tramp (Jack Undank, page 421)
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1734: Intricacies of Literary Production (English Showalter, Jr., page 429)
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1735: The Gender of the Memoir-Novel (Nancy K. Miller, page 436)
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1750: Beauty in Context (Gita May, page 442)
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1751: Ordering Knowledge (Daniel Brewer, page 447)
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1754? Origins (Peggy Kamuf, page 455)
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1754: From Natural Philosophy to Scientific Discourse (Wilda Anderson, page 460)
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1759, January: On Cultivating One's Garden (Aram Vartanian, page 465)
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1759, 23 April: Clearing the Stage (Jay L. Caplan, page 471)
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1759, August-September: Salons (Michael Fried, page 476)
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1761, February: The Novel and Gender Difference (Ronald C. Rosbottom, page 481)
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1761, December: What Was Enlightenment? (Lionel Gossman, page 487)
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1762: Writing the Political (Patrick Coleman, page 496)
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1769: Reason (Christie McDonald, page 501)
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1770: Kisses, en Taille Douce (Philip Stewart, page 507)
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1771: Diderot at the Crossroads of Speech (Jack Undank, page 517)
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1772: Utopias (Mark Poster, page 525)
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1774, 19 April: A War at the Opera (Herbert Josephs, page 531)
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1782, March: Words and "the Thing" (Peter Brooks, page 537)
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1782, May: Autobiographical Acts (Virginia E. Swain, page 543)
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1784, 27 April: Pre-Revolution (a Comedy) (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 549)
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1787: Designing Women (Joan Hinde Stewart, page 553)
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1788: Civil Rights and the Wrongs of Women (Madelyn Gutwirth, page 558)
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1789: Seventeen Eighty-nine (Sandy Petrey, page 566)
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1791, 13 January: Language under Revolutionary Pressure (Martine Reid, page 572)
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1791, Summer: Pleasure, Perversion, Danger (Chantal Thomas, page 579)
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1794, 8 June: Twilight of the Gods (Marie-Hélène Huet, page 584)
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1794, 25 July: Unfinished Work (E.S. Burt, page 589)
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1799, 10 October: The Ideologists (Frank Paul Bowman, page 596)
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1800: The Melodramatic Imagination (Peter Brooks, page 602)
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1802, 14 April: Gothic Revival (Anthony Vidler, page 609)
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1808, 17 March: Discipline and Melancholy (Patrizia Lombardo, page 613)
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1814, 4 June: Restoration Freedom and Repression (Tzvetan Todorov, page 617)
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1816, 8 May: Women's Voices in Literature and Art (Sarah Maza, page 623)
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1820: The Lady in the Lake (Barbara Johnson, page 627)
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1823: Romantic Historiography (Hayden White, page 632)
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1827, February: The Invention of the Renaissance (François Rigolot, page 638)
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1827, December: Drama (Jean Gaudon, page 644)
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1830, 27-29 July: An Oedipal Crisis (Peter Brooks, page 649)
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1833: The Scandal of Realism (Naomi Schor, page 656)
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1834: Romanticism and Social Vision (Sandy Petrey, page 661)
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1835: Dialogues with the Muse (Nathaniel Wing, page 666)
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1836, 25 October: Egypt in Paris (Denis Hollier, page 672)
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1837: Fantastic Tales (Ora Avni, page 675)
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1839: Body Bildung and Textual Liberation (D.A. Miller, page 681)
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1840: Discourses on Misery (Robert Bezucha, page 687)
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1843, 9 June: Publishing Novels (Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, page 693)
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1847, 23 Decemeber: Orientalism, Colonialism (Christopher L. Miller, page 698)
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1848: Class Struggles in France (Richard Terdiman, page 705)
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1851, 2 December: Literature Deterritorialized (Ross Chambers, page 710)
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1852, 2 December: Bonapartism (Richard Terdiman, page 717)
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1853: French Poe (Jefferson Humphries, page 723)
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1857: Two Trials (Dominick LaCapra, page 726)
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1859, 23 July: Poète Maudite (Michael Danahy, page 731)
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1859, 7 December: Exile from Within, Exile from Without (Nathaniel Wing, page 737)
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1866: The Dream of Stone (Barbara Johnson, page 743)
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1869: Tics (Ora Avni, page 748)
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1871, 15 May: Commune Culture (Kristin Ross, page 751)
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1873: Exit and Save (Norbert Bonenkamp, page 758)
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1874: Haute Couture and Haute Culture (Sima Godfrey, page 761)
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1876: Idealism (Naomi Schor, page 769)
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1877: Nature, Society, and the Discourse of Class (Sandy Petrey, page 774)
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1880: Prostitution in the Novel (Charles Bernheimer, page 780)
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1884: Decadence (Jefferson Humphries, page 785)
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1885, February: The Music of the Future (Richard Sieburth, page 789)
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1885, June: The Liberation of Verse (Barbara Johnson, page 798)
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1886, The Phantom's Voice (Esther Rashkin, page 801)
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1889: Commemoration and the Revolution (Victor Brombert, page 806)
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1892: Writing and the Dance (Françoise Meltzer, page 813)
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1895: Literature in the Classroom (Antoine Compagnon, page 819)
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1898: The Dreyfus Affair (Jeffrey Mehlman, page 824)
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1905, 9 December: On Schools, Churches, and Museums (Denis Hollier, page 830)
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1911: From Exoticism to Homosexuality (Richard Howard, page 836)
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1913: Lyrical Ideograms (Tom Conley, page 842)
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1914-1918: Visions of Death and Dissolution (Mary Jean Green, page 850)
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1920: Bourgeois Sin (David O'Connell, page 855)
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1922, 18 November: Death and Literary Authority (Leo Bersani, page 861)
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1924: From Text to Performance (Michel Beaujour, page 866)
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1925, November: Mise en Abyme (Jean-Joseph Goux, page 872)
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1925, December: "I Cannot Abide Stupidity" (Vincent Kaufmann, page 876)
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1928, 3 May: Amnesias (Ann Smock, page 881)
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1929: "Odor di Femina" [Sic] (Elaine Marks, page 887)
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1931, March: Sadology (Carolyn J. Dean, page 892)
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1931, June: Plenty of Nothing (Denis Hollier, page 894)
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1933, February: Negrophilia (James Clifford, page 901)
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1933, November: Americans in Paris (John Atherton, page 908)
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1933, December: "Terrorists Ask No Questions" (Douglas Collins, page 914)
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1934, 6 February: Birthrate and Death Wish (Denis Hollier, page 919)
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1935, 6 May: Staging the Plague (Sylvère Lotringer, page 924)
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1937, March: The Avant-Garde Embraces Science (Allan Stoekl, page 929)
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1937, 12 July: Committed Painting (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 935)
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1939: Surrealism and Négritude in Martinique (Ronnie Scharfman, page 942)
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1940-1944: The Honor of Poets (Ann Smock, page 948)
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1941: How Is Literature Possible? (Michael Syrotinksi, page 953)
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1942: The Problem of Belief (Samuel Kinser, page 958)
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1945, 6 February: Literature and Collaboration (Alice Yaeger Kaplan, page 966)
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1945, 15 October: Rebellion or Revolution? (Steven Ungar, page 972)
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1946, July: Samuel Beckett Emerges as a French Writer (Alan Astro, page 977)
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1949: An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France (Toril Moi, page 982)
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1953: The Nouveau Roman (Gerald Prince, page 988)
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1954, January: On Certain Tendencies of the French Cinema (Dudley Andrew, page 993)
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1959, 9 January: The Ministry of Fate (Rosalind Krauss, page 1000)
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1959, 28 October: The Theater of the Absurd (Thomas Bishop, page 1006)
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1960: As Is (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 1011)
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1962, November: The School of Independence (Réda Bensmaïa, page 1018)
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1966: The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place (Mary Ann Caws, page 1023)
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1968, February: Francophonie and Independence (Christopher L. Miller, page 1028)
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1968, May: "Actions, No! Words, Yes!" (Denis Hollier, page 1034)
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1973: French Lib (Yve-Alain Bois, page 1040)
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1975: "French Feminism" (Jane Gallop, page 1045)
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1976, 15 November: Hubert Aquin and Quebec Literature (Patrick Coleman, page 1050)
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1985, 27 September: Friday Night Books (Stephen Heath, page 1054)
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1989: How Can One Be French? (Denis Hollier, page 1061)
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Chronology (page 1071)
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Map of Modern France (page 1084)
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Acknowledgments (page 1085)
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Contributors (page 1087)
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Index (page 1101)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CL | 43.1 (Winter 1991): 82-83 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1770999 |
SCR | 7.2 (Summer 1990): 110-112 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3189354 |
MLR | 87.2 (Apr. 1992): 464 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3730712 |
HTE | 24.3 (May 1991): 363-364 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/494627 |
FR | 64.3 (Feb. 1991): 502-503 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/395393 |
RMRLL | 44.4 (1990): 259-260 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1346800 |
SUB | 20.3 (1991): 137-141 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3685185 |
PL | 14.2 (Oct. 1990): 398-399 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v014/14.2.berrong.html |
SUB | 102.32.3 (2003): 6-18 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/v032/32.3hollier.html |
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Published: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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