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| Volume 75, No. 4 | March, 2002 |
| 683 From the Editor's Desk | ||
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| FILM | ||
| 688 | Edward Ousselin
"Latin Connections and Ordinary Immigrants: Jean Renoir's Toni" |
Set in the south of France, mainly among immigrant workers, Renoir's 1935 film provides a representation of a multicultural, multilingual community-a somewhat unstable, but functional, Latin melting-pot. Shot during the Depression, but recounting a story based on events that occurred during the relatively more prosperous 1920s, Toni stands out as one of the few films produced during the interwar period that not only acknowledged the presence of significant numbers of immigrants within the country, but also portrayed them in much the same way as their French counterparts, with neither excessive sentimentality nor demonization. |
| 697 | Martine Gantrel
"La Gastronomie française au cinéma entre 1970 et 1990" |
Tournés à quinze ans de distance par des réalisateurs tous étrangers, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie de Luis Buñuel (1972), La Grande Bouffe de Marco Ferreri (1973) et Le Festin de Babette [Babettes Gaestebud] de Gabriel Axel (1987) témoignent chacun à leur manière de l'évolution du stéréotype de la gastronomie française entre l'ère pompidolienne et l'ère mitterrandiste et, notamment, de la façon dont le discours gastronomique est passé, avec l'avènement de la mondialisation, du statut de marqueur sociologique à celui de "lieu de mémoire" et de bastion culturel contre la malbouffe. |
| LITERATURE | ||
| 705 | Jeffrey N. Peters
"Playing at Monarchy: le jeu de paume in Literature of Nineteenth-Century France |
The primary themes of Molière's Le Misanthrope are structured through an ancient metaphor that compared eloquent expression to garish attire. Understood in the seventeenth century as either a conceptually reliable conveyor of ideas or a suspicious form of vacuous decoration, eloquentia constituted the figural clothing of the body of speech. In Molière's play, Alceste's argument that truth can be located behind the duplicitous masks of social interaction invokes the early modem ambivalence with regard to this rhetorical tradition, and construes the ornatus as a form of linguistic apparel that deforms the literal and hides an absence of social merit. |
| 720 | Corry L. Cropper
"Playing at Monarchy: le jeu de paume in Literature of Nineteenth-Century France" |
Vestiges of the ancien régime haunt literary corridors of the nineteenth century. Le jeu de paume, one such phantom, was strongly associated with the monarchy in works prior to the revolution and, by royal decree, was to be played only by members of the nobility. While the serment du Jeu de paume marked the end of the ancien régime, the game played on that field, like a tombstone, continued to serve as a reminder of things past. In Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille and Balzac's La Maison du chat qui pelote, le jeu de paume circulates most unexpectedly as a symbol of ancien régime values which the arriviste bourgeoisie tries to mimic but, with the emphasis placed on winning, cannot. |
| 730 | Christian Martin
"Roland Barthes ou l'engagement en question" |
Barthes, qui passe parfois pour la réincarnation critique du dandy, n'a pourtant jamais cessé de réaffirmer sa croyance profonde à l'intervention sociale du texte littéraire. A la différence de Sartre cependant, Barthes conçoit l'engagement dans sa dimension textuelle propre: en attirant l'attention sur le processus de signification lui-même, le texte demande un remplacement des théories ontologiques du sens par une sémiologie qui insiste sur son statut fictionnel. La dramatisation du langage et la forme de la question, en exposant le mécanisme formel de la signification, définissent une nouvelle responsabilité où la littérature engagée cède la place à la lecture engagée. |
| SOCIETY AND CULTURE | ||
| 744 | Benjamin McRae Amoss
"The Revolution of 1848 and Algeria" |
The 1848 Revolution led to the abolition of slavery in France's possessions overseas; the provisional government acted less decisively in the area of colonization. Writing in the Revue des Deux Mondes, Léonce de Lavergne (1809-80), an elected deputy and Foreign Ministry official, saw the February Revolution as a moment to reconsider the colonization of Algeria. Two issues later, Thomas-Robert Bugeaud (1784-1849), Algeria's Governor-General until 1847, wrote that continued colonization promised to remedy France's social ills. For Lavergne and Bugeaud, an Algeria lacking the political and social institutions that constitute civilization has a positive counterpart: the land provides a domain open for experimentation, a proxy for France itself. |
| IN YOUR CORNER: FOCUS ON THE CLASSROOM | ||
| 756 | May Spangler and Holly U. York
"Images of Paris: Big C Culture for the Nonspeaker of French" |
With the goal of attracting more students to its French classes, the Department of French and Italian Studies at Emory University has capitalized on widespread interest in the world's number one tourist destination. The course, which has been offered in both French and English, is based on the study of representations of Paris from the Middle Ages to the present. It uses architecture as a point of departure, and explores the myth of Paris as expressed through a profusion of images in literature, painting, and film. This essay presents a sample unit on the Renaissance, followed by a full syllabus and bibliography. |
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770 Colette Dio: "La Vie des mots" |
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