'Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours à l'esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais énormément?' What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) c…
Within the framework of cognitive grammar, investigates the distribution of infinitival and finite complements--indicative and subjunctive--in the French language, emphasizing the causation/perception, modal, conceptualizing subject and impersonal constructions. Presents a fairl…
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by Kannas, Claude, Dubois, Jean, Dubois-Charlier, Françoise
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In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the di…
"Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critic…
Maurice Blanchot emerged after World War II as a key figure in the literary world, though he was known by some of his contemporaries in France for his contributions to interwar journals on the militant right. How did this happen? Why have literary critics, as in the recent scand…
Why have literary critics, as in the cases of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, chosen to ignore or suppress Blanchot's right-wing interwar and wartime writings, focusing instead on his postwar production? Scandal and Aftereffect provides an enlightening and provocative examinat…
Réécrire la Renaissance, de Marcel Proust à Michel Tournier présente neuf lectures rapproches autour d'un thème commune : la réécriture de la Renaissance dans la litterature française au XXe siecle. Paul J. Smith nous invite une promenade litteraire chez quelques grands auteurs …
"Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, reevaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement." "Walz's exploration of ma…
"Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, reevaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement." "Walz's exploration of ma…