pp xvi268 1997 hardback
ISBN 0-7083-1394-9
`Rarely does a Festschrift match the focus of a volume of specialist critical essays on a central theme. This is an outstanding exception . . . '
The narrative voices in French fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which are the focus of this volume are multiple and changing voices whose study involves us with issues of gender, genre and politics and above all with the complexity of human personality.
‘This collection of essays can be recommended to anyone interested in nineteenth-century fiction.’ (Modern Language Review)
From Balzac and George Sand, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola and Proust, to Camus, Duras and Sarraute (who is given pride of place), the work discussed in this collection of essays testifies to Roland Barthes's concept of disponibilité, the idea that great texts will constantly generate new forms of critical discourse.
This volume of essays compiled in honour of Valerie Minogue, Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales, celebrates the major contributions she has made in the criticism of modern French fiction.
Contents: Valerie Minogue: A Tribute; Valerie Minogue: Bibliography; Introduction Michael Cardy, George Evans, Gabriel Jabobs; Lettre Nathalie Sarraute; L'Ordre du Poème Monique Witting University of Arizona; Orchestrated Voices: Selves and Others in Nathalie Sarraute's Tu ne t'aimes pas Sheila M. Bell University of Kent at Canterbury; Nathalie Sarraute + Criticism and the 'Terrible Desire to Establish Contact' Ann Jefferson New College, University of Oxford; The Voice on the Page and the Voice from the Stage: Contemporary Dramatic Adaptions of the Works of Balzac and George Sand F. W. J. Hemmings Emeritus Professor, University of Leicester; 'Voilà le poëte hystérique': Flaubert, Frédéric and Emma Naomi Segal University of Reading; Flaubert and Semanalysis: Rereading L'Éducation sentimentale Brian Nelson Monash University; Description et psychologie: génétique et poétique de l'Indice dans L'Éducation sentimentale Éric Le Calvez georgia State University; Dressed/Undressed: Objects of Visual Fascination in Zola's L'Assommoir Susan Harrow University of Wales, Swansea; Hitting the Mine: Modulations in Narrative Voice in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu Robin MacKenzie University of Wales, Swansea; Proust and Politics Malcolm Bowie University of Oxford; 'Le Renégat': An Ironic Re-enactment of Camus's Djihad? Valerie Howells University of Wales, Swansea; Le «je» durassien féminin: un miroir aux alouettes? Catherine Rodgers University of Wales, Swansea.
Editors: Michael Cardy is Professor of French, George Evans is Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of French and Gabriel Jacobs is Senior Lecturer, European Business Management School, all at the University of Wales Swansea.