Description or Prescription? Verbal Painting in Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647)
Derval Conroy

Changing French Orientalism: Tarare (1790) and the Question of Slavery
Daren Hodson

Flaubert's Proposition
Claire Chi-ah Lyu

Goncourt's Dream: Night Terrors in La Fille Élisa
Laure Katsaros

La mort au crible de l'humour dans Les morts bizarres de Jean Richepin
Jean-François Fournier

Albertine and the Inverted Mirrors: Reflections of Geographic and Ethnic Otherness
Lowry Martin

René Char's Fragmented Feuillets d'Hypnos: Holding Memories of the Resistance in Reserve
Allan MacVicar

L'inscription du poème sur la page comme théâtre cathartique du désir, chez quelques poètes français contemporains
Laurent Fourcaut

Authoritative Witnessing and the Control of Memory: On Jorge Semprun's L'écriture ou la vie
Sharon Marquart

Writing Wrongs: The Representation of 'Harkis' in Yasmina Khadra's La part du mort
Lucie Knight

Thinking Photography in Film, or The Suspended Cinema of Agnès Varda and Jean Eustache
Ari J. Blatt

Genre in Transitional Cinema: "Arizona Bill" and the Silent French Western, 1912-1914
Tim Scheie

The Anxiety of Authenticity in Dahan's La Vie En Rose and Zeffirelli's Callas Forever
Noily Beyler

The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) Gets a Facelift: Claire Denis' Modern Portrayal of Female Desire in Friday Night (2002)
Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Book Reviews
Scott Carpenter, Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France. Frauds, Hoaxes and Counterfeits.
Scott Sprenger


Monika Boehringer, Kristy Bell et Hans R. Runte, eds. Entre Textes et Images: Constructions Identitaires en Acadie et au Québec.
Adeline Vasquez-Parra

Christine Le Quellec Cottier, Blaise Cendrars: Un homme en partance.
Lucas Hollister

David F. Hult, ed. and trans. Debate of the "Romance of the Rose." The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.
Tina-Marie Ranalli

Françoise Revaz, Introduction à la narratologie: Action et narration.
Arcana Albright

Véronique Lochert, L'Écriture du spectacle. Les didascalies dans le théâtre européen aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
Perry Gethner

Patrick Saveau, Serge Doubrovsky ou l'écriture d'une survie.
Armine Kotin Mortimer

Books Received