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Issue 1, September 2005

Clarity and Obscurity

Proceedings of the Study Day held at Oxford Brookes University, 28 April 2005
Edited by Denis Lejeune and Brian Sudlow

ISSN 1749-3307

Lou Curtis, Oxford Brookes, 'Clarities and Obscurities: Gustave Flaubert's Expression of the Orient. Reality versus "Imaginative Geography"'

Gerri Kimber, QMUL, 'Hidden Assasin: Subverting the Bourgeois in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Contes Cruels'

Denis Lejeune, Reading, 'Neither Clear nor Obscure: André Breton and chance'

Sue Neale, Oxford Brookes, 'Contemporary French Crime Fiction – a Search for the Hidden with Particular Reference to Sous les vents de Neptune by Fred Vargas'

Ilonka Persic, Oxford University, 'Clarity and Obscurity in James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Theme of Maturation and Development in "The Dead" and Una vita'

Nadia Rosen, RHUL, 'Looking at Rimbaud through the Camera Obscura: A Study of Rimbaud le fils (1991) by Pierre Michon'

Morag Young, Oxford Brookes, 'Clarity and Obscurity in the Work of Patrick Modiano'

 

Issue 2, September 2006

Difficulty and Dilemma

Proceedings of the Study Day held at Reading University,
28 April 2006
Edited by Denis Lejeune and Brian Sudlow

ISSN 1749-3307

Gerri Kimber, QMUL, 'Dilemma or Godsend? Translational Difficulties in the Letters of Katherine Mansfield'

Kate Maxwell, Glasgow, 'The Difficulty of Meaning, the Dilemma of Labelling: Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377), a Romantic Poet-Composer?''

Coming soon:

Charles Drazin, Queen Mary University of London,  'French Cinema of the Occupation: Resistance or Collaboration?'

Ilonka Persic, Oxford University, 'Difficulties, Dilemmas and the the Theme of Escape in James Joyce's Eveline and Italo Svevo's Senilitả'

Issue 3, February 2008

Critical Voices

Proceedings of the Study Day held at Southampton University,
3 May 2007
Edited by John Speller

ISSN 1749-3307

James Ambrose, Oxford, 'Critical Editions and Complimentary Translations: The Reception of Seneca, the Tragedian, in Early Modern France'

Barbara Giraud, Oxford Brookes, '"La Plume d'un vieux Dindon": vivre pour critiquer'

Gerri Kimber, Birkbeck, From Major to Minor: Critical (Mis)interpretation in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield'

John Speller, Warwick, 'Transnational Transpositions: Liber and the Project for a European Research Space

Suzanne Vanweddingen, Université de Haute-Alsace, 'When Critic Creates a Literary Motif: Poetry as an Opposing and Creative Voice to Railways'

Issue 4, November 2008

Memory

Proceedings of the Study Day held at Oxford Brooks University,
9 May 2008
Edited by Vincent Bruyère and Lindsey Dodd

ISSN 1749-3307

Benjamin Bâcle, Aston, 'Possessing the Memory, Possessing the Self: Maine de Biran's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Quest for Control'

Helena Chadderton, Lancaster, 'Rendering Memory in the work of Marie Darrieussecq: the Case of Bref séjour chez les vivants'

Vicky Clouston, Oxford Brookes, André Breton 1945/6: Wartime Memory and Perspectives from Haïti

John Speller, Warwick, 'Memory and the Body, Memory and the Mind: Pierre Bourdieu and the Biographical Illusion '

Issue 5, January 2011

Histoire(s) et Environnement

Proceedings of the Study Day held at the University of Warwick, 5 March 2010
Edited by Emily Jones and Victoria Turner

ISSN 1749-3307

Rym Feriani,Westminster, 'Of Females and Goddesses: Reinterpreting the Past in Assia Djebar's Loin de médine and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses'

Bart Miller, Liverpool, 'History, Orality and Negritude: Léon-Gontran Damas and the folk tale genre'

 

Also in this issue from our study day at QMUL in 2009 on the topic of Environnement

Leona Archer, Cambridge, 'Morgan's Captive Audience: Enclosure and Disclosure in the Old French Lancelot-Grail Cycle'

Ruth Morris, Aberdeen, 'Revolutionising the Environment: Geological Theories and Emma Bovary's Isolation'