FR6: Innovation and Upheaval: deformation and reformulation in the 20th and 21st centuries
ALL THE BOOKS AND ARTICLES LISTED BELOW ARE IN MML OR UL LIBRARIES
A. Introductory material The following are extremely useful resources to get to grips with the essential literary, visual and cultural landmarks of the 20th century. They offer many excellent entries on FR 6 authors/topics.
Burgwinkle, Bill, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson (eds.) The Cambridge History of French Literature (CUP, 2011)
Hollier, Denis, New History of French Literature (Harvard UP, 1989)
Murray, Christopher John, Encyclopedia of modern French thought (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004).
Kritzman, Larry, Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought (Columbia, 2006)
Suleiman, Susan Rubin and Christie McDonald, French Global (Columbia, 2011)
Websites: An excellent overview of key historical and cultural events: http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/indexofinterviews/
An excellent online Encyclopedia (directly accessible from a Cambridge IP address) with many relevant entries: http://www.litencyc.com
The top website to watch avant-garde films (Dada, Surrealism... and Beckett!) http://www.ubu.com/film/
B. Preparatory reading: The following is a list of general but targeted introductions on the various aspects of the course, to explore before choosing the paper. Watch out for the further reading sections.
Anthology of French Poetry, P Broome and G Chester (CUP, [1976] 2010)
The Appreciation of French Poetry (CUP 1976) (commentaries on individual poems)
Azérad, Hugues and Peter Collier, Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (CUP 2010) (commentaries on poems by Eluard, Césaire, Apollinaire, Breton etc)
Best, Victoria, An Introduction to 20th French Literature (2002)
Corcoran, Patrick, The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature (CUP, 2007)
Crowley, Martin— & Victoria Best, The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (Manchester University Press, 2007)
Davis, Gregson, Aimé Césaire (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Forsdick, Charles and Murphy, David (eds.), Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2003)
Gutting, Gary, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (C.U.P., 2001)
James, Ian, The New French Philosophy (Polity, 2013)
Mathews, Eric, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy (Oxford, 1996)
Murat, Michel, Le Surréalisme (Paris, 2013)
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, Pour un nouveau roman (Minuit, 1963/2013)
Wilson, Emma, French Cinema Since 1950: Personal Histories (Duckworth, 1998)
Webber, Andrew, The European Avant-Garde 1900-1940, (Polity, 2005).
C Secondary Reading per Topic/Authors
Apollinaire: Alcools, Calligrammes
Adamson, Walter, Embattled Avant-Gardes (Berkeley, 2007) 400:4.c.200.224
Bohn, Willard, Apollinaire on the edge: modern art, popular culture, and the avant-garde (Rodopi, 2010)
— Apollinaire and the international avant-garde, (State University of New York Press, 1997). (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 736:47.c.95.418)
Scott Bates, Guillaume Apollinaire (Twayne, 1989) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 736:47.c.95.312)
Susan Harrow, The material, the real, and the fractured self : subjectivity and representation from Rimbaud to Réda, (University of Toronto Press, 2004). (UL: North Wing, Floor 1. Classmark: 701:2.c.7.83)
Mathews, Timothy, Reading Apollinaire: theories of poetic language (Manchester University Press, 1987)
—, Literature, art and the pursuit of decay in twentieth-century France, (Cambridge University Press, 2000) (MML: F9.D.155)
Richard Stamelman, The drama of self in Guillaume Apollinaire’s Alcools (U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1976) (UL: North Wing, Floor 1. Classmark: 701:2.c.8.114)
Website: http://www.wiu.edu/Apollinaire/
Listen to Apollinaire reading his own poems, and plenty more!: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
Surrealism: Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme, Nadja; Éluard, Capitale de la douleur; Desnos, Corps et biens; Bunuel and Dali, Un Chien Andalou.
Adamowicz, Elsa, Surrealist Collage in Text and Image (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
—Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les écrits surréalistes sur l'art (L'Age d'Homme, 2004)
—Bunuel/Dali: Un Chien andalou, (IB Tauris, 2010)
—(edition) with Eric Robertson, Eggs laid by Tigers: Dada and beyond , vol 1, Rodopi (Avant-garde Critical Studies series), 2012; vol.2, 2013
Bürger, Peter, Theory of the Avant-garde (University of Minnesota Press, 1984)
Conley, Katherine, Surrealism and its Others (Yale French Studies, 2006)
Dawn Ades, Dada and Surrealism (Thames and Hudson, 1974) (UL: Order in Reading Room: 9400.d.2682)
Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism and the Literary Imagination (Mouton, 1966) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 735:07.c.3.12)
—, The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism (Princeton UP, 1970) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 736:47.c.95.61)
— (ed.), Surrealism and Women (MIT Press, 1991)
Chénieux-Gendron, J. Le Surréalisme (P.U.F., 1984) (L: North Wing, Floor 1. Classmark: 700:1.c.95.637)
Gauthier, Xavière, Surréalisme et sexualité (Gallimard, 1971)
Richard Leslie, Surrealism: The Dream of Revolution (Tiger, 1997) (UL: Order in Reading Room. Classmark: 9000.a.3568)
Helena Lewis, Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism (Edunburgh UP, 1990) (UL: South Front, Floor 6. Classmark: 400:3.c.95.156)
J.H. Matthews, Towards the Poetics of Surrealism (Syracuse UP, 1976) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 735:43.c.95.170)
—, The Imagery of Surrealism (Syracuse UP, 1977) (UL: South Front, Floor 6. Classmark: 400:3.c.95.53)
Maurice Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme (Seuil, 1946) (MML: F5G.G.11)
Noudelmann, François, Avant-gardes et modernité (Hachette, 2000)
Scott, Clive, Reading the Rhythm (O.U.P., 1993)
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, Subversive intent: gender, politics, and the avant-garde (Harvard University Press, 1990)
Beckett: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, Oh les beaux jours, La Dernière bande, L'Innommable
Theodor Adorno, ‘Trying to understand Endgame’, in The Adorno Reader, ed. Brian O'Connor (Blackwell, 2000), 319-352. (MML: G4Z.ADOR.6)
—, Notes sur Beckett (NOUS, 2008)
Alain Badiou, Beckett: L’increvable désir (Hachette, 1995). (UL: Order in Reading Room. Classmark: 9003.d.5625)
Georges Bataille, ‘Le Silence de Molloy’ (1951), in Œuvres complètes, XII (Gallimard, 1988) (MML: F4Z.BAT.G.12)
Mary Bryden, Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God (Macmillan, 1998) (UL: North Wing, Floor 1. Classmark: 723:29.c.95.429)
Simon Critchley, Very Little… Almost Nothing (Routledge, 1997), 3rd section. (MML: Z5.A.55:1/2/3)
Anthony Cronin, SB: The Last Modernist (HarperCollins, 1996) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 738:47.c.95.1194)
Paul Davies, B and Eros: Death of Humanism (Macmillan, 2000) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 738:47.c.200.18)
Gilles Deleuze, ‘L’Épuisé’, in Beckett, Quad (Minuit, c1992) (UL: order in West Room: 1998.7.1346.)
Gibson, Andrew, Beckett (Reaktion, 2009)
S. E. Gontarski (ed.), The B Studies Reader (Florida UP, 1997) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 738:47.c.95.1043)
Leslie Hill, Beckett’s Fiction (CUP, 1990) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 738:47.c.95.816)
John Pilling (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett (CUP, 1994) (MML: 7.BECK.218)
Piette, Adam, Remembering the Sound of Words (OUP, 1996)
Michael Sheringham, Molloy (Grant & Cutler,1985) (MML: F7.BECK.213)
Anthony Uhlmann, Beckett and Poststructuralism, (CUP, 1999) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3. Classmark: 738:47.c.95.1357)
—Beckett and the Philosophical image (CUP, 2006)
Website: Learning object on Reading Beckett http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/opencourseware/flo/french_lo.html
Césaire: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Discours sur le colonialisme, La Tragédie du roi Christophe
Cailler, Bernadette, Proposition poétique : une lecture de l'oeuvre d'Aimé Césaire (Editions Nouvelles du Sud, c1994) (UL: North Wing, Floor 3, 736:47.c.95.543)
Lucrèce, André, Aimé Césaire : Liturgie et poésie charnelle (L’Harmattan, 2013)
A. James Arnold, Modernism and Negritude: The poetry and politics of AC (Harvard University Press, 1981) (MML: F7.CESA.210:2)
Gregson Davis, AC (Cambridge University Press, 2008) (MML: F7.CESA.204)
Fonkoua, Romuald, Césaire (Perrin, 2013)
Khalfa, Jean, “Césaire volcanique” L'Esprit Créateur 45.2 (2005): 52-61.
Victor Hountondji, Le ‘Cahier’ d’Aimé Césaire (L’Harmattan, 1993) (MML: F7.CESA.206)
Malela, Buata B., Les écrivains afro-antillais à Paris (1920–1960). Stratégies et postures identitaires (Karthala, coll. Lettres du Sud, 2008).
Maximin, Daniel, Césaire, Frère-volcan (Seuil, 2013)
Martin Munro, Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Césaire and René Depestre (MHRA, 2000) (MML: F5G.V.19)
Murdoch, Adlai, “Ars poetica, ars politica: The Double Life of Aimé Césaire”. Research in African Literatures. Spring2010, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p1-13. 13p. JSTOR
Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Orphée noir’, in Léopold Sédar Senghor (ed), Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française [1948] (Quadrige, 1997) (MML: F6.V.80)
Jeannie Suk, Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Césaire, Glissant, Condé (Clarendon, 2001) (MML: F5G.G.95)
Website: Learning object on Reading Césaire: http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/opencourseware/flo/french_lo.html
Le Nouveau Roman: Sarraute, L'Ère du soupçon, Les Fruits d'or, Le Planétarium; Robbe-Grillet, Pour un nouveau roman, La Jalousie, Les Gommes
Britton, Celia, “The Self and Language in the Novels of Nathalie Sarraute”, The Modern Language Review, 7/1/1982, Vol. 77, Issue 3, p. 577-584; JSTOR Journals
—The Nouveau Roman, Fiction, Theory Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992) (F5G.P.31)
Duffy, Jean “Le sens de la visite: meaning and muséums in the nouveau roman” in Word & image (London. 1985) 2002, Vol. 18, Issue 1 p31-44
“Territoriality disputes, pollution and abjection in Nathalie Sarraute and Helene Lenoir” The Romanic Review. Nov, 2007, Vol. 98 Issue 4
Heath, Stephen, The Nouveau Roman (Elek, 1972)
Jefferson, Ann, Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: questions of difference (CUP, 2000)
Morrissette, Bruce, Les romans de Robbe-Grillet (Éditions de minuit, 1963)
O'Beirne, Emer Reading Nathalie Sarraute: dialogue and distance (Clarendon Press, 1999)
Ricardou, Jean, Le nouveau roman (Seuil, 1973)
Willging, Jennifer, Telling Anxiety: Anxious narration in the work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert (U Toronto P, 2007)
La Nouvelle Vague: Godard, À bout de souffle, Le Mépris; Truffaut, Les quatre cents coups, Jules et Jim; Varda, La Pointe Courte.
Baeque, Antoine de, La Nouvelle Vague: portrait d'une jeunesse (Flammarion, 1998)
Baeque, Antoine de and Charles Tesson, eds., La Nouvelle Vague. Petite anthologie des Cahiers du cinéma (Cahiers du cinéma, 1999)
Bazin, André, 'La Politique des auteurs', Cahiers du cinéma, 70 (1957)
Graham Peter and Ginette Vincendeau, eds., The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Greene, Naomi, The French New Wave: A New Look (Wallflower, 2007)
Holmes Diana and Robert Ingram, François Truffaut (MUP, 1998)
Marie, Michel, La Nouvelle Vague: Une école artistique (Nathan, 1997)
Douglas Morrey, Jean-Luc Godard (Manchester University Press, 2005) (MML: CINE.F.GOD.11)
Neupert, Richard, A History of the French New Wave Cinema (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
Sellier, Geneviève, Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema (Duke UP, 2008)
David Sterritt, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (Cambridge University Press, 1999) (MML: CINE.F.GOD.4)
Smith, Alison, Agnès Varda (MUP, 1998)
Truffaut, François, ‘Une certaine tendance du cinéma français’, Cahiers du cinéma, 31 (1954), 15 - 29http://nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/trufcahier.htm
Website: http://sensesofcinema.com/category/great-directors/
Retours du récit: Ernaux, La Place, Une Femme; Angot, Sujet Angot; Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires
Fernando Arrabal, H (Cherche Midi, 2005) (MML: F7.HOUE.204)
Olivier Bardolle, La Littérature à vif: Le cas H (Esprit des péninsules, 2004) (MML: F7.HOUE.208)
Gavin Bowd, ‘Michel Houellebecq and the Pursuit of Happiness’, Nottingham French Studies, 42 (2002), 28-39 (UL: North Wing, Floor 4: P735.c.96)
— (ed.), Le Monde de Houellebecq (Glasgow French and German Publications, 2006) (MML: F7.HOUE.202:1/2)
Boyle, Claire, Consuming autobiographies (Legenda, 2007)
— http://www.revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise- contemporaine.org/rcffc/article/view/fx04.06
Martin Crowley, ‘Low Resistance’, in Sara Crangle and Peter Nicholls (eds), On Bathos : Literature, Art, Music (Continuum, 2010), 148-64 (English Faculty Library : V 73 CRA)
— & Victoria Best, The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (Manchester University Press, 2007), 180-211 (MML: F5H.G.1)
Ruth Cruickshank, ‘Fin de millénaire’ French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis (OUP, 2009), 114-67 (MML: F5G.P.54)
Jordan, Shirley "Saving a Life: New Strategies and Technologies in Annie Ernaux's Recent Writing', in F. Arribert-Narce and A. Ausoni (eds), L'Autobiographie entre autres (Peter Lang, 2013), 106-116
— 'Interfaces: Verbal/Visual Experiment in New Women's Writing in French', in A. Damle and G. Rye (eds), Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France: Life as Literature (University of Wales Press, 2013), 196-211
McIlvanney, Siobhán, Annie Ernaux : the return to origins (Liverpool University Press, 2001)
John McCann, MH: Author of our times (Peter Lang, 2010) (MML: F7.HOUE.212)
Douglas Morrey, Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its aftermath (Liverpool University Press, 2013) (MML: F7. HOUE.214:1/)
Dominique Noguez, H, en fait (Fayard, 2003) (MML: F7.HOUE.205)
Jean-François Patricola, MH, ou la provocation permanente (Écriture, 2005) (F7.HOUE.206)
Keith Reader, The Abject Object: Avatars of the phallus in contemporary French theory, literature and film (Rodopi, 2006) (ch. on H) (F9.D.158)
Sabine van Wesemael (ed.), Michel Houellebecq (Rodopi, 2004) (MML: F7.HOUE.200)
Website: Fixxion, http://www.revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise- contemporaine.org/rcffc/issue/view/11
Francophone reformulations: Djebar, Les Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement; Ben Jelloun, L'Enfant de sable; Chamoiseau, Solibo magnifique
Britton, Celia, Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing (LUP, 2014)
Lorna Milne (ed.), Postcolonial violence, culture and identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles (Peter Lang, 2007) (MML: F5G.P.47)
Bart Moore-Gilbert, Postcolonial Theory (Verso, 1997) (MML: Z5.Q.9:2-4)
Forsdick, Charles and Murphy, David (eds.), Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (Arnold, 2003)
Forsdick, Charles and Murphy, David (eds.), Postcolonial Thought in the French- speaking World (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
Hiddleston, Jane, Understanding Postcolonialism (Routledge, 2009)
—Decolonizing the Intellectual (Liverpool University Press, 2014)
Nicholas Harrison, Postcolonial Criticism (Polity, 2003) (MML: Z5.Q.22)
Robert Young, Postcolonialism (Blackwell, 2001) (MML: Z4.Q.13)
Website: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/
On individual authors Calle-Gruber, Mireille, Assia Djébar, Résistance de l’écriture (Maisonneuve et Larose, 2001) (F7.DJEB.200)
Jane Hiddleston, Assia Djebar (Liverpool University Press, 2006) (MML: F7.DJEB.203)
Jenny Murray, Remembering the (Post)colonial Self: Memory and Identity in the Novels of Assia Djebar (Peter Lang, 2008) (MML: F7.DJEB.204)
Chancé, Dominique, Chamoiseau: écrivain postcolonial et baroque (Champion, 2010).
Maeve McCusker, Patrick Chamoiseau (Liverpool University Press, 2007) (MML: F7.CHAMO.201 and UL ONLINE RESOURCES)
Lorna Milne, Patrick Chamoiseau (Rodopi, 2006) (MML: F7.CHAMO.200)
Kassab-Charfi, S, Chamoiseau (Gallimard, 2012)
Knepper, Wendy, Chamoiseau (University of Mississippi Press, 2013)
Bourget, Carine. ‘L’Intertexte islamique de L’Enfant de sable et La Nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun’. The French Review, 71.4, (March 1999) : 730-41.
—, The Star, The Cross and the Crescent (Lexington Books, 2010)
Ruth Amar, Tahar Ben Jelloun (Edwin Mellon Press, 2005) (MML: F7.BEN.JE.202)
Cazenave,Odile. ‘Gender, Age, and Narrative Transformations in L’Enfant de sable by Tahar Ben Jelloun’. The French Review, 64.3 (February 1991): 437-50
Fayad, Marie. ‘Borges in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Enfant de sable: Beyond Intertextuality’. The French Review, 67.2 (December 1993): 291-99
Gontard, Marc. Le Moi étrange: littérature marocaine de langue française (L’Harmattan, 1993)
Memmes, Abdallah. ‘Démarche interculturelle dans l’enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun’. L’Interculturel au Maroc. Casablanca : Afrique Orient, 1994. 61-74
Natij, Salah. ‘Dialoge interculturel et complaisance esthétique dans l’œuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun’. Poétiques croisées du Maghreb. Itiniéraires et contacts de cultures (L'Harmattan, 1992), 35 41