FR6: Innovation and Upheaval: Deformation and Reformulation in the 20Th and 21St Centuries
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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,