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The journal, periodical or revue has a long and largely unexplored history. The periodical has been recognized as a site of unexpected juxtapositions and unorthodox exchanges, a source of chance discoveries. It provides a unique insight into the uneven interactions that characterize any contemporary moment and is an invaluable archive in its own right. This volume aims, through a series of focused case studies, to explore the twentieth-century periodical publication in French, offering an overview of some of its most important manifestations and providing a general reflection on this complex textual form.
List of contents
Contents: David Steel : Une revue méconnue : Paul Desjardins et sa Civilisation Française - Alexandre Gefen : La Revue Blanche : modèle et anti-modèle revuiste au seuil du XXème siècle - Soheila Esmaïli : La Nouvelle Revue Française et le Surréalisme de 1924 à 1940 - Virginie Lupo : Les Temps modernes : scène privée, scène publique - Stamatina Dimakopoulou: Surrealism and the American Grain in VVV, 1942-1944: Culture, Theory, Art - Andy Stafford : 'Dynamite explosée dans les arcanes pourris des vieux humanismes' : A Literature of Politics or a Politics of Literature? Souffles, 1966-1972 - Katy Hindson/Charles Forsdick: France, Europe, the World: Gulliver, or the Journal as Vehicle of Literary Transformation - Patrick Suter : Poétique Surréaliste de l'anti-journal - Michael G. Kelly: Rhetoric and Metaphysics of the Avant-garde Community: Le Grand Jeu, 1928-1930 - Jean-Sébastien Lemieux : La modernité de IIIme Convoi : Rimbaud et Michaux convoqués par Jean Maquet - Robert Furlong : L'Essor, 1919-1959, et la production littéraire mauricienne - Joan Tumblety : Je suis partout, 1930-1944 - Pascal Mercier : Heurs et malheurs d'une 'revue de jeunes' : Confluences, 1941-1947 - Meadow Dibble-Dieng: When the Medium was the Message: Editorial Practice in the First Series of Présence Africaine - Marc André Brouillette : Ancrages et perceptions de la revue québécoise Liberté - Debra Kelly: Pierre Albert-Birot and SIC: The Avant-garde Review as Collective Adventure and Personal Poetics - Roxane Jubert : La revue Lettrisme : vaste indicateur du mouvement isouien - Charlotte Garson : Nomadisme saisonnier et écriture critique : notes sur le rôle des festivals pour les Cahiers du cinéma - Emma Wagstaff : 'Ce qui demeure': L'Éphémère and André du Bouchet.
About the author
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity (2005). He has co-edited Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (2003) and, with Andy Stafford, The Modern Essay in French: Movement, Instability, Performance (2005).
Andy Stafford is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth: An Intellectual Biography (1998) and translated and co-edited a collection of Roland Barthes's writings on fashion, The Language of Fashion (2006). He co-edited, with Charles Forsdick, the volume The Modern Essay in French: Movement, Instability, Performance (2005).
