community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
From the sacred conspiracy to the unavowable community: Bataille, Blanchot and Laure's Le sacré
in French Studies
July 2005; p ublished online July 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 6134 words.
This article analyses the importance of the writings of Laure (pseudonym of Colette Peignot) for Georges Bataille's communitarian projects of the late 1930s and early 1940s and for Maurice...
‘En vue de plus tard ou de jamais’: Poetic Community in Stéphane Mallarmé's Tombeaux
in French Studies
July 2014; p ublished online July 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 8082 words.
In 1891 Stéphane Mallarmé described his view of the widening rift between poets and modern society: ‘Pour moi, le cas d'un poëte, en cette société qui ne lui permet pas de vivre, c'est le...
Review: Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony
in French Studies
October 2004; p ublished online October 2004 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 0 words.
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The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction
in French Studies
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 475 words.
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Poetry, Knowledge, and Community in Late Medieval France
in French Studies
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 522 words.
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My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community
in French Studies
July 2010; p ublished online July 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 486 words.
The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure
in French Studies
July 2010; p ublished online July 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 507 words.
Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958–1980
in French Studies
April 2016; p ublished online April 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 392 words.
The Disavowed Community. By Jean-Luc Nancy. Trans. by Philip Armstrong.
in French Studies
October 2017; p ublished online September 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 513 words.
The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley
in French Studies
January 2014; p ublished online January 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literary Studies (European); European Languages; European History. 495 words.
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Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought
in French Studies
July 2011; p ublished online July 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 496 words.
Medieval Saints' Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography
in French Studies
October 2010; p ublished online October 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 502 words.
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Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise. Edited by Karen L. Carter and Susan Waller.
in French Studies
July 2016; p ublished online May 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 476 words.
The Top-Down Revitalization of Corsican: Considering the Reversal of a Language Shift in the Linguistic and Semiotic Landscapes of Ajaccio
in French Studies
January 2014; p ublished online January 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literary Studies (European); European Languages; European History. 7333 words.
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) is being used creatively in different ways to examine language practices in multilingual communities, and a sister subdiscipline, semiotic landscapes, is...
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FROM THIRD-WORLDISM TO FOURTH-WORLD FLÂNERIE? FRANÇOIS MASPERO'S RECENT JOURNEYS
in French Studies
October 2006; p ublished online October 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 6639 words.
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This article explores the transformation of 1960s internationalism into a preoccupation with urban relations in the increasingly international city...
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La Bruyère: Virtue and Disinterestedness
in French Studies
April 2014; p ublished online April 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Literary Studies (European); European Languages; European History. 9109 words.
This article studies the notion of virtue put forward in La Bruyère's Les Caractères. La Bruyère upholds the Aristotelian notion (rejected by hard-line Augustinians of his own century) of...
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Timely Resistance in the Documentary Work of Dominique Cabrera
in French Studies
July 2008; p ublished online July 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 5229 words.
Dominique Cabrera's œuvre attests to a consistent preoccupation with the representation and construction of a bonheur collectif. Through a detailed analysis of two documentary films, Chroni...
Le Cycle de Renart: From the Enfances to the Jugement in a Cyclical Roman de Renart Manuscript
in French Studies
January 2008; p ublished online January 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 6019 words.
This article is a reading of a Roman de Renart manuscript from the often neglected gamma family, which subsumes the narrative to a broadly biographical (or cyclical) framework. The...
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LIFE BEYOND DEATH: READING FOR THE DEMONIC IN THE TEXTS OF MODIANO AND JAPRISOT
in French Studies
April 2006; p ublished online April 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 6486 words.
In classic crime fiction the demonic is located first in the crime, which mobilizes the reparative function of narrative, and then in the criminal, whose identification ensures the security...
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Decline of the banlieue rouge: François Maspero’s Les Passagers du Roissy-Express
in French Studies
July 2018; p ublished online March 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: European History; European Languages; Literary Studies (European). 6950 words.
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France’s de-industrialization in the mid-1970s was catastrophic for the proletarian communities of the Parisian banlieue. By the 1980s, the effects of...
