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ReseARcH MoNoGRAPHs iN FReNcH stuDies SERIES ISSN: 1466-8157 Research Monographs in French studies are selected and edited by the society for French studies. the series seeks to publish the best new work in all areas of the literature, thought, theory, culture, film and language of the Frenchspeaking world. its distinctiveness lies in the relative brevity of its publications (50,000–60,000 words). As innovation is a priority of the series, volumes should predominantly consist of new material, although, subject to appropriate modification, previously published research may form up to one third of the whole. Proposals may include critical editions as well as critical studies. they should be sent with one or two sample chapters for consideration to the General editor, Professor Diana Knight (diana.knight@nottingham.ac.uk). Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax The Case of Collective Nouns Anna tristram research monoGraphs in French studies 40 collective nouns such as majorité or foule have long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. this book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French. through an analysis of data from a variety of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews, gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic and external factors which affect this type of agreement are examined, shedding new light on their interaction in this context. Broader questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France, are also addressed. ISBN: 978 1 907975 95 0 2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00 Dada as Text, Thought and Theory stephen Forcer research monoGraphs in French studies 39 the Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering english translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics — including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics — in order to get beyond Dada’s typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary. ISBN: 978 1 907975 83 7 2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00 Marie NDiaye Inhospitable Fictions shirley Jordan research monoGraphs in French studies 38 At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967–) is the issue of the stranger’s welcome. NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices which create and sustain social groups as bounded entities, gives rise to detailed and disquieting portrayals not of hospitality but of the mechanisms and rituals of repulsion. engaging with critical theory on hospitality across the disciplines, shirley Jordan’s closely argued analysis of NDiaye’s novels, theatre and short stories probes the tropes of inhospitality around which the writer’s work coalesces, exploring the ethical significance of a corpus in which communities, environments and spaces are persistently tainted by unwelcoming. NDiaye is seen to elaborate a fantastic anthropology: one which, through sustained attentiveness to non-observance of the rules of hospitality, provides a focus for debate about belonging in a postcolonial world. ISBN: 978 1 907975 85 1 2014 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00 Stendhal’s Less-Loved Heroines Fiction, Freedom, and the Female Maria c. scott research monoGraphs in French studies 37 stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact extraordinary experiments in freedom. these experiments are all the more remarkable in view of the gender of their agents, the historical situation of the author (1783–1842), and the conventions of the literary movement that his fiction helped to found: realism. simone de Beauvoir's 1949 study of stendhal's heroines gives preference to the reserved females over his Amazons. But existentialism, as a philosophy of freedom, also enables a reading of the self-determining heroines that acknowledges the superiority of their choices: their resistance and counter-plots, their paradoxical authenticity, their rejection of seriousness, and their assumption of responsibility for the routes they plot. ISBN: 978 1 907975 71 4 June 2013 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00 8 Echo’s Voice The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude Mary Noonan research monoGraphs in French studies 36 Hélène Cixous (1937–), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. the theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. she was by no means alone in this. cixous' plays, along with those of Nathalie sarraute (1900–99), Marguerite Duras (1914–96), and Noëlle Renaude (1949–), among others, have proved potent in drawing participants into a dynamic ‘space of the voice’. if, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice represents a transitional condition between body and language, such plays may draw their audiences in to understandings previously never spoken. in this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self. ISBN: 978 1 907975 50 9 November 2013 • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00 Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange Titular Economies craig Moyes research monoGraphs in French studies 34 'If Furetière (1619–1688) hadn't been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn't been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Académie Française, it is unlikely that we would still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). its qualities are decidedly few. one cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to a period and a moment in our literary history.' so writes Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century French literature. But whatever one might feel about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois — and following Adam it is usually classified as a precocious though failed example of narrative realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its time — can we really say that it bears no witness to its period? craig Moyes shows on the contrary how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Furetière — the titular abbot, the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental novelist — was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary economy marked most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet (1661–1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XiV and the new administration of colbert. ISBN: 978 1 907747 99 1 January 2013 • 168 pages • Hardback • £40.00/US$75.00
HisPANic AND PoRtuGuese LiteRAtuRe New seRies ANNouNceMeNt In 2014 Legenda will publish its first titles in a substantial new series to be called studies in Hispanic and Lusophone culture, which will be a major focus of next year's catalogue. the series is a collaboration with the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and ireland, and we warmly welcome enquiries from authors: please contact the General editor, Professor trevor Dadson (t.j.dadson@qmul.ac.uk). sHLc covers not only spanish and Portuguese culture, from Latin America as well as the peninsular, but also minority cultures such as catalan or Basque. A fuller announcement will be made in the spring of 2013. see www.legendabooks.com/news for more information. A Sight for Sore Eyes The Surrealist Visuality of José María Hinojosa Jacqueline Rattray José María Hinojosa (1904–1936) has been credited with being a pioneer of surrealism in spain. He moved in the same circles as Buñuel and Dalí and was one of the key figures behind an attempt to form an organised group of spanish surrealists along the lines of the French model. And yet, the name of Hinojosa remains curiously neglected. He lived a relatively short but prolific literary life during which time he published some groundbreaking surrealist poetry and texts. His writing reveals a vision of surrealism which originates from a particularly spanish perspective as well as displaying many of those universally recognised surrealist motifs. one of these, the iconic image of the mutilated eye, forms the focal point of this present study on Hinojosa’s work. in keeping with the interdisciplinarity of surrealism, Hinojosa’s work is read here within the context of the visual arts — surrealist collage, paranoiac-critical activity and cinema. the impact of Hegelian thought upon Surrealism is reflected through the application of a ‘surrealist Dialectic’ in this exploration of Hinojosa’s surrealist visuality. ISBN: 978 1 907975 73 8 August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 The Art of Ana Clavel Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires Jane elizabeth Lavery Ana clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia œuvre is marked by its transgressive thrust and its queerness. that which steps beyond conventionally determined boundaries or the queer is evinced in the manner in which the author disturbs conceptions of the normal, not only by representing ‘outlaw’ sexualities and ‘dark’ desires but also by incorporating into her fictive and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with normalcy as evinced in the presence of the fantastical, the shadow, ghosts, dolls, golems and even urinals. clavel’s literary trajectory follows a queer path in the sense that she has moved from singular modes of creative expression in the form of literary writing, a traditional print medium, towards other non-literary forms. Some of clavel’s works have formed the basis of wider multimedia projects involving collaboration with various artists, photographers, performers and it experts. Her works embrace an array of hybrid forms including the audiovisual, internet-enabled technology, art installation, (video) performance and photography. By foregrounding the outlaw heterogeneous narrative themes, techniques and multimedia dimension of clavel’s œuvre, the aim of this monograph is to attest to her particular contribution to Hispanic letters, which arguably is as significant as that of more established Spanish American boom femenino women writers. ISBN: 978 1 907975 65 3 2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Pessoa in an Intertextual Web Influence and Innovation edited by David G Frier Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) is Portugal's most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. the present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with italy, spain, France, england and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. it features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic), and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, as well as of various aspects of his poetic œuvre. ISBN: 978 1 907747 93 9 January 2012 • 200 pages • Hardback £45.00/US$89.50 9 Reading Literature in Portuguese cláudia Pazos Alonso and stephen Parkinson this collection brings together textual commentaries on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese — either complete poems or extracts from longer works — ranging from the medieval lyric of the 13th century, through the poetry and drama of the Portuguese Renaissance, the great Realist novels of the 19th century, early 20th century Modernism and post-1974 writings through to the present day, while also including examples of 19th- and 20th- century Brazilian literature. The authors chosen — poets, dramatists and novelists — are generally regarded as iconic writers, and the three most famous canonical Portuguese authors (Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago) are featured, but the texts selected for commentary strike a balance between a focus on well-known and lesser-studied works. ISBN: 978 1 907975 62 2 August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe Traditions, Texts and Performance edited by t. F. earle and catarina Fouto the sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of european theatre. in the iberian Peninsula, italy, France, Germany and england, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. they prepared the way for the better-known dramatists of the next century but produced much work which is valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own vernaculars. the popular theatre of the Middle Ages gave endless material for reinvention by playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy. As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the new plays, they were changed again, taking new forms as the first experiments were themselves modified and reinvented. Writers constantly adapted the texts of plays to meet new requirements. these and other issues are explored by a group of international experts from a comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis to one of the great european comic dramatists, the Portuguese Gil Vicente. ISBN: 978 1 907975 76 9 2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 See more Legenda books in Spanish literature at www.legendabooks.com/ spanish See more Legenda books in Portuguese literature at www.legendabooks.com/ portuguese
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