Professor Valerie Minogue: publications - Swansea University

Professor Valerie Minogue: publications
Books
Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, Edward Arnold, 1973, reprinted 1976, pp. 68.
Nathalie Sarraute: The War of the Words, Edinburgh University Press, 1981, pp.viii, 230.
Zola: L’Assommoir, Grant & Cutler, 1991, pp. 100.
Nathalie Sarraute, Œuvres complètes, sous la direction de Jean-Yves Tadié, Paris:
Gallimard, Bibliothèque de Pléiade, 1996, pp. xlvi, 2128. [Notices and Notes for
Tropismes, Portrait d’un inconnu, Martereau, Le Planétarium, Vous les entendez?,
“Disent les imbéciles”, L’Usage de la parole, and Tu ne t’aimes pas]
Chapters in books
‘Taking care of the Caretaker’ (on Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker) in Pinter, A Collection
of Critical Essays, edited by A. Ganz, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,
‘Twentieth-Century Views’, 1972, pp.72-77.
‘Sticks and Stones: The weaponry of words in Vous les entendez? , in Words of Power, in
honour of Professor Alison Fairlie, ed. G. Jondorf and D. Coleman, Glasgow, 1987,
pp.243-65.
‘Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance; from experience of language to the language of experience’
in Studies in French Fiction in honour of Vivienne Mylne. ed. R. Gibson, Grant & Cutler,
1988, pp.209-24.
‘The Uses of Parody: Parody in Proust and Robbe-Grillet’, translated by Professor
Shigekazu Kishimoto in Structure of Parody, (a Japanese translation of Parody: a
symposium, special issue of Southern Review ), Otori Shobo Press, 1989, pp. 161-94.
‘The Lady and the Whore: the inscription of the heroine in Zola’s Nana and James’s
Portrait of a Lady’, in Naturalism in the European Novel, ed. Brian Nelson, Berg: New
York/Oxford, 1992. pp.245-64.
‘Venus Observing: Venus Observed - Zola’s Nana’, in Emile Zola Centenary Colloquium
1893-1993, edited by Patrick Pollard, London: The Emile Zola Society, 1995, pp.57-72.
‘L’Enfant et les sortilèges ou l’Enfant d’éléphant au pays des mythes’, in Autour de
Nathalie Sarraute, textes réunis par Sabine Raffy, Actes du Colloque international de
Cerisy-la-Salle des 9 au 19 juillet 1989, sous la direction de Valérie Minogue et Sabine
Raffy. Annales Littéraires de l’Université de Besançon, no 580, 1995, pp. 49-62.

'Nathalie Sarraute: Two plays and their audience', in Aspects of 20th-century Theatre in
French, edited by Michael Cardy and Derek Connon (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 161-
74.
‘ “Taka” voir la “Cata”: Nathalie Sarraute et le langage catastrophique’, In Ethiques du
Tropisme, textes édités et présentés par Pascale Foutrier, Actes du Colloque Nathalie
Sarraute, Paris, 7 mai 1999, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000, pp.169 -82. ISBN 2-7384-9891-4.
‘L’Ici de Nathalie Sarraute: Arcimboldo et la dépersonnalisation du texte’, In Nathalie
Sarraute; Un écrivain dans le siècle, Actes du Colloque International de janvier 1996,
édités par J. Gleize et A. Leoni.Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix en
Provence, 2000, pp.37-46, ISBN 2-85399-468-6.
‘Nana : the world, the flesh and the devil’, in B. Nelson (ed.) The Cambridge Companion
to Emile Zola, Cambridge: CUP, 2007, pp.121-136.
Shorter Contributions to books
General Contributor to The Cambridge Italian Dictionary, edited by Barbara Reynolds,
Cambridge University Press, 1981.
‘Nathalie Sarraute’ entry in Contemporary Foreign Language Writers, St. James Press,
1984, pp.306-08.
Entries for Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor and Nathalie Sarraute, in J. Julliard et M.
Winock (eds.) Dictionnaire des intellectuels français, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1996, 200-
201, 992-993, 1026-1027.
Nathalie Sarraute entry in Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century, ed. Sorrel Kerbel,
Fitzroy Dearborn, New York/London, 2003 pp. 491-494. [ISBN 1-57958-313-X]
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
‘Paths and Feet in Vigny’s Les Destinées’, Modern Languages, December 1965, 131-39.
‘The Tableau in Vigny’s "La Colère de Samson"’, Modern Language Review, July 1965,
374-78.
‘The Workings of Fiction in Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes’, Modern Language Review,
July 1967, 430-42.
‘Les Liaisons dangereuses: a practical lesson in the art of seduction’, Modern Language
Review, October 1972, 775-86.

‘The Imagery of Childhood in Nathalie Sarraute’s Portrait d’un inconnu’, French
Studies, April 1973, 177-86.
‘Nathalie Sarraute’s Le Planétarium: the narrator narrated’, Forum for Modern Language
Studies, July 1973, 217-34.
‘Distortion and creativity in the subjective viewpoint: Robbe-Grillet, Butor and Nathalie
Sarraute’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, January 1976, 37-49.
‘The Creator’s Game: Some Reflections on Robbe-Grillet’s Le Voyeur’, Modern
Language Review, October, 1977, 815-28.
‘Zola’s Mythology: that forbidden tree’ (on La Faute de l’abbé Mouret ), Forum for
Modern Language Studies, xiv, no.3, July 1978, 217-30.
‘Parody in Proust and Robbe-Grillet’ (paper given at Parody Conference at A.N.U.,
Canberra, 1976) in Special ‘Parody’ issue of Southern Review (Adelaide), March 1980,
53-65.
‘Roquentin’s self-conscious narrative: La Nausée and the nouveau roman’, Forum for
Modern Language Studies, XVII, 3, July 1981, 230-44.
‘Realism and the nouveau roman ‘, in Romance Studies 1, 1982, 77-94.
‘Nathalie Sarraute: L’Usage de la parole’, in Romance Studies 2, (Papers of the Glasgow
Colloquium of 1982 on the nouveau roman ), Summer 1983, 35-52.
‘Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance: Fragments of a Childhood’, in Romance Studies 9, French
Autobiography II (Papers of the Canterbury Autobiography Colloquium of April 1985),
Winter 1986, 71-83.
‘Ironie et réalité dans les romans de Nathalie Sarraute’, in Cahiers du CERF XX, no.3,
Trois femmes romancières, Brest, 1987, 7-22.
‘Rimbaud’s Ophelia’, French Studies, XLIII, 4 (1989) 423-36.
‘Sarraute , Auden and the Great Tall Tailor’, Modern Language Review 84, no. 2, April
1989, 331-36.
‘Virtualities of the self’: Nathalie Sarraute’s Tu ne t’aimes pas,’ French Studies Bulletin,
no.33, Winter 1989-90, 18-20.
‘Le Cheval de Troie: à propos de Tu ne t’aimes pas’, Revue des Sciences Humaines,
LXXXXIII, 217, jan-mars, 1990, 151-61.
Note on Nathalie Sarraute (re her 90th birthday) in The Guardian, July 18, 1990.

‘Voices, Virtualities and Ventriloquism: Nathalie Sarraute’s Pour un oui ou pour un non’
in French Studies, XLIX, no.2, April 1995, 164-77.
‘The Child, the doll, and the hands that hold: Tropisme as a paradigm in the work of
Nathalie Sarraute’ In New Novel Review (Special Issue on The Conference at Elmira
College, 1994), vol.3, no.1, October 1995, 22-34.
‘Nathalie Sarraute anti-terrorist: a reading of disent les imbéciles’, In Nathalie Sarraute
ou le texte du for intérieur, Esprit Créateur (special issue on papers of the Tucson
Conference of 1994), XXXVI, No.2, Summer 1996, 75-88.
‘The Hand of the Child: A Basic Figure in the work of Nathalie Sarraute’, Romance
Studies, No. 27, Spring 1996, 73-83.
‘De Portrait d’un inconnu à Tu ne t’aimes pas : Un trajet à travers les mots’, Roman 20-
50, no.25 (Special issue ‘Nathalie Sarraute’), June 1998, pp. 51-61.
‘ "N’est-on pas tous pareils?": Nathalie Sarraute and the question of gender’, Theatre
Research International, vol.23, no.3. 1998, pp.267-74.
‘Nathalie Sarraute 1900-1999: A tribute’, Romance Studies, vol.17, no.1, Winter 1999,
iii-vi.
‘Danger de Mort: La mort et ses avatars dans l’œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute’, Critique,
656-657, janvier-février, 2002, 119-132.
Essays and Review-articles
‘Philosopher, go Home!’ (on Michael Oakeshott’s The Voice of Poetry in the
Conversation of Mankind’), in The Twentieth Century, March 1960.
‘Taking care of the Caretaker’, (on Harold Pinter) in The Twentieth Century, September
1960.
‘Jean Cocteau, Orpheus in the modern world’, France-Britain, xx, no.80, Summer, 1964.
‘The Housekeeper’s Proust’ (on Céleste Albaret’s Monsieur Proust), in Quadrant
(Australia), April 1977.
‘Picasso and the Apple: The French New Novel’, Quadrant, August, 1977.
‘Presumptuous Girls’ (on Anthea Zeman’s Presumptuous Girls: Women and their world
in the serious woman’s novel ) in Quadrant, December, 1977.
‘Victorious Women’ (on Woman Triumphant: Feminism in French Literature, 1610-
1652, by Ian Maclean), Quadrant, June 1978.

‘Pinter-size Proust’ (on Pinter’s The Proust Screenplay), Quadrant, July 1979.
‘Nathalie Sarraute: an Assessment’, The Literary Review, no. 20, 11-24 July, 1980.
‘Fiction and the Facts of Life’ (on Marthe Robert’s Origins of the Novel ), Quadrant, Jan-
Feb, 1982.
‘Trials of Life’ (on Cyrano de Bergerac, Lewis Carroll, Kafka and Camus). Inaugural
lecture, Swansea, November 1982, pp.16.
‘A century in the life of Nathalie Sarraute’ , Times Literary Supplement, November 5,
1999. (based on a paper given to ‘Fin de siècle’ colloquium, Gregynog, September 1999).
Journal editorship and Reviews
Founding co-editor (with Brian Nelson) 1982 - 85, of Romance Studies, Editor 1986 -
1995, General Editor 1995 - 2004.
I have reviewed in French Studies, Modern Language Review, Quinquereme, The Times,
Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review,
Quadrant, New Novel Review.