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• See French 17 (1996) .

CERQUIGLINI, BERNARD. Le roman de l'orthographe. Au paradis des mots avant la faute (1150–1694). Paris: Hatier, 1996.

Review: L. Finas in QL 705 (1996), 22–23. "L'enjeu du débat: l'existence, aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles, d'une orthographe qui, 'sténographique dans son principe,' est censée conserver intacte la 'parole vive,' jusqu'à la corruption, dès la fin du XIIIe siècle, de cette pureté originelle par la 'véritable apparition de l'écriture,' la faute! La difficulté mais aussi la pertinence du livre de C. concernant les positions consistent en ce que son auteur offre au lecteur une triple perspective: celle du réformateur ou conservateur médiéval, celle du réformateur ou conservateur moderne ou contemporain, et la sienne propre, vérificatrice et pondératrice." Sections on the 17th century include "le rôle des Précieux" and a commentary of an "intervention de Bossuet sur l'orthographe lors d'une séance à l'Académie."

CHARTIER, ROGER. Culture écrite et société. L'ordre des livres (XIVe XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Albin Michel, 1996.

Review: L. Seguin in QL 702 (1996), 23–24: "En sept essais, [C.] repense à sa manière 'l'ordre des livres,' de l'écriture à la lecture. Le projet veut 'répérer' les 'effets du sens des formes.' Il doit évidemment beaucoup à la philosophie d'Ernst Cassirer et navigue entre 'la représentation de l'écrit,' les 'figures de l'auteur,' les 'lectures populaires,' les pratiques du patronage et de la dédicace, les 'bibliothèques sans murs,' ou encore le paradoxe d'une double représentation de George Dandin, à la cour et à la ville."

CHARTIER, ROGER. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Trans.Lydia G. Cochrane,Milad Doueihi, andDavid D. Hall. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

Review: E. D. Friedman in SubStance 26 (1997), 163–166: "The common thread ... lies in the sociology of reading, which for Chartier consists of equal parts of formalism, reception theory, and historiography, grounded in the economics of distribution." Of particular note: "The best and by far the longest application of C.'s approach appears in 'From Court Festivity to City Spectators,' where he presents two very different instances of readerly appreciation with regard to a single dramatic text. Occupying nearly half of the pages in the book, the chapter examines two 1688 performances of Molière's comedy, Georges Dandin..." C. also "analyzes the relationship between authors and their patrons as expressed in the visual and literary dedications of books in early modern print culture." C. argues "that the invention of the printing press was, to differing degrees, causally related to the liberation of universal human reason from the tyranny of divine law."

DAWES, ELIZABETH. "Avoir son pain cuit: Huit sècles d'ambiguïté sémantique." Neophil 80 (1996), 517–38.

Examines the two antonymic meanings of the expression which co existed for eight centuries. During the classical period, only the material sense is recorded in the dictionaries, reflecting tendencies toward purification of language. D. argues for the hypothesis which would explain the semantic ambiguity as derived through irony.

DECLERCQ, GILLES. L'art d'argumenter. Structures rhétoriques et littéraires. Campin: Editions universitaires, 1992.

Review: J. P. Sermain in RF 107 (1995), 428–29: Generally derogatory review finds the volume without focus and vacillating between theoretical, historical and practical perspectives.

DE JEAN, JOAN. "The Invention of a Public for Literature." EMF 3 (1997) 149–68.

Author "uses the history of the book to rewrite the history of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns." She argues that literary works and a new way of reading them played a key role in the radical shift in mentality that Paul Hazard termed "la crise de la conscience européenne." Focusing particularly on Le Mercure galant and the publicity campaign concerning La Princesse de Clèves carried out on its pages, the article shows how an unprecedented type of non-professional critic was created through the institution of "literary news."

DESGRAVES, LOUIS. La presse à Bordeaux, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles. Bordeaux: Sud Ouest, 1996.

Review: BCLF 580 (1997), 182: "Présentant d'abord les caractères généraux des bulletins d'information dont le premier imprimé à Bordeaux parut en 1574, il analyse ensuite les principaux thèmes traités par la presse au cours de ces deux siècles qui conduisent de l'enfance à la maturité de ce moyen d'information . . . . La seconde partie traite de la presse bordelaise et des almanachs, avec les réimpressions et les contrefaçons de différents journaux, gazettes et courriers, avec aussi les organes de presse publiés à Bordeaux, et enfin des 'pronostications' et almanachs dont le public se montrait avide."

DUBOIS, ELFRIEDA. Years Work in Modern Language Studies, 57 (1995). London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1996.

17th c. section, 113–134.

DURANTON, HENRI, CLAUDE LABROSSE, et PIERRE RETAT, éds. Les gazettes européennes de langue française (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). Table ronde internationale Saint-Etienne, 21–23 mai 1992. Saint-Etienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 1992.

EHLER, KARIN and MARTIN MULSOW. "Gespräche über Grammatik und Civilité." RF 107 (1995), 314–42.

Close examination of several late 17th c. texts, notably by François de Fenne and Pierre François Roy. Includes a mythological portrait of "l'usage." The texts' relevance for both grammar and polite behavior is carefully analyzed.

FOSSIER, FRANÇOIS. Les dessins du fonds Robert de Cotte de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Architecture et décor. Paris: De Boccard, 1997.

Review: Catalogue De Boccard (Printemps 1997), 1: "L'ensemble des dessins d'architecture accumulé par Robert de Cotte et sa descendance est un des fleurons du Cabinet des estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale de France; Il est indispensable aux historiens de l'architecture et du décor au XVIIe siècle, puisqu'il est constitué des plans, relevés, papiers divers issus de l'agence des Bâtiments du Roi et ce depuis François Mansart.

GITEAU, CECILE, éd. Les plus beaux manuscrits du théâtre français. Paris: Robert Laffont/Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1996.

Review: BCLF 580 (1997), 15: Anthologie de la littérature dramatique depuis Térence jusqu'à Bernard-Marie Koltès. G. évoque "par le biais de leurs manuscrits dix auteurs ou textes anonymes du Moyen Age, cinq auteurs du XVIe, neuf auteurs du XVIIe, treize auteurs du XVIIIe, dix-huit auteurs du XIXe et trente et un du XXe siècle. Pour chaque auteur selectionné, une courte présentation rédigée par un connaisseur, un portrait, son écriture (transcrite en regard) et sa signature. L'introduction dégage le fil conducteur d'un travail qui a dû composer parfois avec l'absence de manuscrits et proposer des documents de substitution pour les oeuvres importantes."

GLATIGNY, MICHEL, ed. Les marques d'usage dans les dictionnaires (XVIIe XVIIIe siècles). Lille: P U de Lille, 1990.

Review: W. Schweickard in ZRP 112 (1996), 329–31: Welcome volume for the history of metalexicography of French should also serve as stimulus for similar work in other Romance languages. Some ten critics provide essays central to 17th and 18th c. and examine several dictionaries of the classical period.

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. AND DENA GOODMAN, eds. Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France. Ithica/London: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Review: N. Ekstein in PFSCL 24 (1997), 314–315: Interdisciplinary essays (literary studies and history) covering the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries from the standpoint of changes between the public and private spheres: Mme de La Guette, Hortense and Marie Mancini, women and letter writing, the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, women authors and fairy tales, and the salon and Lafayette. "By the middle of the seventeenth century, a literary public sphere was taking form in France through the discursive practices of salon sociability and print publication in which literate men and women—the public—participated."

KLAPP, OTTO. Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. 33 (1995). Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 1996.

17th c. section, 268–321.

LEMOINE, ANNE MARIE. "Dissertations in Progress," FR 70 (1996).

17th c. sections, 302, 310. Material incorporated in PFSCL thesis listing, infra.

LODGE, R. ANTHONY. Le français: histoire d'un dialecte devenu langue. Paris: Fayard, 1997.

Review: J. Cl. Chevalier in QL 717 (1997), 21–22: This volume offers "une histoire du français qui atteste les immenses progrès d'une linguistique liant histoire, société et langue et assumant l'extraordinaire complexité des mouvements qui ont conduit à l'élaboration du français..." "... seule l'imprimerie avec ses codes graphiques assurera la préminence du parler parisien dont la forme ne sera pas réglée avant le XVIIe siècle au terme d'une lutte entre la Cour, le Palais, la Ville, le Peuple. L. montre les rôles des uns et des autres: c'est le Palais qui achète Vaugelas et les femmes qui embrassent les tours nouveaux."

LODGE, R. A. "Stereotypes of vernacular pronunciation in 17th 18th century Paris." ZRP 112 (1996), 205–31.

Rich and fascinating analysis of variations in vernacular pronunciation in Paris, based on literary or semi literary representations and contemporary comments. Disagrees with Brunot as to the authenticity of these texts and finds helpful polemical/political writings. Considers the evidential status of these texts, the non standard spellings and constitutes a sociolinguistic stereotype, demonstrating its evolution. The stereotype, well developed in the early Renaissance, "crystallized in the middle years of the 17th." L.'s texts "act as a valuable adjunct to comments of contemporary grammarians . . . [and] provid[e] important information about social meanings of pronunciation variables." Excellent works cited and appendices.

MCGEE, TIMOTHY et al., eds. Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana UP, 1996.

Review: R. Miller in Choice 34 (1997), 806: Linguistic specialists cover the period from 1100 to 1700. "Texts from music of each period and region are transcribed by IPA symbols." Includes supplemental CD. Comparative treatment from century to century.

MERLIN, HELENE. "L'esprit de la langue. L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL/Biblio 17, 101 (1997), 29–51.

Thoughts on the myth of the French language to show how its collective history originates among the people and not in the higher levels of society.

MIEDER, WOLFGANG and GEORGE B. BRYAN. Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Review: W. K. McNeil in Choice 34 (1997), 1642: "The 2, 654 entries in many languages (mostly Western) cover the range of literary history."

OGILVIE, MARILYN BAILEY. Women and Science: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1996.

Review: N. L. Powell in Choice 34 (1997), 772–773: "The author, known for her earlier biographical dictionary, Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century, expands that source and updates coverage through the twentieth century."

RABIN, SHELIA J. "Recent Bibliographical Tools, Critical Editions, Translations, and Essay Collections." RenQ 49 (1996), 187–94.

Rabin has compiled a useful list of bibliographic tools. The 17th c. scholar wll particularly appreciate her indications on items such as The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (section 25 by Lawrence M. Bryant covers France from 1450 to 1789), and Gareth Roberts' The Mirror of Alchemy.

RADTKE, EDGAR. Gesprochenes Französisch und Sprachgeschichte. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994.

Review: J. Kramer in ZRP 112 (1996), 317–22: Reviewer praises R.'s innovation in several areas: sources (conversation books), thematics (everyday speech versus literary), aim (establishment of a history of the spoken language), and method (reconstruction based on analysis of conversation).

RANCOEUR, RENE. Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIIe–XXe siècles). Année 1995. Paris: A. Colin, 1996.

Also issued as no. 4 of RHL (1996). 17th c. section, 592–628. Last biblio. by author, after nearly a half century of assiduous work. Successor will be Marianne Bécache Pernoo. Next biblio. announced for summer 1997, but it is not included in nos. 1–4.

RICKARD, PETER. The French Language in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Brewer, 1992.

Review: J. Kramer in ZRP 112 (1996), 177–79: Praiseworthy study of over 500 pages by renowned critic and author of century by century studies of the French language: 15th c. (1976), 16th c. (1968), 18th c. (1981) and the general History of the French Language (1974). Sixty edited texts are by 17th c. authors, "selected . . . to convey 17th c. opinions, impressions, attitudes, arguments and debates relating to different aspects of the language." R.'s volume is organized into sections on antecedents, spelling/ pronunciation, grammar, lexicography, usage, stylistics and a section "In Praise of French." Ample introduction, notes (containing critical comments, facts and relate to modern linguistic theory), glossary, table of proper names, bibliography.

• See French 17 (1996, 1994).

ROBERTS, WILLIAM. "Bibliography of North American Theses on Seventeenth Century French Literature and Background (1996)." PFSCL 24 (1997), 629–646.

Lists 14 new dissertations in progress and 195 completed. Notes changes in title and/ or director. Covers fine arts, music and history, as well as literature.

ROUDAUT, JEAN. Les dents de Bérénice. Essai sur la représentation et l'évocation des bibliothèques. Montolieu: Deyrolle, 1996.

Review: L. Seguin in QL 706 (1996), 14–15: "Voici donc les quatre moments où se succèdent quatre formes de la bibliothèque. Un: la 'bibliothèque des humanistes' où cohabitent harmonieusement les objets, les instruments et les lumières de la connaissance. Deux: la bibliothèque baroque dont les accumulations s'écroulent et dressent l'état de leur finitude. Trois: les meubles qui sont l'orgueil des salons bourgeois. Quatre: le 'mur troué' où 'les bibliothèques sont...le sujet d'une peinture se donnant d'abord à voir comme une peinture.' Cette histoire a une idée fixe. Elle n'oublie jamais que les livres sont 'un signe de pouvoir et l'indice d'un savoir'."

SEGUIN, JEAN-PIERRE. L'invention de la phrase au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Peeters, 1993.

Review: R. Patry in RBPH 73 (1995), 875–80: ". . . l'ouvrage de Jean-Pierre Séguin présente les résultats d'une vaste enquête sur les différentes acceptions du mot 'phrase.' Le parcours de cette enquête débute par une brève apartée du côté des lexicographes de la fin du XVIIe siècle (première édition du dictionnaire de l'Académie, Richelet, Furetière), pour ensuite se concentrer sur l'analyse des écrits métalinguistiques du XVIIIe siècle, périple débutant avec le Traité de la Grammaire françoise de l'abbé Régnier-Desmarais (1705) et se terminant avec la Grammaire générale analytique de François-Urbain Domergue."

SIENKEWICZ, THOMAS J. World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow/Salem, 1996.

Review: R. Nash in Choice 34.8 (1997), 1316: "Global in scope, this annotated bibliography contains more than 1,100 references to sources for the world's mythologies. The citations are grouped in a chapter devoted to general resources and geographically in five chapters covering Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Europe. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author within geographic or cultural subcategories in each chapter. Coverage is limited to sources in English."

STRAKA, GEORGES and MAX PFISTER, eds. Kurt Baldinger. Die Fazination der Sprachwissenschaft. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990.

Review: H. H. Christmann in ZRP 112 (1996), 644–54: Essays in honor of B.'s birthday include numerous subjects of interest to 17th c. scholars, among which, "Du sacré au profane. L'évolution du français du moyen âge au siècle des lumières." This volume of over 1000 pages is organized in sections which range in subject from etymology to dialectology. Reviewer has this recommendation: "tolle lege!"

TSIAPERA, MARIA and GARON WHEELER. The Port-Royal Grammar: Sources and Influences. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 1993.

Review: S. Albrecht in Archiv 233 (1996), 441–43: Volume receives high praise for its depth of research and specialized knowledge. A solid and conclusive work, it provides both a helpful introduction to the text itself and the historical context.

TYERS, MERYL. Current Research in French Studies at Universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 23 (1995–96). Glasgow: The Society for French Studies, 1996.

17th c. literature, 43–44; alphabetical subject listing, 66–130; researcher index.

UEDING, GERT, ed. Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik. Vol. 2: Bie Eul. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994.

Review: U. Schulz Buschhaus in RF 107 (1995), 423–28: Impressive for its interdisciplinary aspects of rhetoric scholarship, this second volume of the HWR includes philosophy, jurisprudence, deconstruction and so forth. Reviewer points out uneven quality and offers corrections.

VIALLON, MARIE F. Catalogue du Fonds italien XVIIe siècle Auguste Boullier de la Bibliothèque municipale de Roanne. Saint-Etienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 1995.