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• See Ferey, E. & S. Fort, below.

BOHME-ECKERT, GABRIELE. "De l'ancien français au français moderne: l'évolution vers un type "à part" à l'époque du moyen français." LF 141 (2004), 56–68.

Summary of the author's doctoral thesis. Demonstrates that while Old French belongs to the "Romance typus," Middle French shows a trend toward a "French typus" that is strengthened throughout the 17th century and beyond; this approach also helps explain the development of modern Standard French.

CABANTOUS, ALAIN. Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Trans. Eric Rauth. New York: Columbia UP, 2002.

Review: Anon in FMLA 39 (2003): 91: Focus is France in this "meticulous and very readable" study. Emphasis is on the "interface" between blasphemy and civility.

CHAUVEAU, JEAN-PAUL. Walther von Wartburg. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Eine Darstellung des galloromanischen Sprachschatzes. Vol. 22 (2e partie): numbers 159, 160. Table des matières et index des concepts des volumes 21–23. Basel: Zbinden, 2001.

Review: M. Pfister in ZRP 119 (2003): 331–333: Welcome continuation of the FEW with alphabetical index and overview of the Hallig-Wartburg conception. Praised as linguistically excellent, it satisfies the newest demands of lexicographic and etymological research.

COMBAZ, ANDRE. "Vaugelas, ce fameux Savoyard qui a réformé la langue française." S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 39–51.

The author of the recent biography of Vaugelas (Klincksieck, 2000) offers here a succinct history of Vaugelas and reflects on the "racines et les raisons de sa passion pour le français" (39). Demonstrates how Vaugelas is both one of the principal "artisans" of the Grand Siècle's "essor culturel" and its "écho intelligent" (400). Perceptive and exceedingly engaging, Combaz's treatment allows us to discover this "âme de l'Académie Française" (40).

CURRENT RESEARCH IN FRENCH STUDIES AT UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. London and Glasgow: Society for French Studies; ed. by Meryl Tyers.

Titles of biennial printed volumes vary; last cited paper vol. was no. 24 (1997–98).

CURRENT RESEARCH IN FRENCH STUDIES AT UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. Published by Society for French Studies (sfs.ac.uk); Internet version by Intexta Web Services. Editor: David Jones, <david.h.jones@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>

DICTIONNAIRES DES XVIe ET XVIIe SIECLES. Paris: Champion électronique, 1998.

Review: E. Aschieri in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 153–154: The first CD-ROM of Champion's collection Dictionnaires et encyclopédies comprises numerous French dictionaries of the 16th and 17th c. Scholars can search these ten dictionaries, visualize the frontispieces, read the prefaces, and so forth. Reviewer explains modes of use and offers suggestions for future versions.

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, ed. Les traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle. Biblioteca della Ricerca 1 (2001).

Review: S. Costa in S Fr 46 (2002): 435–436: This review of research coordinated by Dotoli successfully demonstrates that "l'italianisme" permeated the entire 17th c. Following a lengthy literary-historical panorama by Dotoli, other contributions examine periods, genres and readers. Highly useful bibliography and "répertoire" of translations.

ERNST, GERHARD and BARBARA WOLF. Textes français privés des XVIIe et XVIIe siècles. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001.

Review: A. Lodge in RF 115 (2003): 72–74: Highly praiseworthy diplomatic transcript of chroniques and journaux from 17th and 18th centuries. Focus is on the public, "covering major international events and the most trivial faits divers" (73). The CD-ROM presentation includes "pop-up explanations" and selected pages of the original manuscripts. Of special value to linguists and historians. Lodge states that "traces of the spoken language are present, and allow us to lift the veil ever so slightly on the lost world of variation in spoken French under the Ancien Régime" (74).

FEREY, ERIC & SYLVAIN FORT, eds. Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIe–XXe siècles). Paris: PUF, for the Société d'histoire littéraire de la France. "Année 2001" issued as RHL "Hors série" vol. 103. 17th c. section, pp.72–114.

Alphabetical author and subject indices; title index by period, pp.561–700. Now issued separately from the journal, and with single pagination only. Continues the well-known "Racoeur bibliography."

FORMEL, FRANÇOIS. "Essai bibliographique [sur Saint-Simon]." Cahiers Saint-Simon, no.32 (2004): 71–78.

FOURNIER, JEAN-MARIE. "Crise de langue et conscience linguistique: la question de la règle des 24 heures." DSS 223 (2004), 251–264.

As the title suggests, the author explores this question as defined by Les Sentiments de l'Académie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid and Port-Royal's Grammaire. In her introductory summary of this article, Hélène Merlin-Kajman points out that the author "conclut [...] à une remarquable continuité, non exactement dans la langue cette fois, mais dans le champ disciplinaire, du XVIe siècle à nos jours, continuité épistémologique que l'hypothèse a priori d'un "normativisme classique" avait jusqu'à présent empêché de repérer."

GARRETT, JEFFREY. "The Legacy of the Baroque in Virtual Representations of Library Space." LQ 74.1 (2004), 42–62.

Author uses his understanding of Baroque aesthetics to propose a new vision of computer-mediated library space.

GEORGEAULT, PIERRE, MICHEL PLOURDE and HELENE DUVAL, eds. Le français au Québec: 400 ans d'histoire et de vie. Saint-Laurent (Québec): Fides, 2000.

Review: S. Vecchiato in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 504–505: Historical survey of French in Québec from its origins to the present. French is considered linguistically, but also as an "enjeu politique et symbole d'une nation" (reviewer). Some 70 linguists, historians and literary scholars contributed essays which are divided into four sections. 17th c. scholars will appreciate section I in particular: "Régime français" which focuses on linguistic unification.

HAßLER, GERDA and HANS-JOSEF NIEDEREHE, eds. Geschichte des Sprachbewußtseins in romanischen Ländern. Münster: Nodus, 2000.

Review: A. Schönberger in RF 115 (2003): 262–263: These proceedings of a section of the meeting Romania I (Jena, 1997) examines the history of language consciousness in Romance countries. 17th c. scholars will appreciate contributions on early grammars.

HAßLER, GERDA and PETER SCHMITTER, eds. Sprachdiskussion und Beschreibung von Sprachen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Münster: Nodus, 1999.

Review: A. Schönberger in RF 115 (2003): 263–265: These proceedings of the 10th international conference of the scholarly society of the History of Linguistics (June 1997, Potsdam) includes 30 heterogeneous essays treating important aspects of 17th and 18th c. language (not limited to French).

HOLTUS, GÜNTER, et al., eds. Lexikon des Romanistischen Linguistik. Vol. 1. Geschichte des Faches Romanistik. Methodologie (Das Sprachsystem). Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001.

Review: F. Rainer in RF 115 (2003): 74–80: Deserving of the thanks of the entire community of Romance scholars, this first volume includes two major themes, the technical or specialist history and the linguistic system. Very comprehensive, the volume includes contributions as varied as studies on the proto-scientific phase of Romance Philology, linguistic geography, word and thing, methodology, phonetics, semiotics, text linguistics, to name only a few areas.

JARRETY, MICHEL. La Poétique. Paris: PUF, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 47 (2003): 776–777. Embracing the rhetoric of poetry since its origins in Aristotle, this rich and clear manual of the "Que sais-je" collection takes up the relationship between poetry and rhetoric, the theory of genres and the imitation of models.

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN et ALAIN VIALA, éds. De la publication. Entre Renaissance et Lumières. Paris, Fayard, 2002.

Review: F. Lagarde in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 268–270. Reviewer comments briefly on the editorial introduction and on each of the articles by A. Tarrête, M. Bombart, D. Ribard, M. Virol, J-P. Cavaillé, Cl. Girard, N. Schapira, Cl. Lévy-Lelouch, F. de Vivo, C. Callard, D. Blocker, S. Delahaye, S. Van Damne, M. Maître, C. Cazanave, and A. Lilti. "Ce suivi détaillé des chaînes de publication élabore une sociologie et une histoire de la publication, ou de la "publicité" au sens où l'entendent les auteurs, plutôt qu'une science de la littérature."

KECK, THOMAS A. Molière auf Deutsch. Eine Bibliographie deutscher übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen der Komödien Molières. Mit Kurzbeschreibungen. Hannover: Revonnah Verlag, 1996.

Review: J. Grimm in RF 115 (2003): 80–86: Grimm, himself a widely respected Molière specialist (note, for example, his 30 page bibliography of mises-en-scène of Molière in German theatrical productions for 1995–1998 in Le Nouveau Molièriste 4– 5, 1998–1999), here reviews recent publications dealing with Molière's reception in Germany. Keck's bibliography of German translations and adaptations includes entries from 1670 to the 1990s. Informative if unadorned, Keck's work is a first-rate tool for researchers.

KLAPP, OTTO. Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. Ed. by Astrid Klapp-Lehrman. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann. (Begun in 1956). Vol. 39 "2001," publ. 2002: 17th c. section, pp. 307–80. Vol. 40 "2002," publ. 2003: 17th section, pp. 334–413. Vol. 41 (2003) forthcoming.

KRAMER, MICHAEL, éd. La Comédie de proverbes. Pièce comique d'après l'édition princeps de 1633. Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: C. Mazouer in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 270–272. "La Comédie de proverbes intéresse au premier chef les historiens de la langue. Le travail de Michael Kramer répond à leur attente."

LORIOT-RAYMER, GISELE, ed.. "Dissertations in Progress," FR 77, no. 2 (2003), 17th c. entries, p. 456 (in progress), p.460 (defended).

39th annual listing of French and Francophone titles. Cross-referenced; is a supplement to previous editions.

MANNING, JOHN. The Emblem. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.

Review: D. Russell in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1234–1236: Judged "learned," "witty," and "extremely stimulating," the volume is "a truly new look at emblems and emblem books by a knowledgeable and eloquent specialist" (1234–1236). Organization is thematic and filled with rich illustrations; however, Manning "devotes relatively little space to French emblematics in his text" (1235).

MARCHETTE, MARILLA. Retorica e linguaggio nel secolo des Lumi. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2002.

Review: P. Paissa in S Fr 47 (2003): 767: Focus is on 18th c. but an important chapter is devoted to Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique and the myth of the '"génie français' se basant sur l'équilibre de la logique et de la grammaire, parfaitement illustré dans la langue du siècle de Louis XIV." (qtd by Paissa, 767).

MARTINEZ DE BUJANDA, JESUS, ed. Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600–1966. Montréal/Genève: Médiaspaul/Droz, 2002.

Review: BCLF 647 (2003), 6: "L'Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600–1966 est le onzième et dernier volume de la collection 'Index des livres interdits', commencée en 1985 et publiée par le Centre d'études de la Renaissance de l'université de Sherbrooke (Canada)." Un ouvrage "extrêmement précieux, tant pour les historiens de cette période que pour les spécialistes du livre et de l'édition, ceux de l'histoire des mentalités, des doctrines religieuses, politiques ou scientifiques, doctrines dont la réception dans l'opinion peut être appréhendée et analysée à travers les condamnations dont elles ont fait l'objet de la part des autorités ecclésiastiques."

MELLOT, JEAN-DOMINIQUE, ELISABETH QUEVAL, avec la collab. d'ANTOINE MONAQUE. Répertoire d'imprimeurs-libraires (vers 1500–vers 1800). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004.

Review: BCLF 659 (2004), 6–7: Catalogue des ouvrages anonymes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle publié par la Bibliothèque nationale pour la première fois en 1988 et suivi des éditions de 1991 et de 1997. L'édition de 2001 (dont la "publication a été retardée par des problèmes techniques") "compte 5200 notices." C'est "un instrument d'identification essentiel par la richesse de ses informations, apportant une aide très précieuse aux professionnels des bibliothèques et de la librairie, aux bibliographes, cherchers et historiens du livre."

MEYER, MARIE-THERESE, MARIE-PIERRE BIANCHI, et NANCY ANAKESA, avec la collab. de LISE SAVOURAT. Bibliographie théâtrale: outils pour la constitution d'un fonds spécialisé. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2002.

Review: BCLF 648 (2003), 6: Un outil "très complet" s'appuyant sur les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (département des Arts du spectacle) et du Registre national du théâtre: "Elle rassemble environ six cents notices correspondant toutes à des titres disponibles en librairie et ne prend en compte que les ouvrages documentaires, pas les pièces de théâtre. Elle est délibérément sélective et ne décrit que les publications les plus marquantes, ce qui est un gage de qualité pour l'utilisateur."

MUNISCHETTI, VITO CASTIGLIONE, GIOVANNI DOTOLI, and ROGER MUSNIK. Bibliographie du voyage français en Italie du moyen âge à 1914. Fasano/ Paris: Schena/PUF-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: C. Forsdick in MLR 99.2 (2004), 506–07: "...travel literature is presented here as a complex, catholic genre, encompassing not only travel narratives, but also guide books, memoirs, and other accounts covering fields as diverse as history, medicine, archaeology, and entomology. The introduction is brief, and the volume presents itself modestly as being primarily a research tool."

NORMAN, LARRY F., PHILIPPE DESAN, & RICHARD STIER. Du Spectateur au lecteur-Imprimer la scène aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Cultura Straniera no. 118, Biblioteca della Ricercha, Schena Editore, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 271 (juillet-sept. 2003), 191–92: This international conference held at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library in March 2001 facilitated rich dialogues between French and Anglo-Saxon critique, French and English theater, and the theater of the 16th and 17th-centuries. Contributions examine relationships between the stage and the book with consistently high quality, with few exceptions. This collection helps us to better understand what we are talking about when we discuss the work of the great dramaturges of the period. Norman provides a learned and substantial preface entitled "Du spectateur au lecteur, ou du lecteur au spectateur?" Essays are grouped under four themes: part 1, "Perspectives théorique et historiques," which consists of three remarkable contributions by Roger Chartier, Christian Biet and Georges Forestier; part 2, "Le théâtre du XVIe siècle;" part 3, "Le cas Shakespeare;" part 4: "Le théâtre du XVIIe siècle."

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 294–297. Reviewer comments briefly on prefatory essay notes by L. Norman and on articles by R. Chartier, Ch. Biet, G. Forestier, J. Balsamo, E. Buron, A. Preda, L. Marcus, L. Erne, D. Bevington, L. Giavarini, G. Dotoli, M. Hawcroft. Although "approaches vary radically" and there is "an apparent lack of proof-reading", volume "contains much worthwhile material and deserves a place in university libraries."

NORMAND, CLAUDINE. Bouts, brins, bribes. Petite grammaire du quotidien. Orléans: Éditions Le Pli, 2002.

Review: J.-C. Coquet, Littérature 131 (sept. 2003): 125–26. Normand attempts to dispel the fear and distaste many literary critics have for linguistics with an approach that follows that of Benveniste. The author affirms that "bout, dans ses emplois répétitifs, c'est le peu qu'on arrive encore à tenir, l'extrémité qu'on veut atteindre et ces zones frontières de la sensibilité qui mettent en rapport le corps et le monde. Brin ne saisit plus du concret que ce qui est le plus mince et les sentiments les plus légers. Enfin, ce que dit bribes, dans sa rareté, c'est la prise même qui peut échapper et toute continuité se défaire." Normand argues that language tells us something about the role of the subject and the body in the production of meaning. Her book invites us into "l'emploi vivant de la langue."

PCI FULL TEXT (Periodicals Contents Index).

Provides complete text., in collaboration with ARTFL, of many important journals. Access http://pcift.chadwyck.com/ [For ex., see YEAR'S WORK (infra).]

PELLAT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. "Modernité orthographique de Port-Royal" in Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 143, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.109–123.

The differences between Port-Royal's printing activities and the practices of other Parisian printers as well as its theoretical and personal practices point to the important role the Jansenist movement played in modernizing spelling.

RANCOEUR, RENE.

See BIBLIOGRAPHIE.

ROBERTS, WILLIAM, ed. "Research in Progress." French 17 Bibliography, no. 51 (2003), pp. 153–163.

ROSEN, JEAN, ed. Majoliques européennes, reflets de l'estampe lyonnaise (XVIe–XVII siècles). Dijon: Faton, 2003.

Review: S. Frigerio-Zeniou in BHR 65,3 (2003), 753–57: "Cet ouvrage, richement illustré, recueille les contributions à deux journées d'études internationales sous la direction de Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa, tenues à Rome en 1996 et à Lyon en 1997. Elles inauguraient le programme de recherche Culture artistique et imprimerie, un des axes d'étude du centre Emile Bertaux (Lyon), qui privilégie le XVIe siècle, un moment où l'imprimerie lyonnaise est en plein essor. Les articles sont groupés par thème en quatre grands chapitres, qui introduisent d'abord le lecteur dans le monde des livres à figures lyonnais, pour passer par la suite à celui de la majolique, à Lyon et dans le reste de l'Europe et enfin à d'autres modèles gravées."

Review: C. Poke in Burlington 1215 (2004), 409: While the papers in the book come from a 1996 colloquium, also included are essays covering more recent scholarship, all of which "consider the role of graphic sources and ceramics in Lyon in its wider European context." Includes a variety of critical approaches, and "the quality of design and presentation is high [. . .] with excellent colour illustrations."

TRETHEWAY, JOHN AND J. P. SHORT. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 64 (2002). London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2004. 17th c. section, pp. 125–168.

Brief summaries combined at times with short commentaries of recently published works in French studies in the 17th century. Works are organized by author into five categories: General, Poetry, Drama, Prose, and Thought. Begun in 1929.

VIEILLARD, FRANCOISE, ed. Littérature dialectales de la France - Diversité linguistique et convergence des destins. Paris-Genève: Droz, 2001.

Review: J. Chaurand in RBPH 80,3 (2002), 1064–70: Voir surtout les articles de P. Gardy, "Autour du sonnet. Ecriture en Occitan et genres littéraires (1560–1650)" et F. Carton, "La littérature dialectale à Lille au XVIIIe siècle."

Review: M. Gosman in RBPH 81,2 (2003), 455–57: "Dans ce recueil édité par Françoise Vieillard, le lecteur trouve une orientation bibliographique fort pratique (pp.15–28) ainsi qu'une dizaine d'articles consacrés aux dialectes les plus importants. L'ensemble est plus qu'intéressant." Gosman regrette le manque d'un index analytique.

YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES. Vol. 63 (2001). Leeds: Maney Publishing, for the Modern Humanities Research Association.

Thorough coverage in 17th-century section, pp.97–132, compiled and ed. by J. Tretheway and J.P. Short. Brief summaries of books and articles on each period, which is divided into five categories: General, Poetry, Drama, Prose, and Thought. Begun 1929.

ZIMMERMANN, LAURENT. "L'impossible immanence." Littérature 130 (juin 2003): 115–125.

Does la critique immanente still have a place in contemporary literary criticism? Zimmermann sees a recent tendency to leave it behind and examines the work of Gérard Genette to offer a reevaluation of what la critique immanente can offer when understood as promoting open readings rather than closed texts.