Member News Briefs

Jean-Vincent Blanchard Named Associate Provost
Swarthmore College

Let's extend our very warm congratulations to Jean-Vincent Blanchard, the next Associate Provost of Academic Programs at Swarthmore College. Félicitations, Jean-Vincent !

Further details are available here: https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/french-professor-jean-vincent-blanchard-named-associate-provost

Post date: 6 years 1 month ago
communication de Marc Court

La communication de Marc Court -- "Former des saints: la diffusion des habitus de sainteté dans les collèges jésuites via la congrégation, la culture miraculaire et l’image" -- vient de trouver une nouvelle vie numérique: vous pouvez regarder sa communication ici. Pour les détails sur le colloque sur Le Nobletz, veuillez consulter le site web suivant: https://diocese-quimper.fr/fr/story/4200/retour-sur-le-colloque-de-michel-le-nobletz

Félicitations, Marc !

 

 

Post date: 6 years 8 months ago
New web-based critical edition (eds. de Reyff, Bourqui, Schuwey)
Université de Fribourg

Congratulations to the editorial team of Simone de Reyff, Claude Bourqui, and Christophe Schuwey, who have recently published their critical edition of Gabriel Guéret's Le Parnasse réformé (1668):

Gabriel Guéret

Le Parnasse réformé (1668)

Édition par Simone de Reyff, Claude Bourqui et Christophe Schuwey

Disponible gratuitement en ligne sous http://www.parnassereforme.fr/

 
 
Post date: 6 years 8 months ago
Francis Assaf's most recent book
University of Georgia

Congratulations are due to Francis Assaf for the recent appearance of his book

Quand les rois meurent. Les journaux de Jacques Antoine et de Jean et François Antoine et autres documents sur la maladie et la mort de Louis XIII et de Louis XIV (Tübingen : Narr/Francke/Attempto, 2018. ISBN : 978-3-8253-9. 310 p.)

Further details can be found here.

Félicitations !

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Post date: 6 years 8 months ago
Jeffrey Peters - new book
University of Kentucky - Lexington

Congratulations are in order for Jeffrey Peters, whose new book The Written World has just been published with Northwestern UP. Further details are included below:

Jeffrey N. Peters, The Written World. Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France (Northwestern, 2018).
 
From the publisher:
In The Written World, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of chora, a concept developed by Plato in the Timaeus and often construed by philosophical tradition as “space,” Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by what he calls a “chorological” approach to artistic invention. In analyses of well-known authors such as Boileau, Corneille, Molière, Racine, d’Urfé, and Lafayette, he demonstrates that the apparent absence of physical space in seventeenth-century literary depiction indicates a subtle engagement with, rather than a rejection of, evolving principles of cosmological understanding. Space is not absent in these works so much as transformed in keeping with contemporaneous developments in early modern natural philosophy.
Post date: 6 years 11 months ago