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Review on: Lucie Desjardins, dir., Les Figures du monde renversé de la Renaissance aux Lumières: Homage à Louis Van Delft

Lucie Desjardins, dir., Les Figures du monde renversé de la Renaissance aux Lumières: Homage à Louis Van Delft. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2013. 434 pp. 45.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-8696-3.

This review may be found on the H-France website at: http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no207leelah.pdf

 

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REVIEW ON: Morrissey, THE ECONOMY OF GLORY: FROM ANCIEN RÉGIME FRANCE TO THE FALL OF NAPOLEON

Robert Morrissey, The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 272 pp. References, index, illustrations. $45.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-92458-8 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-226-92459-5 (e-book).

This review may be found on the H-France website at: http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no206harsanyi.pdf

 

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REVIEW ON: Gesa Stedman, Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington,Vt.: Ashgate, 2013 (Source: H France)
This review may be found on the H-France website at: http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no208melehy.pdf

 

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La tragédie et ses marges: conférence de Christian BIET vendredi 16 Janvier

La dernière séance du séminaire  "La tragédie et ses marges. Penser le théâtre sérieux en Europe (XVIe-XVIIe siècle)" se tiendra le vendredi 16 janvier de 17h à 19h, autour d'une conférence de 

 

Christian Biet (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre- IUF)

« La supposée marginalité de la tragédie du tout premier XVIIe siècle français.

Tragédie « shakespearienne » ? tragédie sanglante ? tragédie d’expérimentation dramaturgique et scénique ? »

La séance aura lieu à l'Institut d'Études Hispaniques, 31 rue Gay Lussac, 75005 Paris, 1e étage, salle 13. Le colloque final se déroulera du 19 au 21 mars 2015, à la Sorbonne et au Collège d'Espagne. 

 

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Moliere Week on the Radio (Source: Dramatica listserve)
France Inter - La Marche de l'Histoire, Jean Lebrun
Lundi 29 décembre - Vendredi 2 janvier
13h30 - 14h
 
Semaine Molière,
avec Georges Forestier
 
 
Quel comédien se cache derrière l'image romanesque qu'Ariane Mnouchkine a donnée de Molière ? Comment les personnages du dramaturge sont-ils récupérés, au XIXe siècle, par l'idéologie républicaine ? Prenant appui sur des sources écrites contemporaines de Molière et sur de riches archives notariales, Georges Forestier déconstruit les représentations que nous avons de Molière.
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ACLA First Book Subvention Program
The ACLA Executive Board is pleased to announce our new First Book Subvention Program. This program is designed for ACLA-member authors who require subventions to ensure publication of their first books. The ACLA will award up to $10,500 in subventions each year with up to three awards of $3,500 each.  These subventions will be awarded on a competitive basis to first-time book authors. Applicants who have already secured provisional contracts from established academic presses will be given special consideration, but a provisional contract is not a requirement for the award. Subventions will be paid directly to the press.

The deadline is January 30.

Subvention applications are now welcomed according to the following criteria: 1. The applicant must be a current ACLA member and have held ACLA membership for AT LEAST TWO YEARS prior to application (exception; if you were previously an ACLA member for at least two years and your membership has lapsed within the last twelve months and you rejoin, you will still be eligible). 2. The book in question must be the applicant's first individually-authored book (an applicant who was the editor of a previously published edited volume is eligible to apply). 3. The applicant may have a completed manuscript with a provisional contract from an established press or may be seeking a contract.  Those seeking a contract must list the presses where they plan to send their proposal and the subvention will only be awarded to a press on the list.  Exceptions may be made in rare cases, but only with prior approval of the publications committee. 4. The manuscript must be in English, must make a substantial contribution to the field of Comparative Literature, and must be based on primary research in the appropriate languages. 5. The press must agree to acknowledge an ACLA subvention in the front matter of the published book. 6. To receive payment, the press must agree to provide a written report on the publication of the book.  This report should be sent by e-mail to abeecrof@mailbox.sc.edu.

Application Process: Applications should consist of the following items and be submitted electronically to ACLA publications committee chair, Sophia A. McClennen, sophia.mcclennen@gmail.com. 1. A completed application form. 2. The applicant's Curriculum Vitae. 3. A standard humanities book proposal that includes a short description, a summary of the manuscript in no more than 1,000 words, chapter summaries, as well as information on the book’s relationship to the field, market, and methods. 4. A complete manuscript. 5. A letter of support from a member of the field who is not affiliated with the applicant’s degree granting institution, current place of employment, or dissertation committee.  The letter should be sent directly to the publications committee chair by the recommender. Applications will be reviewed by the ACLA publications committee in consultation with the Executive Board. Decisions will be final.

 
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American Comparative Literature Association

Dept of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
1620 College St Rm 813A

Columbia, SC 29208

 

 

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