http://hdl.handle.net/2262/180 French (Scholarly Publications) Mon, 20 May 2013 11:46:16 GMT 2013-05-20T11:46:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60481 Title: Les Rencontres des Muses: italianisme et anti-italianisme dans les lettres françaises de la fin du XVIe siècle (Geneva, Slatkine, 1992) Author: ALYN-STACEY, SARAH ELIZABETH Abstract: In this enlightening and comprehensive study, Jean Balsamo questions several traditional notions concerning Italy's influence on French Renaissance literature, notably the view that although it was at first positive, towards the end of the sixteenth century it served only to corrupt. He focuses on three major aspects: the rivalry between French and Italian writers, translation's role in the assimilation of Italian influences, and the related aspiration to a linguistic and cultural renewal underlying French literary initiatives of the period. Balsamo's examination is well supported by reference to works of the time, and although it concentrates on the period 1570-I600, when anti-Italianism was supposedly particularly intense, these parameters are modified with discernment. Description: PUBLISHED Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60481 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60480 Title: Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (ed.), Hélisenne de Crenne : les angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d amour, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne University Press, 2005 Author: ALYN-STACEY, SARAH ELIZABETH Abstract: The first work of Marguerite Briet, known as Helisenne de Crenne, was the moralizing prose narrative Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procedent d'amour, and it is, with good reason, recognized as one of the most significant texts of the early French Renaissance. Published first in 1538 (Paris: Denis Janot) and frequently re-edited up to 1560, it is a work on which critical attention has, quite rightly, focused over the last few decades as it is highly significant to an understanding of the narrative genre's development. Description: PUBLISHED Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60480 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60479 Title: Jane Conroy (ed.) "Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon" Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009 Author: ALYN-STACEY, SARAH ELIZABETH Abstract: It is with some circumspection that this particular reviewer approaches a collection of articles “in honour ” of someone. The danger of finding between the covers a disparate collection of articles aimed at eulogy and memorialisation rather than the promotion of scholarship is uppermost in one ’s mind and rightly so when such a collection makes claims to academic credentials. This collection of articles, highly diverse in both tone and content, successfully navigates a balanced course between honouring an individual of great merit and presenting significant scholarship in the field of Franco-Irish relations from the seventeenth century through to the present. Description: PUBLISHED Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60479 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/56826 Title: Only connect Author: WRIGHT, BARBARA Editor: Erik De Corte & Jens Erik Fenstad Abstract: Synthesize and conclude: this is the brief which I was given in relation to the foregoing proceedings. A fascinating, though daunting, task. To synthesize inevitably involves a degree of subjectivity and, as Flaubert sagely adumbrated, to conclude is folly. On the supposition that all of our hypotheses are working hypotheses, I shall make the following observations, in the hope that they may attract others and that the on‑going debate may be enhanced and carried forward. We live in a world which has the illusion of having fulfilled the dream of the Enlightenment. The wonders of technology have opened amazingly new horizons, but our ‘brave, new world’ is neither as ‘brave’ nor as ‘new’ as it is often presented. ‘Interdisciplinarity’ has become a buzz‑word for administrators as well as for academic planners, eager to economize by letting an entire subject‑area drop off the table without being noticed, blithely ignoring the fact that countless others before us were polymaths and that the universal learning of the Renaissance man has for centuries been the bedrock of Western civilization. Nor is this new technological world all that ‘brave’, containing, as we shall see, various threats to democracy. Description: PUBLISHED Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/56826 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/40111 Title: "The Future of the Front National in France" Author: ARNOLD, EDWARD JAMES Abstract: The Future of the Front National in France The movement is not a spent force which will disappear with the demise of J-M Le Pen despite poor electoral results since 2007. Sarkozy appears to have occupied the political space and rhetoric of the FN with themes of cross-class appeal, and has infused his presidency with Gaullist energy on the international scene, but the conditions that have led in the past to the political success of the National Front are still present within the fabric of French society and politics. The decline in support for the FN is a symptom of an apparent return of the electors to supporting government parties. In 2007, votes for far left movements were also historically low. The conditions that have led in the past to the political success of the National Front are still present within the fabric of French society and politics. The social and urban fracture will be exacerbated by the recession that is on the horizon, and much higher levels of unemployment which has fed frontist success the the past is inevitable (cf the article by Hugues Lagrange, Emeutes, rénovation urbaine et aliénation politique, Revue française de science politique, juin 2008). The radicalisation of French muslims and themes of insecurity exacerbate tensions that feeds support for the FN as do thecurrent poliical and economic crises. The tactical nature of voting in the last election gave Sarkozy his victory, and reflects a rejection of the political class that is being reinforced by the "Sarko show". This score was hardly what could be described as a landslide (53.06%, or 2,192,698 votes more) and can be partly interpreted as an attempt to punish establishment figures, and to sanction the parliamentary Left for its failure to win a third consecutive presidential election and to prevent the apparent implosion of the parliamentary and radical left. This was manifested by support for the centrist Bayrou. In the first round of the presidential 34 elections, Sarkozy failed to make inroads among the youngest voters and unskilled manual voters, the prime supporters of the FN up until recently (cf Perrineau). Some of his policies towards young people in the banlieues and his support for what is seen to be high-handed police tactics against these groups have been seen to exacerbate tensions within French society. His attacks on republican values and an ambiguous attitude on separation of church and state is seen as an apparent promotion of communautarisme. The study of opinion polls shows clearly that a sizeable proportion of those interviewed have very little confidence or trust in political parties or politicians, and consider many of them to be corrupt (cf Chirac, Dumas etc). This theme of corruption has consistently fed the political fortunes of Le Pen since the mid 1980s. These are issues among others that have fed dissatisfaction with what Le Pen has called "l'établissement" and -given the right context of societal dislocation and crisis- accounts for the past success of the Front National as a political force. The troubled economic times that we are now living in can quickly erode the enthusiasm for new political modes such as Sarkozyism and reopen the way for extremist politics as embodied by the FN. Description: PRESENTED; Trinity College Dublin Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/40111 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z