Vari??Perspectives in French Literature, Society and Culture: Studies in Honour of Kenneth Raymond Dutton, Emeritus Professor, the University of New (Hardcover)

Contents: John Ramsland: Foreword - Dominique Girard: Preface - Marie Ramsland: Introduction - Lee Zaunders: Portraits - Ron Laura: A Biographical Sketch of a Scholar and a Gentleman - Leith Morton: The Mind of Ken Dutton as Imaginato in a Suite of Twenty-Five Poems - Alan Barcan: French in Austalian Schools - Gay Reeves: Wyndham's Legacy to French: Forty Years in the Wilderness? - Les Murray: Poems - Glynnis Cropp: The Figure of Hercules in the Medieval French Translations of the Consolatio Philosophiae - W. McKenna/J. Burrows/A. Antonia: Beckett's Molloy: Computational Stylistics and the Meaning of Translation - Brian McCarthy: La phonetique d'antan - John and Marie Ramsland: The Paris Olympics 1924: the French connection - David Chapman: Physiques for La Patrie: Edmond Desbonnet and French Physical Culture - Neil Morpeth: Imagine the Genii and Historians: The Legacy of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre - Anne Bates: Words for life: Sartre's narrative and Christian narrative - Marie-Laure Vuaille: L.L.L. (Louise Labe Lyonnaise): poetesse et feministe avant la lettre - Maurice Blackman: Aurelia and the 'soleil noir de la melancolie': the evolution and psychological context of an obsessive metaphor in Gerard de Nerval - Jean-Paul Delamotte: Ce que Dieu a uni; Relations de bon voisinage - C. J. Gossip: Diversite et unite du Misanthrope: d'une aristocratie a l'autre - Robert White: People's impresario: Henri Beaulieu and the 'theatre du peuple' - F. Walla: Les Contes du lapidaire: a Veritable Quarry for the Viennese Stage - Angus Martin: Le Reve oceanien en France et le recit exotique a la veille de la Revolution: le Chant tahitien (1786) de Jean-Antoine-Joseph de Bry - Joe Hardwick: Be my guest: Invitation to a re-reading of Simone de Beauvoir's L'Invitee - Hilary Hutchinson: Disillusion and Disappointment in the writings of Annie Ernaux - Pierre Daprini: Francois Mauriac et L'Imitation des bourreaux de Jesus-Christ - Keith Goesch: Mauriac and The English - Margaret Sankey: Between and across cultures: the language of memory in Andrei Makine's Le Testament francais - Helene Savoie: Poems - Leith Morton: Courtly Love in France and Japan: an Introductory Study - Elizabeth Guilford: French Society and the Arts under the Early Valois Kings 1328-1453 - David and Annie Bancroft: Nevers et la faience.