Table of Contents

THE FRENCH STAGE: Psyche: The stakes of a collaboration, John Powell; L'Impromptu de Versailles: Image du theatre molieresque, Robert McBride; Les amours du roi-poete: Corneille, le sujet biblique et l'apologie du theatre, Claude Bourqui and Barbara Selmeci; 'On humanise toujours trop les heros de tragedie', Henry Phillips; L'autre aristotelicien: Heroine et soteria dans le theatre de Moliere, Angela Ryan; Du Theatre des Grecs au Theatre des Anglois: Un theatre peut en cacher un autre, Michael O'Dea; De Lope a Racine: Neron comedien, Jean-Louis Backes; Moratin et Moliere: La Comedia nueva, Suzanne Guellouz; Moliere est-il traduisible? Le cas des traductions arabes du Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Azzedine Guellouz; Cixous and Racine, Mairead Hanrahan; Samuel Beckett: no English need apply, Joseph Long; Unmaking mimesis: Yasmina Reza's Art, Noel Peacock. THEATRICALITY IN THE TEXT: The theatrical tropism of Valery's 'La soiree avec Monsieur Teste', Mary Gallagher; Behind the mask: being, performance and form in Quatre Voyageurs, Emer O'Beirne; Poupee Blonde de Patrick Modiano: un onirisme theatral et auto-ironisant, Dervila Cooke; Beyond representation: Narrative as verbal event in Bernard Noel's La Langue d'Anna, Michael Brophy; Gotham Handbook de Sophie Calle: vie et mort d'une identite hybride, Johnnie Gratton. STAGING POLITICS AND IDEAS IN WRITING: Rabelais's laughter: a political manifesto? Jean-Michel Picard; Ekphrasis, edification, and the iconography of women: the case of Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647), Derval Conroy; Madeleine-Angelique de Gomez (1684-1770): historiographer of women, Severine Genieys-Kirk; Disguise as self-defence: the veiling of true identity by the early modern female novelist, Siofra Pierse; Books and scholarship in the correspondence of Charles Drelincourt, Jane McKee; Language and Napoleonic politics: the affair of the dictionary of the Academie Francaise, 1793-1805, Hugh Gough; Causerie, conversation et litterature: le sort du salon, Barbara Wright; Letters on (post-) humanism: philosophy and allegorical fiction in the 1940s and 1990s (Blanchot, Camus, Houellebecq and Sloterdijk), Douglas Smith; Tout voir en theatre, Louis Van Delft. REPRESENTING 'OTHER' CULTURES: Trahison and the native: Flacourt's Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar (1658), Michael Harrigan; Religion and ethnography in the early Enlightenment: the native American in Lahontan and Lafitau, David Denby; Language, travel and cultural history: Jouvin de Rochefort's 'Petits dialogues' (1672-6), Jane Conroy; FOREGROUNDING FRANCO-IRISH RELATIONS: Representing Ireland through imperial eyes: a Huguenot recruitment document in 1681, Ruth Whelan; Cosmopolitanism in action: Voltaire's influence on Goldsmith in The Citizen of the World, Graham Gargett. Georges Dor (1931-2001): poete et chansonnier, Padraig O Gormaile; Une certaine idee de l'Irlande, or the professor as propagandist: Roger Chauvire's Irish fictions, Phyllis Gaffney; Index.

About the Author

Phyllis Gaffney and Michael Brophy are Senior Lecturers, and Mary Gallagher Associate Professor, in the School of Languages, Literatures and Film at University College Dublin.