- Title
- French studies and creative writing: writing self and other: 'any where out of the world'
- Creator
- Rolls, Alistair
- Relation
- Australian Journal of French Studies Vol. 48, Issue 3, p. 323-336
- Relation
- http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43%3Aaustralian-journal-of-french-studies&catid=8&Itemid=21
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This special number of AJFS is testimony not only to a developing field, that of creative writing, or l' criture cr ative, in France, but also to its academic corollary in Anglo-Saxon French Studies, the academic analysis of French creative-writing programmes, of which Fran oise Grauby is something of a pioneer. Furthermore, the intersection of these two phenomena, across two national academic discourses, throws into question the disciplinary identity of French Studies more broadly. One of the perversities of Anglo-Saxon French Studies is that they are fundamentally opposed to their French counterparts. Clearly, there is a breadth and plurality to "French Studies", which by necessity maps onto a number of discrete disciplinary areas in France and the Francophone higher education system. To indulge a truism, if not a stereotype, we might suggest that the literary analysis stream of Anglo-Saxon French Studies, which tends to be the dominant element in Australian universities, is somehow both more and less "French" than its French counterpart. For example, the modes of analysis associated with poststructuralist and deconstructionist discourses appear far more prominent in Anglo-Saxon criticism of French literature than is the case in France; and yet, as these analyses are produced by academics steeped in the disciplinary tradition of (Anglo-Saxon) "French Studies", it is perhaps logical that they should draw on critical theories that are recognisably French. There is a way in which French-based critical theories have remained une bande part from French-based literary analysis, which has not been true of the Anglo-Saxon system in which leading figures in French Studies tend also to be prominent in critical theory circles, the two circles intersecting closely enough to make this coincidence not only likely but logical and desired.
- Subject
- French studies; creative writing; literary analysis; translation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1056323
- Identifier
- uon:16023
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-9468
- Language
- eng
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