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Professor Susan Petit

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 S. Petit w/ M.T.'s Metaphysical Fictions

Books

Femme de papier: Françoise Mallet-Joris et son œuvre. Trans. Xavier des Vaux. Paris: Grasset, 2005. This is a translation of my Françoise Mallet-Joris, below.

Françoise Mallet-Joris. Collection Monographique Rodopi en Littérature Française Contemporaine 37. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions. Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages 37. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991.

Book Chapters

Divine Aporia

"Mallet-Joris's Divine: A Twentieth-Century Mystic." Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations About the Other. Ed. John C. Hawley. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2000. 190-207.


"Michel Tournier." The Contemporary Novel in France. Ed. William Thompson. Gainesville, FL. UP of Florida, 1995. 248-63.

"Co-Creations with God: How Michel Tournier Rewrites the Story of Eden." Reform and Counterreform: Dialectics of the World in Western Christianity since Lither. Ed. John C. Hawley. Religion and Society. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. 193-207.

Mosaic "Sexualité Alimentaire et Elémentaire: Michel Tournier's Answer to Freud." Diet and Discourse: Eating, Drinking and Literature. Ed. with intro. by Evelyn J. Hintz. Winnipeg: Mosaic, 1991. 163-77.

 

Articles: Criticism

"From the 'Pierre Oku' to Pierre Abélard: A Back Door to Subtext in Tournier's Les Météores." Nottingham French Studies 46 (2007): 55-67.

"Le Parcours littéraire de Béatrix Beck." Brèves: Actualité de la Nouvelle 68 (2003): 58-61.

"Béatrix Beck et la critique littéraire." Co-edited with Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine. Brèves: Actualité de la Nouvelle 68 (2003): 66-73.

"Proper Names and Improper Meanings in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd." Names: A Journal of Onomastics 51 (2003): 35-53.

 

"Michel Tournier, Christian Fiction, and Homosexuality: A Second Response to John M. Dunaway." Christianity and Literature 51 (2002): 255-62.

"Michel Tournier: Ecrivain Croyant?" Christianity and Literature 50 (2001): 313-26.

"La Critique religieuse de l'œuvre de Tournier." Œuvres et Critiques 23.2 (1998): 40-51.

 

Notre Dame, Paris

"The Meaning of Food and the Body in Mallet-Joris's Divine." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 8 (1997): 105-22.

"Betrayed into Motherhood and Motherhood Betrayed: Françoise Mallet-Joris's Allegra and Adriana Sposa." Simone de Beauvoir: Ten Years Later. Simone de Beauvoir Studies 13 (1996): 45-55.

"The Worlds of Béatrix Beck." Simone de Beauvoir and Other Worlds. Simone de Beauvoir Studies 12 (1995): 38-44.

"Michel Tournier and Victor Hugo: A Case of Literary Parricide." French Review 68 (1994): 251-60.

"Varieties of Sexuality in Michel Tournier's Les Météores." literature and psychology 37.1-2 (1991): 43-61.

"Psychological, Sensual, and Religious Initiation in Tournier's Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit." Children's Literature 18 (1990): 87-100.

"Salvation, the Flesh, and God in Michel Tournier's Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar." Orbis Litterarum 41 (1986): 53-65.

"Joachim de Fiore, the Holy Spirit, and Michel Tournier's Les Météores." Modern Language Studies 16 (1986): 88-100.

"Fugal Structure, Nestorianism, and St. Christopher in Michel Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes." Novel 19 (1986): 232-45.

"Gilles et Jeanne: Michel Tournier's Le Roi des aulnes revisited." Romanic Review 76 (1985): 307-15.

"The Bible as Inspiration in Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique." French Forum 9 (1984): 343-54.

 

 

Articles: Pedagogy

"Writing a Cliffhanger: A Truly Communicative Activity," FLANC Newsletter (fall 2001): 34-35.

"Critical Thinking and Introduction to Lit: A Natural Fit." inside english, March 1989: 6.

"The Scholar in the Two-Year College: Magritte's Mermaid or Chiron?" Forum 5 (1988): 9-15.

"The Computer and Freshman Composition." inside english, October 1984: 5.7.

Interviews

"Une Conversation avec Michel Tournier : de Kant, Gide et Simenon à la sexualité et aux vampires." Dalhousie French Studies 66 (spring 2004): 73-80.

" 'La véritable patrie de l'écrivain est la langue dans laquelle il écrit' : Entretien avec Françoise Mallet-Joris." Women in French Studies 11 (2003): 91-100.

Selected Book Reviews

Lignes de faille, by Nancy Huston. French Review 81 (2008): 1304-05.

Crime and Media in Contemporary France, by Deborah Streifford Reisinger. French Review 81 (2008): 1275-76.

A Riffaterrean Reading of Patrick Modiano's La Place de l'étoile: Investigating the Family Crime, by Charles O'Keefe. French Review 81 (2008): 788-89.

Le Jardin face à la France, by Janine Massard. French Review 81 (2008): 631-32.

Crime Fictions, ed. Andrea Goulet and Susanna Lee. French Review 80 (2007): 1367-68.

Hôtel des cœurs brisés, by Anne Cuneo. French Review 80 (2007): 719-20.

Portrait d'un enfant non identifié, by Françoise Mallet-Joris. French Review 80 (2006): 245-46.

Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto)biographical Fictions, by Dervila Cooke. French Review 80 (2006): 221-222.

Annie Ernaux: Une œuvre de l'entre-deux, by Fabrice Thumerel. French Review 79 (2006): 1073-74.

Une Simple Possibilité, by Silvia Baron Supervielle. French Review 79 (2006): 879-80.

Du côté de la sexualité: Proust, Yourcenar, Tournier, by Anne-Marie Gronhovd. French Review 79 (2006): 842-43.

Dit de femmes: entretiens d'écrivaines françaises, Michèle M. Magill and Katherine S. Stephenson, eds. French Review 79 (2005): 421-22.

La Joie d'Aurélie, by Patrick Grainville. French Review 79 (2005): 202-03.

Le Chercheur d'or et d'ailleurs: l'utopie de J.M.G. Le Clézio, by Jacqueline Dutton. French Review 78 (2005): 789-90.

Michel Tournier: Exploring Human Relations, by Mairi Maclean. French Review 78 (2005): 589-90.

La Maîtresse de Brecht, by Jacques-Pierre Amette. French Review 78 (2004): 185-86.

Fables of the Novel, by Warren Motte. French Review 78 (2004): 162-63.

Abbés and Corps du roi, by Pierre Michon. French Review 77 (2004): 824-25.

Plaisir d'offrir, joie de recevoir and Méfie-toi des fruits, by Anna Rozen. French Review 77 (2003): 427-28.

L'Atlantique et les amants, by Patrick Grainville. French Review 77 (2003): 195-96.

"Ut Philosophia Poesis " : Etudes sur l'œuvre de Jeanne Hyvrard, ed. Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine. Women in French Studies 11 (2003): 134-35.

Poésie et mythe dans l'œuvre de Patrick Modiano: Le fardeau du nomade, by Paul Gellings. French Review 76 (2003): 825-26.

La Petite Italie, by Béatrix Beck. French Review 76 (2003): 844-45.

A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions, by Akane Kawakami. French Review 76 (2003): 613-14.

La Séduction policière: Signes de croissance d'un genre réputé mineur: Pierre Magnan, Daniel Pennac et quelques autres, by Pierre Verdaguer. French Review 76 (2002): 408-09.

La Double Confidence, by Françoise Mallet-Joris. French Review 76 (2002): 153-54.

Ecrire l'insignifiant, by Paul Pelckmans and Bruno Tritsmans, eds. French Review 75 (2002): 793-94.

Georges Simenon Revisited, by Lucille F. Becker. French Review 75 (2001): 376-77.

Le Jour de la fin du monde, une femme me cache, by Patrick Grainville. French Review 74 (2001): 1280-81.

Sept Démons dans la ville, by Françoise Mallet-Joris. French Review 74 (2000): 179-80.

Confidences de gargouille, by Béatrix Beck. Recueillies par Valérie Marin La Meslée. French Review 73 (2000): 1002-03.

Le Tyran éternel, by Patrick Grainville. French Review 73 (1999): 163-64.

Les Voies de narcisse ou le problème du miroir chez Michel Tournier, by Eeva Lehtovuori. French Review 73 (1999): 138-39,

Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano, by William VanderWolk. French Review 72 (1999): 929-30.

Trois Auteurs and Mythologies d'hiver, by Pierre Michon. French Review 72 (1999): 938-39.

 Annie Ernaux ou l'exil intérieur, by Claire-Lise Tondeur. French Review 71 (1998): 1069-70.

La Maison dont le chien est fou, by Françoise Mallet-Joris. French Review 71 (1998): 1101-02.

Michel Tournier: Le Coq de bruyère, by Walter Redfern. French Review 70 (1997): 935-36.

La Grande Beune and Le Roi des bois, by Pierre Michon. French Review 70 (1997): 756-58.

Pour lire Le Clézio, by Jean Onimus. French Review 70 (1997): 606-07.

Michel Tournier: Bricolage and Cultural Mythology, by Martin Roberts. French Review 70 (1996): 341-42.

Tournier élémentaire, by Jonathan Krell. French Review 70 (1996): 127-28.

Moi ou autres, by Béatrix Beck. French Review 69 (1996): 681-82.

Les Anges et les faucons, by Patrick Grainville. French Reivew 69 (1995): 189-90.

The Redemption of Tragedy: The Literary Vision of Simone Weil, by Katherine T. Brueck. French Forum 20 (1995): 353-55.

Michel Tournier: La Goutte d'or, by Michael Worton, and Michel Tournier: Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique, by Margaret-Anne Hutton. French Review 68 (1995): 536-37.

Colère, by Patrick Grainville. French Review 67 (1994): 903-04.

Vulgaires vies, by Béatrix Beck. French Review 67 (1994): 549-50.

Recensement, by Béatrix Beck. French Review 65 (1992): 847-48.

Le Médianoche amoureux, by Michel Tournier. French Review 63 (1990): 583-84.

The Reign of the Theatrical Director: French Theatre: 1887-1924, by Bettina L. Knapp. Romance Quarterly 37 (1990): 363-64.

Remise de peine, by Patrick Modiano. French Review 63 (1989): 408-09.

Stella Corfou, by Béatrix Beck. French Review 62 (1989): 900-01.

Claude Simon: Les Carrefours du texte, by Ralph Sarkonak. Romance Quarterly 35 (1988): 490-91.

Claude Simon: New Directions, ed. Alastair Duncan. Romance Quarterly 35 (1988): 237-38.

Le Bleu des vitraux, by Jean Lods. French Review 61 (1988): 992-93.

Representation in Contemporary French Fiction, by Dina Sherzer. South Atlantic Review 52 (1987): 160-62.

La Goutte d'or, by Michel Tournier. French Review 60 (1987): 731.

L'Eté Rebecca. by René Lapierre. French Review 60 (1987): 431-32..

Michel Tournier, by William Cloonan. South Atlantic Review 51 (1986): 157-59.

Legacies of Anti-Semitism in France, by Jeffrey Mehlman. Romance Quarterly 33 (1986): 493-94.

Gilles et Jeanne, by Michel Tournier. French Review 59 (1985): 342-43.



Translation

"Artistic Creativity in Islamic Contexts," by Mohammed Arkoun. The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature. Ed. John C. Hawley. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 59-70. Masjid mosque

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Photography

"The Enormous Room and 'The Windows of Nowhere': Reflections on Visiting La Ferté-Macé," by John M. Gill. Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society. New Series 7, October 1998. 94-123.

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