Yale French Studies Books

Delve into the rich tapestry of French thought and culture with Yale French Studies. Explore groundbreaking essays and analyses spanning literature, film, and philosophy. A stimulating collection for Francophiles and scholars alike.

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Yale French Studies Series in Order:

  1. Toward a Definition of Surrealism (1924)
  2. French Criticism: Some Lingering Tendencies (1947)
  3. The Child's Part (1949)
  4. Literature and Science (1951)
  5. Current Trends in French Literature (1954)
  6. French-American Relations (1957)
  7. Autobiography in France (1959)
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1961)
  9. The Writer in Society (1961)
  10. Comedy (1963)
  11. French Theatre Since 1930 (1963)
  12. Psychoanalysis and Literature (1966)
  13. Surrealism (1966)
  14. Structuralism (1966)
  15. Game, Play, Literature (1968)
  16. Jean-Paul Sartre (1969)
  17. Literature and Revolution (1969)
  18. Film and Literature (1970)
  19. Morality and Art (1971)
  20. The Myth of Revolution (1972)
  21. Toward a Theory of Description (1972)
  22. What is Literature? (1973)
  23. Structural Studies on Proust (1973)
  24. Confrontations (1974)
  25. The French Fifties (1975)
  26. Exploding Language (1976)
  27. Formalism (1977)
  28. Montaigne (1977)
  29. Rhetoric and Culture (1978)
  30. Ecriture Feminine (1981)
  31. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (1981)
  32. The Pedagogical Imperative: Teaching as a Literary Genre (1982)
  33. Cinema/Sound (1983)
  34. The Text of Christopher Columbus (1985)
  35. Literature and the Ethical Question (1985)
  36. Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context (1986)
  37. Reading de Man Reading (1988)
  38. The Politics of Tradition: Placing Women in French Literature (1989)
  39. Witnessing Memory: The Discourse of Trauma (1991)
  40. Rethinking History: Time, Space, and Subjectivity (1991)
  41. Contexts: Style and Values in Medieval Literature (1991)
  42. Jean Genet: Criminal & Critic (1993)
  43. Literature and the Body (1993)
  44. Geneses: Genealogies of Literature and Art (1993)
  45. Another Look at Ethnopoetics (1994)
  46. Fragments of History (1994)
  47. Space and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture (1994)
  48. Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory (1995)
  49. Corps/Décors: Eros, Religion, and the Sensuous in Literature (1995)
  50. The Place of Maurice Blanchot (1995)
  51. French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons (1996)
  52. Theatricality (1996)
  53. Strategies of Desire (1996)
  54. Moves (1997)
  55. Postcolonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadism (1997)
  56. Encounters with Levinas (1998)
  57. Drafts (1998)
  58. Yale French Studies, No. 95-96. Rereading Allegory: Essays in Memory of Daniel Poirion (1999)
  59. Defining the Political (1999)
  60. Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial and Postcolonial Bodies (1999)
  61. Conversations with Blanchot: Barthes, Levinas, Lacan, and Others (2000)
  62. Jean-Luc Nancy: Re-thinking Community (2000)
  63. Opera: What's the Story? (2001)
  64. Fragments of Revolution (2001)
  65. Sexuality and Syphilis: France and the Shaping of Modernity (2001)
  66. Myth and Memory in the Wake of the Holocaust (2001)
  67. Future Libraries (2001)
  68. Crime Fictions (2002)
  69. Pereckonings: Reading Perec Now (2002)
  70. Lying (2002)
  71. French Education: Fifty Years Later (2003)
  72. New Spaces for French Culture? (2003)
  73. What's Left of Theory? (2004)
  74. The French Noir (2004)
  75. Thinking Literature: Readings in Ricœur (2004)
  76. China after the Death of Mao (2005)
  77. The French Imperial System: Between Theory and Practice (2005)
  78. Belonging: Naturalness, Identity, and Place (2006)
  79. Violence at Screen (2006)
  80. Stylistics Today (2006)
  81. Translation's Edge (2007)
  82. Fidelity (2007)
  83. In Face of the Other: Levinas and Literature (2008)
  84. God and Politics (2008)
  85. French Global: A New Approach to French Studies (2009)
  86. What Is the Avant-Garde Now? (2009)
  87. Hinges: Meditations on the Door (2010)
  88. Transgenerational Trauma: Memory, Transmission, and the Postmemory Generation (2010)
  89. The Event of Literature (2011)
  90. Georges Bataille after Lascaux (2011)
  91. The Question of Genre: Bakhtin, Genre Theory, and New Media (2012)
  92. The Documentary Film in Postwar France (2012)
  93. Poets on Poets (2013)
  94. Derrida, Now: Current Research in Derrida Studies (2013)
  95. After Humanism (2014)
  96. What is Literary History? (2014)
  97. War (2015)
  98. In Memory of Jacques Derrida (2015)
  99. The Secular Enlightenment (2016)
  100. Camus, Today (2016)
  101. The Art of Education (2017)
  102. Thinking Animals (2017)
  103. Global Prehistory (2018)
  104. Infrastructures (2018)
  105. The Ends of Freedom (2019)
  106. Foucault, Now (2019)
  107. After Psychoanalysis (2020)
  108. Reading and Its Others (2020)
  109. Art and Politics (2021)
  110. Before Cinema (2021)
  111. Archives of Haiti (2022)
  112. Translation and Revolution (2022)
  113. Queer Futures (2023)
  114. Sound and Sense (2023)