MHRA Publication

including:

Review of Joan Brandt, Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/3736571

including:

Review of Suzanne Guerlac, Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/3736424

including:

Review of Peter Tracey Connor, Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/3735655

Review of Benjamin Noys, Modern European Thinkers: Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/3735656

including:

Review of Leslie Hill, Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/3738676

‘In pursuing Bataille’s legacy ffrench seeks not simply to see where it has got to but makes an invaluable contribution to it.’ — Patrick Crowley, Modern Language Review 105.1, January 2010, 254-55 (full text online)
‘Patrick ffrench’s outstanding study provides multiple, meticulously drawn contexts in which Bataille’s writing and thought emerge in a new light, in terms both of their own development over some three decades and of their relation to other, key intellectual trajectories before, during and after that period... essential reading not only for those interested in Bataille but also for anyone concerned with the intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century France.’ — unsigned, Forum for Modern Language Studies 46.1, January 2010, 112-13

Thinking Cinema with Proust
Patrick ffrench
Moving Image 7•22 August 2018

including:

Acknowledgements Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.3

Abbreviations Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.4

Introduction Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.5

Chapter 1 Reverie in A Dark Room Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.6

Chapter 2 Camera Obscura Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.7

Chapter 3 Proust’s Projections Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.8

Chapter 4 the Cinema of Montjouvain Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.9

Chapter 5 Theory of Gesture Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.10

Chapter 6 Screen Memories/screen Histories Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.11

Conclusion Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.12

Bibliography Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.13

Index Patrick ffrench doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkxkb.14

‘ffrench masterfully argues that Proust’s novel undoes our confidence in the objectivity of memory and of history... This brief account cannot do justice to the intricacies of ffrench’s book, which will serve as a valuable resource to scholars of the novel and of the cinema.’ — Patrick M. Bray, French Studies 73.4, October 2019, 663-64 (full text online)
‘Thinking cinema ‘with and through Proust’, this brilliant book unravels manifold new connections, resonances, and echoes across diverse fields of knowledge, demonstrating amply that the chapter of Proust’s relation to cinema is far from being closed.’ — Marion Schmid, Modern Language Review 115.4, October 2020, 922-23 (full text online)