Essays in French Literature and Culture

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Essays in French Literature and Culture
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Discipline
LanguageFrench, English
Edited byHélène Jaccomard
Publication details
Former name(s)
Essays in French Literature
History1964-present
Publisher
The University of Western Australia
FrequencyYearly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Essays Fr. Lit. Cult.
Indexing
ISSN1835-7040
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Essays in French Literature and Culture is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Western Australia.[1] It was established in 1964 by James R. Lawler, the Foundation Chair of French Studies at this university. The journal focuses on French Studies, in a broad sense. From its inception, the journal's main aim has been "to draw attention to broader aspects of French literary culture".[2] The Journal is currently available in print, electronically (pdf) and online.

History[]

The journal was established in 1964 by James R. Lawler.[3] In 1975, the journal's editorship passed on to Denis Boak who, in a commemorative issue celebrating the journal's fiftieth anniversary, argues that Essays in French Literature was a "free-standing intellectual endeavour" providing "an extra outlet for young scholars to publish".[4] He was succeeded by Andrew Hunwick in 1995. Hélène Jaccomard took over in 2007.
A growing interest in cultural studies in the field of French studies led to a widening of the scope of the journal and its renaming in 2008. The new title reflects this wider emphasis on culture.
In the context of the crisis in academic publishing,[5] and as one of only two French Studies academic journals in Australia, Essays in French Literature and Culture has shown a remarkable ability to survive thanks to the quality of the articles it stringently selects, and its widening readership which is its only financial means of support.
The journal's importance is acknowledged by the Australian Society of French Studies[6] and Informit database.[7]

Editorial Board[]

Past issues[]

In the first forty years of its existence, the journal published essays spontaneously submitted to the Editors. Since 2007 many issues have been thematic and guest edited by experts in the field. All the contributions go through a thorough double-blind evaluation by independent assessors. Themes recently covered by the journal:

- issue nr 45: Foreign? Writing in French (2008)
- issue nr 46 : Sports (2009)
- issue nr 47 and 48: Landscape and Memory (2010 and 2011)
- issue nr 49: The Paratext (2012)
- issue nr 50: Playtime (2013)
- issue nr 51: Représenter la Grande Guerre: les écrivains et les artistes face à l’épreuve (1914-1920) (2014)
- issue nr 52: Diaspora, Afropolitanism and Congolese Literature (2015)
- issue nr 53: Conflict, dialogue and representation (2016)
- issue nr 54: Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds (France 1939–1945) (2017)
- issue nr 55 : Miscellaneous (2018).
- issue nr 56 : “Mines de rien”. L’Antillaise et l’Afropéenne face aux tropologies, entre mythes et réalités au fil du temps (2019)
- issue nr 57 : Identité et Environnement

Current issue nr 58 (2021)[]

Theme: The Critical Medical Humanities, Guest editors: Professor Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Aine Larkin, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

Enda McCaffrey and Áine Larkin, Guest editord, Introduction
Kit Yee Wong, Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle
Aina Marti-Balcells, Home, Degeneration and Decadence: Discursive Connections between Bénédict Morel and Eugène Viollet-le-duc
Sarah Jones, Zola’s Fortunate Man: Rereading Le Docteur Pascal as a Country Doctor
Larry Duffy, Pathographical and Pathological in Zola and Proust
Áine Larkin, Philippe Vigand on Disability, Masculinity, and Ecology
Silvia Rossi, Patients: Reformers or Society’s Waste? A Reflection on the Place of People Living with Cancer in our Society
Alison Williams, “Acquiers toy parfaicte cognoissance de l’aultre monde, qui est l’homme”: Rabelais, the History of Medicine, and Medical Humanism
Steven Wilson, Digital Autopathography: Relational Modes of Illness Writing in Marie-Dominique Arrighi’s K, histoires de crabe
Anna Elsner, In the Margins: Louis Wolfson, Language, Literature, and a Dying Mother
Katie Jones, Contemporary French Fictions of Suicide: A Medical Humanities Approach
Benjamin Dalton, The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural Therapeutics

Next Issues[]

  • Issue 59 (2022) Retranslation revisited/La Retraduction revisitée (closed)
  • Issue 60 (2023) Matter of taste (open)

Abstracting and indexing[]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,[8] and EBSCO and ProQuest databases.

References[]

  1. ^ "European Languages and Studies". The University of Western Australia.
  2. ^ Boak, Denis. "Reminiscences of a past editor" Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2013, ix.
  3. ^ The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Annual report 2013–14, p.35.
  4. ^ Boak, Denis. "Reminiscences of a past editor" Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2013, vii.
  5. ^ Joanie Lavoie and Dominique Bérubé, Crisis in academic publishing, June 19, 2012.https://phys.org/news/2012-06-crisis-academic-publishing.html
  6. ^ ASFS.https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2017/10/09/essays-in-french-literature-and-culture-54/
  7. ^ Informit.http://search.informit.com.au/browseJournalTitle;res=IELHSS;issn=1835-7040
  8. ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

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