Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought.Part 1: Interrogating FormChapter 1: Peter Read, ‘Fixé par les cris des hirondelles au vol géométrique du désir’ (Picasso, 7th June 1936): Patterns and Permutations in Picasso’s Writing.Chapter 2: Ann Jefferson, A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s FranceChapter 3: Diana Knight, ‘Faire ceci ou faire cela?’: Barthes and the Choice of FormChapter 4: Johnnie Gratton, The Eclipse of Form in Roland Barthes’ La Chambre ClaireChapter 5: Mairéad Hanrahan, Going on, or Achieving Interruption: Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noirPart 2: Form and Life WritingChapter 6: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Narratives of Forgetting: Memory and Literary FormChapter 7: Shirley Jordan, The Time of our Lives: Repetition, Variation and Fragmentation in French Women’s Life WritingChapter 8: Charles Forsdick, Vertical Travel, Listing and the Enumeration of the EverydayChapter 9: Patrick Crowley, Eugène Savitzkaya: Fictional Forms of RemembranceChapter 10: Ian Maclaclan, A Voice Takes Form: The Sounds of Autobiography in Louis-René des Forêts’s Poèmes de Samuel WoodPart 3: Form and Social ExperienceChapter 11: Eddie Hughes, Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier EribonChapter 12: Celia Britton, Metaphor, Parody and Madness: Two Readings of Marie Chauvet’s FolieChapter 13: Alison Finch, Aesthetic Form and Social ‘Form’ in À la recherche du temps perdu: Proust on TasteChapter 14: Michael Lucey, ‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’: Proust with BourdieuPart 4: Forms and Formless: World, Movement, ThoughtChapter 15: Emily McLaughlin, How To Think Like a Plant? Ponge, Jaccottet, GuillevicChapter 16: Patrick O’Donovan, Certeau’s Landscapes: What can Images do?Chapter 17: Eric Robertson, À la dérive: Drifting in and out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to BergvallChapter 18: Patrick ffrench, Convulsive Form: Benjamin, Bataille and the Innervated BodyChapter 19: Michael Syrotinski, Form and energeia in the Work of Barbara Cassin (For M)

Reviews'This volume is of a very high calibre. It offers a broad cross-section of readings in French and Francophone Studies, bringing together a vibrant range of texts through a collective endeavor to rethink the concept and practice of literary form.'Anna-Louise Milne, The University of London Institute in Paris

Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought.Part 1: Interrogating FormChapter 1: Peter Read, ‘Fixé par les cris des hirondelles au vol géométrique du désir’ (Picasso, 7th June 1936): Patterns and Permutations in Picasso’s Writing.Chapter 2: Ann Jefferson, A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s FranceChapter 3: Diana Knight, ‘Faire ceci ou faire cela?’: Barthes and the Choice of FormChapter 4: Johnnie Gratton, The Eclipse of Form in Roland Barthes’ La Chambre ClaireChapter 5: Mairéad Hanrahan, Going on, or Achieving Interruption: Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noirPart 2: Form and Life WritingChapter 6: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Narratives of Forgetting: Memory and Literary FormChapter 7: Shirley Jordan, The Time of our Lives: Repetition, Variation and Fragmentation in French Women’s Life WritingChapter 8: Charles Forsdick, Vertical Travel, Listing and the Enumeration of the EverydayChapter 9: Patrick Crowley, Eugène Savitzkaya: Fictional Forms of RemembranceChapter 10: Ian Maclaclan, A Voice Takes Form: The Sounds of Autobiography in Louis-René des Forêts’s Poèmes de Samuel WoodPart 3: Form and Social ExperienceChapter 11: Eddie Hughes, Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier EribonChapter 12: Celia Britton, Metaphor, Parody and Madness: Two Readings of Marie Chauvet’s FolieChapter 13: Alison Finch, Aesthetic Form and Social ‘Form’ in À la recherche du temps perdu: Proust on TasteChapter 14: Michael Lucey, ‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’: Proust with BourdieuPart 4: Forms and Formless: World, Movement, ThoughtChapter 15: Emily McLaughlin, How To Think Like a Plant? Ponge, Jaccottet, GuillevicChapter 16: Patrick O’Donovan, Certeau’s Landscapes: What can Images do?Chapter 17: Eric Robertson, À la dérive: Drifting in and out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to BergvallChapter 18: Patrick ffrench, Convulsive Form: Benjamin, Bataille and the Innervated BodyChapter 19: Michael Syrotinski, Form and energeia in the Work of Barbara Cassin (For M)

Reviews'This volume is of a very high calibre. It offers a broad cross-section of readings in French and Francophone Studies, bringing together a vibrant range of texts through a collective endeavor to rethink the concept and practice of literary form.'Anna-Louise Milne, The University of London Institute in Paris

Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought.Part 1: Interrogating FormChapter 1: Peter Read, ‘Fixé par les cris des hirondelles au vol géométrique du désir’ (Picasso, 7th June 1936): Patterns and Permutations in Picasso’s Writing.Chapter 2: Ann Jefferson, A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s FranceChapter 3: Diana Knight, ‘Faire ceci ou faire cela?’: Barthes and the Choice of FormChapter 4: Johnnie Gratton, The Eclipse of Form in Roland Barthes’ La Chambre ClaireChapter 5: Mairéad Hanrahan, Going on, or Achieving Interruption: Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noirPart 2: Form and Life WritingChapter 6: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Narratives of Forgetting: Memory and Literary FormChapter 7: Shirley Jordan, The Time of our Lives: Repetition, Variation and Fragmentation in French Women’s Life WritingChapter 8: Charles Forsdick, Vertical Travel, Listing and the Enumeration of the EverydayChapter 9: Patrick Crowley, Eugène Savitzkaya: Fictional Forms of RemembranceChapter 10: Ian Maclaclan, A Voice Takes Form: The Sounds of Autobiography in Louis-René des Forêts’s Poèmes de Samuel WoodPart 3: Form and Social ExperienceChapter 11: Eddie Hughes, Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier EribonChapter 12: Celia Britton, Metaphor, Parody and Madness: Two Readings of Marie Chauvet’s FolieChapter 13: Alison Finch, Aesthetic Form and Social ‘Form’ in À la recherche du temps perdu: Proust on TasteChapter 14: Michael Lucey, ‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’: Proust with BourdieuPart 4: Forms and Formless: World, Movement, ThoughtChapter 15: Emily McLaughlin, How To Think Like a Plant? Ponge, Jaccottet, GuillevicChapter 16: Patrick O’Donovan, Certeau’s Landscapes: What can Images do?Chapter 17: Eric Robertson, À la dérive: Drifting in and out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to BergvallChapter 18: Patrick ffrench, Convulsive Form: Benjamin, Bataille and the Innervated BodyChapter 19: Michael Syrotinski, Form and energeia in the Work of Barbara Cassin (For M)

Reviews'This volume is of a very high calibre. It offers a broad cross-section of readings in French and Francophone Studies, bringing together a vibrant range of texts through a collective endeavor to rethink the concept and practice of literary form.'Anna-Louise Milne, The University of London Institute in Paris