Paradigms of Memory

The Editors: Martine Guyot-Bender is Associate Professor of French at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. She is the author of Mémoire en dérive and articles on twentieth-century French and Francophone literature. William VanderWolk is Professor of French at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He is the author of Flaubert Remembers (Peter Lang, 1990), Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano, and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature.

Contents: Martine Guyot-Bender / William VanderWolk: Editors' Introduction - Martine Guyot-Bender: Making Sense of Narrative Ambiguity - Marja Warehime: Returning to the Scene of the Crime - William VanderWolk: Whose Memory is This? Modiano's Historical Method - Alan Morris: A Photographic Memory: Ambiguity in Chien de printemps- Junate Kaminskas: Modiano's Female Trilogy: Voyage de Noces, Fleurs de ruine, Un Cirque passe - Hervé Allet: The Names of the Fathers: Onomastics and Intertextuality in La Place de l'étoile - Nathalie Rachlin: The Modiano Syndrome: 1968-1997 - Joseph Golsan: Author, Identity and the Voice of History in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit and Boulevards de ceinture - Juliette Dickstein: Inventing French Memory: The Legacy of the Occupation in the Works of Patrick Modiano: 1968-1988 - Raymond Bach: Recurring Characters in Modiano's Oeuvre.