Variété: Perspectives in French Literature, Society and Culture

The Editor: Born in 1942, Marie Ramsland is a lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle, Australia after obtaining her Doctoral degree that investigated the spiritual journey of the protagonist in the novels of Michel Tournier, under the supervision of Professor Ken Dutton.

Contents: John Ramsland: Foreword - Dominique Girard: Préface - Marie Ramsland: Introduction - Lee Zaunders: Portraits - Ron Laura: A Biographical Sketch of a Scholar and a Gentleman - Leith Morton: The Mind of Ken Dutton as Imaginato in a Suite of Twenty-Five Poems - Alan Barcan: French in Austalian Schools - Gay Reeves: Wyndham's Legacy to French: Forty Years in the Wilderness? - Les Murray: Poems - Glynnis Cropp: The Figure of Hercules in the Medieval French Translations of the Consolatio Philosophiae - W. McKenna/J. Burrows/A. Antonia: Beckett's Molloy : Computational Stylistics and the Meaning of Translation - Brian McCarthy: La phonétique d'antan - John and Marie Ramsland: The Paris Olympics 1924: the French connection - David Chapman: Physiques for La Patrie: Edmond Desbonnet and French Physical Culture - Neil Morpeth: Imagine the Genii and Historians: The Legacy of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre - Anne Bates: Words for life: Sartre's narrative and Christian narrative - Marie-Laure Vuaille: L.L.L. (Louise Labé Lyonnaise): poétesse et féministe avant la lettre - Maurice Blackman: Aurélia and the 'soleil noir de la mélancolie': the evolution and psychological context of an obsessive metaphor in Gérard de Nerval - Jean-Paul Delamotte: Ce que Dieu a uni; Relations de bon voisinage - C. J. Gossip: Diversité et unité du Misanthrope : d'une aristocratie à l'autre - Robert White: People's impresario: Henri Beaulieu and the 'théâtre du peuple' - F. Walla: Les Contes du lapidaire: a Veritable Quarry for the Viennese Stage - Angus Martin: Le Rêve océanien en France et le récit exotique à la veille de la Révolution: le Chant tahïtien (1786) de Jean-Antoine-Joseph de Bry - Joe Hardwick: Be my guest: Invitation to a re-reading of Simone de Beauvoir's L'Invitée - Hilary Hutchinson: Disillusion and Disappointment in the writings of Annie Ernaux - Pierre Daprini: François Mauriac et L'Imitation des bourreaux de Jésus-Christ - Keith Goesch: Mauriac and The English - Margaret Sankey: Between and across cultures: the language of memory in Andreï Makine's Le Testament français - Hélène Savoie: Poems - Leith Morton: Courtly Love in France and Japan: an Introductory Study - Elizabeth Guilford: French Society and the Arts under the Early Valois Kings 1328-1453 - David and Annie Bancroft: Nevers et la faïence.