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Relief - Revue électronique de littérature française is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to francophone literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Relief is published twice a year. The issues are generally thematic in scope, but issues may also include a 'Varia' section as well as book reviews. Relief aims to critically address contemporary issues in literature, both in the realm of creative work and theoretical reflection, as well as the riches of the past and their later reception. We are particularly open to transcultural perspectives and pay special attention to supposedly marginal authors and genres, as well as works in need of rediscovery.

Announcements

Call for papers: Autobiographical Narratives in French and Francophone Children's Literature

2024-05-14

The editorial board of Relief – Revue électronique de littérature française (revue-relief.org) – invites you to submit contributions for a special issue on the relationship between children’s literature and life writing. The issue will be edited by Régine Battiston and Arnaud Genon (Institut de recherche en langues et littératures, Université de Haute-Alsace).

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Current Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): Is a woman a reader like any other ?
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Edited by Maxime Decout and Estelle Mouton-Rovira

While women readers have long been associated, on the one hand, with a form of vulnerability, linked to the topos of the dangers of reading, and on the other with an eroticised vision of reading, it has to be said that the contemporary period is working to change these images. The development of feminist theories and gender studies, and the pragmatic inflection of reception theories are all new critical legacies that are changing the literary representation of women and, a fortiori, of women readers. Such figures enable us to think about reading practices through the prism of gender. The aim is to ask whether the female reader is a reader like any other, in order to explore the ways in which literature creates its own critical knowledge of gender.

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Published: 2023-12-14

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