'POLEMICS'

A Colloquium organised jointly by Goldsmiths and Queen Mary, University of London, March 2002. Selected papers.

Contents

• Emily Butterworth : Techniques of polemic in 17th century France


• Christian Jouhaud : Lampoons ('Libelles') in 17th century France: From action to publication


• Mark Bannister : Theatre and politics during the Fronde: Two cases of polemical drama


• Katia Malausséna : Origins of the novel and the novel of 'national' origins in French Canada


• Philip Dine : Fighting and writing the war without a name: Polemics and the French-Algerian conflict


• Elza Adamowicz : Exquisite excrement: The Bataille-Breton polemic


• Robert Gillett : Love-sick laughter, porridge and straw men: Notes on the queer polemics of Hubert Fichte