Frédérique Spill
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frédérique Spill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frédérique |
| FAMILY NAME | Spill |
| SIGNATURE | SPILL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Picardie Jules Verne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9772-6558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Questions d’affiliation
This first section examines the “affiliation” of French Americanist researchers to their field of study at a time of unprecedented political crisis—one that compels us to rethink our critical position toward our research objects. Mathieu Duplay offers an epistemic reflection on affiliation as a “kind of adoption,” seeking in this distance an ethical path between commitment and critical detachment, while Jon Delogu highlights the freedom that the …
Cormac McCarthy’s Finale
The purpose of this article is to try to grasp the singularity of McCarthy’s late style as it emerges from his last two companion novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, both published in 2022, about six months before their author’s death in June 2023. Both novels confirm and somehow exacerbate McCarthy’s propensity to borrow from a great variety of genres. They intertwine intertextual references to the writer’s forebears and to his own work, whi…
Absalon, Absalon
Le lyrisme ténébreux de Jesmyn Ward dans Let Us Descend (2023)
International audience
Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren : une biographie s’ouvre sur une préface dithyrambique de Maxence Caron, qui déclare en guise de préliminaire que « Robert Penn Warren est, avec Faulkner, le plus grand écrivain américain de l’ère contemporaine » (9). Il n’est pas certain que Warren jouisse encore aujourd’hui aux États-Unis de l’aura qui l’a longtemps entouré ; ce qui ne fait cependant aucun doute, c’est que Caron se réjouit que la traduction de la biographie d…
Faulkner’s France, France’s Faulkner
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L’art de la ligne dans As I Lay Dying de William Faulkner
This article, which focuses on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), examines the way in which the figure of the line imposes itself at different levels of the narrative. First, it observes the delineations of Faulknerian space-time; then it studies the material lines that are drawn, sketching out things and situations that systematically remind the reader of their facticity as literary objects. Finally, our attention centers on the novel’s f…
Animal Elegy in Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” (2020)
This paper argues that Ron Rash’s 2020 return to his 2008 bestseller, Serena, and to its eponymous character’s destructive frenzy operates as a pretext for him to deal, in his own poetic way, with the devastating consequences of such ruthless exploitative behaviors and their lethal contribution to the sixth extinction. This paper shows that “In the Valley” partakes of the genre of the poetry of extinction. Focusing on the diverse ways in which th…
“Something good might rise out of it”
Powell's Books, "one of the world's largest independent bookstores", 1 based in Portland, Oregon, hosted Ron Rash and Colum McCann on Zoom. At the time, Ron Rash's new collection, In the Valley: Stories and a Novella based on Serena, had just come out. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, Rash evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present. In the ten stories of his new collection, he spins a…
The Pursuit of Happiness, or Contemplating Trout in Ron Rash’s Fiction
Cet article examine la manière dont la truite opère comme l’une des métaphores privilégiées de l’écriture de Ron Rash. Elle permet à ce dernier de représenter, sous la forme d’une même image, son désarroi face au nombre croissant d’espèces en voie de disparition et son admiration pour les beautés évanescentes du monde naturel. Ron Rash n’est certes pas le premier écrivain américain qui attribue à la truite un rôle aussi symbolique, en lien avec l…
Something Rich and Strange (2014)
Regarding the 2014 publication of Something Rich and Strange , an extensive selection of short stories by American writer Ron Rash, as a turning point in his career, this article endeavours to present Rash’s art as a short-story writer and to highlight a few characteristic aspects of his short stories, his favourite genre. Looking into the genesis of the compilation, this article tries to situate Rash’s practice as a short-story writer within the…
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Something Rich and Strange (2014)
Regarding the 2014 publication of Something Rich and Strange , an extensive selection of short stories by American writer Ron Rash, as a turning point in his career, this article endeavours to present Rash’s art as a short-story writer and to highlight a few characteristic aspects of his short stories, his favourite genre. Looking into the genesis of the compilation, this article tries to situate Rash’s practice as a short-story writer within the…
The Pursuit of Happiness, or Contemplating Trout in Ron Rash’s Fiction
Cet article examine la manière dont la truite opère comme l’une des métaphores privilégiées de l’écriture de Ron Rash. Elle permet à ce dernier de représenter, sous la forme d’une même image, son désarroi face au nombre croissant d’espèces en voie de disparition et son admiration pour les beautés évanescentes du monde naturel. Ron Rash n’est certes pas le premier écrivain américain qui attribue à la truite un rôle aussi symbolique, en lien avec l…
“Something good might rise out of it”
Powell's Books, "one of the world's largest independent bookstores", 1 based in Portland, Oregon, hosted Ron Rash and Colum McCann on Zoom. At the time, Ron Rash's new collection, In the Valley: Stories and a Novella based on Serena, had just come out. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, Rash evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present. In the ten stories of his new collection, he spins a…
Animal Elegy in Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” (2020)
This paper argues that Ron Rash’s 2020 return to his 2008 bestseller, Serena, and to its eponymous character’s destructive frenzy operates as a pretext for him to deal, in his own poetic way, with the devastating consequences of such ruthless exploitative behaviors and their lethal contribution to the sixth extinction. This paper shows that “In the Valley” partakes of the genre of the poetry of extinction. Focusing on the diverse ways in which th…
Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren : une biographie s’ouvre sur une préface dithyrambique de Maxence Caron, qui déclare en guise de préliminaire que « Robert Penn Warren est, avec Faulkner, le plus grand écrivain américain de l’ère contemporaine » (9). Il n’est pas certain que Warren jouisse encore aujourd’hui aux États-Unis de l’aura qui l’a longtemps entouré ; ce qui ne fait cependant aucun doute, c’est que Caron se réjouit que la traduction de la biographie d…
Faulkner’s France, France’s Faulkner
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
L’art de la ligne dans As I Lay Dying de William Faulkner
This article, which focuses on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), examines the way in which the figure of the line imposes itself at different levels of the narrative. First, it observes the delineations of Faulknerian space-time; then it studies the material lines that are drawn, sketching out things and situations that systematically remind the reader of their facticity as literary objects. Finally, our attention centers on the novel’s f…
Absalon, Absalon
Le lyrisme ténébreux de Jesmyn Ward dans Let Us Descend (2023)
International audience
Questions d’affiliation
This first section examines the “affiliation” of French Americanist researchers to their field of study at a time of unprecedented political crisis—one that compels us to rethink our critical position toward our research objects. Mathieu Duplay offers an epistemic reflection on affiliation as a “kind of adoption,” seeking in this distance an ethical path between commitment and critical detachment, while Jon Delogu highlights the freedom that the …
Cormac McCarthy’s Finale
The purpose of this article is to try to grasp the singularity of McCarthy’s late style as it emerges from his last two companion novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, both published in 2022, about six months before their author’s death in June 2023. Both novels confirm and somehow exacerbate McCarthy’s propensity to borrow from a great variety of genres. They intertwine intertextual references to the writer’s forebears and to his own work, whi…
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