Threat

The Editors: Georgina Evans is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in French at St John’s College, Cambridge, with particular interests in cinema, synaesthesia and questions of domesticity.Adam Kay recently completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on the influence of Greek erotic poetry on Renaissance Europe.

• Contents: Georgina Evans/Adam Kay: Introduction – Michael Harrigan : Méchant Chrétien ne sera jamais bon Turc – Roger Baines: Ta mère suce des Schtroumpfs: The Relationship between Face Threat and Solidarity in the Ritual ta mère … Insult Used by French Adolescents – Emily Butterworth: Borrowed Soldiers, Borrowed Words: The Threat of the Foreign in Montaigne’s ‘De la phisionomie’ – Laura McMahon: Touching Intact: Sophie Calle’s Threat to Privacy –Isabelle McNeill: Threat and the Moving Image: Histoire(s) du Cinéma in the Twenty-First Century – Jenny Chamarette: Threatened Corpo-Realities: Decentring and Dissolving Subjectivities in Philippe Grandrieux’s La Vie nouvelle – Geraldine McIlwaine: The Threat of the Urban Space in Three Novels by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio – Michael Seabrook: The Monster under the Bed: Threat to the Couple in the Early Works of Flaubert – Adam Kay: A Beautiful Evil: Erotic Invasion in Ronsard’s Amours de Cassandre – Jennifer Burris: Quand on n’est plus qu’une ligne: The Threatened Subject in the Work of Henri Michaux – Jeffrey Kirkwood/David Logan Wright: Between Being and Otherwise: Lacunae, Lévinas and the Threat of Totality – Christopher Watkin: Paul Ricœur and the Threatened Self.