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R. H. GAPPER BOOK PRIZE 2008

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the award of the ninth annual R. H. Gapper Book Prize jointly to Mark Greengrass for Governing Passions. Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Oxford University Press) and Christopher Prendergast for The Classic. Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars (Oxford University Press).

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POSTGRADUATE GAPPER ESSAY PRIZE 2008

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce below the results of the 2008 Postgraduate Gapper Essay Prize. The award includes a cash prize of £750 and expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference.

Winner
‘Reading Through Photography: Roland Barthes’s “Proust et la photographie”’ by Kathrin Yacavone (Edinburgh)

Runner-Up

‘Translating Pure Visuality: Heather Dohollau’s Poems on Non-Figuration’ by Clemence O’Connor (St Andrews)

Commendations

‘Le “vrai” moi: Nancy Huston’s Concern for Authenticity’ by Kate Averis (King’s College London)
‘Reading Bourdieu alongside Corneille’s Polyeucte’ by Jonathan Patterson (Cambridge)

2008 UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE

Winner

Clodagh Kinsella (UCL): ‘In your view, what is the specific contribution of poetry and/or fiction to the representation of painful experiences?’

Joint runners-up

Adam Strowger (Durham): ‘Addressed throughout as vous, the reader is established as the repository of values antithetical to those espoused in the text’ (C. Davis). Discuss the relationship between the narrator and the reader in the Journal du voleur in light of this statement.

Harald Stevenson (St Catherine's, Cambridge): Théodore de Bèze’s conception of the elegy.