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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.