Kathy Comfort's Research

Articles Published

Jean Cayrol's Les Corps Etrangers : Rsistancialisme Confronted.   Accepted for Publication by The French Review

(forthcoming, March 2007).

Imperiled Souls: Metaphorical Representations of Spiritual Confusion in Georges

Bernanoss Journal dun cur de campagne Renascence 57.1 (2004): 29-46.

Folkloric Resonances in Jean Gionos Un Roi sans divertissement.  Dalhousie French

Studies 66 (2004): 53-62.

Divine Images of Hysteria in Emile Zola's Lourdes. Nineteenth-Century French Studies

30, no. 3-4 (2002 Spring-Summer): p. 329-45.

"Andr Gide's L'Immoraliste: Portrait of a Male Hysteric." Romance Notes 41 (2000):

87-96.

"Images of Flora as Emblems of Health in Balzac's Le Lys dans la valle." Dalhousie

French Studies 44 (1998): 31-38.

"Blood Memory: Hereditary Metaphors in Emile Zola's Le Docteur Pascal." Romance

Quarterly 45 (1998): 195-202.

Annotated bibliographic entries on Champfleury, Marie DAgoult, Benjamin Constant, Eugne Fromentin,

Alfred de Musset, Madame de Stal, for Romantic Movement Bibliography.  A Selective and Critical Bibliography, 1998 and 1999.

Translation into English of articles originally in French, and of French quotes used in articles written in English,

The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco. University of Delaware Press, 1997.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

 

Two  500-word Encyclopedia entries, one on Emile Zola, one on his novel Germinal, for

The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, Edited by M. Keith Booker, to be published

by Greenwood Press, 2005.

Book Reviews

 

Review of Boul, Jean-Pierre.  HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in

France, 1985-1988.  Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2002.  Publication forthcoming,

French Review

Review of Thiher, Allen.  Fiction Rivals Science.  The French Novel From Balzac to

Proust.  Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001.  To appear in French Review, April 2004.

Review of Granby, Franoise.  Le Corps de lartiste.  Discours mdical et reprsentations

littraires  de lartiste au XIXe sicle.  Lyon : Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2001. 

Publication forthcoming, French Review.

Review of Spoiden, Stphane.  La Littrature et le SIDA.  Archologie des

reprsentations dune maladie.  Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2001.  For

The French Review (forthcoming).

Review of Haavik, Kristof H.  In Mortal Combat.  The Conflict of Life and Death in 

Zolas Rougon-Macquart.  Birmingham: Summa Publications, Inc., 2000. The French

Review  77 (April 2003): 1011.

Review of Gorilovics, Tivadar, ed.  Lectures de Zola.  Studia Romanica de Debrecen. 

Series Litteraria Fasc. XXI.  Debrecen, Hungary: Debrecen Egyetem, 1999.  The

French Review 76 (February 2003): 603-04.

Review of Mary Donaldson-Evans, Medical Examinations.  Dissecting the Doctor in
French Narrative Prose, 1857-1894
.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. The French Review  75 (May 2002): 1256.

 

Papers Presented

 

Shades of Lazarus in Jean Gionos LHomme qui plantait des arbres.  Kentucky

      Foreign Languages Conference,  Lexington, KY, April 21-23, 2005.  (refereed)

Rsistance au fminin in Marguerite Durass La Douleur. Twentieth-Century

Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 24, 2005. (refereed)

Sur-des-Pauvres : A Zolian Fairy Tale.  Kentucky Forein Languages

Conference, Lexington, KY, April 15, 2004. (refereed)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Representation of Near-Death Experience in 

Philippe Labros La Traverse.  Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 26, 2004. (refereed)

Weird Science: The Representation of Physiology in Champfleurys Les Enfants du

Professeur Turck and Borels Don Andra Vsalius. LAnatomiste.  Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference,

Lexington, KY, April 25, 2003. (refereed)

(Re) Structuring the Self: The Question of Identity in Jean Cayrols Les Corps

Etrangers.  Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February

27, 2003. (refereed)

A Werewolf in Provence: Folkloric Elements In Jean Gionos Un Roi sans

divertissement.  Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY,

February 20, 2002. (refereed)

Folie deux: Hysterical Contagion in Emile Zolas Thrse Raquin.  Presented at

The Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D. C., December  2000. (refereed)

Divine Images of Hysteria in Emile Zolas Lourdes.  Presented at the Cincinnati

Romance Languages and Literatures Conference, May 2000.  (refereed)

Floral Emblems of Health in Balzacs Le Lys dans la valle. Presented at the

Missouri Romance Languages and Literatures Conference, March 1994.  (refereed)