Yale French Studies, Number 113: French Education: Fifty Years Later (Yale French Studies Series)

Editors’ Preface

I.Chronology

II. Historical Perspectives

Violaine Houdart-Mérot

Literary Education in the Lycée: Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880

Martine Jey

The Literature of the Enlightenment: An Impossible Legacy for the Republican School

Anne-Marie Chartier

When French Schoolchildren were Introduced to Literature (1920-1940)

Gilbert Chaitin

Education and Political Identity: The Universalist Controversy

III. Education Outside of the School, Outside of France

Ralph Albanese

Corneille as a Cultural Icon in France from the Third Republic to Today

Sabine Loucif

French in American Universities: Toward the Reshaping of Frenchness

Brigitte Weltman-Aron

The Pedagogy of Colonial Algeria: Djebar, Cixous, Derrida

IV. The Persistent Controversy

Pierre Albertini

Why Kevin’s Teacher Can’t Teach

Jean-Louis Chiss

The Crisis in the Teaching of French and the Status of the Reference to Linguistics

Dan Savatovsky

The Founding and Refounding of French as a Discipline

Tzvetan Todorov

Reading and Living