Special issue: Story-Telling in Contemporary French Fiction: le ‘prêt-à-penser’ and Reading Pleasure
Edited by: Diana Holmes and David Platten
Diana Holmes and David Platten
Introduction
Jacques Migozzi
Storytelling: opium du peuple et / ou plaisirs du texte?
Floriane Place-Verghnes
Instruction, distraction, réflexion: lecture de Persepolis
David Platten
Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers
Lorna Milne
Monumental Misdeeds: Rewriting French History and Identity with Claude Izner and Alix de Saint-André
Diana Holmes
The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain