Department of French and Francophone Studies
Parent: UCLA
eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3k76d2sm | Editor's Introduction. Special Feature: UCLA French Department Symposium--Generative Anthropology: Origin and Representation | 742 | 157 | 261 | 179 | 145 |
| 8h50z8df | Michel Houellebecq: The Impossibility of Being an Island | 295 | 55 | 127 | 43 | 70 |
| 7p92b81t | “Under a Foreign Sky:” Place and Displacement in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room | 276 | 87 | 90 | 41 | 58 |
| 2vd6n4jc | Memory and Forgiveness: Addressing the Legacy of the Dark Years in Contemporary French Politics | 270 | 78 | 102 | 28 | 62 |
| 4pf9v8f2 | “Ceux-là Qui Partent pour Partir”: Travel as Relinquishment in Charles Baudelaire's Le Voyage | 266 | 77 | 83 | 38 | 68 |
| 1gr5c8cr | The Ghetto Novels of Guillaume Dustan | 265 | 51 | 52 | 74 | 88 |
| 7444f0z3 | The Logic of the Undecidable: An Interview with René Girard | 256 | 58 | 63 | 45 | 90 |
| 6h90406n | "I am a Woman": The Body as Background in The Second Sex | 253 | 56 | 75 | 56 | 66 |
| 8xf4h66s | The Bodypolitics of Feminist Science Fiction: Elisabeth Vonarburg’s Le Silence de la cité | 245 | 59 | 67 | 52 | 67 |
| 8qt465qh | The Abject: Kristeva and the Antigone | 223 | 42 | 66 | 46 | 69 |
| 1323z44w | Michelet et le renouvellement de l’Histoire : une subversion du passé monarchique au profit d’une mémoire républicaine ? | 212 | 48 | 59 | 37 | 68 |
| 3891m6db | « Je ne suis pas de la famille » : Queerness as Exception in Gide's L 'immoraliste and Genet's Journal du Voleur | 201 | 63 | 49 | 28 | 61 |
| 5031q3js | Exquisite Corpses: Representations of Violence in the Collective Surrealist Unconscious | 201 | 57 | 44 | 45 | 55 |
| 8r14q39s | Marcel Proust: Nietzschean (Künstler)-Übermensch | 201 | 44 | 50 | 42 | 65 |
| 0495h57m | The Person who Tortures is Me: Violence and the Sacred in the Works of Margurite Duras | 200 | 41 | 51 | 36 | 72 |
| 0ns0j1n9 | The (Wo)Man in the Iron Mask: Cross-dressing, Writing and Sexuality in L'Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville | 198 | 51 | 79 | 33 | 35 |
| 7b43t1s7 | Spectacular Paris: Representations of Nostalgia and Desire | 196 | 41 | 57 | 31 | 67 |
| 8p45g78n | Le nationalisme de Barrès : Moi, la terre et les morts | 193 | 46 | 40 | 31 | 76 |
| 7dn778pk | Memory as Construction in Viollet-le-Duc's Architectural Imagination | 189 | 39 | 40 | 42 | 68 |
| 2jf516kb | La Dame pipi du quarante-quatrième étage: l’exil et la marge dans Stupeurs et Tremblements d’Amélie Nothomb | 185 | 52 | 43 | 61 | 29 |
| 2sm815d2 | Ethics Beyond the Body: Descartes and Heidegger in Emmanuel Levinas's Totality and Infinity | 184 | 45 | 37 | 36 | 66 |
| 1g95g1s9 | ‘That God Within:’ Writing Female Genius from Diderot to Staël | 183 | 59 | 53 | 27 | 44 |
| 5899b43t | Laïcité in the French Public School System : an exception française ? | 183 | 43 | 40 | 41 | 59 |
| 9x11c70q | French Folie: Memory and Madness in Buñuel’s Belle de Jour | 181 | 34 | 45 | 35 | 67 |
| 0p58k5dc | The Summit of Violence: Cruelty in the work of Artaud and Bataille | 180 | 49 | 52 | 38 | 41 |
| 75z5r782 | Bodies of Enlightenment in Diderot's Encyclopédie | 163 | 41 | 46 | 30 | 46 |
| 8xm8x3v6 | (Auto)biographic Algerian Travels of Albert Camus and Assia Djebar | 162 | 28 | 44 | 39 | 51 |
| 4j15m6ww | Cross-Cultural 'Othering' Through Metamorphosis | 151 | 42 | 42 | 21 | 46 |
| 0bj5t7hw | An Elusive Vision: Genesis and Apocalypse in <em>Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein</em> | 149 | 27 | 48 | 35 | 39 |
| 4xm0b969 | Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Slow Flight from Television | 147 | 34 | 38 | 31 | 44 |
| 6k49j5p9 | Tracking Medieval Orientalism: Religion and Gender in Le Conte de Floire et Blanchefleur | 147 | 28 | 80 | 15 | 24 |
| 1wh448nh | Les fleurs de maladie : Baudelaire's Mother and "Writing Cure," 1860-1866 | 144 | 30 | 41 | 29 | 44 |
| 5kq5k7tw | Generative Anthropology and Cultural Sexuality | 143 | 51 | 36 | 25 | 31 |
| 7v9615hg | The Profound Complicity of George Batailie's Blue of Noon | 140 | 33 | 41 | 26 | 40 |
| 96b0x72c | Modern Transitions in 19th Century Paris: Baudelaire and Renoir | 140 | 42 | 22 | 30 | 46 |
| 4gd5t307 | The Condition of the "Post-modern" Individual? Sexual competition and modern "Dis-society" in Houellebecq's Extension du domaine de la lutte | 139 | 21 | 42 | 23 | 53 |
| 0mb1x2bt | In the Shadow of the Sun King: The Précieuse | 138 | 33 | 25 | 37 | 43 |
| 9j40p306 | Mallarmé and the Uprooting of Vision | 135 | 40 | 31 | 24 | 40 |
| 0h98g3tw | Acknowledgements | 133 | 36 | 41 | 30 | 26 |
| 5sm6v0cm | The Collaborative Lens: Robert de Boron’s Overshadowing of Chrétien de Troyes | 131 | 44 | 35 | 19 | 33 |
| 7pr7f7kx | The City that is not a City | 131 | 40 | 34 | 24 | 33 |
| 9x23439n | Les Géorgiques de Claude Simon : la particularité de la généralisation | 131 | 20 | 21 | 10 | 80 |
| 4sj933mb | Ghost-Ridden Authors/Ghost-Written Texts: Female Phantoms in Two Works by André Breton and Georges Bataille | 130 | 29 | 42 | 28 | 31 |
| 63z2k4z9 | Poetry and Music: A Roundtable Discussion with Pierre Boulez | 130 | 32 | 29 | 19 | 50 |
| 6pj4f154 | Alain Robbe-Grillet: Sex and Violence or the Destruction of the Traditional Novel | 130 | 21 | 48 | 28 | 33 |
| 5ww094n7 | Virtual Bodies: Anatomy, Technology, and the Inhuman in Descartes | 128 | 29 | 29 | 33 | 37 |
| 1pz7t9qn | Les plis dans les puits: Identity and Narrative in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane | 127 | 34 | 19 | 22 | 52 |
| 24v3331g | Genre-Crossing: Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Its Discursive Community | 127 | 19 | 26 | 36 | 46 |
| 3d48x20g | Jamming the Machine: Yves Klein's Blue Monochrome and the End of the Avant-Garde | 127 | 27 | 35 | 31 | 34 |
| 4d7991bd | Beauty and Borderlands in Mademoiselle de Maupin | 127 | 23 | 24 | 46 | 34 |
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