Fic help?

[trinityofone]

My Kink & Cliché fic is due, um, today, and my Google-fu is failing me. Can anyone help me with a couple pieces of information?

1. I need a toast in French. Basically, some sort of raise your glass, for luck, or even "God help us all"-type thing (that last might actually be the best). My own French is pathetic and awful.

2. I need the names of a couple of literary/academic journals. The only one I can think of is Partisan Review, but I need at least two--one kind of pretentious and stuffy, the other a bit better. The slightly less stodgy one would have to have been willing to publish an article about War and Peace.

If anyone can help me with these things, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks!

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

I might need to know just a bit more about what you're talking about for the literary journals...I mean, PMLA would certainly publish on War and Peace, but maybe you'd want a specific Russian lierature one? (That wouldn't be hard to research with the MLA bib, but I wouldn't know it off the top of my head).

In terms of pretentious, I'm not sure what you mean by that. After all, academia is all about pretention. One of the best high lit theory ones (i.e., what a lot of folks find pretentious and where you won't be able to make it through most of the articles b/c the style's so utterly offputting) would be Critical Inquiry, the only one I still subscribe to (and how's that for pretentious :-) Yale French Studies is there as well, a lot of the Lacanian stuff was in there when it was at its height, but I haven't read it in a while. But there are high level cultural studies ones or... Representations, for example.

If you want to, you can email me what you need specifically (passage or just the departments and/or types of scholars/academics you want) and I can give you a sense of what journal might work.

[and now that I'm thinking about it, someone needs to write not physics/math but English AU, b/c Rodney'd such a Lacanian...neuroses up the wazoo but brilliant enough to actually get through the prose...and I think Russian is still pretty conservative, not sure about lit theory but apparently cultural studies if my one friend in the discipline is any indication...]

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

OK, checked MLA: among the journals that had several Tolstoy articles were Russian Review; Slavic and East European Journal [that one had a bunch and looked pretty good]; and there's a Tolstoy Studies Journal (author journals are usually not as highranking, but if you're working in the field are a safe and good outlet for your work, esp. if the author's fairly important [and pretty much they would have to be to have their own journal *g*]). oh, and there indeed was a 1998 PMLA article, but PMLA is a complicated issue...it's a great journal but since it does utterly blind, it has a surprising number of "unknowns" (whereas the above mentioned Critical Inquiry tends to read like a Who's Who...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Heh, this is actually for the English AU that I'm writing, where John is a professor and Rodney's a student. The problem is, despite being an English major myself, I'm the most oblivious person alive, so I don't really know what I'm talking about. Can I send you the relevant scene? If you promise not to laugh at me too much? ;-)

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Like I'd *ever* laugh at you :-)

Send it on. i'm dropping off the kids but will get to it as soon as I'm back in about an hour... cathexys @ livejournal.com.

And you're making Rodney the student? Cool. He'd be utterly impossible, wouldn't he?

looking fwd to reading the scene and to totally throwing my own miserable publishing advice stories in there (b/c you know John'd be pragmatic and finding the journals that would totally get him tenure without killing himself whereas Rodney would be shooting for the stars and be utterly pretentious and try to play in the big league :-)

*jumps up and down...i *love AUs and hatehatehate English departments at this very moment ;-)*