19th & 20th centuries

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  Sylvianne COYAULT-DUBLANCHET

  La Province en héritage : Pierre Michon, Pierre Bergounioux, Richard Millet

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Pierre Michon, Pierre Bergounioux and Richard Millet, three contemporaries from the Limousin region, appeared on the literary scene in the early 1980s. Although their work is rooted in their native soil, the Limousin is not the backdrop for historical...

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  Agnès VERLET

  Les Vanités de Chateaubriand

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This essay offers a new approach to Chateaubriand and particularly to Mémoires d'outre-tombe in the light of the Vanitas, which expresses the ambivalence of life and subrodinates time to death. The memoirist’s works are presented to be read both...

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  Charles BAUDELAIRE

  Mon cœur mis à nu

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  “If any ambitious man have a fancy a revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All...

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  Crystel PINÇONNAT

  New York, mythe littéraire français

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Like Rome, Paris and Berlin, New York has achieved the status of literary myth. Building on the core texts (Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos, Amerika by Kafka, New York by Morand and Voyage au bout de la nuit by Céline), many French nove-lists have...

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  Jérôme MEIZOZ

  L'Age du roman parlant, 1919-1939 : écrivains, critiques, linguistes et pédagogues en débat

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Jérôme Meizoz shows how, in parallel to the Talkies, an oral mode emerges in French language novels in between the two world conflicts. Authors such as Céline, Aragon, Giono, Queneau, Cendrars, Ramuz or Poulail have created new orality poetics and...

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  Matthijs ENGELBERTS

  Défis du récit scénique

  formes et enjeux du mode narratif dans le théâtre de Beckett et de Duras

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Throughout literary history and theory, theatre has appeared as a genre from which any external narrator was absent. This study shows how this rule does not apply so well to certain contemporary authors such as Becket and Duras, for they have a scenic...

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  L'Histoire littéraire, ses méthodes et ses résultats : mélanges offerts à Madeleine Bertaud

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This book is dedicated to Madeleine Bertaud, Professor of French Literature at the University of Nancy. No less than 60 colleagues and friends dedicate to her their studies, all of which are focused on the History of Literature and its...

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  De l'Amitié. Hommage à Albert Béguin (1901-1957)

  Université de Neuchâtel - Faculté des Lettres | Recueil de Travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l'Université de Neuchâtel

  In honor of the 100th birthday of Albert Béguin, this work brings together the contributions of the best specialists on Mr Béguin and the history of publishing during the first half of the twentieth century and presents numerous original documents...

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  Filomena VITALE

  Benjamin Constant : écriture et culpabilité

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  An interesting and innovative study focused on the feeling of guilt, which runs as a leitmotiv through Benjamin Constant’s...

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  Théophile GAUTIER

  Correspondance générale

  Tome XII, 1872 et compléments

  Librairie Droz | Théophile Gautier: Correspondance

  This is the twelveth volume of Théophile Gautier's Correspondance. The edition contains all letters to and from Gautier, and indexes of all his correspondents. Previous volumes are...

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  Chateaubriand Mémorialiste

  Colloque du cent cinquantenaire, 1848-1998

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  As astonishing as it seems, Chateaubriand got famous among his contemporaries with texts we don't use to read so much in our days. While his "Mémoires d'outre-tombe", badly received at its publication in 1848, are today unanimously considered as the...

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  Linda COLLINGE

  Beckett traduit Beckett : de "Malone meurt" à "Malone Dies", l'imaginaire en traduction

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This study confronts the process of translation and readings of translators with the theory of Reception. The comparative analysis of the novel Malone meurt and its translation Malone Dies reveals differences which are structured on three main lines...

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  Persuasions d'amour : Nouvelles lectures de "De l'Amour" de Stendhal

  Actes du colloque de Paris des 5-6 décembre 1996

  Librairie Droz | Collection Stendhalienne

  Some peolpe claimed that the book De L'Amour is Stendhal's most important text. Most of his ideas are shown in a way that we could understand the author through this text alone. This seldom studied book was finally made the subject of a colloquium...

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  Anne COUSSEAU

  Poétique de l'enfance chez Marguerite Duras

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Childhood was a constant presence in the work of Marguerite Duras. The goal of this study is to show how this French author used her childhood in writing her stories and how this affects her literary...

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  Jean RUDHARDT

  Thémis et les Hôrai : recherche sur les divinités grecques de la justice et de la paix

  Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

  The author sets out to throw a light on Greek religion examining and studying many texts of the...

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  Pascale DORÉ

  Yourcenar ou le féminin insoutenable

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  How does the process of writing work and which part does Femininity play? This reading of Marguerite Yourcenar invites us to follow, through the texts, the steps leading to a denial of the maternal and the paradoxes of writing style constructed with...

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  Traversées de Pierre Klossowski

  Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

  This book includes fifteen studies of the writings and the drawings of Pierre...

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  Prosper Mérimée : écrivain, archéologue, historien

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This is the first collection of learned essay on Mérimée dealing with all the roles he played on the cultural scene in France, in the 19th century. Is the writer really better known than the official archaeologist? What about the historian? An...

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  L'industrie automobile (1905-1971) - Archives du Crédit lyonnais n°4 -

  Librairie Droz | Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale

  A book which presents the peak of the French automobile, illustrating the thirty glorious years of it development, revealing the greatest names of the industry. The goal of the collection "Archives économiques du Crédit lyonnais" is to make available...

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  Philippe BORGEAUD, Nicole DURISCH, Antje KOLDE, Grégoire SOMMER

  La Mythologie du matriarcat : l'atelier de Johann Jakob Bachofen

  Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

  This book is an inquiry into the birth of the idea of matriarchy. It centres on "the maternal Law" of Johann Jacob Bachofen (1861) which appears to be the earliest book on the "matriarchal...