19th & 20th centuries

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  Philippe MORET

  Tradition et modernité de l'aphorisme : Cioran, Reverdy, Scutenaire, Jourdan, Chazal

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  The aphoristic writing of this century constitutes an extension of a ceremonial, gnomic tradition going back to the noblest period of antiquity. Therefore, the first part of this work is consecrated to the history of ceremonial genres and...

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  Monic ROBILLARD

  Sous la Plume de l'ange : de Balzac à Valéry

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Thes essays deal with the mysterious Annunciations that take place in the writer's soul/body when an Angel appears, inducing a pregnancy that leads to a Child/Work of art. The theme is of great relevance to Balzac's Princesse de Cadignan, to Valéry –...

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  Les Voies de la science grecque : études sur la transmission des textes de l'Antiquité au dix-neuvième siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Nine studies of the transmission of the Greek science from Ciceron until the medical knowledges of the 19th...

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  Dirck DEGRAEVE

  La Part du mal : essai sur l'imaginaire de Jules Romains dans "Les Hommes de bonne volonté"

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Les Hommes de bonne volonté: despite its audaciousness, the title straightaway deceives the reader. In juxtaposition to the disorders and conflicts of a world subjugated to the cataclysms of history, it only offers a weak evangelic virtue...

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  Jean-Paul ENGÉLIBERT

  La Postérité de Robinson Crusoé : un mythe littéraire de la modernité, 1954-1986

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Brought to life in 1719, in the writing of Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe has since generated a significant posterity. This sole survivor of a shipwreck has become the origin of a veritable myth, to which the literature of the second half of the 20th...

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  Alain CORBELLARI

  Joseph Bédier, écrivain et philologue

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  A comprehensive intellectual biography of Joseph Bédier, the great French philologist, who was also a writer, and who produced a best-selling modern version of Tristan et...

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  Pierre H. DUBÉ

  Bibliographie de la critique sur Prosper Mérimée, 1825-1993

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  In 2003, on the eve of the bicentennial of Posper Mérimée's birth, Pierre H. Dubé organised and analysed the numerous studies that have been consecrated to this writer, statesman and archaeologist since 1825, the publication year of the first articles...

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  Catherine BOUTHORS-PAILLART

  Antonin Artaud : l'énonciation ou l'épreuve de la cruauté

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  The work of Antonin Artaud offers, if not coherence, at least a permanence and a vital urgency in a enunciative quest that animates his prolific, and seemingly eclectic, writing. It is, in effect, Antonin Artaud's psychotic structuring of personality...