Literary Criticism

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  L'Ecriture du scepticisme chez Montaigne

  Actes des journées d'étude (15-16 novembre 2001)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 385

  To those seeking his meaning, Montaigne offers form; he refers those who stop at his style to his thought. Content and style are inseparable in his sceptical writing on the three great sciences of the time, theology, law, and medicine. Mice and...

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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. VII (2004)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 7

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  Travaux de Littérature

  Volume XVII, Les grandes Peurs, 2. L'Autre. Colloque de Nancy (30 septembre-3 octobre 2003) organisé par l'ADIREL

  Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche Littéraire (ADIREL) | Travaux de Littérature

  La seconde partie des Grandes Peurs, consacrée à L’Autre, contient les Actes du Colloque international de Nancy, 30 septembre-3 octobre 2003. Elle a en commun avec la première partie (TL, vol. XVI) problématique et méthode. Les textes réunis vont du...

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  Catherine RANNOUX

  Les Fictions du journal littéraire : Paul Léautaud, Jean Malaquais, Renaud Camus

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  A writer’s diary speaks of the world, often doing so through the words of others, calling attention to the presence within him of what has already been said, but which he makes his own. It is a paradoxical situation in which the writing process...

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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. VI (2003)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 6

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  Dagmar WIESER

  Nerval : une poétique du deuil à l'âge romantique

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Unrequited love, the denial of the poet’s sacred status, or the refusal of modern society – Nerval’s writing is driven by a sense of loss. His poetry seeks to compensate for the constraints of verse forms, whereas in his prose stories, on the subject...

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  Geneviève HENROT

  Henry Bauchau poète : le vertige du seuil

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  A novelist, playwright, diarist and essayist, Henry Bauchau is a poet first and foremost. Enriched by contact with these multiple genres, his poetry reveals an inner progression. This critical essay’s attention to forms, themes and motifs highlights...

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  Arielle MEYER

  Le Spectacle du secret : Marivaux, Gautier, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Stendhal et Zola

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  In literature, a secret often drives the plot, so that the result is paradoxically all about show. Certain novels in which the truth is hidden reveal a theatrical motif or the use of literary forms particular to the theatre. Taking Marivaux’s plays as...

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  Marta CARAION

  Pour fixer la trace : photographie, littérature et voyage au milieu du XIXe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Pour fixer la trace examines nineteenth-century writings on a common, non-literary theme: photography. This new form of representation is apparently in opposition to literary representation. Directly or indirectly, Flaubert and Gautier, historians and...

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  Véronique DENIZOT

  Etudes ronsardiennes

  IX, "Comme un souci aux rayons du soleil" : Ronsard et l'invention d'une poétique de la merveille (1550-1556)

  Librairie Droz | Etudes ronsardiennes n° 373

  Véronique Denizot shows how the poetic creativity of Ronsard’s early writings revolves around the idea of innovation and luxurious glory, and around the astonishing and gorgeous word that reveals the mystery of the...