Literary Criticism

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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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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. IV (2001)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 4

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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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  Travaux de Littérature

  Volume XIV, L'Ecrivain éditeur. 1 Du Moyen Age à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

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

  Introduction de François Bessire, " En belle forme de Livre ".Première partie : La "conscience éditoriale" avant l’imprimé. Articles de : Monique Léonard, Le dit médiéval : de l’écriture à la conception du livre; Patricia Michon, Une édition...

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  María Soledad BARBÓN

  Peruanische Satire am Vorabend der Unabhängigkeit (1770 bis 1800)

  Librairie Droz | Kölner romanistische Arbeiten

  Peruanische Satire am Vorabend der Unabhängigkeit (1770-1800) is an interdisciplinary study of Peruvian satire in the late colonial period, a time which despite its political importance has to date received only little scholarly attention. Drawing on...

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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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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. III (2000)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 3

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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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  Gisèle MATHIEU-CASTELLANI

  Montaigne ou la vérité du mensonge

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  An interesting study emphasizing on thruth and lies in the works of Montaigne. Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani leads the reader into a world of...

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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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  Jacques BERCHTOLD

  Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) : lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de "Guzman d'Alfarache" à "Jacques le fataliste"

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This major book is focused on the importance of imprisonment in the novels of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. It reflects the worries of censorship in regard to this new...

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  Yasmina FOEHR-JANSSENS

  La Veuve en majesté : deuil et savoir au féminin dans la littérature médiévale

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  An essay devoted to the analysis of the many literary works which, from the XIIIth century onwards, focus on the fate of persecuted women. The investigation of this type of narrative endeavours to define the nature of feminine heroism in the later...

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  Marianne CLOSSON

  L'Imaginaire démoniaque en France (1550-1650) : genèse de la littérature fantastique

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 341

  The connection between the themes of the fantastic and demonia of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries invites the reader to examine the emergence of a fantasy literature during the period of witch-hunts. The exploration of the collection of texts shows how...

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  Bénédicte BOUDOU

  Mars et les Muses dans l'"Apologie pour Hérodote" d'Henri Estienne

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 335

  Henri Estienne used his translation from the Latin not only to criticize the intellectual censorship exercised by the XVIth century Catholic church, but also as an argument for a literal and historical approach for understanding the...

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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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  Danièle DUPORT

  "Les jardins qui sentent le sauvage" : Ronsard et la poétique du paysage

  Librairie Droz | Home

  A hymn to scenery changing according to...

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  Italique : Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, vol. II (1999)

  Librairie Droz | Italique n° 2

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  Poétiques d'Aubigné

  Actes du colloque de Genève, mai 1996

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 333

  Some of the most renowned experts on Aubigné’s work gathered in May 1996 for a conference entitled Poétiques d’Aubigné. This book gives new ways in the study of Poetics in the...