19th & 20th centuries

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  Le corps violenté : Du geste à la parole

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Throughout the Christian Middle ages, modern Europe and the colonial world, even more so after the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the ethnic cleansing, the image of the tortured body of man is omnipresent in painting as well as in history...

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  Nicole BHATTACHARYA

  Joë Bousquet : une expérience spirituelle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Joë Bousquet was injured by a bullet during World War I, and lay for the rest of his life in a room in Carcassonne. He developed a philosophy or spirituality in which man, unknowingly, is himself the infinite Being. Conscious experiences of man's...

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  Echiquiers d'encre : le jeu d'échecs et les lettres, XIXe-XXe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  32 studies on chess and modern...

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  Autour de la NRF, de Jean Paulhan et du Collège de Sociologie

  Extraits du Journal pour moi seule d’Edith Boissonnas et de sa Correspondance avec Jean Paulhan (20 juin 1938-17 septembre 1940). Hommage à Edith et Charles Boissonnas

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

  About the Swiss French woman writer Edith Boissonnas, her relationship to the Nouvelle revue française, and her cultural and literary...

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  A. ROULET JUAN

  Benno Besson en mouvement

  Notes sur une mise en scène de "Lapin Lapin", comédie de Coline Serreau

  Université de Neuchâtel - Faculté des Lettres | Travaux du Centre de Recherches sémiologiques de l'Université de Neuchâtel

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  Pierre H. DUBÉ

  Bibliographie de la critique sur Madame de Staël, 1789-1994

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This is the most complete and up to date bibliography of research on Madame de Staël, encompassing 2.742 memoirs, monographs, articles published and unpublished, and specialized editions which came out over the world during the years 1789 to 1994. All...

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  Jean-François PITTELOUP

  «Bons» livres et mauvais lecteurs

  Politique de promotion de la lecture populaire à Genève, au XIXe siècle

  Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève (SHAG) | Mémoires et Documents-In-8, Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève

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  André JARRY

  Alfred de Vigny : étapes et sens du geste littéraire, lecture psychanalytique

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  This is a psycho-analytical examination, not of the contents of a literary work, as Freud would have done it, but rather of its formal and aesthetic qualities, bringing the poetry into relief. Every collection published by Vigny, every poem, every...

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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...