19th & 20th centuries

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  Marie PARMENTIER

  Stendhal stratège : Pour une poétique de la lecture

  Librairie Droz | Collection Stendhalienne

  Stendhal makes the distinction between novels intended for lady’s maids and salon novels, supposedly saving his talent for a privileged group of people, whom he addresses in his famous dedication to the ‘happy few’. However, his own fictions suggest...

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  Eric BENOIT

  Néant sonore : Mallarmé ou la traversée des paradoxes

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Mallarmé’s work seems to spring from nowhere: the poet designated ‘nothingness’ as ‘the main cog’ in the ‘literary mechanism’. How is it that impossibility can be the foundation of literary creation? Can poetry be born by declaring itself...

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  Eléonore REVERZY

  La Chair de l'idée : poétique de l'allégorie dans les "Rougon-Macquart"

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Allegory, which can be enjoyed on a literal level while also hinting at a deeper meaning, characterizes Les Rougon-Macquart. Zola declared that his characters ‘tell the story of the Second Empire through their individual dramas’. Les Rougon-Macquart...

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  Inscriptions rupestres libyco-berbères, Sahel nigéro-malien, Sites d'Iwélen et d'Adar-en-Bukar

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Moyen et Proche Orient n° 42/3

  The rock carvings transcribed, and many of them translated, here come from two nearby sites in the Sahel with similar Tuareg populations and cultures. The alphabet is similar to contemporary Tuareg alphabets of the Sahel...

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  Stéphanie CARON

  Réinventer le lyrisme : le surréalisme de Joyce Mansour

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Joyce Mansour is a fascinating personality of post-war surrealism and one of its most original voices, admired by Breton, Michaux, Mandiargues, and Leiris. Examined chronologically, her poems and autobiographical fiction bear witness to the final...

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  Hubert BONIN

  Histoire de la Société générale

  T.I, 1864-1890 : La Naissance d'une banque moderne

  Librairie Droz | Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale

  The Société générale aimed to be an all-purpose bank from the outset (a loan and deposit bank, a merchant bank, a stock-broking firm…) and to adapt to the industrial revolution. It was immediately involved at the international level, in London...

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  Yannick PORTEBOIS

  Les Arrhes de la douairière : Histoire de la dictée de Mérimée ou l'orthographe sous le Second Empire

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The supposedly frivolous court of the Second Empire did actually care about spelling. Mérimée's famously difficult - and seemingly gratuitous and incoherent - dictation was more than a complicated game. It served to demonstrate that there could be no...

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  Evert VAN DER STARRE

  Curiosités de Raymond Queneau : de "l'Encyclopédie des Sciences inexactes" aux jeux de la création romanesque

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Curiosity is central to Raymond Queneau's work. The questioning provoked by certain incongruous events, the ambiguous interest that protagonists take in their fellow men, the relationships established between games and freedom or games and science...

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  Isabelle CHOL

  Pierre Reverdy, poésie plastique : formes composées et dialogue des arts, 1913-1960

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  When Pierre Reverdy arrived in Paris in 1910, Max Jacob introduced him to Juan Gris and Picasso. His circle of friends widened to include Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Henri Laurens, Pablo Gargallo, Guillaume Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal. Reverdy...

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  Chantal MASSOL

  Une Poétique de l’énigme : le récit herméneutique balzacien

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Enigmas became particularly popular in post-revolutionary novels - Balzac had a predilection for them. Chantal Massol, in her essay, not only draws our attention to their recurring presence in La Comédie Humaine, but also studies the historical and...