Litterature

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  Charles MÉLA

  Variations sur l'amour et le Graal

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Like Perceval in the Castle of the Grail, reading means beginning a path of transformation that opens the heart's eyes. Puzzling out a text means also acquiring another point of view. Understanding oneself through a text, as old as it may be,...

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  PÉTRARQUE

  Les Triomphes

  Traduction française de Simon Bourgouin

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 495

  Petrarch is well-known as a model of formal perfection in Renaissance love poetry. Among his works, his Trionfi were the first written in verse and in Italian. Around 1500, the French courtier and author in his own right...

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  Jean FROISSART

  Melyador

  Roman en vers de la fin du XIVe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Jean Froissart's Melyador is the last known French medieval Arthurian romance in verse. The manuscript Paris, BnF, fr. 12557 contains the only almost complete version, probably redrafted in the 1380s with the collaboration of its patron...

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  Etienne Dolet. 1509-2009

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) provoked passionate reactions, both during his lifetime and after. Resurrected as the "martyr of the Renaissance" at the end of the nineteenth century, Dolet has served as a lens for studying the religious problems...

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  Langue de l'autre, langue de l'auteur

  Affirmation d'une identité linguistique et littéraire aux XIIe et XVIe siècles

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 497

  These collected studies seek to shed light on the processes of literary and linguistic affirmation during two formative periods: the twelfth-century renaissance and the French sixteenth-century Renaissance. Both periods present strong movements ...

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  Genres et querelles littéraires

  Groupe d'Analyse de la Dynamique des Genres et des Styles (GADGES) | Cahiers du GADGES

  These collected essays examine literary quarrels during the Early Modern period as a literary genre in and of themselves. The studies approach these rows through the genres that feed them and that they shape: how did the editorial context...

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  Le Roman de Perceforest. Cinquième partie

  Librairie Droz | Le Roman de Perceforest

  The fifteenth-century prose composition the Roman de Perceforest is one of the most successful literary works of the later Middle Ages. In a grandiose six-part fresco, the work evokes the adventures of the distant ancestors of Arthur ...

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  Claude d'ESPENCE

  Homilies sur la parabole de l'enfant prodigue (1547)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The originality of Claude d'Espence (1511-1572) in the eyes of historians of the Reformation is due to the nuanced positions which make this theologian the representative of « another » Catholicism, isolated from partisan rigidity...

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  Pierre CORNEILLE

  Cinna. Tragédie 1643

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Cinna marque une date importante dans la carrière de Pierre Corneille comme dans l'histoire de la tragédie française. Corneille est alors consacré comme le roi de la tragédie : en réaction aux critiques faites au Cid et à Horace, les efforts ...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète. Volume V

  12 août 1840 - 19 novembre 1841

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 5

  Le 15 mars 1841, la Revue des deux mondes publie, sous la rubrique « Poètes et romanciers modernes de la France » un long article intitulé « M. Rodolphe Töpffer » sous la signature prestigieuse du grand critique Sainte-Beuve...