Litterature

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  Laurence MOULINIER-BROGI

  Guillaume l'Anglais le frondeur de l'uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe s.)

  Édition commentée et traduction du De urina non visa

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  In 1220, when the majority of Western physicians had come to rely on the examination of their patients' urine to make a diagnosis and give a prognosis, a practitioner named Guillaume, an Englishman settled in Marseille...

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  Gustave FLAUBERT

  Madame Bovary

  Reproduction au trait de l'édition originale de 1857, annotée par Gustave Flaubert (BHVP, Rés. ms. 95)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  In the autumn of 1856, the Revue de Paris printed in six consecutive issues a previously unpublished novel, Madame Bovary. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Revue, had demanded cuts from his author which the latter had refused...

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  Victor HUGO

  Les Contemplations

  Reproduction au trait de l'original de 1856, offert à Auguste Vacquerie

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...

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  Les Fables avant La Fontaine

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises n° 253

  La Fontaine's shadow obscures the genre of fable before his advent, something which this collection of articles seeks to correct. The different studies present the growth of fable collections before the seventeenth century, preparing La Fontaine’s ...

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  Yearbook of Comparative and General literature, vol. 55, 2009

  The End of a World

  Librairie Droz | Yearbook of Comparative and General literature

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  Pierre de L'ESTOILE

  Journal du règne de Henri IV. T. I (1589-1591)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Pierre de L'Estoile, Grand audiencier of the Parisian parliament, was as fascinated by the current affairs and curiosities of Paris's political life as he was by the sensational gossip spread by the political satires that he collected...

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  Mabrian. Roman de chevalerie en prose. Tome II

  Edition de Paris, Jacques Nyverd, 1530 (BnF, Rés. Y2.75)

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

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  Christine FERLAMPIN-ACHER

  Perceforest et Zéphir 

  Propositions autour d'un récit arthurien bourguignon

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Perceforest tells the prehistory of the Grail through the exploits of Alexander and Arthur in a universe where paganism and Christianity are connected by enchantment...

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  Barbara WAHLEN

  L'Écriture à rebours

  Le Roman de Meliadus du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  An ellipitic continuation of the Prose Tristan, which inscribes itself in the space separating the birth of Tristan from Meliadus' new marriage with king Hoël’s daughter, the Meliadus’ romance (1235-1240) is essentially an open text...

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  Jean Salmon MACRIN

  Hymnes (1537)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 481

  Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), famous neo-latin poet, native from Loudun, in France's Touraine region, held the position of official valet and poet for king Francis the First, like his colleague Clément Marot...

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  Yearbook of Comparative and General literature, vol. 54, 2008

  Special Issue: Literary Translation: Current Issues and New Approaches, ans The Translation Workshop.

  University of Indiana at Bloomington | Yearbook of Comparative and General literature

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  Scévole de SAINTE-MARTHE

  Œuvres complètes

  Tome I. Première partie : Œuvres de jeunesse et Les premières œuvres (Livre I). Deuxième partie : Les premières œuvres (Livres II à IV)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Scévole de Sainte-Marthe was General Controller of the Royal Finances in Poitou and Poitiers between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His Elogia, a collection of poetry, prose and other writings, offers a first-hand account of the civil wars...

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  Jean GOLEIN

  Le Racional des divins offices de Guillaume Durand. Livre IV. La messe. Les Prologues et le Traité du sacre. Liturgie, spiritualité et royauté. Une exégèse allégorique

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Jean Golein's fourteenth-century French vernacular translation of a thirteenth-century liturgical manual illustrates a shift in medieval intellectual history...

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  Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tome 49

  Librairie Droz | Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau n° 49

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  Travaux de Littérature Vol. XXIII

  Les écrivains français et le monde arabe

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

  Ce volume, comme celui qui paraîtra en 2011 sur « Les écrivains français devant les Amériques », s'inscrit dans la suite du récent colloque de l’ADIREL (mars 2008 en Sorbonne)...

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  Yasmina FOEHR-JANSSENS

  La Jeune fille et l'Amour

  Pour une poétique de l'évasion courtoise

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  This study examines the virginal female characters common in twelfth-century literature, defined by their desire for escape and love, as well as their relative freedom to act within the constraints of their innocence.

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  Bruno PETEY-GIRARD

  Le Sceptre et la plume

  Images du prince protecteur des Lettres de la Renaissance au Grand Siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 466

  The figure of the prince as patron of letters seems almost a historiographical topos, with literary patronage too easily considered as cultural politics. However, between the 16th and the 17th century, this image was the result of a slow ...

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  Le Rire à la Renaissance

  Colloque international de Lille 2003

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 469

  This collection of articles investigates laughter during the Renaissance. Studies examine laughter through music and iconography, in addition to written expressions of laughter, shedding light on authors and artists...

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  Julie ANSELMINI

  Le roman d'Alexandre Dumas père ou la réinvention du merveilleux

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Alexandre Dumas maintained the place of wonder in the modern novel through themes from contemporary myths, such as unlimited scientific progress, all-powerful money or distance lands...

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  A la baïonnette ou au scalpel

  Comment l'horreur s'écrit

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

  Horror has long fascinated readers and spectators, from visions of hell in Middle Ages to apocalyptic reflections on modern times. This collection of articles sheds light on the representation of horror, and the pleasure it can provide readers.