Galileo s astronomical and mechanical theories, and his subsequent trial for heresy, profoundly impacted the development of European science, philosophy, and theology, especially in seventeenth-century France, where it shaped the thought of some of its most important writers. France s long tradition of Gallican independence from Rome allowed Copernican and Galilean ideas to be discussed and promoted more freely than elsewhere. Placing those ideas in a national context, this book s individual chapters are devoted to tracing their development in the writings of Mersenne, Gassendi, Peiresc, and...

Robert Bresson (1901-1999), one of the most original film-makers in the history of cinema, adapted two novels by Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), Journal d un cure de campagne and Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette. The Catholic novelist Bernanos and the spiritual filmmaker Bresson, each in his own way, articulate grace and redemption through the suffering and death of their heroes/heroines. As a result, the reader and the spectator come to sense the presence of God in all four works. Bresson s techniques are presented and analyzed, as well as his later move to films without grace and...

Theatres d idees, le theatre de Marguerite Yourcenar laisse entrevoir le tissu philosophique qui sous-entend son ecriture: une vision du monde a la fois lucide, tragique et revolutionnaire. Ordre et mesure caracterisent le style de Yourcenar. Cette etude propose qu au-dela des preoccupations d ordre technique, le style, en tant que procede de codification, assume une fonction referentielle et qui est porteur d une vision. L analyse prend appui sur les approches theoriques developpees par Roland Barthes et Gerard Genette."

Although the storytelling of any time rewrites itself, rewriting became a primary concern in the literature of the twentieth century, an era characterized as having quoted, reenacted, cannibalized, revised, redone, refurbished, and outright plagiarized the texts of earlier times. The modern obsession with literary reiteration manifests itself in a rather unique way in the narratives of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet. These authors systematically and repeatedly rewrite their own texts, and in so doing, give evidence of three of the more salient aspects of twentieth-century...

Tonneaux a fonds perdus propose une etude comparative des structures langagieres dans les ecrits de Rabelais et Queneau, a la lumiere des concepts du carnavalesque et du tiers-espace. Cette recherche se base sur les theories de Barthes, Derrida et Bakhtine et etudie les niveaux multiples des textes de Rabelais et Queneau en analysant leurs styles, les expressions idiomatiques personnalisees, l intertextualite et leur reinvention des personnages en tant que signes linguistiques. Les notions de carnavalesque et de tiers-espace permettent de prouver que les deux auteurs offrent un...

This book aims to situate the much-ignored public Marquis de Sade, author of eleven stories collected into four volumes under the title Les Crimes de l amour (1800), vis-a-vis the better-known Marquis de Sade, author of various anonymous works privileged by contemporary critics. Who is this author who after the success of all his clandestine works cast aside the cloak of anonymity to offer the public a collection of short fiction? This book explores how Les Crimes de l amour provides a key to better understanding Sade s prose in both its public and its clandestine guise. More...

Este libro estudia la obra del poeta renacentista Juan Boscan en relacion a los conceptos de cortesania, autorrepresentacion, imitacion e imperio que configuraron las letras espanolas del primer renacimiento y modifica la imagen tradicional de Boscan como poeta incompetente y secundario que ha prevalecido en los circulos academicos y eruditos a ambos lados del Atlantico. Se trata del primer estudio monografico sobre la obra italianizante de Boscan que se escribe en mas de veinte anos. Su proposito es echar luz sobre tres aspectos cruciales de la misma a los que hasta ahora se ha prestado...

If nearly two centuries have left the reputation of Mme de Stael intact, the same could not be said for Mme de Genlis who, despite several recent studies, remains unknown to critics and the general public. This book compares and contrasts the ideas of these two women who lived in the same period. It strives to emphasize the system of thought that was the basis for their reactions to the historical events of their time. This volume contains a new reading of the historical novels of Mme de Genlis, highlighting some Romantic aspects in her works. It shows that Mme de Genlis, who professed to...

Le but de ce livre est de demontrer les contradictions et inconsistances de Voltaire qui, en depit des croyances selon lesquelles il passe pour le grand defenseur des minorites religieuses, de la tolerance et de la liberte de la presse, a eu d enormes difficultes a tolerer les journalistes qui encensaient le pouvoir et l eglise ou qui sapaient sa reputation litteraire par la critique et l analyse de ses uvres. Les journalistes Guyot-Desfontaines et Guillaume Berthier sont analyses a la lumiere des principes de la tolerance et de la liberte de la presse de Voltaire. Les chercheurs et etudiants...

Por primera vez en la historia de los estudios sobre Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, El color del romanticismo presenta un nuevo punto de vista basado en un doble analisis comparativo: por un lado, entre el romanticismo aleman, en la persona de Novalis, y el espanol, en la persona de Becquer; y por otro lado, entre literatura y pintura, pues ambos escritores usan el color, especialmente el azul, como instrumento pictorico que les sirve a ambos para solucionar la -insuficiencia linguistica- de la que parece adolecer la literatura romantica europea.
A la zaga de los teoricos del color...