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A quelques kilomètres de Sens, et sur les bords fleuris de l'Yonne, s'élève un joli village dont les maisons aux toits rouges se groupent autour d'une charmante église du douzième siècle, comme des poussins sous l'aile de leur mère ; d'autres chaumières s'éparpillent dans la vallée, s'étagent pittoresquement sur la colline toute dénuée de beaux arbres, ou côtoient un gentil ruisseau qui coule sur un tapis de cailloux blancs et va se jeter un peu plus bas dans la rivière. Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Ce bel esprit s'amusait, au cours, avec Arnauld à deviner à l'apparence la profession des gens. Passe un carrosse dans lequel il y avait un homme singulièrement accoutré. Voiture dit : — C'est un conseiller de la Cour des aides. D'Arnauld gage que cela n'est pas. Voiture aborde l'homme, et pour s'excuser lui dit que la question qu'il allait lui faire était l'objet d'un pari. — Gagez, lui dit l'homme froidement, que vous êtes un sot, et vous ne perdrez jamais. Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

QUAND Jean le Diot naquit, sa mère, qui était déjà bien chargée de famille, s'accouda tristement sur son lit et murmura : — Mon Dieu, que deviendra plus tard ce garçon? sera-t-il bon ou mauvais, riche ou pauvre, intelligent ou simple innocent? — Il sera riche! répondit une petite fée qui semblait parler du haut du toit. — Il sera pauvre! répliqua une seconde. — Intelligent! s'écria une troisième. Une quatrième voix se fit entendre : — Cet enfant-là ne sera jamais qu'un sot! Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse'(1727-32) contained contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early 18th century, published at the time when all three were at the height of their powers. This edition contains the contributions of Alexander Pope, Jonathon Swift and John Gay.

Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines McCarthy's literary archive to identify over 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy referenced in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. This updated edition now examines McCarthy's final publications: the novel The Passenger and its play-like coda Stella Maris. For each work, Crews identifies authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy referenced; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.

Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern,'The Retrospective Review'aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the merit of old ones the subject of critical discussion. This edition reproduces in facsimile all 18 volumes of the periodical published between 1820-1854.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) war in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts die zentrale Figur der deutschen Poesie. Er revolutionierte Theorie und Praxis des Verses, wertete die Position von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern im Literaturbetrieb auf, schrieb das wichtigste Epos des 18. Jahrhunderts und ist mit seinen Oden und Gedichten für Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker weiterhin mustergültig und stilbildend. Die 26 richtungsweisenden Beiträge der internationalen Quedlinburger Konferenz, die im 300. Jubiläumsjahr Klopstocks erscheinen, diskutieren die innovative Leistung dieser Dichterpersönlichkeit sowie die facettenreiche und vielseitige Rezeption seiner Werke.

Socialism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain was a highly literate movement. Every socialist group produced some form of written text through which their particular brand of politics could be promoted. This edition collects serialized fiction and short stories that have not been published since their original appearance.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background. By linking the two, the author provides great insight into the psychology of America and its great literary heritage.

How deviant materials figure resistanceYeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive of volition.Deviant Matter examines four aesthetic and material categories— gelatinousness, fermentation, putrefaction, and intoxication—to theorize how the modern state seeks to manage deviant populations across multiple scales, from the level of the single cell up to the affective and aesthetic imperatives of the state and its bureaucratic projects. Kyla Wazana Tompkins deploys a new materialist engagement with the history of race and queer life, making an argument for queer of color method as political and disciplinary critique. Deviant Matter delves into a vast archive that includes nineteenth-century medical and scientific writing; newspaper comic strips and early film; the Food and Drug Act of 1906; the literature of Martin Delany, Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville; and twenty-first century queer minoritarian video, installation, and performance art.Drawing from the genealogy of Black feminist and queer of color critique, in Deviant Matter rot, jelly, ferment and intoxicating materials serve as figures for thinking about how matter, art, politics, and affect can be read across multiple scales, ranging from the intimate and molecular everyday to the vast print production and inner workings of the state. Tompkins demonstrates that we are moved by our encounters with the materials in Deviant Matter, producing feelings and sensations that she links to a system of social value where these sensations come to be understood as productive, exciting, disgusting, intoxicating, or even hallucinatory. Moving through multiple states and phase changes, falling apart and reforming again, ferment, rot, intoxicants and jelly energize and choreograph both themselves and human behavior. At the same time, these materialities come to signify exactly those populations whose energy escapes the extractive efforts of capitalism and the state.

Boncza Berta személye több mint száz éve foglalkoztatja az irodalomtudomány, a képzőművészet és a publicisztika művelői mellett az irodalomkedvelőket is. A szerző, aki Boncza Berta rokona is egyben, ezért is vállalkozott családtörténetének feldolgozására, egyúttal kísérletet téve személyiségének, cselekedetei mozgatórugóinak megértésére.Ez a kötet a téma által megkövetelt alaposságú kutatómunkára, adatgyűjtésre és -rendszerezésre támaszkodik. Az új szempontok felvetésének és a korábban még fel nem tárt adatok közlésének köszönhetően a téma egy, a korábbiaktól teljesen eltérő, egyedi hangvételben megírt feldolgozásával találkozhat az olvasóközönség. A szerző célja volt az alkotás során a tévhitek, téveszmék eloszlatása, a félrevezető, megtévesztő információk leleplezése, vagyis egy hiteles, sokrétű ismeretanyag átadása.Jelen kiadás aktualitását a 2024-es év kettős kerek évfordulója adja – ekkor emlékezünk ugyanis Boncza Berta születésének százharmincadik és halálának kilencvenedik évfordulójára.

Cet ouvrage nous plonge dans l'univers complexe du théâtre traditionnel de l'Iran, du ta'zieh à l'art du conteur, des marionnettes à la farce, dévoilant un monde du spectacle en transition avec les œuvres visionnaires de Bahram Beyzaie (1938-). Cet homme de théâtre, metteur en scène, auteur de pièces et de films, est aussi un maître de la langue persane, qu'il utilise avec virtuosité. Pour ce dramaturge iranien, le théâtre est un lieu où les formes traditionnelles de spectacle, loin d'être de simples reconstitutions du passé, se réinventent pour parler au public et combattre l'amnésie culturelle. Il consacre sa vie à puiser dans l'héritage culturel oublié de l'Iran, tissant une toile riche d'histoire, de mythes et d'émotions. Mona Emad montre la dynamique et la richesse des interactions entre les modèles traditionnels populaires et cette vaste pensée d'un des plus grands dramaturges et cinéastes iraniens actuels. Ce livre, fruit d'une quête personnelle profonde, se dévoile comme une élégante porte ouverte sur l'héritage théâtral iranien, offrant ainsi une perspective unique qui éclaire la richesse de cette culture et de cet art scénique.

Dans ses mémoires, Seydou Diawara retrace son parcours au service du Trésor public sénégalais, où il a consacré 27 ans de sa vie à la gestion rigoureuse des finances publiques. Issu de Ziguinchor, il évoque son enfance et son éducation, influencées par les valeurs de son père, puis sa formation à l'ENAM. Il revient en détail sur les responsabilités qu'il a exercées dans divers postes comptables, soulignant son engagement pour l'intégrité et la transparence. Diawara évoque également les accusations de détournement de fonds auxquelles il a dû faire face, mais qui ont été démenties par la validation de ses comptes et l'obtention de son quitus en 2007 par la Cour des Comptes. Ce quitus est présenté comme une véritable distinction personnelle, lui permettant de tourner la page sur ces épreuves et de clore sa carrière en paix. L'auteur exprime sa gratitude envers sa famille et les autorités qui ont marqué son parcours, tout en faisant de ses mémoires un hommage aux valeurs de droiture et de justice inculquées par son père.

Céline fut « contre » Proust comme celui-ci fut « contre Sainte-Beuve », pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Pour le pire, lorsque la haine contre cet aîné, en tout différent, le conduit à recycler les stéréotypes antisémites et homophobes de son époque. Pour le meilleur, quand l'obsession proustienne dynamise la réflexion de Céline sur la littérature et lui permet de mettre au point un projet littéraire nouveau. Montrer en quoi la haine de Proust fut nécessaire à Céline conduit à retourner à ce qu'il dit de Proust, à contextualiser ses propos, à en déplier les enjeux, pour constater la partialité globale de sa lecture et ses aperçus critiques parfois lumineux. Des allusions, directes ou indirectes, des détails en forme de clin d'œil au sein des textes nourrissent ce « dialogue haineux ». Il réside surtout dans la reprise, systématiquement contradictoire, de motifs ou de thèmes proustiens afin d'en manifester, par la dérision, l'inanité ou l'obsolescence. Pour Céline, il s'agit d'en finir avec Proust, sans y parvenir, pour continuer à essayer d'en finir donc d'écrire.

Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern,'The Retrospective Review'aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the merit of old ones the subject of critical discussion. This edition reproduces in facsimile all 18 volumes of the periodical published between 1820-1854.

Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern,'The Retrospective Review'aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the merit of old ones the subject of critical discussion. This edition reproduces in facsimile all 18 volumes of the periodical published between 1820-1854.

Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern,'The Retrospective Review'aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the merit of old ones the subject of critical discussion. This edition reproduces in facsimile all 18 volumes of the periodical published between 1820-1854.

Il volume presenta i risultati del maggiore convegno leopardiano mai organizzato in suolo britannico, raccogliendo contributi essenziali sui nuovi approcci internazionali alla leopardistica e gli studi sulla storia intellettuale tra Romanticismo e Modernismo. L'idea di Contaminazione, cui l'introduzione è dedicata, pone categorie di ecletticità e originalità discorsiva al centro dell'universo leopardiano. I contributi – diversi per scuola e provenienza (UK, Francia, Italia) – scommettono sul potenziale eversivo della contaminazione leopardiana. L'immagine risultante è quella di un Leopardi nuovo: un organismo vivo, capace di nutristi di diversità. Si considera questo volume un contributo chiave al crescente interesse su Leopardi come protagonista della modernità europea.

Comment une femme pouvait-elle s'affirmer et faire carrière dans le monde du spectacle entre 1650 et 1914? Dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, les quinze études réunies dans ce volume apportent des éléments de réponse à travers l'analyse de parcours d'autrices, de compositrices et de performeuses aux profils très variés, actives dans les domaines du théâtre, de la danse et de l'opéra. Ces études proposent une meilleure compréhension et contextualisation des obstacles et préjugés auxquels ces artistes ont dû faire face dans un milieu socio-professionnel majoritairement masculin, ainsi qu'une interprétation analytique des stratégies artistiques et discursives mises en place pour les surmonter. Il en ressort une approche renouvelée et une meilleure connaissance de notre matrimoine culturel.

In der 4. Auflage ist das Buch umfassend neu konzipiert worden. Neben den Kapiteln von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne, die als Klassiker in der Amerikanistik gelten und nur wenig verändert beibehalten werden, sind alle anderen Kapitel entweder neu geschrieben oder stark revidiert worden. Die ausführlichen Porträts der indigenen und der Latino/a-Literatur, der afro- und asiatisch-amerikanischen Literatur tragen der ausgeprägten Diversität der literarischen Kultur der USA Rechnung. Kernstück ist ein ganz neu verfasstes, umfangreiches Kapitel zur Literatur der Gegenwart.

The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse'(1727-32) contained contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early 18th century, published at the time when all three were at the height of their powers. This edition contains the contributions of Alexander Pope, Jonathon Swift and John Gay.

Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history.

Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history.

Sarah Robinson Scott was a writer, translator and social reformer. While Scott's legacy presents her as a committed Anglican philanthropist, the letters she wrote reveal her to have been a witty, even savage, commentator on eighteenth-century life.This is the first edition of Scott's letters to be published and presents all extant copies.

First Published in 1934, this book gives a general survey of the history of classical Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. It discusses important themes like Homeric criticism and the Homeric question; elegiac poetry; lyric poetry; myth and history in verse; Heraclitus and philosophy in prose; the scientific study of history; origins of tragedy; origins of comedy; changes in the fourth century; and Aristotle and the end of the classical period. This is a must read for students of Greek literature and history of classical literature.

Contemporary readers face a literature that seems to ‘speak for'them, yet they often struggle to say just how or why. Out of the deluge of works from such writers as Barth, Barthelme, Beckett, Borges, Brooke-Rose, Burroughs, Butor, Calvino, Cortázar, Federman, Fuentes, Le Guin, Márquez, McElroy, Nabokov, O'Brien, Pynchon, Robbe-Grillet, Sanguineti, Sarraute, Sollers, Sukenick, Tolkien, Vonnegut, new words and world-models that demand understanding fill the air. Yet they seem frequently beyond reach because the framework of ideas within which this often brilliant but seemingly bewilderingly disparate flood of discourses might make sense remains largely unexpressed.Beginning with the first concisely concerted assessment in English of the premisses and practice of Realism as viewed by those who feel that there is no choice but to move on, this book (first published in 1987) confronts the vocabulary and rhetoric of current radical theory with the actual procedures of post-war fiction. In a spirit of challenging experiment, it scrutinizes the themes, motifs, and strategies of contemporary narrative and reveals an unsuspected continuity of hitherto concealed premisses and dilemmas built into recent postmodern and poststructuralist thought. As provocative as the literature it regards, it proposes that anti-Realism is no longer merely a ‘movement'– that it has become a massive and equally conventionalized and problematical tradition living alongside Realism throughout the Western world.

Du menuisier Adam Billaut au boucher Joseph Ponthus, du dentiste Marmont au docteur Camuset, du cordonnier Magu au géologue Cochon de Lapparent, nombreux sont les poètes qui ont évoqué leur profession dans leurs vers. Certains en ont fait des ouvrages didactiques, comme les enseignants de géographie, d'histoire ou de grammaire, d'autres de simples moments de plaisir partagé, comme le pharmacien Pascalon. Leurs œuvres sont tantôt ambitieuses, comme celle de l'avocat qui réécrit le Code civil en vers, tantôt émouvantes, comme les poèmes pacifistes d'un ancien officier. Tous ces écrivains, amateurs ou confirmés, ont cependant en commun d'être ceux que ce livre désigne, avec une ironie bienveillante, comme des « poètes de métier ». En quatre chapitres, Paul Aron esquisse de façon inédite une histoire de ces échanges entre profession réelle et art poétique. Mêlant érudition et humour, il dévoile ainsi un continent méconnu de l'histoire littéraire.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURPaul Aron est docteur en philosophie et lettres de l'Université libre de Bruxelles. Il est directeur de recherche honoraire au Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) et professeur de littérature à l'Université libre de Bruxelles. Il s'intéresse à l'histoire de la vie littéraire, principalement des XIXe et XXe siècles, aux relations entre les arts et entre les médias de presse, la vie politique et l'histoire culturelle et journalistique.

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of law, and infrastructure – roads and aqueducts – or by the detested tyrant who imposed domination? Or worse, the corruptor of republican liberty and source of putrefying decadence? Rome always returns, but which Rome? France presents itself as a privileged locus for Rome's return since the beginnings of its history. The perennial recourse to ancient Rome – as model or anti-model – binds together a cohesive tradition. The logic of this gesture asserts a unity beyond modern identity politics, which depend on defining a “them” against “us,” to resist nativist assumptions about national character, French, German, Italian, American, etc. All share the same polysemous inheritance, for good or ill. All are Roman and all resist Rome without needing to agree on what exactly is shared. The unity underlying the discourse, however, no longer depends on defining Rome as an origin. Instead, Rome's figuration persists discursively, as a translation: to be translated time and time again.

Satire, long the most neglected of literary genres, has begun to claim its share of critical attention. And no book in the satiric tradition has generated more controversy that Gulliver's Travels; since it was first published it has been the subject of an often passionate debate about its moral and esthetic value--a debate inseparable from the question of what Swift was really saying about us all, especially in Book IV. Despite the running controversy, this is the first extended study of the Travels to appear in over forty years. It places Swift's masterpiece in the perspective of its own age, but also in relation to ours. First it reviews the philosophical doubts of the Augustans about the nature of man--doubts now recognized as a major force behind Swift's satire. It examines Augustan satiric theory and its Continental background; and, coming to the Travels, treats them as one instance of a conventional form, the'satire on man.'On the vexed problem of Book IV it argues that alternative views of Swift as a savage misanthrope and as a benign humanist are both inadequate, and that as in Swift's irony generally, what seem to be contradictory truths are simultaneously in force. The study is concerned throughout with the way values operate in a satiric context. What, for example are we to make of Gulliver's pious attachment to'truth'-telling? In this connection, a speculative theory is proposed which relates Swift's satiric intentions to the epistemology of John Locke. Finally, an epilogue looks ahead to some modern writers--Lewis Carroll, Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov--whose habits throw a retrospective light on Swift's. The study, broadly speaking, is not only about Gulliver's Travels but also about the psychology of the satirist and about the mind's response, whether the Augustans'or our own, at moments of intellectual crisis. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Fils légitime de la Révolution, le XIXe siècle doit créer un nouveau monde, il hésite entre l'empire, la monarchie, la république. Hésitation encore sur la place à donner aux juges. Faut-il les élire, les nommer et si oui, par qui? Quelle place accorder aux libertés? À toutes les libertés? Liberté des mœurs? Liberté politique? Liberté des écrivains?Jamais littérature et poésie n'ont été aussi riches! Autour de l'Homme-siècle, le maître incontesté Victor Hugo, de très nombreuses gloires… certaines éternelles, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Zola. Ces gloires sont toutes soumises, comme n'importe quel citoyen, à la loi des hommes et rencontrent dans les prétoires ceux qui sont chargés de l'appliquer : les juges. Les juges sont ici de vrais juges qui vont juger, non la qualité artistique des œuvres, mais la conformité de celles-ci à la loi pénale ou civile. De grandes plumes prônent les libertés, mais peu luttent pour les obtenir. Nombre d'entre elles sont confrontées aux juges, tous anciens avocats, issus des classes dirigeantes, qui se soumettent au pouvoir politique qui les nomme, imposent un strict conservatisme des mœurs, maintiennent les femmes en état de minorité, appliquent avec rigueur le code pénal et les lois restrictives de liberté. Les procès et jugements rendus éclairent cette période. Ils nous apportent une réponse à l'éternelle question : qui doit désigner les juges?Ils nous rappellent combien nous avons changé, et font mieux comprendre quelle extraordinaire mutation a su réussir le monde des juges, désormais protecteur des libertés individuelles.

The'Critical Review'reflects the political, scientific and literary debate of the times. The journal was edited for its first seven years by Tobias Smollett and reflected the slashing, combative style and intellectual range of its editor. This 16-volume set reproduces this journal.

Covering Daniel Defoe's many interests, both literary and historical, this edition is the fourth volume in'Pickering and Chatto's'18-volume series.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the'literary'novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. This book offers an account of US fiction during a period demarcated by two traumatic moments: the eve of the entry of the United States into the Second World War and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aftermath of the Second World War was arguably the high point of US nationalism, but in the years that followed, US writers would increasingly explore the possibility that US democracy was a failure, both at home and abroad. For so many of the writers whose work this volume explores, the idea of'nation'became suspect as did the idea of'national literature'as the foundation for US writing. Looking at post-1940s writing, the literary historian might well chart a movement within literary cultures away from nationalism and toward what we would call'cosmopolitanism,'a perspective that fosters conversations between the occupants of different cultural spaces and that regards difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. During this period, the novel has had significant competition for the US public's attention from other forms of narrative and media: film, television, comic books, videogames, and the internet and the various forms of social media that it spawned. If, however, the novel becomes a'residual'form during this period, it is by no means archaic. The novel has been reinvigorated over the past eighty years by its encounters with both emergent forms (such as film, television, comic books, and digital media) and the emergent voices typically associated with multiculturalism in the United States.

Defoe's era saw much popular interest in the instructional handbook and behaviour manual. Bringing together a collection of Daniel Defoe's most important and influential instructional treatises, this work serves as an addition to the'Works of Daniel Defoe'from the'Pickering Masters'series.

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

Montaigne's Essays were republished in France every two or three years from 1580–1669. The Fortunes of Montaigne (originally published in 1935) aims to show what those who bought these Essays during that period sought or found there.The author has attempted to answer three questions in the volume—what are the general ideas of those who are particularly drawn to Montaigne or who write against him?; what did these writers think of the Essays, and what specially interested them in the book?; and what did they borrow from him, or more profitably, what are their less conscious borrowings, their adaptations of his ideas? The book gives an account of the criticism and appreciation of the Essays. Further, it discusses the development of Humanism as opposed to orthodox Christianity, and the part played by the Essays in that development.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy, history, and literature.

La carrière du futur gouverneur général Reste est exemplaire.Humaniste, explorateur à pirogue et à pied de contrées immenses, il suscita l'estime et la vénération des Africains et la malveillance d'affairistes et politiciens.Il a retracé dans des carnets inédits tout son parcours, ses impressions prises au vif, ses doutes et ses critiques face au comportement révoltant et arbitraire de l'administration coloniale, sans oublier les profiteurs en tous genres et les exploitants des immenses terrains concédés par l'État.Il fut une grande figure de la République laïque et sociale.

Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. In the context of this competition, developments like the emergence of Rolling Stone magazine, regional publishers, Black studies programs, and “New Hollywood” became key events in the life of the American novel. Novels by Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, Toni Cade Bambara, Cynthia Ozick, and Larry McMurtry—among many others—are recast as prescient reports on, and formal responses to, a world suddenly less hospitable to old claims about the novel's value. This book brings to light the story of the novel's perceived decline and the surprising ways American fiction transformed in its wake.

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism's distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s, including major works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Goncharov, and Turgenev, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period, including Alexander Druzhinin's Polinka Saks (1847), Aleksei Pisemsky's One Thousand Souls (1858), and Vasily Sleptsov's Hard Times (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Sovereign Fictions offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics.

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ways, both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly, and in which different visions of history emerge. In addition, the history within the work can resemble, or be patterned on, histories in our world. These histories range from the deep past of prehistoric and ancient worlds to the early medieval era of the barbarian invasions and Byzantium, to the modern worlds of urbane civility and a paradoxical longing for nature, and finally to great power rivalries and global prospects. The book argues that Tolkien did not employ these histories indiscriminately or reductively. Rather, he regarded them as aspects of aesthetic and representative figuration that are above all literary. While most criticism has concentrated on Tolkien's use of historical traditions of Northern Europe, this book argues that Tolkien also valued Southern and Mediterranean pasts and registered the Germanic and the Scandinavian pasts as they related to other histories as much as his vision of them included a primeval mythic aura.

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point towards new possibilities in creative and critical thought. Drawing on Johanna Skibsrud's experience in clown classes in France and the US, Fool challenges and extends the correlation Theodor Adorno suggests between thinking and clowning. It considers a diverse range of literary and theoretical sources from Richard Wagner's Parsifal to Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway. The book also refers to a varied cast of literary and historical clowns and fools, including the early Shakespearean actor Richard Tarlton, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, and Cirque du Soleil's Shannan Calcutt.Skibsrud elaborates on the role of the ‘fool'and ‘foolishness'in literature, not as an element of a particular work's content, plot, or style but instead as a creative mode of thought activated through the reading and writing of literary texts. This innovative book charts new ground in literature, philosophy, and performance studies, and is an invaluable resource for specialists in all three fields.

Tout a été dit ou presque sur la 2 CV : sa création par Pierre-Jules Boulanger, sa technologie innovante, ses évolutions, ses exploits. Mais aujourd'hui, elle prend enfin la parole pour nous raconter son destin, sa vie parmi celle des hommes. Des vallons verdoyants du Perche aux quatre coins du monde, elle nous entraîne dans une épopée qu'elle seule pouvait partager au plus près de nous tous : paysans besogneux, aventuriers audacieux, babas cool engagés, étudiants fauchés, artistes amoureux, sans oublier le commun des mortels…Ici, pas d'illustrations, mais des images et des souvenirs à jamais gravés dans le cœur de ceux qui l'ont croisée, connue, adoptée.

Ce livre s'inscrit dans une Catena Aurea – cette chaîne d'or qui va du plus fugace aujourd'hui à la nuit des temps. Il y sera parlé d'auteurs divers qui suivirent un même dessein, celui de ne pas nous laisser tels que nous sommes, livrés aux tristes tartufferies de ces morales publiques qui dissimulent, sous les atours du « Bien » proclamé, des instincts de vengeance.Des exemples seront donnés pour se déprendre de cette glue : le prince de Ligne, Joseph Joubert, Léon Bloy, Pierre Boutang, Henri Bosco, Maurice Magre, André Suarès, Dominique de Roux, Julien Gracq, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, René Char et bien d'autres… C'est à eux que nous devons un monde moins triste et moins uniformisé. Ces résistants à la morosité ne sont point si rares ; extravagants ou discrets, ascétiques ou orgiaques, artistes ou purs contemplatifs, sauvages ou ultra-civilisés, ou l'un et l'autre, ils parcourent le temps en laissant le sillage scintillant de leurs œuvres, de leurs regards, de leur amitié.Notre voyage ici-bas est court. Autant le faire à l'instar de Joseph de Maistre – dont il sera largement question dans cet ouvrage – en excellente compagnie, au fil de la Néva, afin que d'un simple déplacement dans le temps et l'espace, il devienne un voyage intérieur.

Comment saisir les configurations de l'intime dans l'imaginaire médiéval tant que l'adjectif intime, emprunté au latin au XIVe siècle, désignait une personne étroitement liée à une autre pour n'acquérir qu'au XVIe siècle un deuxième sens en lien avec la vie intérieure d'une personne, alors que le nom, attesté au XVIIe siècle, renvoyait à un ami très cher ou à la vie spirituelle de quelqu'un?Revendiqué avec insistance par les spécialistes de la littérature du XVIIIe et encore plus par ceux de la littérature du XIXe siècle, l'intime ne saurait pourtant être absent des textes du Moyen Âge, d'autant moins que les rapports entre individu et communauté furent souvent tendus à cause des contraintes de toutes sortes. En effet, la littérature courtoise qui s'est nourrie, dans le Midi autant que dans le Nord, de la conception de la fin'amor comporte, au même titre que d'autres textes, les premières expressionsde l'intime. Perceptibles dans le paradigme spatial, malgré des clivages stricts ou des seuils apparemment infranchissables, elles acquièrent des profondeurs inattendues quand leurs auteurs investissent le paradigme de l'intériorité de nouvelles émotions ou sentiments.

The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin West during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer's text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the complex relationship between Josephus'legacy and his readers who sought to make use of that legacy across the period of 500 to 1300. Contributors: Carson Bay, Susan Edgington, Anthony Ellis, Paul C. Hilliard, Karen M. Kletter, Justin Lake, Richard M. Pollard, Graeme Ward, and Julian Yolles.

Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review. It is fully reset and supported by full editorial apparatus.

Published to coincide with the bi-centenary of the original publication of'The Works of Horatio Walpole', this five-volume edition reproduces the 1798 posthumous facsimile held by the Lewis Walpole Library.

The'Critical Review'reflects the political, scientific and literary debate of the times. The journal was edited for its first seven years by Tobias Smollett and reflected the slashing, combative style and intellectual range of its editor. This 16-volume set reproduces this journal.