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The exegesis of Mircea Eliade's work highlights the fact that the author integrated concepts that belong to several sciences into his hermeneutical analysis of religion. Thus, our study analyses both Eliade's view of discourse and the tight connection with the idea of myth, which is a fundamental religious concept for his work. We are focusing on the concept of myth as fundamental, archaic story, which establishes the connection between human and transcendental by resorting to symbol as a key concept for semiotics. Eliade takes the theories of symbol further into Jungian psychoanalysis, while highlighting its connections with the imaginary and the human subconsciousness, thus getting to a fundamental anthropological concept, that of the archetype. The circle discourse-myth-symbol-archetype that we aim to analyze is thus closed, as it shows the continuity of "divine manifestation". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our study analyzes the relationship between the imaginary / imagination and scientific rationalism while mirroring seemingly contrasting aspects. Just as the imaginary has its own reasoning (structures, archetypes, the capacity to produce meaning - analyzed by Gilbert Durand, Gaston Bachelard and Northrop Frye), rationalism is subject to its own logic (cause-effect, arguments, deduction/induction, etc.) which may surface in the realm of the imaginary. We further analyze the cognitive function of the imaginary, which is at the core of analogy-based knowledge and manifests itself through the metaphorical side of language. Thus a subtle, yet rigorous game emerges between clarity (characteristic to science) and ambiguity (a feature of the imaginary), between visible and invisible, further leading towards an understanding of reality beyond abstract rationalism which, in its turn, may lead to fiction while exploring possible worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study investigates the manifestations of the sacred and the profane in Mircea Eliade's work. More precisely it analyses the ways in which space is depicted, focusing on various spatial variants, such as the concepts of house, center, limits, etc., in light of the sacred / profane duality that is specific to Eliade's work. Mimetism, camouflage and disguise are some features of Eliade's fantastic literature, as well as the subtle game of simultaneously showing and hiding something. At the level of discourse, these aspects are translated by coding the information so that later it can be decoded partly by the author, partly by the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the narrative techniques of one of the most famous epistolary novel of the 18th century, Les liaisons dangereuses de Laclos. The novelty of the novel is highlighted by the plurality of narrative voices, by the different points of view of the author, but also by the characters who relate at their turn the action in the novel. We also analyze the relationship between author-character-reader and the possible permutations of these roles. Last but not least, we value the enrollment of this novel in the wider current of libertinage, so specific to the 18th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our study analyzes in the hermeneutic perspective the archeology of the formulation in the works of Pascal Quignard in both senses of discourse on the origin and from the origin of words. The return to Latin and Greek sources of words is a constant style of the writer. We analyze the etymological explanations offered by Quignard while following surprising metamorphosis of the meaning of words. Everything in this multifaceted work refers to the cultural erudition of the author who employs hindsight knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our study takes as its point of departure what Marc Fumaroli calls "la diplomatie de l' esprit" ("spiritual diplomacy") when referring to "les civilités" ("civilities") and politeness as understood by 17th century thinkers. We then analyse the relationship among politeness, etiquette and courtesy with a view to emphasising the nature of politeness as a social norm, its systemic character (manifest in its verbal and nonverbal occurrences) and its quality as a mode of communication. Our thesis is supported by the ideas and concepts proposed by Brown & Levinson, Ferguson and Grice, which lead us to the ethical aspect of politeness as revealed by Habermas, who introduces notions such as "the (D)-Principle" and the principle of universalisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our study reviews certain aspects of Pascal Quignard's poetics/creative process starting with the publication in 1986 of Une gene technique a l' égard des fragments, by proposing that fragmentary writing is a defining feature of the author's entire output. The allure of the fragmented, of allembracing fragmentation, is illustrated by lists inserted in the body of his work. Consequently, we also consider this particular form of expression, the list, as an additional aspect of literariness in Pascal Quignard's oeuvre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese novelist and film producer, Dai Sijie has been writing his novels in French. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main similarities between Chinese and French cultures in three different novels: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, Le complexe de Di et Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée. In all his books, ubiquity has allways been on an ever changing fields, as a result of the fact that the two cultures continuously collide. The novels' main topics refer on one side, to the impact that the books' power has on the reader, and, on the other side, they are the writers' avatar who confessed that « j'ai appartenu à une génération qui pense qu'un livre peut changer la vie ». Dai Sijie's talent reflects in the way in which he approaches terms like Occident and Orient. The whole story is the result of the character's presence, whose names "travel" from one book to another in order to re-emphasise the main topics: education, knowledge that do not know any historical or geographical barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Terrasse à Rome by Pascal Quignard depicts the creation process of black-style engraving set against the background of the life of 17th century engraver, Meaume. Our paper uses the hermeneutical approach in order to overview and analyse the methods of mise en abyme, artistic intertextuality as well as the manner in which the engraving represents an anamorphosis of Quignard's writing. The paper also highlights the typical ekphrasis of Quignard's writing style, proposing at the same time a theme analysis of Meaume's 'black' engravings as they are described in Pascal Quignard's book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advertising discourse is viewed as a complex professional discourse that makes use of certain values, such as inter-subjective experiences, which are part of the larger spectre of modernity. Our paper uses three examples drawn from French press advertisements to analyse the manner in which the image of 'weak' or 'disenfranchised' peoples is distorted by comparison to the western modern societies. A more profound analysis reveals the way in which the opposition "savage" vs. "civilized", is exploited in the advertisement of the luxury brand, Nouvelles Frontieres, by using the example of the nearly extinct Touareg people. The advertising discourse, touching the point of paradox, connects the sacred to the luxurious by consumerism, at least in the examples presented in our paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]