Books in the Nouvelle Poetique Comparatiste - New Comparative Poetics series

Il existe des récits qui ne nous ouvrent aucun monde, des récits étranges qui semblent écrits pour bloquer nos capacités d¿imagination ou de rêverie, des récits qui nous rabattent sans arrêt sur la lettre de ce qui est écrit. Tout le travail narratif consiste alors à éreinter chaque mot de peur qüil n¿introduise quelque profondeur symbolique, quelque référence à une expérience partagée. Dans cet ouvrage, les profondeurs mystiques de Nerval, de Hawthorne ou d¿Edgar Poe, les profondeurs autobiographiques de Céline, Leiris ou de Marechera, sont mises à l¿épreuve d¿une lecture critique qui traque le travail de la surface sous tous les effets de profondeur. À travers neuf études critiques d¿écrivains modernes, l¿enjeu de cet essai est de proposer un nouveau point de vue théorique sur les trois instances «profondes» du récit que sont la référence, l¿auteur et le style.

This book examines how a long line of imaginative writers, starting from Rabelais and continuing over Cervantes and Sterne down to such modernists as Proust, Mann, Joyce, and Barth, has reaffirmed the picture of an enduring Western civilization despite repeated crises and transformations. The humanist capacity to recapture a sense of European greatness as exhibited in Antiquity was paralleled by and continued in the guise of newer vernacular works, achievements regarded as vital forms of a shared cultural rebirth. This was amplified most notably in the tradition of the ironic encyclopedic novel which surveyed the state of successive phases of culture. The evolving heritage and revitalization of the arts constituted main subject matters in the series of major self-conscious epochal movements, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism, which Postmodernism reflexively now struggles to supersede.

14 scholars, from Europe, Asia, North and South America and Africa address issues in World Literature. They defend approaching the world-relatedness of non-Eurocentric cultures without blinkers, present the macro- and microcosmic dimensions of regional and world connectedness and its processes, and posit methodological and hermeneutic challenges.

The Study of Languages is one of James Joyce's first essays and an early indication of his lifelong interest in philology, the focus of this volume of essays. The collection investigates three aspects of Joycean linguistics. The first set of essays studies the language of Joyce's later writings. In the second part, Joyce's own linguistic investigations are retraced. The third part examines the historical context of 'popular philology'. This volume sheds light on the relationship between Joyce's later writings and his reading of studies by linguists such as Richard Paget, Charles Kay Ogden, Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fritz Mauthner, Otto Jespersen, Richard Chenevix Trench and Max Müller. Based on notebook research and textual genetics, these essays show how important the study of languages was to Joyce and how it played a crucial role in the development of his writings as it contributed and gave shape to the languages of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans un champ de recherche en pleine expansion, le plurilinguisme litteraire. Les 14 contributions (ecrites en francais et anglais) du volume ont en commun d'historiciser le propos en explorant une periode paradoxale, entre doxa d'un monolinguisme puriste et audaces linguistiques : la fin du XIXe siecle.

Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical Wisdom written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: For our time is a very shadow that passeth away. From the young bachelor's angry vow to live for himself and turn the key on his heart in Watch and Ward (1871) to the decisive The Turn of the Screw (1898) and to the final turning the tables on an awful agent of the Apollo Gallery in the nightmare of A Small Boy and Others (1913), this refined ambassador of American letters, sharing some of the idiosyncrasies of Sacher Masoch and Gustave Flaubert - Jean-Paul Sartre's Idiot of the family - waged a fantastic fight against neurosis for the mastery of his craft. This study explores the gems that spangle the carpet of his prose. The latter hints at a secret christology and shines with the desire to fight differently the modern Romains de la decadence depicted in Thomas Couture's famous painting. The myth of the Twins inspired by James's relationship with his brother William eventually led him to feel like the heir of all the ages. Burning some letters to protect his privacy, the expatriate writer (1843-1916) constructed his A uvre to share the sky of the literary world Pleiades, and found eternal rest under the vaults of Westminster Abbey.

The present proposes an original confrontation between the points of view of scholars and artists about the notion of the contemporary commitment of writers.

The relationship between literature and other forms of art, explored through a broad range of examples, drawn from several continents and analyzed with careful attention to their historical and generic specificity. A variety of discourses and media are considered alongside more traditional categories of art and literature.

On assiste depuis les années 1990 à l¿expansion inédite, dans toutes les sphères d¿activité étrangères au champ artistique (du marketing à la vie sociale promue par les réseaux en ligne), d¿usages stratégiques du récit désormais regroupés sous le terme de «¿storytelling¿», ou «¿communication narrative¿». Ce phénomène nouveau rend plus sensible la dimension «¿contre-narrative¿» ¿¿de résistance aux récits dominants dans le discours social ¿ caractéristique de certaines pratiques littéraires qui se donnent pour tâche de remettre en cause les «¿identités¿» prescrites par les instances du pouvoir. Les études littéraires féministes d¿une part, les études sur les littératures postcoloniales d¿autre part, ont de longue date mis en évidence cette visée «¿contre-narrative¿» inhérente à certaines entreprises littéraires engagées dans la remise en cause des assignations genrées et des assignations identitaires en contexte (dé)colonial. Cet ouvrage se propose d¿interroger à nouveaux frais ce potentiel de résistance, dans le contexte nouveau d¿un storytelling néolibéral devenu hégémonique, en mettant en évidence la façon dont certaines ¿uvres de fiction littéraire pensent l¿intrication des différents facteurs de domination susceptibles de peser sur les destinées individuelles.

This book examines the making of narratives that have staged actual or fictional female murderers, influencing the ways in which these women are collectively remembered. Cet ouvrage interroge la maniere dont l'ecriture ou la reecriture du meurtre au feminin contribue a faconner et problematiser la memoire collective de ces affaires criminelles.