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Keywords: Chasse, Ruralité, Études de genre, Masculinisme, Condition féminine
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These two short stories published posthumously testify to Alain Thomas’ interest in the experiences of the French during the Second World War. In "Sursis" an amiable postal carrier shares his appreciation for being alive after the trauma he endured and "Les Pieds vers la France" recounts, from the point of view of Daniel Thomas, the author’s father, his escape from a German POW camp.
Keywords: France, Second World War, Deuxième Guerre mondiale, France, camp de prisonnier allemand, Escape, évasion, POW Camp
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The article continues with the post entitled "Poetic memory or the use of topos "ENFANT ABANDONNE" in Milan Kundera’s The unbearable lightness of being " published on the SATOR research notebook by Madeleine Jeay, in which she shows that Kundera works a topical situation corresponding to a number of topoi listed in SATORBASE as ADOPTER ENFANT TROUVE, DESOBEIR ORDRE DE TROUVER ENFANT, ENLEVER SECRETEMENT ENFANT etc. The article continues this reflection and focusses on the animal topic in the Shah Nameh of Ferdousi, reflecting on the role of the Simorgh (this mythical bird that plays an essential role in Persian culture and that is found in the Manteq-et-their (The dialogue of the birds) of Farid eddine Attar and in the metaphysical and philosophical texts of Avicenna and Sohravardi. In the Shah Nameh the Simorgh rescues Zal, abandoned as a child by his father, King Sam, and raises him until the latter, now an adult, finds his father who grants him the royal filiation. And the child is fed at night by a gazelle. Such topical configurations that could be called ANIMAL SAVES CHILD ABANDONS are very widespread. We question the original scene of a close relationship between human sovereignty and animal sovereignty, the part of sovereignty being equally distributed between man and animal which is here the inseparable adjuvant. The methodological question of topical naming is also addressed.
Keywords: ENFANT ABANDONNE, Abandoned child, Animal Animal saves abandoned child, ANIMAL SAUVE ENFANT ABANDONNE, SHAH NAMEH, Shah Nameh, Topical designation, DENOMINATION TOPIQUE, MOTIFS ET TOPOI, Motives and topoï
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In the Renaissance, the oral transmission of texts was not only justified by a tradition that would persist in parallel with the rise of printing: it actually found a point of support in the rediscovery of the medical treatises of the Ancients interested in reading out loud. Able to better allow for the circulation or release of moods, vociferation or reading aloud are among the therapeutic programs at work in Antiquity. Rabelais, a doctor himself, Latin translator and publisher of Hippocrates and Galian, was no doubt aware of this link between voice and health, as Gargantua’s way of life seems to show: the humanist combines in his stories a representation of the voice borrowed from the rhetoric of the actio, an anatomical representation of the path of the voice to the ear, and a therapeutic vision of the vocal exercises. These different representations all contribute to the humanist development of the giant. Clément Marot goes even further by giving an echo of these medical treatises in the “Royal Chant of the Conception of Our Lady,” thereby renewing the image of the divine “Word” and that of the Virgin Mary.
Keywords: Voice, Voix, Vociferation, Vocifération, Health, Santé, Rhetoric, Rhétorique, Renaissance, Renaissance
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The formula of the "Charm of the voice", which is the title of a play by Thomas Corneille from 1657, constitutes the topical matrix of a vast corpus of works which, throughout the classical age, have questioned the powers of the voice. The article identifies two sets of topoi: in the tale of "Beauty and the Beast" and its rewrites between the 1740s and the 1770s, the "charm of the voice" is essentially considered from the point of view of gentleness and civilizational process, while in Cazotte's short story, Le Diable amoureux (1772-1776), it appears as a destabilizing power in relation to the witch's imaginary.
Keywords: T. Corneille, T. Corneille, Voice, Voix, Rewriting, Réécriture, Softness, Douceur, Power, Puissance
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This article investigates chocolate in Ancien Régime society through a selection of treatises, dictionaries, and novels from the Enlightenment. These texts provide valuable information on its benefits, preparation, and consumption – revealing new dietary as well as social rituals, closely linked to the libertine imagination. In addition, the novels inform the evolution of descriptive practices. The analysis of short excerpts enables us to propose a few topoi, such as “to take one’s chocolate,” “to invite to take chocolate,” “to feel pleasure with chocolate” or “(to attempt) to administer poison or narcotic in chocolate.”
Keywords: chocolate, Enlightenment, libertine novel, poisoning, chocolat, Lumières, roman libertin, empoisonnement
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This study takes a look at Nature, at the narrative and philosophical effects and stakes of sounds -or the absence of sounds- which, in the novels of the Grail of the Middle Age, follow the appearances of this subject. In Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, The Story of the Grail, what is significant is not the silence of the Grail, but the silence of Perceval. From this first silent episode, which connects the narration to a sin of character, are followed scenes, in the novels in verse that aspire to complete the narration, as well as in the prose novels of the 13th century, where the vision of the Grail is associated to the topic of noises and voices, to the themes of songs and music, or even to a silence which is no longer the consequence of a fault, but a sign of plenitude, of grace, and of an harmony that “the tongue cannot say, nor the heart imagine.” From Perceval's guilty silence, to the silence of the divine grace, ineffable mystical experience, the Grail scenes carried the characters a long way to internalize this trial, and to allow their hearts to hear the resonance of the voice of the real presence. As a quest for divine grace, the quest of the Grail leads the devotee of a sensory experience to a bliss in Deo, to the unity with the uncreated Breath, Verb which exceeds all intelligence. An itinerary towards God is the path towards silence.
Keywords: Grail, Graal, Liturgie, Liturgy, Bruit, Noise, Sound, Son, Music, Musique, Voice, Voix, Silence, Silence
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This article, assuming that the dimension of sound in the theatricality of Cent nouvelles nouvelles hasn’t been enhanced enough, observes that the evocation of some sounds completes and enriches the motives and situations that are at the basis of the theatrical content of the work. It also highlights the idea that by the narrative taking a comedic performative direction, the traces of sound in the text are thus as much signs of a dynamic of conflict as a troubled universe marked by mistrust. The text that finds its power in this aesthetic of conflict is less forged by the common narrative basis of other narrations than by the surplus of performance and sound. As a result, the article concludes with the reflection that the visibility and audibility of a body of text can’t stop themselves from assuming a performative charge. If sound doesn’t add anything to the story-telling, it adds a sure value to the narration.
Keywords: Sound, Son, Theatricality, Théâtralité, Value, Valeur, Supplement, Supplément, Performativity, Performativité