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AbstractThis study explores the relations between the essay and literary criticism and the tensions between the two genres and the various disciplines of the humanities. Analysis of François Ricard's La génération lyrique shows how the essayist constructs the object of his text, globally his generation, by playing off demographic, sociological and institutional discourses. At the same time, the essayist's use of concepts from literary criticism participates in the creation of an aesthetic object.
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AbstractThe author of this article offers some new theoretical perspectives on argumentation and subjectivity in the essay. Starting with a discussion of previous research, he aims to demonstrate how the originality of the essay is often based on the close link between knowledge and the self. Subjectivity in the essay allows for the creation of a “fiction of the self”, which is akin to that of autofiction. Argumentation in the essay seems in part dependent on the way in which the essayist situates himself in relation to knowledge. In order to illustrate the diversity of essayistic practices, the author discusses a varied corpus including the works of Brault, Barthes, Kundera, Quignard, and Houellebecq.
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AbstractIn twentieth century fiction, the way of telling stories has unquestionably been renewed. And the influence of this heritage is still strong in today's fictional writing. My purpose in this paper is to try to explain how changing the way of telling has led to a change in the way of reading. I will first recall how traditional narratives used to captivate readers, and the reasons why they were questioned. Secondly, I will bring to light the main features of recent novels in order to analyse how they can modify the experience of reading. Finally, I will examine four current ways of reading narratives.
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« The heavy-light contradiction is the most mysterious and the most ambiguous of all contradictions » wrote Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (p. 13-14). The clown character carries this tension in him by being able to exaggerate, to highlight a feature of caricature to bring laughter, but also by keeping a form of lightness, preventing him from being displaced, unseemly or even tragic. The clown lives on the borders, walking like a tightrope between laughter and tears. Since twenty years we see him appear in health facilities, pediatrics but also in intensive care, emergency and hospices. This text seeks to understand how the clownish humor meets death and invests places where suffering and dying are insurmountable challenges: how do they work in these places? What do they evoke? Using both reflections on humor and testimonies from participating observation, this article makes the figure clownesque an embodied posture of the phenomenological reduction's gesture, namely the ability to change one's perspective on the world by suspending the acquired knowledge.
Keywords: Humour, clown d'hôpitaux, soins palliatifs, fin de vie, Humor, therapeutic clown, palliative care, end of life