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2041.More information
"Feux de la rampe et feu de l'action" shows how society theatre did not cease with the defeat of New-France. It passed instead from the living room to the inn hall and to the small playhouse. A company was founded by lords, lawyers and Scot officers of Montréal area; they played Molière, Beaumarchais, Rousseau… They participated in the two wars against the Americans but obtained from London the right to self government. They were candidates in the first election and celebrated by resuming their theatre practice at Quebec. Their passion for theatre and politics was so strong that it spreaded to a second and even a third generation.
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2042.More information
This article presents a diachronic and theoretical overview of spatial approaches to literature in order to highlight their methodologies, objectives, differences and similarities. Starting with Mikhail Bakhtin's and Yuri Lotman's seminal studies on the chronotope and the semiosphere, the author then turns to the work of Henri Mitterand, Jean Weisgerber and Roland Bourneuf on the question of fictional space in novels. The main focus, however, are the new so called geo-centered approaches that have emerged since the 1990: literary geography, geocriticism, spatial narratology, geopoetics, la pensée-paysage, and ecocriticism.
Keywords: littérature, espace, géographie, approches géocentrées, literature, space, geography, geo-centered approaches, literatura, espacio, geografía, aproches geo-centrados
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2043.More information
AbstractThis article exhumes the models that governed the emergence of the gallery as an architectural space in France in order to study, more specifically, the livre-galerie (“ gallery-book ”). After proposing a classification intended to account for its various functions as fully as possible, the author focuses on the crafting of the livre-galerie through the rhetorical categories of inventio, dispositio, and elocutio. Based on the fantasized or imaginary spaces reproduced by this aesthetic curiosity of the Grand Siècle, the analysis attempts to infer the diverse intentions that may have conspired to bring the livre-galerie into being.
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2047.More information
AbstractThe formation of the “communauté des maîtres écrivains jurés de Paris” — an association of authorized scribes in Paris — dates to the end of the sixteenth century. For more than two hundred years its members stamped their distinctive mark on a certain form of writing, wholly artistic and drawn according to the carefully developed rules of calligraphic art. In a society where this form of communication was a rare skill, schools of writing, from which one sees the emergence of an approach to writing that was formulaic, formal and precise. The scribes could not, however, maintain their exclusive privileges as teachers for long. In the context of a slowly emerging ability to write — an important aspect of the ancien régime — this association found that the aesthetically pleasing kind of work which they endorsed competed with a more practical approach. Between these two ways of dealing with writing, the association committed itself to a single-minded policy in favour of artistry, an approach at odds with the expansion of scholarly activity. It is this conflict which the author reviews here.
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2049.