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Philosophers, ethicists, essayists and political dissidents did much to modify the direction of Western Postmodernities throughout the eighties. Ethos and Polis became the two loci of Postmodern problematics. Central European intellectuals who had chosen exile (Bauman, Kolakowski, Fehér and Heller), as well as German and Dutch philosophers and social theorists (Kamper, Wellmer, Van Reijen) also brought a complementary inflexion to the directions signalled by Lyotard in the eighties. Without unconditionally accepting the demise of master narratives, they proposed a patient, methodical distantiation from Enlightenment ideals, as well as an ecological reading of Modernity.
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Albert Cohen is sensitive to the murmur of the world and can thus be said to resort as much to sounds as to words. The latter seem to contain a kind of primal, harmonious melody that can utter the world into existence. Characters are always more or less narrators. The narrative voice is always deeply alluring in Cohen's works: it is both close to that of the character and a voice in its own right, immaterial yet intensely audible. It utters the text, creating a link with both characters and readers. Numerous metalepses seem to suggest that this voice moves toward t he readers, whispers to them and embraces them. Meanwhile, some characters appear singled out by the narrator's empathy toward them, which foregrounds the importance of the values they embody.
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Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes's (1884-1974) literary legacy is well established with regard to his activities as poet, polemicist and playwright working within the Dada movement. His importance as a novelist, however, remains to be acknowledged. In order to contribute to the (re)discovery of this atypical French writer, who managed to remain faithful — but not enslaved — to Dada's subversive and liberating spirit, the present contribution offers a new reading of Céleste Ugolin (1926), a novel which constantly alternates between indifference and aggressivity, and its affinities with the works by Alfred Jarry (1874-1907). Inspired by Jarry's ultramodern ideas of literature, Ribemont-Dessaignes implements a binary logic of destruction and reconstruction. More than a study in literary influences, this paper seeks to establish Ribemont-Dessaignes's place among important early twentieth-century novelists like Aragon, Cendrars and Camus.
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In the same vein as the works of Pascale Casanova and Raoul Boudreau on literary capitals, this article investigates the role played by Ottawa within the field of Franco-Ontarian literature. In many respects, Ottawa calls Moncton, the well-established literary capital of Acadia, to mind. However, despite a high concentration of literary resources and its usage in texts that aim to pay it tribute, the federal capital has not established itself as the literary capital of Francophone Ontario. The study of writing strategies employed by Daniel Poliquin in La Côte de Sable and Michel Ouellette in King Edward to stage this city permit the identification of the limits of the Ottawa myth, which is necessary for the city's transformation into a literary capital.