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Through a cross-reading of the fictional epistle Lettre d’un singe aux êtres de son espèce, and the utopia La Découverte australe par un homme volant, this article aims to highlight the originality of the conception of animality expressed by the polygraph Nicolas-Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806). Indeed, Restif is able in these writings, thanks to an imaginative representation of animality, to go beyond the simple criticism of anthropocentrism, to insert animal literature at the centre of the process of ‘invention’ of the rights of man and woman typical of the Enlightenment. Restif’s pamphlet is indeed focused – from a philosophical point of view – on the imaginative and projective dimension of compassion, mobilised by fiction, which allows the subject to go beyond his usual picture of life, until authentically sympathising with all possible forms of otherness, embodied by the non-human animal – the monkey – and by the half-breed, i.e. the man-beast.
Keywords: Restif de La Bretonne, human rights, compassion, Restive de la Bretonne, droits de l'homme, animality, animalité, monkey, singe, compassion
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In writing Cleveland, his famous memoir-novel, l’abbé Prévost gives great importance to sounds. He first insists on the noises in the action, and on the voices of the characters (cries, emotions, seduction). Beyond this physiological precision, the novelist uses music in several episodes and gives it a role in the search for happiness. The novel can even be compared to an opera in its construction, its scenery and its situations. As a result, sounds contribute to the moral and dramatic expression of feelings.
Keywords: Noise, Bruit, Voix, Voice, Musique, Music, Opera, Opéra, Passion, Passion, Feeling, Sentiment
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Wine has been linked to Spanish culture since the time of the Romans and early Christianity. In Spain, a land of vines since antiquity, the representation of the drunken body in literature and painting is an omnipresent topos since the Middle Ages. The pros and cons of this are found in medical, philosophical, moral and religious texts, but especially in novels, which warn against excess. This article studies how Spanish painters and writers developed the imaginary of wine in all its forms, be they masculine or feminine, solar or twilight, enthusiastic or drowsy, in their reflections, in their drawings and paintings, in poems or novels, in order to transmit the ideological transformation that was going to occur in Spain around this drink. For only the artist seems to preserve the tradition of the divine origin of wine, reclaiming its thaumaturgical role thanks to the Bacchic nectar. Spanish men and women suffer or benefit from the virtues of wine, the main alcoholic beverage in Spain until the 21st century.
Keywords: Literature, painting, topoi, Spain, body, wine, drunkenness, inebriation, Littérature, peinture, topoï, Espagne, corps, vin, ivresse, ébriété
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If critics have already brought to light the essential place that sound and music occupy in Diderot’s work, mainly through the great metaphor of the harpsichord-man, the present study is more restricted, more suggestive than exhaustive, and aims to analyze some "world noises," in opposition to but also contiguous with those of the human body or musical sounds. The study consists of two moments: firstly, an analytical inventory of some topoï taken essentially from narrative fictions (Jacques le fataliste, Le Neveu de Rameau, La Religieuse, Les Bijoux indiscrets, the “Promenade Vernet” of the Salon de 1767), and then some elements of a sound theory from Diderot’s work that borrows from the author’s philosophical and aesthetic work. First, the “picturesque noises” that constitute a kind of sound background for the Diderotian narrations are highlighted: ringing bells, gunshots and thunder, horses’ footsteps, roaring waters, slamming doors. The second part focuses on the place of sound in a complex system of synesthetic sensory expression.
Keywords: Noise, Bruit, Picturesque, Pittoresque, Objects, Objets, Animals, Animaux, Synesthesia, Synesthésie
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