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This article will focus on the ways in which Gabrielle de Coignard’s Sonnets spirituels, cultivated in purposefully sought domestic isolation, reveals conflictual aspirations nourished by the pursuit of an untainted devotional path that nevertheless cannot escape the assimilation of the earthly passion-fraught discourse of the Petrarchan tradition. Beginning with an analysis of the two opening sonnets, I will examine how despite her apparent disavowal of the worldly obsessions of practitioners of this dominant tradition in order to define herself as a singularly and purely Christian poet, her writing places many of their conventions, allusions, and rhetoric at the centre of her own poetic itinerary. I will then move on to study how these opening signals of Coignard’s inscription of her devotional trajectory both against and within the male and female Petrarchan tradition are affirmed at multiple moments in the progression of her collection.
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In the Renaissance, it is only the biological use of the games of Venus which seemed to give the right to practice them or to discuss them in vernacular in medical treaties. But the enjoyment of the text, much like sexual pleasure, can be liberated from its function leading us to enjoy these medical treaties for themselves or for immodest purposes, and not for the information or knowledge they contain. We propose to examine a corpus of French medical texts from the 16th and early 17th centuries (Joubert, Cabrol, Ferrand, Duval) in this way. These texts mark a decisive step in the history of the emergence of a vernacular medical knowledge discussing such delicate subjects as gynecology and reproduction. This literature shows and exalts the complicity of knowledge and desire. It dresses up sexual possession as medical observation, expressing the ethereal image of the Plato’s Symposium, in which love guides the soul towards science, on a much more Rabelaisian mode.
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This article postulates that the hegemonic, neocolonial discourse held in France on African post-colonies remains atemporal. It also questions philanthropic projects.
Keywords: Discours hégémonique, Hegemonic discourse, La Baule, La Baule, Dakar, Dakar, France, France, Afrique, Afrique, Françafrique, Françafrique
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Keywords: Project finance, Société projet, Assurance Engineering, Phase Construction
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Though published more than thirty years apart, the novels Le Métier à tisser by Mohammed Dib and Les Vigiles by Tahar Djaout are both constructed around the figure of the loom, the instrument of labour of a people apparently faced with endless dispossession. If, in Dib’s novel, hope persists that the people will take a stand so that “things change” (164), in Djaout’s novel disillusionment takes on dramatic accents. "Renovating" the loom or the country, in fact only serves the interests of the Vigils who do their utmost to “defend the country against its own people” (1991 : 111). The great united family of the new state dictates everyone’s behaviour, their life and their death, if the latter can serve its purposes. From the joint reading of these two novels emerges a warning against the fantasy of “in spite of it all” used by the authorities to manipulate its people.
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Avant de franchir la ligne d’horizon (2012), the poems in Outre-mort, 1991-1994 (2003) and Lettre à ma sœur (2006) provide pieces of the story of Algeria’s struggle for democracy. Habiba Djahnine’s characters share their hopes, but also their failures, losses, dead-ends, powerlessness, amnesias, despondencies, and the state of being on the brink of insanity that they have confronted and still must confront. The documentary film-maker’s assessment and perspectives are supported by the role given to a “possible poetry” which puts into words and pictures the faces and the voices of several generations of those who decided to act instead of simply suffer, committing themselves to “an Algeria in spite of it all”.
Keywords: Habiba Djahnine, documentaire, poésie, militantisme, années 1990, Algérie
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Keywords: Potin, autofiction, roman-people