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The mummified corpse stands as a challenge to death, and raises a few psychoanalytical questions. Its aptitude for the show has made Egyptian mummies very popular in Victorian England. On top of being an erotic and macabre object, the mummy is also an Imperial fetish and enters literature and, later, Hollywood's movie screens, as a revengeful and evil character.
Keywords: mort, momie, fétiche, empire, gothique, Égypte, death, mummy, fetish, empire, gothic, Egypt
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Countless short stories of American writer George Saunders are set in a theme park. Through the socio-critical analysis of two short stories from his first collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, this article explores the codes of the subgenre and highlights how self-reflexive fiction sheds a particular light on the legacy of the American Civil War.
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Critics readily insist on the epic and choral dimension of Maylis de Kerangal's novels. Their casts of characters are certainly manifold, captured during collective action whether playful, material, medical or aesthetic. Setting aside this already identified aspect, the present study rather concerns itself with secondary personages, briefly outlined, but nonetheless in charge of figuring a human depth in confrontation with significant historical and social realities. These quick yet powerful sketches, based upon the art of dynamic description – of which we will point out the very distinctive writing – represents, beyond the diegesis, the greatest strength of the texts: that is where arises most vividly the fundamentally anthropological dimension of a work most attentive to human substance.
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In this paper, the author argues that Proust's relationship to language cannot be considered without taking into consideration the complex character of Françoise. Starting from the centrality of female figures in Search of Lost Time, this essay identifies three central manifestations of language in Proust: structure, the relationship to truth and a relationship of assistance. Can we reread the writer in the light of care theories? What meaning can we attribute to Françoise's evolution? By situating itself on the fringe of a “theory of the subject that articulates different aspects of being-in-the-world in a new and coherent way” (Leriche, 2004), this article raises the question of the relational structure that underlies the narrative universe in Search of Lost Time. It is the first essay in a series exploring the problem of language in Proust's writing.
Keywords: Langage, silence, linguistique, éthique du care, phénoménologie, littérature du XX siècle, Proust, parrêsia, intercorporéité, Language, silence, linguistics, ethics of care, phenomenology, 20th century literature, Proust, parresia, intercorporeality
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In his Doktor Faustus novel, Thomas Mann associates the devil with the invention of serial twelve-tone music through a fictional composer, Adrian Leverkühn. Arnold Schönberg, the real inventor of this compositional technique, feared that this fiction would take precedence over reality. Though nowadays the paternity of the latter is not in doubt, some discussions still suggest that the association between the devil and serial twelve-tone music extends beyond the fictional realm.
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While images of the crowd in novels are characterized by the particular ideological, semiotic, and stylistic contribution specific to the work within which they are framed, it is nevertheless possible to group together salient iterations of crowds in nineteenth-century novels in order to examine what defines them as a set testifying to a state of historically and socially marked French literary production.
Keywords: foule, siècle, inventaire, Jules Vallès, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, crowd, 19th century, inventory, Jules Vallès, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert