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François Ozon’s characters frequently struggle with issues of gender identity and sexual orientation; their repressed desires reveal themselves in difficult and sometimes violent power relations. This study examines the transformations of power relations in two of his cinematic adaptations of plays: Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000), adapted from Drops on Hot Stones (Tropfen auf heisse Steine) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (written around 1965); and In the House (Dans la maison, 2012), adapted from Juan Mayorga’s The Boy in the Back Row (El chico de la ùltima fila, 2006). Although very distinct in terms of language, style, tone and plot, the two dramatic texts both present twisted relationships between a middle-aged man and a very young one, in which the former dominates—physically or mentally—the latter. In Tropfen auf heisse Steine, Léopold seduces Franz, installs him in his home and torments him until the latter commits suicide. In El chico de la ùltima fila, a high school student, Claude Garcia, meddles in the family of a classmate and uses their lives as the subject of an episodic story that fascinates his teacher, Germain. At the end of the play, Germain strikes Claude in the face and drives him from his life. In adapting these two dramatic works for the cinema, Ozon makes important changes that accentuate these complex relations of domination. By examining key moments in both adaptations, this article will show how In the House works as a counterweight to Water Drops, in which the young man is destroyed by his older lover.
Keywords: adaptation, théâtralité, Fassbinder, adaptation, Mayorga, Fassbinder, theatre, Mayorga, François Ozon, François Ozon
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Claude Boudan was a Celestine monk of significant stature, who held several offices within the Order. He was also a prolific and talented author of Latin verse. Among his numerous works still in manuscript, the long poem in dactylic hexameters, titled De mutua hugonostici belli et catholicae pacis collatione carmen heroicum, is unique insofar as it offers his perspective on the contemporaneous events of the Wars of Religion in France. Written in an energetic, and at times eve polemical tone, the poem describes several violent incidents that occurred during the period beginning in the early 1560S and preceding the Saint Bartholomew’s Massacre of 1572, adopting a resolutely partisan point of view. In this, it resembles much of the polemical poetry written during the period, by authors as diverse as Ronsard, d’Aubigné, Jean Dorat, and Léger Du Chesne.
Keywords: Poésie polémique, Guerres de Religion, Célestins, Rayonnement culturel monastique, littérature engagée
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Keywords: atelier d'écriture, corps, médical, déport, détour, jeu, procréation médicalement assistée, voix
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The authors of the article aim to understand how the conceptions of social practices can contribute to the reshaping of a teaching object. Specifically, they focus on the “poetry” object. They undertook a content analysis of the discourse of 32 contemporary Quebecer poets compared to that of 20 secondary school teachers to identify the complementarities and distinctions in their conceptions. At first glance, there are some common aspects where poetry is associated with work on language, self-expression, represented worldviews, and dimensions of aesthetic experience. However, the justifications provided by teachers and poets to describe these common aspects differ in several ways. The findings suggest the potential for redefining poetry as an object of teaching. This could begin with the didactic transposition of knowledge, fostering a more experiential and creative approach to poetry, as advocated by poets. This approach complements the cognitive dimension dominant in teachers’ conceptions.
Keywords: didactique de la littérature, didactic of literature, poésie, poetry, poètes, poets, conceptions, conceptions, knowledge, savoirs, secondary education, enseignement au secondaire
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Keywords: Topos, Auberge, Histoire comique, Narrativité, Espace
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The novel of the Enlightenment is rich in topoi evoking mentors: Madame de Tencin, in Les Malheurs de l’amour (1747) and Madame Élie de Beaumont in Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764) are particularly keen to stage this character who has been evolving since Fenelon in quite a dramatic manner: in the texts studied, the mentor, a wise advisor, often a woman, alludes to a message that goes well beyond its ancient symbolism. However, this intellectual guide becomes the disillusioned spokesperson and, at the same time, the victim of the Enlightenment. S/he guides the mentee through the dark forest of deceptive passions, such as the obvious example of love, but also those passions born, above all, of the contradictory game of interests between social classes, the behaviour of a bourgeoisie desperate to be recognized, and the impoverished, decadent and libertine aristocracy. The 18th Century witnesses a transformation of the mentor as s/he was classically portrayed. The latter keeps on fulfilling his/her original role as an advisor, but also becomes a narratological model – particularly in Madame de Tencin’s fictions, for whom Madame de Lafayette, for example, remains the intellectual model to imitate. Moreover, the mentor becomes, during the Enlightenment, a being in the flesh, sensual, passionate, whose ethic is merely anthropological, who surveys and examines the laws through reason. The Age of the “libertine” is also the era of a reconsidered mentorship: a calculating character, the libertine-mentor is often tinged with existential evil, a resurgence of a double-edged “ego” which characterizes human beings, a philosophy inaugurated by Montaigne and echoed by Descartes and Pascal, among others. Evil lingers during the entire Enlightenment despite the optimism conveyed by reason. Although this analysis will focus on the two aforementioned novels, it would also be stimulating to further the study of this topos, by including several other novels which would expand and enrich the SATOR database.
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