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This contribution focuses on the representation of the abject in À la recherche du temps perdu. Through the description of some sections of Marcel Proust’s early writings, I will demonstrate that the French writer has worked on this topic since his literary debut. On the other hand, the assessment of the few occurrences referring to the morphological series of “abject” in Recherche will show how the author develop the semantic field of the word. Finally, in light of the link between abject matter and verbal violence, the formal features of insults and backbitings in Proust’s novel will be centered on the episode of Mlle Vinteuil’s friend. The mission of this article is to point out how the abject matter could converge towards the sublime and become, therefore, a carrier of aesthetic conversion.
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This study analyzes the relationship between the promise implied in the paratext of Roland Brival's novel (Gallimard, 2016) and the book's contents. Its title, Nègre de personne (Nobody's Negro), sounds like a proud claim. Its backcover states that the novel is about Léon-Gontran Damas's trip to New York in order to meet the Black intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. This « self-set appointment with history » will force him « to radically review his own conviction », while « a young and passionate rebel woman » enters his life. Such packaging is rather attractive, but Damas's trip to Harlem was invented by Brival, just like the diary in which Damas addresses Césaire and Senghor and in which he confides his torrid sexual encounters with a female Haitian artist – a choice that runs rather counter to recent queer readings of Damas's poems. Brival's novel thus raises all kinds of questions about the merits of his text and the meaning of a fictional autobiographical tale that takes so many liberties with literary history, including imitations of Damas's poems of dubious authorship.
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Since the 1980s, the epidemic of the HIV/AIDS, because of its acuteness, contributed to social representations and interpretations which include the theme of apocalypse. This paper will discuss this notion in three sets of discourses. Religious movements have reintroduced this idea in a fundamentalist way, but other theological schools criticize this use, proposing other interpretations. In philosophical texts, a more profane meaning is attached tot this concept, while retaining an hyperbolic dimension to signify the catastrophic dimensions of the epidemic, a perspective criticized par some intellectuals who produced counter-discourses more in conformity with an immanent vision of this infection. Medias repetitively use this notion to underscore the sensationalist dimension of the HIV/AIDS, in spite of pharmacological innovations which can erase this type of reference.
Keywords: Apocalypse, VIH/sida, mouvements religieux, textes philosophiques, médias, Apocalypse, HIV/AIDS, Religious movements, Philosophical texts, Medias
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