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1542.More information
It is generally held in legal doctrine that juridical norms relating to testamentary freedom evolve as a reflection of a society's conceptualization of the family and of the notion of ownership. In this article, the writer examines how this evolution has found its place in Québec doctrine.
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1543.More information
In 1518, Erasmus published The Colloquies (Colloquia), a lively Latin conversation primer, which acquainted European youths with a variety of subjects, including that of happiness. This article examines several of The Colloquies, but most notably the Senile Colloquium, to assess Erasmus' response to the question of the changing interrelationship of the two felicities-celestial and earthly-during the Renaissance. He asserts that personal happiness is no longer scorned upon as in the Middle Ages provided that honestas and voluptas walk hand in hand and philautia steer away for the sake of balance between individual and collective happiness. In addition, The Colloquies, which include pleasure seekers from all walks of life, exposes young readers to a moral discourse, wherein pagan and Christian models mingle, while avoiding the moralizing tone of earlier medieval morality texts. As for the Senile Colloquium, published in 1524 (while Erasmus wrote his Diatribè sive Collatio de libero arbitrio), it distinguishes true and false happiness and adapts the classical models of the conduct of life (voluptuous, active, contemplative) to a Christian society. Erasmus considers, as did Aristotle, that mankind is responsible for its happiness but makes the philosophia Christi the best way to achieve it.
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1544.More information
This paper provides examples of filmic interpretations to incite film critics to highlight cinematographic spiritualism, as theorized by Paul Schrader. After defining his “transcendental style”, the paper illustrates mythocritic in action, and presents the means to enable a stylistic analysis.
Keywords: spiritualisme, spiritualism, transcendental style, style transcendantal, mythocritique, mythocritic, biblical references, références bibliques, simplicity, simplicité, understatement, euphémisme (understatement), excès (overstatement), overstatement
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1545.More information
While works devoted to ladies of pleasure abound, their male counterparts seem to have been relegated to oblivion by literary historians. To this day, no study or monograph recounts the evolution of these characters, even though they can be traced back to Antiquity. Long before their entry into French dictionaries, these “male prostitutes” – as they would be called today – have been very present in literature, particularly in the XVIIIth century. L'Année galante ou les intrigues secrètes du marquis de L***, an anonymous novel published in 1785, depicts one of these kept men living at the expense of women. It also introduces a historical figure, Armand Prévost de Létorière, as well as a social fact that remains largely unknown, the practice of “guerluchonnage” – making it one of the ancient testimonies of heterosexual male prostitution.
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