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Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity
Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and gender
Les malices
Léa Lelièvre et sa sœur Christine, femme de chambre et cuisinière, ont assassiné leurs maîtres, la très honorable famille Bertaux-Chambon, en 1933. Christine, l'aînée, meurt peu après le procès, emmurée dans sa folie. Un demi-siècle plus tard, alors qu'elle s'apprête à aller retrouver sa sœur adorée, Léa tient à revenir sur les événements qui ont précédé le massacre. Elle va enfin pouvoir livrer sa version à elle, dire les malices que Madame Maman leur faisait subir jour et nuit, les tours que leur jouait Mademoiselle. Et ces tasses de lait que Monsieur s'obstinait à leur faire préparer. De sa voix aigre-douce, Léa dessine un univers étrange et menaçant où chacun a quelque chose à cacher. Mais peut-on se fier aux confidences de Léa ? Que s'est-il réellement passé dans la maison du 6 rue Pascal, à Clermont-Ferrand, en 1933 ? Les malices est un roman très librement inspiré de l'affaire des sœurs Papin.
La Logique de l'amanite
Nikonor, érudit snob et acariâtre, vit retranché dans son château, en Corrèze. Il se passionne pour la mycologie (surtout cèpes et amanites) et la littérature. Au fil des pages, on va découvrir les confidences étranges qu’il nous livre sur sa famille. Pourquoi voue-t-il une telle haine à sa sœur jumelle Anastasie ? Et qu’est-il advenu de ses proches ?
Naturalisme et excès visuels
Dans le sillage des travaux incontournables de David Baguley sur Zola et le Naturalisme, le recueil intitulé Naturalisme et excès visuels: pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l’honneur de David Baguley cherche à éclairer l’esthétique naturaliste d’une lumière nouvelle, à travers le concept d’excès. Un excès naturaliste qui devient synonyme, tout à tour ou simultanément, de théâtralisation, de surcodage, de débordement des cadres génériques et/ou littéraires. À l’intérieur comme à l’extérieur du mouvement littéraire naturaliste, il s’agit de mettre en évidence certaines énergies naturalistes à travers quatre grandes pistes ou articulations qui n’ont été que peu abordées ensemble par la recherche: celles de pantomime, de parodie, d’image et de fête. Chacune de ces facettes va, à sa façon, permettre d’affirmer ou de réaffirmer la prédominance de l’excès, du corporel, du visuel, inscrits au cœur d’une esthétique naturaliste foncièrement moderne.
Novel Stages
The essays in Novel Stages examine the myriad intersections between drama and the novel in nineteenth-century France, a period when the two genres were in constant engagement with one another. The collection is unified by common intellectual concerns: the inscription of theatrical esthetics within the novel; the common practice among nineteenth-century novelists of adapting their works for the stage; and the novel's engagement with popular forms of theater. The essays provide insight into a specific aspect of the relationship between the theater and the novel in the nineteenth century. Their distinct perspectives form an overview of the literary landscape of nineteenth-century France, and demonstrate many ways in which all major nineteenth-century French novelists, including Hugo, Flaubert, Sand, and Zola, participated in the theatrical culture of their century.
Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of canonical authors such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola is usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural, economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view they are considered to be ‘ideas’ which are not protected and can be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.
Balzac Reframed
This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which gradually led to the establishment of a common aesthetic vision of cinema (the “politique des auteurs”), owes more to Balzac and the nineteenth-century novel than to any intellectual trend of the immediate post-war period. By considering the films of Rohmer and Rivette as an extension of their writings (essays, film reviews, scriptwriting, novels and interviews), this volume analyses the changing and sometimes opposed ways i...
The Beauty of the Death Cap
Nikonor is an eccentric and scholarly snob, a mycomaniac who has just made it to the Château de la Charlanne where he spent his childhood in the company of his twin sister, Anastasie. After all these years, it is not quite clear what brings him back to la Charlanne--an isolated and somewhat derelict castle located in the heart of the French countryside--but he is keen to share various memories with the reader in order to 'set the record straight', while he delivers his opinions on literature, cheeses, and, especially, mushrooms. Winner of both a Prix André Dubreuil and a Prix Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco upon its original publication in France, The Beauty of the Death Cap is a darkly comic and sinister novel, a work that, page by page, becomes ever more disturbing, as we try to discover who Nikonor really is.
Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing
Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa/bulimarexia, and binge eating disorder - as represented in contemporary French women’s literature. The primary corpus comprises 40 autobiographical (and very occasionally autofictional) texts complemented by ample reference, and sometimes challenge, to clinical, medically-researched based, or theoretical publications on EDs.
