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Pour fêter le cinquantième anniversaire des éditions José Corti, Christian Bourgois est heureux d'accueillir dans 10/18 un bilan de cette originale et symbolique aventure qui a marqué la littérature française de ce siècle: de Claude Aveline, Gaston Bachelard, Paul Benichou, Marguerite Bonnet, André Breton, René Char à Georges Fourest, Julie Gracq, Sadegh Hedaya, Gherasim Luca, Benjamin Péret, Georges Poulet, André Spire, sans oublier W. Beckford, Coleridge, M.G. Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Laurence Sterne et Horace Walpole.
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How do buildings act with people and among people in the performances of life? This collection of essays reveals a deep alliance between architecture and the performing arts, uncovering its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous tradition of thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight, the authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners, rather than how they look as formal compositions. They focus on actions: the door that offers the possibility of making a dramatic entrance, the window that frames a scene, and the city street that is transformed in carnival. The essays also consider the design process as a performance improvised among many players...
"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.
At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself, inscribes itself in a shared cultural past and supplies modes of belonging to those who consume it. But what, then, of the exiled, migrant or translingual poet? How might writing in a language other than one’s mother tongue complicate this picture of the relation between poet, language and literary system? What of those for whom the practice of poetry is inseparable from a sense of restlessness or unease, suggesting a condition of not being at home i...
This is the first survey and appraisal of the literary criticism written by Jean-Paul Sartre during the last thirty years. Benjamin Suhl relates Sartre's evolution as a systematic philosopher. For those not acquainted with all Sartre's critical writing during this period, the author includes descriptive presentation of the material, including recent article as yet unavailable in English.