Die „Tableau-Beschreibung“ unterscheidet sich von der „Beschreibung des Tableaus“ durch die Tatsache, dass die zweite sich auf die Stimme beschränkt, die man dem Tableau verleiht, um sich auszudrücken, während die erstere ...

During the 17th century, the establishment of neo-Aristotelian rules imposed restrictions on French dramatic art. At the same time, dramatists created a number of hagiographic plays, seemingly incompatible with the purified ...

This study shows that it is simplistic to argue that the narrative dynamics in contemporary Francophone African novel is monotonous. It then consists in demonstrating that it is rather indicative of a striking realism that ...

As a dynamic picture, the literary figure of hypotyposis seems consistent with the very definition of comics, series of drawings producing motion. However, if hypotyposis is always simultaneously descriptive and narrative, ...

Since the eighteenth-century, painting and harmony have regularly been celebrated by criticism in Racine’s verses. With the decline of rhetoric, the sedimentation of literature has quickly covered what depended on art of ...

Canards sanglants fit squarely into the poetics of short, bloody stories, very popular in 16th and 17th century France which is tormented by the Wars of Religion. Those occasional booklets willingly have recourse to ...

The conversion of Henry of Navarre in 1593 provoked a great debate in the French society. In The Banquet of Comte d’Arète (1594), Louis Dorléans focuses obsessively on the impenetrability of the human mind. He calls for a ...

If travel narratives satisfy the reader’s curiosity by providing visions of an elsewhere, offering them the illusion of a travel they cannot do, and showing them wonders, characterized by their ability to surprise, we will ...

As long as history was considered as magistrae uitae, it was necessary to give the readers the impression that they were seeing the recounted events and taking part in them, so that they could live them by proxy and gain ...