Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica nr 015/2020
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Laure Lévêque, Jules Verne. Un lanceur d’alerte dans le meilleur des mondes, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Histoire, Textes, Sociétés », 2019, 217 p.
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« Salir pour nettoyer » : autour de la notion de pureté dans la pensée de G. Bachelard et dans la prose (néo) romanesque de M. Butor
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)French New Novelist Michel Butor defies the optimistic vision of four elements of nature developed by his ancient professor of philosophy in Sorbonne, Gaston Bachelard, between 1938 and 1961. Bachelard considers air, water, ... -
Du « socialisme de cœur » zolien, ou comment être considéré en même temps comme « socialiste » et « ennemi du peuple »
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)When Germinal was published in 1885, the critic classified Zola as a “socialist” writer. The author himself used this adjective many times referring to his work. At the same time, he didn’t know Marxism and was a resolute ... -
Du titre à la poétique : les recueils de nouvelles de Benoît Gonon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Benoît Gonon, author of three collections of short stories, is almost completely unknown today. As one of the epigones of the genre of short story in the 17th century, Gonon writes his stories to moralize and edify his ... -
Du mépris à la dignité : Bakhita de Véronique Olmi
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Véronique Olmi’s novel entitled Bakhita (2017), telling the story of St. Josephine Bakhita, shows the process of achieving dignity, or even sanctity, through overcoming disdain, humiliation, and animalization. However, it ... -
Le dégoût pour la raison face à la réalité sociale du XXe siècle dans des écrits choisis de Marguerite Duras
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)One of the important problems raised in the works by Marguerite Duras is a specific opposition to rationalism, understood as the loss of meaning and absurdity of human existence in the face of the tragedy of World War Two. ... -
Jacques Sternberg : le mépris par alphabet
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Jacques Sternberg (1923-2006) was a singular figure of the Parisian literary life of the 60s and 70s, but today his name is mostly associated with Alain Resnais and Roland Topor. In 1973, he published a Dictionnaire du ... -
Le théâtre français de contestation sociale autour de 1900 : l’exemple de Dégénérés ! de Michel Provins
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Degenerates! by Michel Provins is a particular work in the repertoire of the French theatre of social protest. Inspired by the medical treatises on cases of “degeneration”, the playwright decides to paint the portraits of ... -
La notion de mépris dans la critique d’art de Baudelaire et de Mirbeau
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The nineteenth century sees a new vision of the artist. Faced with a bourgeois and materialistic society, he stands as a cantor of a haughty and disinterested art. Such a gap between the artist and the public must produce ... -
Et s’il n’en reste qu’un… Le mépris comme arme de combat chez Victor Hugo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Victor Hugo, a man of combat, repeatedly adopted the posture of the “one against all” in his political life as well as in his literary life. Contempt, coupled with irony and a fierce sense of polemic, then appears to be a ... -
Les faces du mépris chez Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article presents the origins and characteristics of contempt in the Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s work. This feeling, complemented by disdain, is one of the key-terms in the aesthetics of this writer in search of glory. ... -
« Aimer religieusement le monde et la vie » : la réponse de Pierre Leroux au contemptus mundi
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In his book De l’humanité, de son principe et de son avenir (1840), Pierre Leroux seeks to establish the “true definition of religion”, aiming at a synthesis of the religious traditions of humanity and modern philosophy. ... -
« Le mépris » dans les Mémoires d’outre-tombe : l’attitude du mémorialiste à l’égard de Napoléon Bonaparte
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In Memoirs from Beyond the Grave Napoleon’s portrayal evokes various emotions. Indeed, the memorialist inscribes his discourse as two dimensional; symbolic and ethical at the same time. Hence, constant fluctuation between ... -
Un miroir du mépris : Guy Patin contre Théophraste Renaudot (1638-1648)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Between 1638 and 1648, the two Parisian physicians Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653) and Guy Patin (1601-1672) were rival in every matter: empiricism v. dogmatism, paracelsim v. galenism, political pushfulness v. contempt ... -
Digression sur le « mespris » dans les Erreurs populaires de Gaspard Bachot
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Digressions are not uncommon in medical treatises published in France during the Seventeenth century, but rare are those of more than a few pages in length, and rarer those that treat of « le mespris ». The digression we ... -
L’Adieu du monde, ou Le Mespris de ses vaines grandeurs et plaisirs périssables du Chartreux Dom Polycarpe de la Rivière (1619) : une rhétorique de l’offuscation ?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)L’Adieu du Monde ou Le Mespris de ses vaines grandeurs et plaisirs périssables by Dom Polycarpe de la Rivière was published in Lyon in 1619. The author was chorister in the chapel of the exiled Marguerite de Valois at ... -
À propos de la médisance, au XVIe siècle et au-delà
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This essay examines the evolution of the concept of contempt, which is part of a vast lexicon in which each term relates to the idea of hatred and disgust. Those words are however inherent, as we can observe in Erasmus and ... -
Le travail du mépris dans le champ littéraire – le cas des poètes calvinistes du XVIe siècle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In the century in which neo-Platonic theories impose the predominance of poetry over any other form of discourse, the contempt aimed at poetry in general or against certain poets in particular coexist with the celebration ... -
Faut-il déprécier l’un pour valoriser l’autre ? Le mépris dans Le Fort inexpugnable de l’honneur du sexe féminin de François de Billon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)François de Billon’s Fort inexpugnable de l’honneur du sexe féminin takes part in the “Women’s Quarrel”, revived in the 16th century, in order to defend female dignity. The contempt plays an important role in this treatise, ... -
Le mépris dans L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The picture of wisdom and folly, great deeds and laughable weaknesses in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, cannot be complete without the evocation of contempt. This feeling is never the main subject of this short stories, ...