Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: autobiography, Romanticism, and all-too neglected irony. Whether rhetorical, tragic or “romantic”, irony expresses perfectly the many contradictions of the opium-eater. As the rhetorical tool of conflict and self-derision, claiming both individualistic and community values, sociable and provoking, irony is the way to redemption as much as the expression of deep unease, a way of pushing himself forward, or of withdrawing into the background. Caught between Romanticism and Victorianism, De Quincey questions the limits of his own identity and his status as an intellectual, and exploits reluctantly the potential subversion of parody, so that irony ...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
Thomas De Quincey exploits his rivalry with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to structure many of the key fea...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
L’œuvre de De Quincey s’inscrit à la croisée de trois concepts presque indéfinissables : autobiograp...
Thomas De Quincey was a distinguished classicist who appropriated the Greek antique heritage in his ...
In the introductory part of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey makes a dis...
In the introductory part of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey makes a dis...
The unconventional nature of De Quincey's works, fragmentary and digressive, often factual in conten...
Thomas De Quincey est connu pour deux textes qui n’ont, en apparence, rien en commun : les Confessio...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
Thomas De Quincey exploits his rivalry with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to structure many of the key fea...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
L’œuvre de De Quincey s’inscrit à la croisée de trois concepts presque indéfinissables : autobiograp...
Thomas De Quincey was a distinguished classicist who appropriated the Greek antique heritage in his ...
In the introductory part of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey makes a dis...
In the introductory part of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), De Quincey makes a dis...
The unconventional nature of De Quincey's works, fragmentary and digressive, often factual in conten...
Thomas De Quincey est connu pour deux textes qui n’ont, en apparence, rien en commun : les Confessio...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
L’ironie dialogique, favorisée par plusieurs genres littéraires à l’époque des Lumières, est-elle un...
This study deals with the important role played by oblique writing in Francis Ponge’s work through t...
Thomas De Quincey exploits his rivalry with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to structure many of the key fea...