Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French erotic literature has observed and analysed the new human condition on the brink of modernity. There is no more God to fill up the void, no more eternity to hope for beyond human finitude; only humanity, the present moment and the truth of a sensation. The adventures of this fiction’s characters stage the wisdom of the homo bulla that would be, tacitly, a coping mechanism to that new reality. Nothing is vanity for these frivolous beings, as long as the vanity of pleasures manages to keep away the memory of the vanity of life. However, the irony of those narrations suggests, like in the classical model of vanitas, that these temporal delectations m...
Hiroshima mon amour depicts tight relations between memory and oblivion. The novel’s love story take...
The present Phd Thesis sets to shed light on the topic of the “nightmare”, considered not as a bad d...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
Les Vanités composeraient-elles l’essence trop souvent oubliée de la littérature dite « libertine » ...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
Vanity, in its most general representation, invites us to stop for a moment our race ahead, to set a...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
This study explores different variations on the theme of “memory” in Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry and tran...
In the 1850es, the Second Empire settles in after five stormy decades that unveil the vanity of temp...
This article analyses a polysemous term of vanity in Mallarmé’s idea and œuvre. This concept shows p...
Das 17. Jahrhundert wird wegen Corneille, Molière und Racine, Autoren zeitloser Meisterwerke wi...
International audienceDans la situation de mondialisation de l'éducation, la question des idéologies...
Hiroshima mon amour depicts tight relations between memory and oblivion. The novel’s love story take...
The present Phd Thesis sets to shed light on the topic of the “nightmare”, considered not as a bad d...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
Les Vanités composeraient-elles l’essence trop souvent oubliée de la littérature dite « libertine » ...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
Vanity, in its most general representation, invites us to stop for a moment our race ahead, to set a...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
This study explores different variations on the theme of “memory” in Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry and tran...
In the 1850es, the Second Empire settles in after five stormy decades that unveil the vanity of temp...
This article analyses a polysemous term of vanity in Mallarmé’s idea and œuvre. This concept shows p...
Das 17. Jahrhundert wird wegen Corneille, Molière und Racine, Autoren zeitloser Meisterwerke wi...
International audienceDans la situation de mondialisation de l'éducation, la question des idéologies...
Hiroshima mon amour depicts tight relations between memory and oblivion. The novel’s love story take...
The present Phd Thesis sets to shed light on the topic of the “nightmare”, considered not as a bad d...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...