At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favourable to its blossoming. Just as the religious and dogmatic dimension tends to fade in the 19th century, the symbols of vacuity and existential delusion are partly used again. Can we still talk about Vanity then, when the symbolic discourse is incomplete? From Baudelaire to Laforgue, the poetics of the 19th century bring about an axiological transfer which tends to annihilate the initial argumentative impact. Consequently, why revive a tradition which is apparently incompatible with the lyrical discourse? In fact, endowed with a metadiscursive dimension, Vanity seems to relate to the critical dynamic specific to the lyricism of the second half...
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By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
This paper confronts versified positivist propaganda (Du Camp) with lyrical and visionary prose of S...
Duras’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man reali...
During the first half of the 19th century, contradances, made up of displacements and interactions b...
À son apogée au XVIIe siècle, la Vanité, grâce à sa codification, perdure au-delà de cette époque pr...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
Often perceived as the result of empirical speculation, the sanatorium, intended for the treatment o...
La vanité, dans sa représentation la plus générale, nous invite à arrêter quelques instants notre co...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
Les années 1850 voient s’installer le Second Empire après un demi-siècle houleux où s’illustre la va...
At the casino, Frédérique abandons herself to the roulette wheel, which gives her a protective “out ...
What is the value of play for a reader when the literary text itself is radically conceived as a lud...
Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau is a Bildungsroman centred around pedagogical ...
Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French eroti...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
This paper confronts versified positivist propaganda (Du Camp) with lyrical and visionary prose of S...
Duras’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man reali...
During the first half of the 19th century, contradances, made up of displacements and interactions b...