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“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
2016
This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…
À l'école d'Homère
2015
Homère « maître de rhétorique » ou Homère « premier sophiste », tel est le paradoxe d’une réception antique qui fait de l’aède de Chios le maître d’un idéal oratoire. Ce volume décline les différentes modalités selon lesquelles l’autorité d’Homère s’exerce ou se voit discutée, dans la formation rhétorique des élites d’abord, puis dans le discours des sophistes et des orateurs. Dans les multiples situations de communication auxquelles l’homme éloquent sait répondre – discours public, banquet, dialogue familier, cour impériale –, le Poète est souvent invité. Parler d’Homère, c’est se révéler homme de culture, mais c’est aussi cimenter cette culture, en empruntant, par les exemples et les cita…
“Never shake thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth, III.iv.50-51): Objecting to Gestures in Macbeth
2018
International audience; Shakespeare's Macbeth displays a pattern of characters objecting to gestures, be it others' or their own. This includes Macbeth refusing to shake hands with his opponent before the battle, his words to Banquo's ghost quoted in the title above, Banquo's own puzzlement at the weird sisters' placing a finger over their lips, the doctor's suspicions at Lady Macbeth's rubbing her hands and sleepwalking, as well as Malcom's request that Macduff not pull his hat over his eyes. In many of these cases, gesture is pitted against speech, which seems to undermine the classically-derived ideal of "suit[ing] the word to the action, the action to the word" (Hamlet, 3.2.16-18). This…