Search results for "Autobiographie"
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Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies—A Public Environmental Humanities Project
2019
Abstract In this article, we present Toxic Bios, a public environmental humanities (EH) project that aims to coproduce, gather, and make visible stories of contamination and resistance. To explain ...
The elephant in the living room: Centenarians' autobiographies, co-authorship and narratives of extreme longevity.
2020
Living autobiographically: Concepts of aging and artistic expression in painting and modern dance.
2016
This article discusses the ways in which artists have incorporated or failed to incorporate the aging process of their bodies into their art. Using Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and the French painter Claude Monet as cases in point, we explore situations in which physical changes brought about by aging compromises artists' ability to engage with their artistic medium. Connecting Monet's oeuvre and Baryshnikov's dance performances to life writing accounts, we draw on John Paul Eakin's concept of "living autobiographically": In this vein, life writing research does not only have to take into account concepts of identity as they emerge from life writing narratives, but it also need…
Raconter ses lectures, se raconter : plaisir de lire, identité et émancipation chez Alison Bechdel
2017
National audience; Cette communication interroge l’importance donnée aux liens entre plaisir de lire et identité (en particulier identité lesbienne) dans les récits autobiographiques d’Alison Bechdel. Celle-ci met en scène une première opposition entre les lectures d’enfance, caractérisée par l’immersion narrative, et les lectures légitimes que son père tente de lui imposer à mesure qu’elle grandit, avec une injonction à lire qu’elle finit par intérioriser. Cette opposition prend une valeur plus directement identitaire lorsque la lecture obligatoire de Ulysses à l’université est systématiquement opposée à la lecture d’un corpus varié d’œuvres gays et lesbiennes au moment de l’éveil politiqu…
Penser la frontière entre essai et autobiographie à partir de la bande dessinée. Are You My Mother? d'Alison Bechdel
2018
Based on Alison Bechdel's autobiographical essay Are You My Mother?, this article is a discussion on two boundaries of the essay : a generic boundary between essay and autobiography, questioned by the possibility of autobiographical essay, and an intermedial boundary challenged by the development of graphic essays in comics. Are You My Mother? is a self-reflexive autobiographical work which describes the author's discovery of psychoanalysis and deals at the same time with mother-child relationships and the continuity between novel writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis, thus articulating autobiographical material and general thoughts. The book can be described in particular as a consiste…
AUTOBIO-GRAPHISMES
2015
Autobio-graphismes, premier ouvrage en langue française dédié intégralement à l'analyse de l'autobiographie dans la bande dessinée, brosse une cartographie de cette pratique devenue caractéristique de la bande dessinée actuelle aux Etats-Unis et en Europe.
Retour à l'auteur
2015
Au tournant des années 70, la République des Lettres est en deuil. On avait proclamé la "mort de l'auteur", devenu une voix anonyme ; le personnage de l'écrivain - son visage, sa signature -, disparu, le texte existait par lui-même, hors de toute origine. Le "moment théorique" de la littérature française s'est éloigné, à mesure que faisaient retour la figure de l'auteur et le biographique. Mais le soupçon a laissé des traces. A l'aube du XXIe siècle, ce collectif s'interroge ainsi sur la place et la légitimité de l'auteur, partagé entre la tentation du repli sur l'écriture et le souci du monde.
The hippocampus and remote autobiographical memory.
2005
In Newsdesk (August, 2005),1 new evidence for the neuroanatomy of remote memory was reported. On the basis of the findings of the US team lead by Larry Squire,2 remote autobiographical memory was suggested to be independent of the medial temporal lobe but dependent on the neocortex. By contrast with previous hypotheses, this new proposal predicts that after damage to the medial temporal lobe only recent autobiographical memories should be impaired in neurological patients, whereas loss of both recent and old autobiographical memories implies additional damage in the neocortex. However, there is evidence not included in the Newsdesk article, that is problematic for this new prediction. Two p…
The self-fiction and history in Serge Doubrovsky' s, Georges Perec' s and Jorge Semprun' s works
2014
This thesis addresses the relationship between writing about oneself, writing about History and how three contemporary authors – Serge Doubrovsky, Georges Perec and Jorge Semprun – fictionalized themselves. The first two sections’ aim is to establish biographical, historical and literary guidelines, indispensable to the better comprehension of an individual, an era and a literary landscape. On the basis of information collected like so, the third and fourth sections analyse the characteristics of writing about oneself when dealing with History. This discussion is articulated around two axis: that of childhood and that of quest for identity. From underlining theme, History progressively beco…
Irony in Thomas De Quincey's works
2014
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…