Search results for "littérature américaine"

“Much Ado About Something: Nineteenth-Century American Writers and the Atlantic Cable”

2022

Cet article décrit et analyse les réactions de plusieurs grands auteurs américains (Thoreau, Longfellow, Irving, Melville, Whittier, Whitman et Emerson) au succès en 1858 du premier lien télégraphique transatlantique entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Ces réponses à cet exploit technologique apparaissaient dans des journaux privés, des lettres, des éditoriaux et des notes marginales; elles étaient parfois incorporées dans des œuvres littéraires. Dans presque tous les cas, les réactions peuvent...

“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…

Compte rendu de : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic : Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Lite…

2012

Depuis une bonne vingtaine d’années, les études sur le gothique dans la littérature américaine foisonnent, transformant un genre jusque-là parfois marginalisé dans les universités en un champ de recherche important. Avec The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic?: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, professeur à l’Université de Lausanne, apporte une contribution innovante à ce domaine.

Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)

2012

His study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American m…

Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

2023

Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...

H.D.: Trilogy

2014

Héritage de l’Indépendance et identité américaine dans Independence Day de Richard Ford (1995) : de l’historique au banal, de l’indépendance à la fra…

2016

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Écrire la relation père-fils dans Affliction de Russell Banks

2014

The fear of reproducing one’s family pattern is a recurring theme in Banks’s works. The notion of filiation is thus central in his novel Affliction, in which the narrator Rolfe Whitehouse evokes the tense relationship between his brother Wade and their father Glenn, a violent man, both physically and verbally, who has traumatized him since childhood. Wade is obsessed with the idea of being a good father to his daughter Jill, but he ends up making the same mistakes as his ancestors by becoming in his turn a violent alcoholic. The systematic use of the third person throughout the text underlines the ambiguity of the narrator, who talks about the members of his family but keeps them at a dista…

« Héritage de l’Indépendance et identité américaine dans Independence Day de Richard Ford : de l’historique au banal, de l’indépendance à la fragment…

2021

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