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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…
« Rêver avec les Victoriens »
2014
International audience; Cette conférence examine les théories scientifiques du rêve au XIXe et les expressions littéraires du rêve chez les auteurs victoriens canoniques.
Essais anglais
2012
Traduction anglais-français, annotation et présentation Diaphaneitè, Aesthetic Poetry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Thomas Browne.; International audience