Dans les coulisses du musée

Dans les coulisses du musée

Author: Kate Atkinson

Publisher: Editions de Fallois

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9782877062770

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" Grand dieu, je n'arrive pas à y croire : un premier roman qui m'a vraiment fait rire, écrit dans un style coulant et spirituel, sur les ailes duquel j'ai littéralement volé, comme poussée par le souffle de l'ironie ; un premier roman au ton si délié que je n'en ai ressenti toute la vérité et toute la nostalgie qu'à la lecture terminée. Mes compliments à Kate Atkinson : je ne dissimulerai pas le plaisir que j'ai pris à lire un chef-d'œuvre qui m'a rendu confiance. " " Quel enchantement ! Quelle suprême habileté dans ce va-et-vient entre le passé et l'avenir ! Un réseau soigneusement tissé fait de souvenirs de vacances, de mariages, d'enterrements, de naissances, de morts et de fuites, contenant tout ensemble tragédie, histoire, mystère et comédie, à travers lequel on entend la voix railleuse, amère, résignée de Ruby Lennox. " Au début, le ton faussement naïf du premier roman de Kate Atkinson ne permet pas de percevoir l'insolite complexité de ses conceptions, de sa description sans fard d'une enfance aux sentiments à vif...La description des contrastes et des petitesses de la vie de famille est toujours frappante, précise et puissante aussi... Sous la surface d'une prose légère et cocasse, des émotions douloureuses... " " Un récit à plusieurs strates, la vie d'une famille ordinaire narrée avec une surprenante fugue. Le style d'Atkinson est riche, percutant, sans détours ni complaisance, mais toujours déconcertant... La romancière réussit l'exploit de reproduire la voix d'un adulte sans illusions se remémorant les réactions d'un enfant curieux, ce qui offre au lecteur une piquante illusion de double vue. Ce premier roman est à mon avis le meilleur que j'ai lu depuis des années. "


Hervé Guibert

Hervé Guibert

Author: Jean-Pierre Boulé

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780853238614

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This is the first full-length study to cover the complete texts of Hervé Guibert (1955–1991), offering a thorough documentation of his literary output. The book is guided by Guibert’s relation to the novel, a major line of enquiry throughout, as well as his experimentation with voices in particular. One of Boulé’s main contentions is that Guibert arrives at the creation of a new literary genre, the roman faux, with the publication of his best-known work To the Friend who did not save my life. The book ends by considering the works Guibert produced after he was diagnosed as HIV positive, within the parameter of the voices of the self.


Spectacular Realities

Spectacular Realities

Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-01-25

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780520924208

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During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real life as spectacle. Vanessa R. Schwartz examines the explosive popularity of such phenomena as the boulevards, the mass press, public displays of corpses at the morgue, wax museums, panoramas, and early film. Drawing on a wide range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, Schwartz argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the foundation of modern mass society. She refutes the notion that modern life produced an unending parade of distractions leading to alienation, and instead suggests that crowds gathered not as dislocated spectators but as members of a new kind of crowd, one united in pleasure rather than protest.


En coulisses

En coulisses

Author: MUDO-Musée de l'Oise (Beauvais)

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782901290292

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Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)

Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)

Author: Claire Launchbury

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2021-01-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1789622727

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'Claire Launchbury and Megan C. MacDonald’s edited collection of essays offers a series of comparative analyses of the literary and filmic texts, contexts, and crossings of the Mediterranean region. [...] The book immediately illustrates the breadth, depth, and interdependenc of what has become known as Mediterranean Studies. The collection expands the borders of the Medite rranean space, and posits it as a place of constant identitarian and linguistic interrogation for both those who occupy it and those who document it. [...] This collection will be a valuable resource for scholars who are looking for a contemporary and comprehensive entry point into Mediterranean Studies. [...] With its focus on transnationalisms, genre and border crossings, and complicated identities in the constantly reinvented and reinventing space of the Mediterranean, Launchbury and MacDonald’s collection offers a wealth of literary and cultural routes to follow.' Maria Vendetti, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature


Performing Nerves

Performing Nerves

Author: Anna Furse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0429753543

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Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist theorists, cultural studies specialists, literary scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical and art historians, as well as novelists. The hysteric is construed as a powerless, voiceless subject, marginalised by the forces of the patriarchy that have been the root cause of their distress, dissembling, and disablement. In Performing Nerves, Anna Furse interweaves her artistic and academic practice, drawing on her own performance texts to explore four different versions of debilitating hysteric suffering. Each text is extensively annotated, revealing the dramaturgical logic and, in turn, the historical, medical, and cultural contexts behind their protagonists' illnesses, which are argued as environmentally caused in each case. This unique, reflective insight into a playwright and director’s craft offers not only an account of how mental suffering can manifest in different contexts and times, from the 19th century to today, but also a breadth of access to the ideas that can motivate creative research. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of theatre studies, performance studies, dramaturgy, 20th-century history, gender studies, and medical humanities.