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Genesis of art criticismThe institution of Salons dates back to the seventeenth century. In the statutes of the Royal Academy of Painting, drawn up in 1663, the King ordered each academician to exhibit a painting at the Academy's annual general...
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La canne des Indes. Engraving by Jules-Arsène Garnier after Alphonse Lamotte. La Princesse de Clèves, Paris, Conquet, 1889The text to explainMme de Clèves is surprised at night in her pavilion in Coulommiers.We'll study the text from :" M...
The contextIn March 1678, La Princesse de Clèves appeared without an author's name in Paris, printed by Barbin, the publisher of La Fontaine (1668-1694). Racine has just had his most famous tragedy, Phèdre (1677), performed at the Comédie française...
Traditionally, the question of temporality is not posed in the same terms in literature and painting. Faced with the passage of time, classical painting is confronted with a virtually insurmountable obstacle. Limited on the painted surface to the...
Lodovico Ariosto was born in northern Italy on September 8, 1474, in Reggio nell'Emilia, a small town in the Emilian duchy of Modena. The duchy belonged to the d'Este family, whose court was in Ferrara. Niccolò Ariosto, of whom Lodovico was the...
What exactly do we mean when we say that the twelve paintings in the Château d'Effiat cycle represent, narrate, illustrate the Orlando furieux ? Do they represent the same episode in different ways ? Or do they tell a story that follows...
At the beginning of Alain Robbe-Grillet's novelistic enterprise, we shouldn't imagine Balzac, but the fictional device of the bedroom, as systematized by Edgar Poe and popularized by detective fiction. At the heart of the fiction is a room in which...
I. Angélique : from meaning to installationAutobiography and photographyThe modern rise of autobiography is deeply linked to the technological revolution that over the past two centuries has brutally transformed all processes of representation...
Meeting and proper meetingIn classical language, encounter is understood in two different ways. There's the randomness of the encounter, which, as a prelude to the unfolding of a fictional world, manifests itself at the edge or across the narrative...
Acis and Galatea - PoussinIn his preface to Baudelaire's Theater, Roland Barthes defines theatricality as " the theater minus the text "1, that is, as the expansion, the transposition outside theatrical genre of a device and a presence, an...
There's a double paradox of Casanovian seduction. To seduce, you have to show off ; but in seduction, it's the other that matters, it's the other that you have to interest in yourself. This implies a withdrawal...
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" La jouissance de l'Autre n'est pas le signe de l'amour " : it's from this formula that Jacques Lacan enunciates and develops in Seminar XX Encore that we've attempted to...
I. Love in psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalysis didn't come to love right away; love wasn't its terrain. For poets, on the other hand, and for philosophers, love is the great subject : to say love, to deploy the prestiges and...
We saw in the introduction how Casanova's autobiographical project differed from autobiography as a genre, with its reading contract and submission to public judgment. Casanova writes life, projecting himself through writing into a renewed...
Casanova's autobiographical project began in the autumn of 1785, when he was hired by the Count of Waldstein as librarian at his castle in Dux (Duchcov in Czech), some one hundred kilometers northeast of Prague. Casanova was 60 years old. He had...
Portrait of Casanova at 63 (Icosameron, Prague, 1787) - Johann Berka PresentationAfter a life of adventure, Casanova at the age of 60 is recruited by the Count of Waldstein as librarian at Dux Castle, some 100 kilometers northeast of Prague....
" I see truth and virtue as two great statues raised on the face of the earth, and motionless amid the havoc and ruin of all that surrounds them. These great figures are sometimes covered by clouds. Then men move in darkness. These are times of...
The taste revolution
" As many men, as many judgments1 " : it goes without saying for us today that taste is a matter of subjectivity. But taste has not always been identified with the sovereign expression of an intimate judgment....
The mastery of textReading a novel today is not associated with images : not only is the novel not illustrated, generally preferring for its very cover the most sober typography, but, in the ocean of contemporary bookshop productions, between...
The publication by " Classiques Garnier " of Fumie Kawamura's book after that of François Pépin1 reveals a hitherto little-studied and little-known part of the history of science, inseparable in the eighteenth century from the more general...
Tables of man in the state of natureImagine an empty, purely conceptual space. In this space, the pure eye of the philosopher arranges the abstract figure of Man. Not a man, nor even an origin of man; but the conceptual plenitude of Man with a...