128 research outputs found
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Claude Simon : situations
No full textQu’une œuvre transpose ou transforme les données empiriques, qu’elle les déplace ou les occulte, qu’elle les excède ou les transfigure, elle vaut d’être étudiée en relation avec ses conditions concrètes de possibilité. Les romans de Claude Simon sont abordés ici à la lumière de l’histoire littéraire, de l’histoire culturelle et de la sociologie de la littérature, qui renouvellent l’approche d’un auteur majeur, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1985. Les choix d’écriture ou les ajustements spontanés de l’écrivain font sens par rapport au système des contraintes et des motivations où ils s’opèrent, en l’occurrence l’ensemble des possibles esthétiques et éthiques du contexte littéraire, artistique, intellectuel et politique de la seconde moitié du xxe siècle.Whether a work transposes or transforms empirical data, displaces or conceals it, goes beyond or transfigures it, it is worthy of study in relation to its tangible conditions of possibility. Claude Simon’s novels are studied here in the light of literary history, cultural history and the sociology of literature, which provide a new angle on this major author and Nobel Prize winner in 1985. The author’s writing choices or spontaneous alterations make sense in terms of the system of constraints and motivations in which they exist, in this case all the possible aesthetics and ethics of the literary, artistic, intellectual and political context of the second half of the 20th century
Genesis in vivo : the manuscript of Claude Louis-Combet's "Errances Druon"
No full textClaude Louis-Combet est un auteur discret qui élabore son œuvre comme à l’écart du monde. D’abord peu soucieux de ses manuscrits, il a pourtant accepté, en 1994, de les transmettre au Centre Jacques Petit. Aujourd’hui intégralement numérisé, le fonds d’archives représente plus de 20 000 folios.Notre travail consiste à explorer le dossier des Errances Druon pour reconstituer la genèse de ce roman contemporain, tout en recueillant la parole de son auteur. La disponibilité et la présence régulière de Claude Louis-Combet à la Faculté des Lettres de Besançon offrent en effet la possibilité d’une véritable interaction entre les chercheurs et l’écrivain. Ainsi notre étude sur la quatrième mythobiographie de l’auteur s’est-elle réalisée in vivo, dans le sillage d’un horizon génétique imaginé par Pierre-Marc de Biasi en 1993 et initié par Irène Fenoglio en 2006 avec ses travaux sur Pascal Quignard.Nous avons ainsi découvert un autre Claude Louis-Combet. Non pas l’écrivain bien connu, celui qui, sérieux et grave, est entré en littérature après avoir violemment rompu avec la religion, mais un Claude Louis-Combet bien différent, fantaisiste et facétieux, un romancier mystificateur, inventeur de ses propres sources apocryphes, comme la fameuse Vie secrète de saint Druon.Claude Louis-Combet is a discreet writer who built his work away from the world. Even though he did not feel concerned by his own manuscripts at first, he accepted to entrust them to the Centre Jacques Petit in 1994. These archives are now completely digitalized and represent more than 20, 000 folios.This thesis intends to explore the folder of the Errances Druon to reconstruct the genesis of this contemporary novel by collecting the author’s words. The availability and the regular presence of Claude Louis Combet at the Faculty of French Literature in Besançon indeed allow a true interaction between the author and researchers. Therefore, this study on the fourth mythobiography of the writer was conducted in vivo, following the path of a genetic horizon imagined by Pierre-Marc de Biasi in 1993 and initiated by Irene Fenoglio in 2006 with her works on Pascal Quignard.We have thus discovered a different Claude Louis-Combet. Not the well-known serious writer, who took to literature after a violent break-up with religion, but a facetious and mischievous author, who knows how to mystify his readers and who created his own apocryphal sources, such as the famous Vie secrète de saint Druon
Claude Simon, un écrivain « romanesque » ? Figures et postures de l’auteur dans l’œuvre, dans la théorie et dans les médias
No full textInternational audienceIn Claude Simon’s novels, the representations of the figures of the author are made of so many avatars, models or counter-models. In his theoretical essays and his media activities, Simon has also built a theory of the author which echoes these fictional figures. This coherent and transversal whole builds up a picture of Claude Simon himself and also gives a picture of the conception of Simon as a novelist, setting a novelistic game closely intertwined between life and the work and between fictional and biographical.Dans les romans de Claude Simon, les représentations de la figure de l’auteur constituent autant d’avatars, de modèles ou contremodèles possibles. Dans ses écrits théoriques et ses interventions médiatiques Simon a également construit une théorie de l’auteur qui fait écho à ces figures fictives. Cet ensemble transversal et cohérent finit par générer une image de Claude Simon lui-même et de la conception simonienne du romancier, dans un jeu romanesque entre vie et œuvre, entre fictif et biographique
Globalization, Social Movements, and the Construction of Europe: The Example of the European Parliament Elections in France, CES Working Paper, no. 74, August 2000
No full textThough social scientists have lately devoted themselves to the study of globalization (Waters 1995; Hirst and Thompson 1999), most of these studies have concentrated on its economic and social consequences. Globalization is often seen as a fundamentally unjust process that causes confusion and destroys more than it creates. In many areas, the substantive implications of globalization are left untouched. In this paper, I examine the link between regional integration in Western Europe and the transformation of domestic politics through the example of the European Parliament elections. I argue that globalization through European integration is having a significant impact on French domestic politics. More precisely, the elections to the European Parliament, a supranational political institution, have contributed to the political mobilization of traditionally voiceless groups such as the unemployed and to the introduction into public discussion of new issues tied to Europe, transforming political culture and the relationship between national politics and multinational bargaining (Keohane and Hoffmann 1990, 295). Not only has European political integration provided marginal groups in France with an access to national politics through European Parliament elections, it has also supplied the government and the presidency with new resources, connecting them to trans-European circles and networks that are developing their own political culture. The success of neoliberal economic doctrines in the European Union may have in part to do with these networks. National ministers spend half their time wrestling with European affairs in the Council of Ministers of the European Union and in transnational party structures, developing a common culture and outlook on politics and economics. The main ingredients for this Weltanschauung are well known: electoral cycles should not interfere with economic policy and unemployment figures should not have priority over other monetary indices in the evaluation of economic and political success
Control engineering in drying technology: Review and trends
No full textThe author acknowledges the Drying Technology journal for his copyright policies & self-archiving. More open archives publications of Pascal Dufour are available on: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/DUFOUR-PASCAL-C-3926-2008International audienceThis paper aims at promoting cooperation between drying and control communities in the future. Indeed, with a review of 71 relevant publications all dealing with control aspects in drying, this paper shows that the use of control tools really started to emerge in drying applications only since 1979. In a second phase started around 1998, new trends based on more advanced concepts have also appeared in drying control. This paper clearly shows that control in drying is more and more a reality and that many opportunities exist to enhance industrial performance via efficient control of the operation
"L´isle joyeuse" Claude Debussy´s. The Work and its Interpretation.
No full textThis thesis deals with a composition of Claude Debussy, L´isle joyeuse. at first, it makes reades acquainted with important matters in author´s life till he composed this piece and than it presents a short overview of composer´s piano works. Following analysis of harmony, musical form, piano stylization, sound features and searching for circumstances of creation L´isle joyeuse, shows many Debussy´s inspiration sources. On their basis there are formulated conclusions, important for acquirement of appropriate viewpoints for the proper interpretation. These attitudes are confronted with top performances of this composition by renowned pianists from different countries (Pascal Rogé, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Walter Gieseking, Alexis Weissenberg and Zoltán Kocsis). supplement of this thesis is a multimedia-CD, which documents some lesser-known inspiration sources Debussy´s and contents recordings of this piece of all above-mentioned pianists
Determinism and organization. Foundations and limits of Claude Bernard’s program
No full textComo lo afirma el autor de este perspicazlibro: el presente de una ciencia no solamente se define por su éxito y su proyección, también hacen parte de su imagen más completa -aunque precisamente por eso jamás acabada- los problemas y polémicas de dicha ciencia; asuntos que la mantienen activa, creativa y avanzando.
Este libro se constituye en una franca imagen del presente de una ciencia como la Biología. Magistralmente Gustavo Caponi examina, a la luz de los problemas y tensiones actuales de la Filosofía de la Biología, la historia del programa de la Fisiología Experimental conformado en el siglo XIX por el médico y biólogo francés Claude Bernard. Así, el objeto de este libro es al menos doble: por un lado, examinar con detalle y ofrecer claridad de los presupuestos y consecuencias epistemológicas de la Fisiología Experimental de Claude Bernard; por otro, valerse de las discusiones históricas de la Biología para traer nuevas respuestas y precisiones al actual debate presente en la Filosofía de la Biología.The present of a science is not only defined by its success and projection; the problems and controversies that keep it moving forward are also part of its complete image. This book constitutes a frank image of the present of Biology. The author examines, in light of the current problems of the philosophy of biology, the history of the program of experimental physiology elaborated in the 19th century by the French scientist Claude Bernard
Acknowledgements
No full textThis is a collected volume and, as such, it is team work. I’d like to start by thanking each author for the time and energy they put into their work. I am proud of what we have accomplished, and it has been an honor working with you. As a Spielberg scholar, Pascal Couté was very supportive from the outset and helped with the bibliography. The translators, Franck Le Gac and Caitlin Vanessa Smith, were especially efficient and reliable. Warm thanks are due to Claude Chastagner who encouraged me..
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