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Benedetta PAPASOGLI, Le Sourire de Mentor
Posted: 10 Dec 2015 - 11:32

Paris, Honoré Champion, Collection Lumière Classique, 2015. ISBN 9782745329745. 55€

Au binôme de « humanisme et spiritualité », classique dans les études sur Fénelon, se substitue de plus en plus – grâce aux riches enquêtes menées dans ces dernières décennies – celui de « imaginaire et spiritualité », duquel ce livre s’inspire. Ses deux volets, consacrés respectivement à quelques grands thèmes spirituels et aux figures de la fiction, explorent la trame des correspondances qui relient ces deux niveaux de l’œuvre de l’archevêque, et en suggèrent la convergence dans des structures d’harmonisation des contraires où l’imaginaire de Fénelon rejoint sa configuration la plus profonde. C’est ici que Mentor entre sur la scène avec son sourire harmonisateur dans lequel confluent plusieurs traditions (philosophique, biblique, mystique) mais qui est, d’autre part, l’une des plus originales inventions féneloniennes. Le sourire de la sagesse s’imprime dans les beautés de la nature, tout comme dans celles de la culture ; il brille dans toute image et lui confère sa valeur pédagogique. Ce sourire insondable n’est pas sans rapport avec les dynamiques de la construction du sens dans le Télémaque, entre ce qui est dit et ce qui ne peut pas se dire mais que le texte laisse entrevoir, le long des lignes de fuite de l’allusion.

 Benedetta Papasogli est professeur à la LUMSA (Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta, Rome). Spécialiste des moralistes classiques et de la littérature spirituelle, elle a publié, entre autres, Le « fond du cœur ». Figures de l’espace intérieur au XVIIe siècle (Champion, 2000) ; La mémoire du coeur au XVIIe siècle (Champion, 2008) ; une édition des Cantiques spirituels du Père Surin (Olschki, 1996) et une traduction italienne des Pensées de Pascal (2003).

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Jean Lesaulnier, Images de Port-Royal, Tome II.
Posted: 6 Dec 2015 - 15:13

Cet ouvrage constitue le second volet de la série Images de Port-Royal. Ces études ne sont pas simplement juxtaposées: se complétant l'une l'autre, elles forment un tout et visent à rendre compte de l'infinie complexité de la réalité de Port-Royal.

Table des matières: http://www.classiques-garnier.com/editions-tabmats/JlnMS02_tabmat.pdf

Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 543 p. 48€. ISBN 978-2-8124-4808-9

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Jean-François Regnard, Théâtre français, Tome II.
Posted: 6 Dec 2015 - 15:09

Démocrite, Le Retour imprévu, Les Folies amoureuses suivies du Mariage de la Folie, Les Ménechmes.

Editions de Sabine Chaouche, Noémie Courtès et Joseph Harris.

Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. "Bibliothèque du théâtre français", novembre 2015, 557 p., 45€.  ISBN 978-2-8124-3306-1

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Source: Dramatica (Sandrine Blondet)

 

Derval Conroy, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama (Ruling Women, vol. 2)
Posted: 29 Nov 2015 - 16:49

Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Hardback, ISBN 9781137568427.

Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy's work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.

CONTENTS

1. The Power and the Fury, or the Politics of Representation in Drama 

2. The Drama of Gender Struggle: Androgyny and Female Government

3. Dramatizing the Female Prince: Virtue, Statecraft and Virginal Wives 

 

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Derval Conroy, Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France (Ruling Women, vol. 1)
Posted: 29 Nov 2015 - 16:46

Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Hardback, ISBN 9781137567970.

Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynæcocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable and engaging, Conroy's work will appeal to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism, in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas.

CONTENTS

1. The Dynamics of Exclusion: 'Salic Law' and Constructions of Masculine Monarchy

2. Government by Women in Early Modern 'Galleries' of Women

3. Engendering Equality: Gynæcocracy in Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, and Suchon

 

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