Dix-NeufPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2020.1719333
J. Acquisto
{"title":"Pessimism, Narrative, and Meaning in Henry Céard’s Une belle journée","authors":"J. Acquisto","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2020.1719333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2020.1719333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Henry Céard's Une belle journée, a ‘plotless' novel, illuminates debates about pessimism in late nineteenth-century France by bringing to the fore the imperative to interpretation. The way that the novel's heroine is cast as having resigned herself to lackluster existence presents a contrast with Flaubert's Emma Bovary and ignites debates about whether resignation represents an abdication of happiness or creates its conditions of possibility. Readers' interpretation of Céard’s novel is bound up with their understanding of pessimism; debates about the novel can illuminate and be illuminated by larger debates about pessimism in fiction and non-fiction in the later nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"24 1","pages":"54 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2020.1719333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48536747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2020.1721693
D. McCallam
{"title":"The Obverse View: Another Look at Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Le 7 décembre 1815, neuf heures du matin [The Execution of Marshal Ney] (1868)","authors":"D. McCallam","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2020.1721693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2020.1721693","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the light of recent re-evaluations of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s practice and significance as a history painter, this article focuses on one of his more controversial and innovative artworks, Le 7 décembre 1815, neuf heures du matin. This painting depicts the immediate aftermath of maréchal Michel Ney’s execution by the Restoration regime in 1815. The article reassesses in particular the scandalised reception of the painting in the Paris Salon of 1868 and proposes alternative readings of the artwork’s subversive qualities, both for its Second Empire public and for its twentieth-first-century viewers.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"24 1","pages":"82 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2020.1721693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43075979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683966
M. Coughlin
{"title":"Gleaning the Tideline: Elodie La Villette’s Ecocritical Painting","authors":"M. Coughlin","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683966","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Elodie La Villette is an understudied late-nineteenth-century French marine artist who had an exceptional ecological sensibility. Her images of the interstitial world of the coastlines of Brittany and Normandy depict transformations and exchanges between the labour of human maritime communities and the materiality of the landscape in shoreline commons. Using the tools of material ecocriticism and ecofeminism, this article analyses her painted North Atlantic ecologies of the human and more-than-human, and finds affinities between her visual attentiveness and emerging marine ecological sciences in France.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"239 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41698931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683971
Christie Margrave
{"title":"Environment and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella","authors":"Christie Margrave","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683971","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article compares Traversay’s Les amours de Zémédare et Carina (1806) and Bergeaud’s Stella (1859), which portray Caribbean landscapes altered by plantation economy. Examining these understudied novels through the lens of ecofeminism and eco-postcolonialism allows us to understand how Francophone colonial authors perceived the history of the land to be inseparable from socio-political history on both a regional and an international level, and also how the authors portray new Caribbean identities as dependent on landscape and the role of women.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"171 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683971","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44638685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683974
J. Ryan
{"title":"Foreword: Ecocriticism in the Age of Dislocation?","authors":"J. Ryan","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683974","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Anglophone environmental literary criticism has evolved within the bounds of regions and regionalism. Particularly during its early years, ecocriticism privileged local engagement with the natural world as a literary-activist mode. Recent approaches, however, emphasise translocal, transregional, and transnational frameworks. Moreover, intersections with studies of affect, ecofeminism, materiality, postcolonialism, risk, and other areas underlie the continuing theoretical diversification of ecocriticism. An Anthropocene Ecocriticism would confront the disorienting spatio-temporal scales of our age, resist longstanding local-global binarisms, place emphasis on the value of indigenous narratives, and embrace the environmental justice origins of the field.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"163 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683974","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45500369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683968
Antonio Viselli
{"title":"L’écorégionalisme et le ‘sauvage’: De la figure du māhū à ‘L’après-midi d’un faune’ de Paul Gauguin","authors":"Antonio Viselli","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Le désir chez Paul Gauguin de devenir ‘sauvage’ et la manifestation d’un corps queer dans sa vision d’un ailleurs exotique sont deux paradigmes qui se brouillent dans un passage de son journal de voyage, Noa noa (1901), lorsque l’artiste part à la recherche de bois afin de réaliser ses sculptures. Nous proposons un rapprochement entre cet extrait et le ‘bibelot sauvage’ que sculpte l’artiste intitulé ‘L’après-midi d’un faune’ (circa 1892), inspiré du poème de Mallarmé, qui combine dans son interdiscursivité les multiples mythologies occidentales et pacifiques ainsi qu’une intermédialité musico-littéraire et plastique.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"265 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683968","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683970
A. Carrico
{"title":"Progressive Waters: Memory, Narrative and Localism in Émile Zola’s L’inondation","authors":"A. Carrico","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683970","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article unpacks the role of water in Émile Zola’s L’inondation by analyzing the way in which the Garonne River creates and complicates individual identity. It connects to larger narratives of localism in the face of hydrological risk by situating Zola’s flood historically and ecocritically in relation to the actual Garonne flood of 1875. It suggests that Zola’s story, despite occasionally reinforcing nineteenth-century representations of a dichotomous human-nature relationship, ultimately reveals an inseparable conception of self and environment, and expresses the emotive significance of disaster stories following natural disasters.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"231 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683970","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41380160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683965
D. Bauer
{"title":"Text, Topos, and the Awareness of History in Frédéric Mistral’s Poème du Rhône","authors":"D. Bauer","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683965","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) transforms historical awareness and local historiographies into a literary answer to some of the fundamental challenges of the modern world. It is argued here that the particularities of Mistral’s ‘empaysement’—textual abundance, multiple narrative identities, intertextuality, and storytelling—reflect not only an effort to preserve a pre-industrial agrarian society, but also testify to a modern awareness of the present as a future past, which explicitly structures the Poème du Rhône (1897) and Mireille (1859).","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"254 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683965","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46371795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683969
Göran Blix
{"title":"Natura Magistra Vitae: Natural Pedagogy in Élisée Reclus’s Histoire D’un Ruisseau","authors":"Göran Blix","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683969","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the role that anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus attributed to nature as a moral and political teacher capable of enhancing human wellbeing and community. After showing that Reclus’s programmatic essay ‘Du sentiment de la nature’ makes an urgent case for re-sensitizing modern people to nature, I examine how his popular science book Histoire d’un ruisseau seeks to implement this pedagogy. While arguing that nature’s integrity matters foremost for the sake of human material wellbeing, Reclus refused to exclude beauty from that category, arguing that receptivity to beauty reflected a society’s relationship to justice and the natural world.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"220 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43614953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dix-NeufPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1683967
Daniel A. Finch-Race, V. Gosetti
{"title":"Editorial: Discovering Industrial-Era Francophone Ecoregions","authors":"Daniel A. Finch-Race, V. Gosetti","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2019.1683967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683967","url":null,"abstract":"This article, and its associated issue, involve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) research in the sense that a post-colonial theoretical framework, which has been used in ATSI research, has been applied in a French context. This research does not involve direct research of ATSI peoples or their culture.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"23 1","pages":"151 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14787318.2019.1683967","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48319442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}