Dix-NeufPub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2291594
Michelle Chun-han Hsu
{"title":"Between the Picturesque and the Political: Judith Gautier and Pierre Loti’s Play La Fille du Ciel","authors":"Michelle Chun-han Hsu","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2291594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2291594","url":null,"abstract":"In La Fille du Ciel (1911), a play co-authored by Pierre Loti and Judith Gautier, allusions to ethnic equality between the Manchu and the Han celebrate the political thinking of Kang Youwei (1858–1...","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138745503","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 : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2278853
Victoria Baena
{"title":"Cartographies of Region and Empire: Scaling Le tour de la France par deux enfants (and its Afterlives)","authors":"Victoria Baena","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2278853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2278853","url":null,"abstract":"Augustine Fouillée's (alias G. Bruno's) Le tour de la France par deux enfants, a children's geography textbook initially published in 1877, has long been considered a nation-building tool in the Th...","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138575305","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2284605
Roger Pearson
{"title":"Lyric Spells: The Poet as Magus from Chateaubriand to Mallarmé","authors":"Roger Pearson","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2284605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2284605","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I examine some aspects of the relationship between poetry and magic within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture. I focus on Mallarmé's ‘Magie' and use his...","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138560877","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 : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2254947
Margot Szarke
{"title":"Zola’s Sense of Reality: Repetition, Deadtime, and Boredom in <i>La Joie de vivre</i>","authors":"Margot Szarke","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2254947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2254947","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis essay considers Emile Zola's La Joie de vivre (1884) as a study of boredom which turns into a self-reflexive study of literature itself, highlighting the ways in which the text slows down perceptions of objects, events, and the passage of time. This ‘roman psychologique' stretches the reader's attention, thereby inducing forms of ennui that mirror those experienced by the novel's characters. By examining how Zola's writing warps the ‘reality effect' and how it dissolves the distinction between narration and description, this investigation shows furthermore that Zola’s literary experimentation pushes his naturalism in a modernist direction.KEYWORDS: Ennuiaffectl'effet de réelRougon-Macquartattentionnaturalismmodernism Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In Zola’s notes, the title, “La Joie de vivre,” appears as an outlier in a (rather poetic) list of phrases. Here, the author seems to be contemplating potential titles: “La vallée des larmesLa joie de vivreL’espoir du néantLe vieux cyniqueLa sombre mortLe tourment de l’existenceLa misère du mondeLe repos sacré du néantLe triste monde.” (Becker Citation2009, 1072).2 While writing La Joie de vivre, Zola supposedly consulted Paul Bourget’s Citation1883 study, Essais de Psychologie contemporaine (Becker Citation2009, 1235). Bourget’s discussion of literary works (Citation1883, viii) attempted to “[d]éfinir quelques-uns des exemplaires de sentiments que certains écrivains de notre époque proposent à l’imitation des tout jeunes gens” (including pessimism and nihilism), and to “indiquer […] quelques-unes des causes générales qui ont amené ces écrivains à peindre ces sentiments comme elles amènent leur lecteur à les goûter.” The literary text makes its reader taste the portrayed “sentiments”.3 In Le Plaisir du texte (Citation1973, 21), Barthes admitted that he would skip descriptive passages, notably while reading Zola, in order to establish his own, enjoyable (and faster) reading pace: “nous ne lisons pas tout avec la même intensité de lecture; un rythme s’établit, désinvolte, peu respectueux à l’égard de l’intégrité du texte; […] nous sautons impunément (personne ne nous voit) les descriptions.”4 Zola’s essay, “Le sens du réel,” was published in 1878 and later included in Le roman expérimental, as the first entry under the heading du roman.5 While analysing Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Jean Radford (Citation1991, 18) interprets the usage of repeated, lengthy physical descriptions and descriptive details as the intentional production of a resistance to meaning, rather than the presentation of the ‘reality effect.’ Allison Pease (Citation2012, 80–81) has continued this line of thought by showing how boredom in this context shapes the reader’s orientation with the novel. According to Pease, there is a collaborative effort established here between the novelist and the reader.6 Indeed, Zola wanted to evoke forms of mental and moral émiett","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134969923","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 : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2228146
Célia Abele
{"title":"Generating Life from Literature: Proust in Balzac’s Aquarium","authors":"Célia Abele","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2228146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2228146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The early drafts of Proust's Recherche discuss the novelty of the relationship between reality and literature developed by Balzac. According to Proust, Balzac infused reality itself with life, just as he infused literature with life, and indeed life with literature. This article explores the multiple valences of the concept of “life”—literary, biographical, and sociobiological—in the Recherche, notably through a reading of the comparison between society and an aquarium in A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. This shows how the Recherche drew on the possibilities for dialogue between literature and science around the notion of “life.”","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43063865","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 : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2235138
Emma Kavanagh
{"title":"‘Qu’il est loin mon pays’: Staging (Be)longing in Massenet’s Sapho","authors":"Emma Kavanagh","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2235138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2235138","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT At first glance, Jules Massenet's opera Sapho (1897) might appear to water down its source material, substituting the searing social commentary of Alphonse Daudet's novel (1884) with idealised tropes of the Midi. This article, however, seeks to complicate this reading, arguing that Sapho moves beyond the regionalism of its operatic predecessors, while entirely reimagining Daudet's novel for a new medium. It highlights how the themes of nostalgia and belonging are established in Henri Cain and Arthur Bernède's libretto, reiterated by Léon Carvalho's staging, and intensified in Massenet's score, thereby nuancing and enriching our understanding of adaptation for the operatic stage.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43374747","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 : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2245167
K. Weil
{"title":"Fidgeting Fingers and Fickle Flesh in Flaubert","authors":"K. Weil","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2245167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2245167","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Writing about Francis Bacon, Gilles Deleuze comments on the body as the ‘zone of indiscernibility' between man and animal, especially ‘as it is flesh or meat.' Bacon's fleshy zone, I argue, finds an early illustration in Madame Bovary, where Flaubert will also incorporate notions of ‘animal life’ as described by the nineteenth-century pathologist, Xavier Bichat. This essay will examine these fleshy zones as they relate to changing ideas of skin, tactility, and those, fluid permeable zones between human and animal and between individual bodies and the penetrating forces of others and the environment.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44502117","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 : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2241915
Luciana Persice Nogueira-Pretti
{"title":"Venise et ses télescopages magiques. La ‘Venise intérieure’ de Proust","authors":"Luciana Persice Nogueira-Pretti","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2241915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2241915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41873895","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 : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2229117
Jessica Rushton
{"title":"‘Ne vous effrayez point du costume bizarre dans lequel vous me voyez’: The Maidservant Disguise in Stendhal’s Mina de Vanghel and Barbey d’Aurevilly’s ‘Le Bonheur dans le crime’","authors":"Jessica Rushton","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2229117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2229117","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses how the nineteenth-century fictional heroines in Stendhal's Mina de Vanghel and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's `Le Bonheur dans le crime' don a maidservant disguise in order to revolt against their society's oppressive mores and subsequently reverse the power dynamics between men and women, as well as servants and their masters and mistresses. By drawing on the period's non-literary discourses that likewise depicted a fascination with the servant's appearance, this article argues that Stendhal and Barbey were creating, as well as feeding into, a particular nineteenth-century socio-cultural construct of the female servant as a rebellious, sexually promiscuous figure.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49116845","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 : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2023.2222024
Lucioni Monica
{"title":"La gesticulation typographique du Pierrot fin-de-siècle : Jules Laforgue et la ponctuation","authors":"Lucioni Monica","doi":"10.1080/14787318.2023.2222024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2222024","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Au cours du XIXe siècle s'affirme le concept de « ponctuation d'auteur ». Dans la fin de siècle, au moment où la « ponctuation blanche » commence à apparaître, Jules Laforgue explore les possibilités disruptives et expressives de la plus traditionnelle « ponctuation noire ». Dans cet article, nous analyserons la relation du poète avec les ponctuants, montrant qu'ils participent du niveau sémantique de son « écriture clownesque ». En particulier, à l'époque des Complaintes et de L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, la ponctuation crée une forme de « gesticulation typographique » qui a pour modèle le Pierrot des pantomimes.","PeriodicalId":53818,"journal":{"name":"Dix-Neuf","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41397673","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}