Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2019-01-13DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.6641
L. Cottegnies
{"title":"Le théâtre baroque du corps démembré dans The Duchess of Malfi","authors":"L. Cottegnies","doi":"10.4000/sillagescritiques.6641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.6641","url":null,"abstract":"The Duchess of Malfi est saturee d'images de corps demembres qui constituent l’essence meme de l'imaginaire poetique de Webster et de sa poetique macabre. Ce retour qu'on pourrait qualifier de hantise du corps en morceaux dans l'intrigue comme dans la texture poetique peut se lire comme un symptome d’une episteme en crise, ou les liens et similitudes qui tenaient encore ensemble l’ordre du monde ont cesse d'etre operants : un monde ou la metaphore d'un corps politique organique a cesse d'avoir cours, et ou l'analogie entre le microcosme du corps humain et le macrocosme du cosmos a perdu son pouvoir symbolique de signifier l'unite profonde de la creation par l'enchâssement des ressemblances. La coherence metaphorique de la piece tient a la dissemination dans le texte de ces signifiants corporels du corps demembre. En resulte une sur-semantisation, lorsque que le texte attire l'attention sur ses repetitions, tandis que les mots pour designer les parties du corps deviennent signes polysemiques et toujours potentiellement proleptiques, pointant obstinement vers l'imminence de la mort et le surgissement du corps supplicie. Cet article s’interesse aux ressorts de cette poetique « expressionniste », dont les effets sont parfois soulignes avec outrance par le biais de divers procedes. Le texte attire l'attention sur son propre travail de remotivation d'images qui relevent souvent du lieu commun, voire de l'image figee.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44597535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2019-01-13DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6910
Anny Crunelle Vanrigh
{"title":"La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmes","authors":"Anny Crunelle Vanrigh","doi":"10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6910","url":null,"abstract":"En inscrivant La Duchesse d’Amalfi dans la Querelle des femmes, comme le suggerent Linda Woodbridge et Christy Desmet, Webster reproduit les debats de la premiere modernite opposant philogynes et misogynes sur la question de la femme. Il en reproduit la rhetorique epidictique, place les questionnements de la Querelle (gynocratie, celibat, mariage et veuvage, acces au corps, nature de la femme) au centre de la piece et convoque les representations culturelles propres a chaque camp dans les debats qui opposent la Duchesse aux Aragonais. La monumentalisation de la Duchesse apparait dans cette perspective comme son inscription dans le catalogue des exempla invoques de part et d’autre. Cependant, le propos de la piece, semble-t-il, n’est pas tant de prendre position dans la Querelle, comme le signalent en creux les incertitudes de la critique, que de tenir un propos hermeneutique sur la Querelle, et notamment sur la construction des polarisations qui la constituent.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45255601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2019-01-13DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.6709
John Gillies
{"title":"Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi","authors":"John Gillies","doi":"10.4000/sillagescritiques.6709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.6709","url":null,"abstract":"The proposition of this essay is that conversation exists as a theme in its own right in The Duchess of Malfi. It is clear that Webster borrowed from The Civil Conversation (1586), as Steffano Guazzo’s book was known in English translation. As in Guazzo, honest conversation, in Webster's play, has a civil rather than courtly character, and as such the conversation theme corresponds with an antithesis that has been noted by John L. Selzer between merit and degree. But the conversation of Webster’s meritorious characters is entangled with dishonesty in ways that Guazzo would not have countenanced. The result is a moral ambiguity which is difficult to square with virtue ethics, and which calls for a reading in terms of the totalitarian contexts of the revenge play and the Tacitean history play then gaining ascendancy in Jacobean England. Ironically the Duchess is restored to her honesty by conversing with her murderer at the climax of the play.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43150030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2019-01-13DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6962
Anne-Valérie Dulac
{"title":"La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi","authors":"Anne-Valérie Dulac","doi":"10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6962","url":null,"abstract":"Le present article explore les differentes figures de peintres et d'artistes convoquees par John Webster dans The Duchess of Malfi. Tout comme le portrait empoisonne de The White Devil, les images peintes ou sculptees qui surgissent dans The Duchess of Malfi semblent elles aussi, pour certaines, dotees de pouvoirs terrifiants sur qui les contemple. A quoi les images doivent-elles leur perfidie dans cette tragedie? La piece revient de maniere recurrente sur la fabrique des images, et semble fascinee par la matiere meme dans laquelle elles s'impriment. A partir d'une analyse des circonstances materielles de production des images que la piece donne a voir, j'emets l'hypothese que Webster oppose le travail du metal au travail de materiaux ductiles, en des termes qui permettent de lier la matiere au temps ainsi qu'au son de la creation, conferant aux images une efficacite ou une toxicite plus ou moins grande.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41589335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2019-01-13DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.6847
R. Loughnane
{"title":"Studied Speech and The Duchess of Malfi: The Lost Arts of Rhetoric, Memory, and Death","authors":"R. Loughnane","doi":"10.4000/sillagescritiques.6847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.6847","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Loughnane uses two key lines from the opening scene of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi about the two brothers’ ‘studied speech’ to discuss how the play’s themes and ideas connect to a broader cultural preoccupation with practices of habitual preparation. Drawing on a wide range of early modern texts, Loughnane discusses the prevalence and proliferation of how-to manuals instructing readers how best to prepare for various activities and duties. In particular, he focuses upon manuals about conduct, memory, rhetoric, and death, connecting their aims and objectives to the tragedy that unfolds in Webster’s play. He situates the Duchess’s tragic outcome in her failure to heed her brothers’ warning, and in mistaking their contrived ‘studied speech’ for something without substance.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43218285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.7355
Sophie Lapalu
{"title":"Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive","authors":"Sophie Lapalu","doi":"10.4000/sillagescritiques.7355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.7355","url":null,"abstract":"Les actions furtives sont des œuvres qui ont lieu dans un premier temps dans l’espace public puis qui sont communiquees au sein du champ de l’art. Dans la rue, ces gestes banals realises sans spectateur passent inapercus pour qui les croise. Dans les musees, ce qui est presente est la marque d’une action passee. La nouvelle La Lettre volee d’Edgar Allan Poe et le seminaire que lui a consacre Jacques Lacan nous permettent de dessiner la structure de ce type d’œuvres, toujours presentes et absentes simultanement.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47121298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7745
K. Birat
{"title":"“Taak prappa”","authors":"K. Birat","doi":"10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7745","url":null,"abstract":"David Dabydeen’s collection of poems Slave Song (1984) represents the Guyanese poet’s attempt to compensate for the silence surrounding slavery and the absence of a significant body of poetry in Creole. In a series of 14 poems written in Guyanese Creole and accompanied by illustrations dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as explanatory notes and translations in standard English, the poet evokes the lives of plantation slaves and modern-day peasants through forms that both imitate folk poetry and evoke European genres like the pastoral and the elegy. Through an analysis of this intertwining of local and European forms and of the use of Creole in Slave Song, this article examines the collection as an attempt on the part of the poet both to generate presence and to recognize the impossibility of filling the gaps left by a painful past.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42140448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7489
C. Magnin
{"title":"“On our way to dig up Dad’s empty coffin”","authors":"C. Magnin","doi":"10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7489","url":null,"abstract":"Le present article se propose d’aborder la question du trauma et son rapport avec l’absence dans le roman de Jonathan Safran Foer intitule Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, publie en 2005. Cette etude s’attache plus precisement a mettre en lumiere les strategies a l’œuvre dans le roman, qui font que l’absence n’est pas seulement traitee comme une thematique mais informe la structure meme du roman. L’evenement traumatique resiste a toute inscription dans le langage aussi bien que dans la conscience ; il peine a etre nomme et se cache derriere des pages blanches, des ellipses, des photographies qui montrent sans dire, qui prennent le relais quand la parole fait defaut. On en trouve des indices, des traces, que le lecteur se doit de rechercher : a lui de combler le vide, de lire le silence de l’absence et de surmonter les obstacles poses a la lecture.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44753072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7518
Elsa Charléty
{"title":"Tales Of Possession And Dispossession","authors":"Elsa Charléty","doi":"10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.7518","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article propose d’etudier la maniere dont l’absence est representee dans le roman d’Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light (2013) Dans ce roman polyphonique, les solitudes se croisent sans se rencontrer. Claire of the Sea Light dit dans un langage hybride, entre anglais et creole, le vide qui suit la perte et les moyens mis en place pour le combler. Depossedes de ceux qui leur sont chers, les membres de la communaute de Ville Rose compensent l’absence en partageant les souvenirs des disparus. Leur souvenir est convoque dans un espace discursif commun, ou les individus se laissent posseder par les absents des autres dans le but de reprendre possession de leur propre travail de deuil. L’ecriture d’Edwidge Danticat, dans sa negociation des rapports entre le collectif et l’individuel, construit un langage de l’echange autour du vide. De ce partage, emerge une esthetique polyphonique de l’absence qui permet de transformer la douleur individuelle en memoire collective.","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43699042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sillages CritiquesPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.7638
Pamela Bianchi
{"title":"Le lieu propre du néant","authors":"Pamela Bianchi","doi":"10.4000/sillagescritiques.7638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.7638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56234,"journal":{"name":"Sillages Critiques","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42781294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}