...Jean David Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 LE PROFESSEUR DANS LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE DEPUIS LA PREMIERE GUERRE MONDIALE By JEAN DAVID Notre profession est Ctrange. On ne demande iun ouvrier que de...

... on southern European peninsulas (Iberian, Italian, and Balkan) as described by nineteenth-century French literary histories.3 There are four reasons for my specifications: (1) Nineteenth-century French literary histories, institutionally linked with chairs of littérature étrangère (foreign litera...

... mondialisation, recently reconsecrated as “the world republic of letters.” The residual or symptomatic alter-­effect of this process is an intrigu- ing phenomenon dubbed littérature-­monde. This mode of globalization is not an uncontested trajectory, by any means. In particular, voices of postcolonial...

... of criticism, notes: “Nous sommes entrks aujourd’hui, depuis Mallarmk, dans la pkriode oii l’art se critique. . . . Depuis, la plupart des arts et la litterature meme se ~ritiquentThis view is cer- tainly shared by Butor, who maintains that reflexiveness, far from being an irritating mannerism, “est...

..., Histoire des Idees et Critique Littkraire, 200, 1982. x + 372 pp. Sw. Frs. 80. Paul Benichou, “Reflexions sur la critique litteraire”; Jean Moho, “Sur la methode de Paul Benichou”; Jules Brody, “Montaigne et la notion de litterature: Essai de lecture philologique”; Arnaldo Pizzorusso...

... known in the period as lettres, belles-lettres, littérature, auteurs, hommes illustres dans la République des lettres, poètes, poésie, ouvrages, and livres. These efforts were often considered to be connected to each other, though there was no consistent...

... In brief, the character of Lang, 2011), 163 – 78. Cliona Ó Galchoir suggests an early link between the two writ- ers by reading The Wild Irish Girl as a response to arguments developed in Staël’s De la littérature (“Germaine de Staël and the Response of Sydney Owenson and Maria Edge- worth...

... a political project. On the contrary, the most compelling national histories were written by outsiders. The two examples that come to mind are François-René de Chateaubriand’s Essai sur la littérature anglaise ( Essay on English Literature , 1836) and Hippolyte Adolphe Taine’s Histoire de la littérature...

... de l’écrivain: Sociologie de la littérature à l’âge classique (Paris: Minuit, 1985), and Christian Jouhaud, Les pouvoirs de la littérature: Histoire d’un para- doxe (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), explore the counterintuitive conditions in which writ- ers became “autonomous” by integrating themselves...

... and aspects of critical pronouncements, but also to the personal slant of the critic. Furthermore, it welcomes contributors from below the border and from abroad as well. The companion title Litterature Cunadienne indicates equality of English and French speech. But, as all journals would insist...

... Shakespearean enthusiasts were now suspected were particularly contentious. One journalist saw the 1822 performances as an opportunity for France to demonstrate its superiority to “a rival literature, from which we have borrowed, but which has borrowed much more from us” (une littérature rivale, à laquelle...

... . Munich : Beck . Barbery Muriel 2007 . “ Pour une ‘littérature-monde’ en français .” Le Monde , March 15 . Barck Karlheinz , ed. 1988 . “ Fünf Briefe Erich Auerbachs an Walter Benjamin in Paris .” Zeitschrift für Germanistik 9 : 688 – 94 . Barthes Roland . 1957...

... ardents ; mais il fallait aussi maintenir le droit anterieur de la litterature nationale dans ce qui se rapporte h l’invention et aux formes gendrales. Cette distinction, que je devais h 1’Ctude de Schlegel, parut obscure alors mCme h beaucoup de nos amis qui voyaient dans Ronsard le prCcurseur...

... 7/12/01 1:21 PM Page 241 Wolff ❙ Gustave Lanson’s Pedagogy 241 literature instead of regurgitating facts (a technique for which Lanson gained renown through the wide dissemination of his Histoire de la littérature française...

... Literature. Ithaca, New York: Linguistica, 1951. Pp. 426. Knight, R.-C. Racine et la Gr6ce. Paris : Boivin et Cie, Editions Contemporaines, Etudes de Litterature etrangcre et comparke, 1951. Pp. 467. Maurino, Ferdinand0 D. Salvatore di Giacomo and Neapolitan Dialectal Litera- ture. New York...

... this development or, by intro- 2 Wilhelm Creizenach, Die Schauspiele der englischen Komodianten, Deutsche National-Litteratur, hsg. Joseph Kurschner, Nr. 23 (Berlin, n.d p. 11. 8 Jakob Baechtold, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur in der Schweiz (Frauenfeld, 1919), p. 269. 4 Carl Niessen, Die...

... (1788–1857), too, was not just a lyrical poet and nar- rator of wanderlust, nostalgia, and the ironic vagaries of coincidence; he also wrote a German literary history, Geschichte der poetischen Litteratur Deutschlands (1857). What is more, as a Prussian official (he had a law degree), he took part...

..., envisaged the universe as a machine, but as a machine in a continuous developmental process of destruction and creation. God, as Voltaire noted, also ~ 1 Dr. Vartanian is apparently unaware of Lanson’s article, “L’Influence de la philosophie cartksienne sur la litterature...

... June 2013 any textbook or anthology world literature is presented as “a juxtaposi- tion of national literatures . . . a history of literatures” (une juxtaposi- tion des littératures nationales . . . une histoire de littératures) (ibid.: 50 – 51). This condition has scarcely changed since Kundera...

... and the Seventeenth- Century Background of Critical Deism. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1911. Pp. 105. $1.25. Peyre, Henri. L’Influence des Litteratures Antiques sur la Lit- tbrature Francaise Moderne &tat des Travaux. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1941. Pp. 106. $2.00...