...Jean Sgard Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Jean Sgard CONFESSION PUBLIQUE ET CONFESSION SECRETE CHEZ PREVOST D urant toute l'epoque romantique, I'Histoire du chevalier des Crieux et de Manon Lescaut est apparue comme une histoire vraie, une aventure personnelle de...

... stands against the traditional embodied oral confessions; that is why I suggest understanding the singular in his title as a preference for writing in opposition to the oral tradition of the confessional speech: To confess in writing, through writing, to write out sin and obedience instead of confiding...

...Dorothea von Mücke Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Dorothea von Mucke PRIVATE WRITER AND PUBLIC AUTHOR: AUTHORSHIP AND AUDIENCES IN ROUSSEAU'S CONFESSIONS Jean-Jacques Rousseau was very critical of his publics, especially when it came to the power play, networking...

... to the second confession. All of these pieces of parallel and contrary evidence underscore the complexity of the confessional systems, some of which are nonverbal, at work simultaneously in the text. They also indicate a trajectory of confessional development that culminates with her second aveu; this point...

...Vincent Aurora Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Vincent Aurora RIFFATERREAN CONFESSIONS I t was during the orientation to Columbia's French graduate program in 1990 that I first heard Riffaterre's name, murmured with titillated sycophancy: "Riffaterre destroyed him...

... indictment of all concerned: watching “des plus meschantes gens du monde” gaily leave the confessional, it is hard not to conclude, she argues, that the reduction of confession to “un simple jargon” is the result of a conspiracy between confessor and confessant (804). A transitory “frisson de déplaisir...

... bent for fiction manifests itself in an early confession in which she transcribed "tous les peches que je croyais avoir commis" as well as others that her governess dictated. The plot thickens in the confessional, when Genevieve accuses herself of her favorite sin, telling the priest "que j'avais eu de...

..., est utilise par Thomas De Quincey pour decrire son esthetique dans Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: De Quincey est essentiellement digressif : l'expression humourist peut lui etre appliquee plus convenablement qu'a tout autre; il compare, en un endroit, sa pensee a un thyrse, simple baton qui...

... letters, the Confessions , or the Rêveries , it is notable that this element of “realist” description is much increased by the greater level of detail in the Rêveries as opposed to the Confessions . 13. As argued by Joanna Stalnaker in The Unfinished Enlightenment . 14. In fact, some...

... to condemn the woman from her own utterances and actions, with little regard for her examination in the court. On this point, Freeman refers to the "shameful confession" (298) elicited from her by the sages hum, while Jorgensen mentions the wife's "admission of guilt prompted in part by the king's torture...

... the exall1ple of Heberto Padilla's forced 1968 confession of his political activities against the Cuban regiole to show how the poet underInines his own account by adopting the confessional genre. In the fourth chapter, Pancrazio proposes Afro-Cuban culture as a yet different nlanifestation of the sall1e...

.... For example, instances of compelling or inversely preventing testimony to indict or exculpate, confessions and perjury, false confessions, confessions that are false or compromising, avowals that are calculated to elicit information or confessions, and so on. In many stories, mind games, manipulations...

... in order to seem humane. Above all, they would ipso facto turn their willingness to house him in a more comfortable prison into a sign of a recognition of his frailty. They suggested to the prisoner that he would be returned to the first jail if he did not cooperate sufficiently in his confessions...

... Jourde sets it apart from what he sees as the prevailing mediocrity of numerous worthless confessions intimes: [C'est] un des tres rares livres contemporains qui parlent reellement de sexualite, de ce qu'est la pratique sexuelle, les choix sexuels dans aune vie, en evitant la fois l'ecueil du manierisme...

..., et qui la retourna justement contre les Philosophes dans ses Confessions, OU il se presenta en victime, et les Philosophes comme ses bourreaux. Sous la plume de Rousseau, les topoiO apparentes du Juste persecute et de I'Ecrivain malheureux presentaient une arme defensive contre ses ennemis, mais...

... with assistance from Charles Perrault or his niece Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier de Villandon, and I shall follow this general consensus here. Choisy, as he confesses quite frankly in his astonishing memoirs, was hilTIself an enthusiastic cross-dresser.4 FurtherlTIore, as his writings on the subject delnonstrate...

... "Confession" in search of a genuine autobiographical moment will be disappointed to discover that the confession consists of a discourse "overheard" in the false note of someone else's voice. It is true that two of the poems-"Je n'ai pas oublie, voisine de la ville " and "La servante au grand creur dont vous...

... with all its ethical implications, and he offset his dismissal of Spinoza's system with the confession that he felt unworthy of Spinoza's ethical principles. Over and over again, Borges expressed his admiration for Spinoza's exhortation to love one's fate, and for his condemnation of hate and of love, when...

... Letter on the Blind, which employed the wellestablished philosophical problem of the nature of sight as a metaphor for his radical critique of Enlightenment reason. His confinement was emblematic of 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Letters to Malesherbes," in The Confessions, The Collected Writings of Rousseau...

... Padilla's forced 1968 confession of his political activities against the Cuban regiole to show how the poet underInines his own account by adopting the confessional genre. In the fourth chapter, Pancrazio proposes Afro-Cuban culture as a yet different nlanifestation of the sall1e problem of a Cuban...