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...Elena Russo Elena Russo THE NAKED PHILOSOPHE AND THE SHAMELESS PRUSSIAN: DIDEROT'S PORTRAIT SITTING I n one of the most intriguing passages of his Salon of 1767, Denis Diderot recounts at length his dealings with the Prussian-Polish painter AnnaDorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch. Recently arrived...

.... Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot 34. Du sublime, ed. H. Lebegue, Paris, "Les Belles Lettres", 1965: "Mais maintenant ce nom d'image / phantasia / est reserve a ces cas ou ce que tu dis sous Ie coup de l'enthousiasme et de Ia passion, tu sembies Ie voir, et que tu Ie mets sous Ies yeux des ecoutants [ ]. La...

... acceder a I'humanite.« Le nom des aOieux s'est efface de rna Inemoire », dit Albert aux dernieres pages de La Comtesse. « Mon nom est homme et je ne suis rien de plus que Ies autres homInes» (p. 1126). Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 ...

... érotique s’exprime par une dynamique poétique qui crée un vaste espace de références littéraires et picturales évoquant des scènes érotiques ( Les Bijoux indiscrets de Diderot, le Cantique des Cantiques , l’odalisque peinte par Delacroix, Antiope peinte par Le Corrège) tout en ayant pour but de créer un...

... of authorship, I turn now to Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in particular to their reference to the writers of classical antiquity. Located somewhere between authoritative canonicity and free-floating intertextuality, the reference to classical antiquity is a crucial element in these authors' staging...

... the hands from the Encyclopedie plates (also analyzed by Barthes), the hand of the scripteur is not connected to any particular body, to any voice or mind.2 It does not come from anywhere, is not preceded by anything, but simply comes into being through the act of inscribing a text. What would Denis Diderot...

... JOANNA AUGUSTYN The first part of our argument will therefore examine the development of the ruin as a subject of invention in painting and analyze how Diderot first defined the poetics of this genre in the Salon de 1767. Diderot's ruin poetics takes leave of ekphrasis and invents the viewer's reaction...

...-Jepsen, « Le Nom propre et Ie propre auteur. Qu'est-ce qu'une "fonction-auteur" », in Une histoire de la fonction-auteur est-elle possible ?, Publications de l'Universite de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, 2001, p. 49-64. 5. David Diop rappelle que les textes de Diderot, d'abord signales d'un asterisque...

... of literary destruction were told and retold. In addition to Mercier, the problem of the Alexandrian library appears in the works of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Gibbon, David Hume, Alexander Pope, and Laurence Sterne, to name only several of the most notable instances. And, in all...

...Jenny Mander Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Jenny Mander COLONIAL CONNECTIONS: AUTHORSHIP, PATERNITY, AND POSTERITY IN A GLOBAL MARKET D ebating with the sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet the role played by posterity in artistic creation, Denis Diderot compares...

... plus violente et la plus connue fut celle de l'imperatrice russe (Catherine repondit a Chappe en 1770 avec son fameux Antidote). Goggi etudie la reaction au Voyage en Siberie a travers les ecrits d'Alexandre Deleyre. II juxtapose l'avis de Deleyre a l'opinion portee sur la Russie par Diderot. L'analyse...

...—have the potential and the power to shift for the benefit of all. The shift I have in mind is one informed by the dynamics at the heart of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie . Our engagement in the creation, the production, and the transmission of knowledge should make each of these aspects one...

... Mme. Houdetot, but on the day of his illumination, he was on his way to visit his friend and fellow thinker Denis Diderot.7 Diderot, whose Philosophical Thoughts had been condemned by the censor shortly after its publication in 1746, was under arrest in the Chateau of Vincennes for having written...

.... Focusing on six case studies from "the strange interregnum between Aristotelian poetics and modern fiction" (x), Paige demonstrates the ways in which the authors in his study-Lafayette, Subligny, Crebillon fils, Rousseau, Diderot, and Cazotte-experiment with the conventions of the pseudofactual. Chosen...

... morale, ou il est tourmente par une espece d'inquietude naturelle qui Ie promene malgre lui. -Denis Diderot, on the ruin paintings of Hubert Robert, Salon de 1767 Style is a matter to which Baudelaire insistently returns when evoking his long-standing admiration for Chateaubriand. Style in writing...

... aux debats religieux. Crebillon pouvait bien se reclamer a la fois du salon et de la controverse : cet ancien eleve des ]esuites, membre de plusieurs societes satiriques51, sejourna au donjon de Vincennes (ou sera emprisonne Diderot) en 1734, a la suite de la publication de L"Ecumoire ou Tanzai et...

... with the sole literary text that does figure at any length in the first volume of Foucault's history: Diderot's Les Bijoux indiscrets, which dates from 1748. Diderot's novel plays a central role in Foucault's analysis, not because it actually marks a historical turning point, but because it can be taken broadly...

... by the relationship between literature and the visual arts, as demonstrated by her first book, Diderot et Baudelaire, critiques d art (Droz, 1957). Based on her doctoral dissertation, this work revealed the groundbreaking nature of Diderot s art criticism as well as Baudelaire s debt to these writings. Two monographs...

...Gita May Book Reviews Le Dix-huitieme siecle fran~ais au quotidien: Textes tires des memoires, des journaux, et des correspondances de l'epoque. Roland Mortier, ed. Brussels: Editions Complexe, 2002. Pp.710. Ever since he published his landmark book, Diderot en Allemagne (1954), Roland Mortier...

..., in the dynamism of a Chardin still life made present through Diderot s words and the reader s imagination. Perfectibility was about trying to get there. Gita May was a trailblazer who, like many women of her generation, had to do more to achieve the same status as men in her profession. Among the roles...