by Sophie Boyer (2004)
Oscillant sans cesse entre angoisse et fascination, le regard porté sur le corps féminin par ces deux poètes se révèle un véritable baromètre des mentalités masculines au XIXème siècle. Apparaissant tour à tour sous les traits de la prostituée, du vampire, du cadavre, de la sphinge ou de la statue, la femme subjugue l'homme moderne et le confronte, par le jeu de la séduction, à l'énigme de sa propre identité. A travers l'image qu'ils créent de la femme, Heine et Baudelaire ont élaboré un nouveau langage de l'amour aux dimensions divines et politiques, voire même révolutionnaires.
Avis Berman
A biography of the nineteenth-century American artist who spent most of his life in Europe and is known for his flamboyant personality, as well as his innovative painting and printmaking techniques and famous portrait of his mother.
Yasue Ikazaki
Les qualités intrinsèques de l'écriture de Simone de Beauvoir sont restées largement méconnues. Par une approche narratologique, Yasue Ikazaki propose une relecture de l'ensemble des récits de cet auteur (fictions et autobiographie), comprenant les publications posthumes (Lettres à Sartre, Lettres à Nelson Algren, Journal de guerre) et les inédits (Malentendu à Moscou, les chapitres initiaux de L'Invitée).
Jean-Luc Nancy
Une analyse du portrait de Jacques Derrida dessiné par Valerio Adami selon plusieurs registres ou sous plusieurs angles possibles, avec des épisodes narratifs ou songeurs, fragments d'autres portraits.
F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp
"In exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible. However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman's poetic style. This is the deficit that F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp seeks to address in his new piece of literary scholarship: 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'. Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible's importance in the evolution of Whitman's style - from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works. 'Divine Style' focuses on Whitman's output in the years preceding the release of his 1855 opus 'Leaves of Grass' through the general period of the book's first three editions. In this, Dobbs-Allsopp's exploration of the period is exhaustive - covering not just Leaves of Grass but recently recovered notebooks, newly digitised manuscripts and additions to the corpus, such as the novel 'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle'. This is a work of careful, detailed scholarship, offering an authoritative commentary that will be a valuable resource for students of Whitman, biblical scholars and scholars of literature more generally."--Publisher's website.