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Maney - Legenda - Legenda Special Lecture Series
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Legenda Special Lecture Series
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Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt
by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
by Leo Bersani With Contempt (Le mépris), dating from 1963, the French writer and director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) made his first and much-debated big-budget feature, whose all-star cast included Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Parlance and Fritz Lang. The central theme of the film is the contempt a wife, Camille, suddenly feels for her husband, Paul, bringing to an end the intimate relationship the couple enjoyed. The authors ...
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L'ecriture testamentaire à la fin du Moyen Age: Identité, dispersion, trace
by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
This short paper was delivered at the Taylor Institution at the University of Oxford in 1999. It focuses on the genre of mock wills in French literature of the Late Middle Ages, exploring the political, social and historical implications of its use and the different satiric, tragic and comedy aspects to the works. 25p (Legenda 1999)
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History, Painting and Narrative: Delacroix's `Moments'
by Peter Brooks
The narrative of historical events was of prime political and aesthetic to the generation that came to the fore in France in 1830. The choice of the right moment to illustrate historical events was a continuing subject of concern for Delacroix, as the brief explanations he wrote for the salon and catalogue demonstrate. He wants spectators to understand the chosen moment as part of a continuing narrative but also as the moment most revelatory of ...
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Proust: questions d'identite
by Julia Kristeva
The author brilliantly pursues her readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Proust is presented here as the first modern writer to revel the sado-masochistic tendancies inherent in national, religious and sexual identities. His enigmatic characters and, above all, the Dreyfus Affair form the basis of Kristeva's exploration of these compelling questions. The material was originally delivered as the Zaharoff Lecture at the Taylor ...
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