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Edmond Rostand ou la communion perdue

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Vogel G.

Cahiers ERTA

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2023

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issue 34

35-53

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For Edmond Rostand, dramatic writing is a medium ensuring communion between the author and the spectator, a bond questioned by Plato. This article studies how Edmond Rostand’s poetic plays illustrate the quest for the public’s understanding of the poet and how the characters thrive for their lost social recognition. His works shed light on the poet at work, each of the characters being an accomplished or budding versifier to reveal that poetry is legitimate work, which requires skills. Edmond Rostand’s poetic style deconstructs literary and social norms that have led to his contemporaries’ loss of authenticity. Misunderstood by theater goers and critics, disappointment led the playwright to improvisation and to pantomime, in which gestures could not alter the fragile and fleeting idea, making poetry easier to comprehend and bridging the gap between the author and his audience, establishing the poet as a worthy citizen again.

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Métamorphoses du poète dans « Le Poète assassiné » d’Apollinaire : Apollon et Orphée, oursin et laurier

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Rousseau G.

Cahiers ERTA

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2023

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issue 34

73-94

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This article focuses on the figure of the poet in Apollinaire’s « Le Poète assassiné ». We try to show the connections that are established between loss and poetic glory. In the tale, the hero, Croniamantal, becomes successively Apollo and Orpheus. As in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he is going to lost his beloved (story of Apollo and Daphne) before being slaughtered (the death of Orpheus). To reach glory, the poet has to sacrifice everything including himself.

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L’absence comme condition de la présence : Albert Samain et le dessaisissement

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Bâcle B.

Cahiers ERTA

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2023

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issue 34

55-72

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Our society’s utilitarian premises imply that only that which can be possessed, mastered and quantified can be said to lead to pleasure and contentment. This article contends that an alternative to this stance, which according to a number of philosophers can lead to ennui and despair, can be found in Albert Samain’s poetical and prose works. Samain’s writings suggest that things acquire more depth and aura once they are lost and poeticised through nostalgia and longing, and thus that absence can make a moment or an experience more present than it was when it was actually happening. And so, in spite of the melancholy which is almost inevitably attached to poetical reveries, the latter are more likely to lead to a certain form of quietude than the mere possession of the thing itself.

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La pondération des mises de des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

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Woodward S.

Quêtes littéraires

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2023

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issue 13

27-37

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Spinoza considers how to even out wagers in a game of chance when the players have uneven means, compared to one another. It has already been observed by critics, that in the novel by Prévost, Manon Lescaut (1731, 1753), the hero and his lover do not play their games in the same manner, either in society or at the gambling house. They also do not weather the same losses. In fact, des Grieux wins even when he no longer cheats. Instead of following the logic of punishments, such as the Christian condemnation of gambling and promiscuity, or Prévost ’s own perspective of the abbot over his tale, it seems more relevant to consider that des Grieux attempts to pursue his case and correct chance to arrive at his desired outcome of earthly pleasure and fulfilment, by legal or illegal means. No matter the exhaustive efforts of des Grieux, their gamble to remain a couple backfires miserably. Manon dies; and he is left to follow the path devised by his family, and a role securing a suitable, comfortable happiness instead of blissful love.

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Spinoza réfléchit à la manière d’égaliser proportionnellement les mises dans un jeu de hasard lorsque les joueurs ont des moyens inégaux les uns par rapport aux autres. Dans Manon Lescaut (1731, 1753), le roman de Prévost, les amants misent différemment lorsqu’ils s’adonnent à des jeux de hasard, ce qui a été observé par la critique, ainsi que le fait que des Grieux triche pour gagner, puis qu ’il continue à gagner y compris lorsqu’il ne triche pas. C ’est que l’équilibre des pertes et des gains ne fonctionne pas de la même façon pour les deux personnages parce qu’il n ’y a pas moyen de rééquilibrer le sort que la société leur réserve. En effet, leur couple n’est pas un pari possible. Au lieu de suivre la logique des conceptions scientifiques, ou chrétiennes du destin, le sort réservé aux diverses castes de la société semble plus pertinent. Malgré les efforts exhaustifs de des Grieux, leur pari de rester en couple se retourne lamentablement contre eux. Manon meurt, et il doit poursuivre sa vie non pas en recherchant la joie et le bonheur, mais en endossant convenablement son rôle dans le cadre qui lui revient de naissance.

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Edmond Rostand ou la communion perdue

Métamorphoses du poète dans « Le Poète assassiné » d’Apollinaire : Apollon et Orphée, oursin et laurier

L’absence comme condition de la présence : Albert Samain et le dessaisissement

La pondération des mises de des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut