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Le personnage d'Amphitryon, notait déjà Pierre Bayle dans son Dictionnaire historique et critique, « est moins connu par ses exploits, que par l'aventure d'Alcmène sa femme, qui a servi de sujet aux Poètes comiques ». Ces derniers ont en effet consacré la gloire théâtrale d'un homme fait cocu par Jupiter pour que soit engendré Hercule – cocuage ignoré de l'épouse elle-même, puisque le dieu y prenait le visage d'Amphitryon. À partir de Molière, les enjeux philosophiques, socio-politiques et métaphysiques de cette fable ont connu des évolutions importantes malgré la relative stabilité des invariants mytho-dramatiques pendant la période considérée. Cette étude comparatiste propose de suivre le processus de transformation de quelques scènes clés (le récit de bataille fait par Sosie, la naissance du héros, la production de preuves et de témoins, la quête de vérité des personnages…) ; elle interroge ce faisant les rapports entre la problématique identitaire qui se noue autour de la confrontation des doubles et la dimension métathéâtrale de ce mythe toujours productif.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Molière --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Kleist, von, Heinrich --- Dryden, John --- Rotrou, de, Jean --- Amphitryon (Greek mythology) in literature --- Themes, motives --- Amphitryon (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Comparative literature - Themes, motives --- réécriture --- identité --- double --- théâtre --- Amphitryon --- mythocritique --- Amphitryon (Greek mythology)--in literature.
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Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media.
Car-chase films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Plots, themes, etc. --- History. --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture plots --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Film genres --- Car-crash films --- Crash-and-wreck films --- Themes, motives --- History and criticism --- Performing Arts --- Film --- History & Criticism
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Alfred Hitchcock's films are renowned the world over, and a mountain of literature has detailed seemingly every facet of them. Yet remarkably few studies have solely focused on the recurring motifs in Hitchcock's films. Michael Walker remedies this surprising gap in Hitchcock literature with an innovative and in-depth study of the sustained motifs and themes threaded through Hitchcock's entire body of work. Combing through all fifty-two extant feature films and representative episodes from Hitchcock's television series, Walker traces over forty motifs that emerge in recurring objects, settings, character-types, and events. Whether the loaded meaning of staircases, the symbolic status of keys and handbags, homoeroticism, guilt and confession, or the role of art, Walker analyzes such elements to reveal a complex web of cross-references in Hitchcock's art. He also gives full attention to the broader social contexts in which the motifs and themes are played out, arguing that these interwoven elements add new and richer depths to Hitchcock's oeuvre. An invaluable, encyclopedic resource for the scholar and fan, Hitchcock's Motifs is a fascinating study of one of the best-known and most admired film directors in history.
Hitchcock, Alfred --- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph --- Themes, motives --- Hitchcock, Alfred. --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Hitchcock, Alfred, --- Themes, motives. --- Chitskok, Alphrent, --- Hīchakāk, Al-Frad , --- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph, --- Hsi-chʻü-kʻao-kʻo, --- היצ'קוק, אלפרד, --- هيچکاک، الفرد، --- Motion pictures --- PERFORMING ARTS / General. --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture plots --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Film genres --- Hitchcok, Alfred --- Film, TV & radio --- Individual film directors, film-makers --- motion pictures --- film
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Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"—writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal—not like the animal, in imitation of the animal—but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.
Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Literature and science. --- Art, Modern --- Mimesis in literature. --- Animals in literature. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Human beings --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Modern --- Animal nature. --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Hemingway, Ernest, --- Lawrence, D. H. --- Ernst, Max, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Kafka, Franz, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Animal nature of human beings --- Philosophical anthropology --- Symbolism --- God --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Modernism (Art) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists) --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Corporeality --- Literature: history & criticism
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