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Flight has always fascinated human minds, but until a century ago it remained a dream& the exclusive domain of birds, gods, and mythological heroes. From the myths of the ancients to the poetry of Pindar and Yeats, 'Winged Words' traces the imprint of the human impulse to fly from premodern times to the age of terrorism in both literature and history. Piero Boitani begins his analysis with an account of the way the myths of Pegasus and Icarus have persisted from classical to twentieth-century politics and literature. He then takes up the figure of Hermes; the roles of halcyons and eagles in classical, biblical, and later literatures; and literary response to Pieter Brueghel's 'The Fall of Icarus'. Honing in on modern figures and concerns, Boitani also offers a fascinating discussion of author-pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupe;ry and concludes with a meditation on the flight of the hijacked airliners on 9/11. Throughout, 'Winged Word' brings a remarkable range of men of action, politicians, theologians, writers, and artists into dialogue with each other: Shakespeare with T. S. Eliot, Horace with Ovid, Leonardo with Milton, Leopardi with Mallarme;, Saint-Exupe;ry with Faulkner and Rilke, and the Ulysses of Homer with the Ulysses of Dante. Ultimately, by showing how writers and fliers have looked to the ancients for inspiration, Boitani testifies to the modern relevance of poetry and the classics.' '

Flight in literature. --- Flight.

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Prix de Thèse 2010 de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. Voyageurs en songe ou en extase, explorateurs de lunes et de paradis, curieux portés par les ailes de l'esprit, sorcières et démons voyageurs, chevaliers parcourant le monde à bord d’hippopotames volants... La Renaissance est riche en récits et rêveries d’envol, comme le montre cette «pré-histoire» inédite du voyage aérien, qui s’achève (et non débute) avec les fictions lunaires du premier XVIIe siècle. Accordant une large place aux héritages antiques et médiévaux, l’étude explore le champ de la fiction narrative française et européenne ainsi que celui des discours savants abordant la question du vol et de l’élévation (cosmographie, astronomie, magie, démonologie, etc.). Ainsi se révèle, dans ce dialogue entre littérature et savoirs, la vigueur de l’imaginaire du vol à la Renaissance et la richesse des récits d’élévation, ces fictions du décentrement par excellence, qui permettent de dominer la Terre du regard comme d’imaginer des mondes «excentriques». Fables superlatives, les récits de voyages aériens invitent également à interroger les conceptions renaissantes de la fiction romanesque et du vraisemblable, dont ils constituent un cas privilégié de la mise à l’épreuve.

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