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Oser pleurer
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ISBN: 2226483373 9782226483379 Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris: Albin Michel,

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« Les larmes ne sont pas le seul langage de la perte, du désespoir et du chagrin. Elles sont courageuses, audacieuses car elles nous indiquent que quelque chose doit être changé à quoi il faut consentir. En ce sens elles sont un chemin de liberté bien davantage qu'une voie de résignation. »En interrogeant la signification existentielle des larmes, Guillaume Le Blanc ouvre un champ inédit. Des pleurs solitaires - larmes d'Achille ou de Priam, d'Énée ou d'Antigone, de la sainte Thérèse du Bernin, du marin d'Odessa dans Le Cuirassé Potemkine... - aux larmes solidaires - celles des « folles de la place de Mai », de Greta Thunberg ou du 11 septembre 2001 - il esquisse une métaphysique des larmes à rebours de la fragilité qu'on leur attribue. Non seulement les larmes nous rendent pleinement humains, mais lorsque celles-ci, solitaires, deviennent solidaires, elles apparaissent comme une force politique. En osant pleurer, on ne fait pas que déplorer, on accuse, on réclame justice : un peuple en larmes est un peuple en armes.

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Crying --- Crying --- Crying


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Cue tears : on the act of crying
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ISBN: 0472222139 Year: 2024 Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears are ambiguous: they might signal the most positive and negative of affects; they might present a sincere revelation of self or be simulated to manipulate others. Unsurprisingly, tears figure prominently on stage and on screen, where actors have experimented with the mechanics of making tears. Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying uses tears as a prism through which to see some of the foundational problems and paradoxes of acting and spectatorship anew, including matters of authenticity and sincerity, the ethics of the witness, the interaction between a speech act and its affective force, liveness and documentation. Across seven semi-autonomous essays, Cue Tears looks at the mechanisms of tear production, internal and external techniques that actors use to weep, and the effects of tears in performance situations on the stage, in the gallery, and in the classroom. The writing moves with a light touch between theory and criticism of a broad range of instances from literature, theater, performance art, visual art, and cinema, while also embracing a strong autobiographical and personal slant. Author Daniel Sack's father was a biochemist who studied tears and collected his son's tears for research during his childhood. These "reflex tears" were produced as a physical response to irritation-an eye stretched past the point of blinking, a cotton swab up the nose. This childhood occupation coincided with his first years taking acting classes, trying to learn how to cry "emotional tears" onstage through psychological stimulation and the recollection of memory. Cue Tears investigates these memories and methods, finding that tears both shore up and dissolve distinctions between truth and artifice, emotional and physical, private and public, sad and humorous.

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Crying. --- Tears. --- Acting. --- Sack, Daniel,


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Riso, Pianto, Lacrime : Una Storia Letteraria Delle Emozioni (I).
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ISBN: 9783111359045 3111359042 3111358925 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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Rifacendosi alle Sacre Scritture e alla tradizione antica (Platone, Filebo; Aristotele, Poetica, Retorica), il riso assume nel Medioevo una duplice accezione: condannato dalla tradizione monastica ed evangelica, è, da un lato, un segno diabolico, un demoniaco sghignazzare scomposto, l’interruzione del silenzio contemplativo; dall’altro, assume i tratti del sorriso angelico di Maria, di Beatrice e delle anime del Paradiso dantesco. Successivamente diviene oggetto di riflessioni teoriche e a partire dall’idea aristotelica dell’homo ridens, viene definito “privilegio dell’uomo”, unico “animale risibile” (Leopardi, Elogio degli Uccelli), o “sentimento del contrario” (Pirandello, L’Umorismo). Analogamente evolvono manifestazioni e accezioni del pianto: Dante piange ripetutamente nella Commedia; nelle agiografie medievali e rinascimentali i santi piangono liberando gli occhi dalla cecità spirituale; piangono gli eroi e i cavalieri delle epopee antiche (Iliade ed Odissea), medievali e rinascimentali (Pulci, Morgante; Boiardo, Orlando innamorato; Ariosto, Orlando furioso). Un’intera tradizione, incentrata sul pianto per la perdita di un figlio, si dipana dal Duecento (Jacopone da Todi, Donna de Paradiso) al Novecento (Giosuè Carducci, Pianto antico). Nel corso dei secoli le lacrime (femminili e maschili) assumono diverse accezioni (devozione, compassione, lutto ed eroismo); in tempi più recenti il pianto maschile diviene segno di perdita di virilità. Ricorrente è la compresenza di riso e pianto all’interno della medesima opera. Nel Decameron, il diletto può fornire sollievo e alleviare le angosce e le sofferenze della Firenze colpita dalla peste. Novelle incentrate sulla burla che stimolano il riso si susseguono a Novelle su amori infelici senza lieto fine. Nella lirica di Petrarca e nella tradizione petrarchista il riso e il pianto possono essere considerati come espressioni di strutture affettive antitetiche-paradossali nel contesto del mal d’amore. This opening volume of the Storia letteraria delle emozioni (Literary History of Emotions) studies the evolution of how joy and sadness and the connotations associated with their more explicit, physical manifestations (laughter, tears, crying) have been depicted in Italian literature throughout the centuries, from Dante to Pasolini.

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