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Issu d'un projet pluridisciplinaire mené par les membres de l'équipe CLARESS du laboratoire POLEN, ce volume rassemble les contributions d'historiens, de littéraires et d'historiens de l'art qui, par le biais d'une approche globale, saisissent l'anecdote à l'époque moderne, comme forme littéraire et pratique sociale. Cet ouvrage part du constat de la présence de l'anecdote dans une pluralité de genres et de domaines (l'écriture historique et celle des mémoires, les textes judiciaires, les écrits de polémique, les traités d'éducation, les sermons, les correspondances, les récits de voyages, la presse). Quatre axes organisent la réflexion. Les deux premiers concernent la place de l'anecdote dans la biographie. Loin d'être seulement un élément de divertissement, elle est une composante essentielle du récit et contribue à replacer l'individu dans une figure type. En outre elle apparaît, et c'est la troisième approche, comme constitutive de systèmes de valeurs. Cette problématique est traitée ici au travers des exemples de l'éthique et du politique. Se posant comme exemple incarné, l'anecdote vise à asseoir une morale. Dans le domaine politique, elle contribue à la construction d'une rhétorique spécifique qui permet d'aborder des idées plus générales. Cet aspect ouvre sur une problématique de la circulation, des sociabilités et des usages de l'anecdote entre des genres différents, entre des espaces géographiques, entre des versions successives d'un même texte. Elle suppose des connivences entre les adeptes. Ce faisant, elle apparaît, dans l'optique pluridisciplinaire choisie, non seulement comme une forme littéraire, mais aussi comme un observatoire des évolutions sociales, culturelles et intellectuelles de l'époque moderne.

Literary Theory & Criticism --- Literature, Romance --- anecdote --- biographie --- mémoires --- conte

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Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you ought to leave your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.

Saxophonists --- Jazz musicians --- Gordon, Dexter, --- anecdote. --- celebrated trumpet genius. --- colorful life. --- cool jazzman. --- copenhagen. --- creative outsider. --- dexter gordon. --- dizzy gillespie. --- father. --- humor and wisdom. --- husband. --- iconic. --- innovator of modern jazz. --- jazz composition. --- jazz lore. --- jazz music. --- legacy. --- legendary times. --- multidimensional man. --- personal letters. --- research. --- son. --- tenor saxophone. --- world citizen.

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Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to "pass," to be seen as a member of a group with which they want to or need to identify. Gilman begins by addressing basic questions about the history of aesthetic surgery. What surgical procedures have been performed? Which are considered aesthetic and why? Who are the patients? What is the place of aesthetic surgery in modern culture? He then turns his attention to that focus of countless human anxieties: the nose. Gilman discusses how people have reshaped their noses to repair the ravages of war and disease (principally syphilis), to match prevailing ideas of beauty, and to avoid association with negative images of the "Jew," the "Irish," the "Oriental," or the "Black." He examines how we have used aesthetic surgery on almost every conceivable part of the body to try to pass as younger, stronger, thinner, and more erotic. Gilman also explores some of the extremes of surgery as personal transformation, discussing transgender surgery, adult circumcision and foreskin restoration, the enhancement of dueling scars, and even a performance artist who had herself altered to resemble the Mona Lisa. The book draws on an extraordinary range of sources. Gilman is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Darwin as he is grisly medical details, Michael Jackson, and Barbra Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. The book contains dozens of arresting images of people before, during, and after surgery. This is a profound, provocative, and engaging study of how humans have sought to change their lives by transforming their bodies.

Body image --- Surgery, Plastic --- Social aspects. --- Complications. --- Complications and sequelae --- Admiration. --- Aesthetics. --- African Americans. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anesthesia. --- Antiseptic. --- Attractiveness. --- Ayurveda. --- Beauty. --- Body image. --- Bra size. --- Brachioplasty. --- Breast. --- Buttock augmentation. --- Buttocks. --- Caricature. --- Cartilage. --- Centrality. --- Cheek. --- Chin augmentation. --- Cleanliness. --- Clothespin. --- Clothing. --- Cosmetics. --- Credential. --- Credentialing. --- Cultural capital. --- Culture of India. --- Direct experience. --- Disease. --- Earlobe. --- Efficacy. --- Eloquence. --- Enthusiasm. --- Evocation. --- Excess skin. --- Face powder. --- Face. --- Family income. --- Female. --- Foreskin restoration. --- Foreskin. --- Granulation tissue. --- Greatness. --- Hair transplantation. --- Hairstyle. --- Health professional. --- High Art. --- High Renaissance. --- Human nose. --- Human physical appearance. --- Human skin color. --- Human spirit. --- Human tooth. --- Humanism. --- Humorism. --- Humour. --- Hygiene. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Idealization. --- Invention. --- Keloid. --- Kiss. --- Lighting. --- Local anesthesia. --- Lorenz Oken. --- Middle class. --- Modernity. --- Moral imperative. --- Narrative. --- Parody. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Penis. --- Physical attractiveness. --- Physician. --- Plastic surgery. --- Popularity. --- Positive liberty. --- Projective identification. --- Real Body. --- Recreation. --- Scalp. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-consciousness. --- Sensibility. --- Seriousness. --- Sincerity. --- Social order. --- Social reality. --- Social status. --- Sophistication. --- Superficiality. --- Swaddling. --- Syphilis. --- The Human Face. --- The Mask. --- Theory of justification. --- Thigh. --- Understanding.

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Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from "On Anger," presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. It vividly illustrates why the emotion is so dangerous and why controlling it would bring vast benefits to individuals and society.Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.Seneca's thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, readers will find, in Seneca's wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.

Anger --- 80s BC. --- Aeneid. --- Agrippina the Elder. --- Analogy. --- Ancient art. --- Anecdote. --- Assassination. --- Astyages. --- Awareness. --- Bassus. --- Blacklisting. --- Cato the Younger. --- Clothing. --- Correction (novel). --- Courtesy. --- Cruelty. --- Cyrus the Great. --- De Beneficiis. --- De Ira. --- Death of Alexander the Great. --- Decorum. --- Democritus. --- Denarius. --- Despotism. --- Diction. --- Diogenes of Babylon. --- Eloquence. --- Epic poetry. --- Epictetus. --- Eunuch. --- Fiction. --- Flattery. --- Foe (novel). --- Forehead. --- Freedman. --- Gaius Caesar. --- Gauls. --- Harpagus. --- Herodotus. --- Histories (Herodotus). --- Iliad. --- Introspection. --- Laughter. --- Law court (ancient Athens). --- Livy. --- Marcus Caelius Rufus. --- Metaphor. --- Michel Foucault. --- Nickname. --- Odysseus. --- Otium. --- Paragraph. --- Parricide. --- Philosopher. --- Poetry. --- Practical Ethics. --- Pretext. --- Pricking. --- Pro Caelio. --- Proconsul. --- Proscription. --- Result. --- Roman Senate. --- Sarcasm. --- Self-control. --- Seneca the Younger. --- Sexism. --- Sextus (praenomen). --- Silver coin. --- Stoicism. --- Sulla. --- Sybaris. --- The Persians. --- Theft. --- Thought. --- Thyestes. --- Torture. --- Tragedy. --- Treatise. --- Trojan War. --- Virgil. --- War of succession. --- Wildness. --- Writer. --- Writing style. --- Writing.

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"This book describes the social life of five material things found in the streets and public spaces of New York City and its suburbs. In urban environments, objects-designed and built by other humans-surround us at all times and typically occupy our field of vision. These objects, Mike Owen Benediktsson writes, have ideas about us-for example, the chair in which you sit has assumptions about your height and weight, the length of your legs, and the width of your torso, as well as ideas about how you should sit. In this book, each of the five artifacts explored - a lawn, a wall, a chair, a door, and a kiosk - has a story to tell about the social and economic changes sweeping through New York City and its environs. Each of these stories illustrates an important but widely unappreciated fact of urban life - that the ordinary objects and spaces of the city are a primary point of contact with the broader social and political currents that swirl around us. A newly built lawn on the Brooklyn waterfront reflects an increasingly common trade-off between public goods and market forces. A low cement wall on a divided highway in New Jersey speaks of escalating suburban poverty and the demise of the post-war American dream. A metal folding chair on a patch of asphalt in Queens illustrates the political obstacles that face attempts to make the city more liveable and environmentally sustainable. Drawing from these and other examples, Benediktsson argues that our social lives occurs "in the midst of things" in two respects: we are, quite literally, surrounded by objects that constrain and shape our experience; and, through this experience, we come into direct contact with a much larger set of "things" - ideas, laws, markets, policies, etc. - that together constitute the broader ongoing narrative of urban change"--

Sociology, Urban --- Sociology, Urban. --- Accessibility. --- Actuator. --- Adaptation. --- Affordance. --- Agency (philosophy). --- Aisle. --- Amplitude. --- Anecdote. --- Ask price. --- Behavior modification. --- Behavior. --- Bottle. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Costumed character. --- Counterweight. --- Customer. --- Design. --- Designer. --- Desire. --- Door. --- Effectiveness. --- Elitism. --- Emerging technologies. --- Emotion. --- Entitlement. --- Entryway. --- Etiquette. --- Exchange of information. --- Explanation. --- Functional requirement. --- Funding. --- Gathering place. --- Government agency. --- Human Action. --- Human behavior. --- Human body. --- Hurrying. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- Inference. --- Infrastructure. --- Ingredient. --- Institution. --- Interaction. --- Interconnection. --- Interpersonal relationship. --- Irony. --- Jargon. --- Leeway. --- Lobbying. --- Make A Difference. --- Marketing. --- Metropolitan area. --- Morality. --- Motor vehicle. --- Negotiation. --- Obstacle. --- Of Human Action. --- Organization. --- Outreach. --- Ownership. --- Parameter. --- Pedestrian. --- Personalization. --- Planning. --- Point of sale. --- Project. --- Public infrastructure. --- Public space. --- Quantity. --- Recreation. --- Regimen. --- Reinforcement. --- Result. --- Saleh. --- Schematic. --- Self-image. --- Shortage. --- Sightline. --- Signage. --- Simulacrum. --- Social cognition. --- Social space. --- Social structure. --- Society. --- Supply chain. --- Supporter. --- Target audience. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- Theory. --- Trade-off. --- Transaction cost. --- Trapping. --- Travel. --- Use value. --- Vendor.