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Académie française. --- French language --- Protest literature, French --- Rare books --- Académie française --- Français (Langue) --- Littérature contestataire française --- Livres rares

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Écrivains improvisés promis à un oubli immédiat, jeunes débutants à l'avenir brillant ou plumes rôdées ayant déjà fait leurs preuves dans les revues qui comptent, prêtées un moment à la cause de la révolution sociale ; polygraphes frénétiques, paisibles philosophes entichés de fiction et marginaux colériques avec des comptes à régler ; idéalistes purs confiants dans la bonté fondamentale de la nature humaine et propagandistes désabusés persuadés qu'il n'est guère besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre. Ils se retrouvent tous sur les pages des myriades de feuilles militantes produites par le mouvement anarchiste à cheval entre le dix-neuvième et le vingtième siècle, et ils contribuent à former un ensemble bigarré où tous les styles et tous les genres sont appelés à hâter la venue prochaine du « grand soir » de la révolution sociale. Symbolisme, naturalisme, réalisme neutre et distant, ou alors misérabilisme populaire et appel sentimental aux pulsions profondes du cœur humain : la littérature sous tous ses aspects se prête à la mise en forme du message libertaire à travers une floraison de textes, des plus naïfs aux plus élaborés, épicés de mélancolie, d'indignation, de rage parfois, mais aussi souvent imbus de sarcasme vengeur ou d'un humour rafraîchissant.

Protest literature, French --- Anarchism --- French fiction --- Short stories, French. --- French protest literature --- 20th century --- Selected anthology --- French short stories --- Anarchism and anarchists --- Anarchy --- Government, Resistance to --- Libertarianism --- Nihilism --- Socialism --- French literature --- Anarchism - France

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"Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the "war of words" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the Sun King's bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This book investigates how, at a crucial moment in which politics was enacted through praise literature and the spectacle of court ceremony, pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy's monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the Crown legitimized its authority at home and abroad. In this volume, Kathrina LaPorta offers a new conceptual framework for reading pamphlets as political interventions. Rather than viewing these polemical works as windows into the past, LaPorta asserts that an analysis of the pamphlet's form is crucial to understanding how pamphleteers actively dialogued with the literary field to invest readers in political dissent. Even as pamphlets spread sedition, their authors seduced readers by capitalizing on existing markets in literature, legal writing, and journalism. Pamphlet writers appealed to the theatergoing public that would have been attending plays by Molière and Racine, as well as to readers of historical novels and periodicals. Whether they appropriated juridical language to indict absolutism, or usurped Louis XIV's voice in fictive narratives mocking his impotence, pamphleteers entertained readers as they revealed the fault lines in the absolutist enterprise. In examining the endlessly creative ways in which pamphlets attacked the performative circuitry behind the curtain of monarchy, LaPorta offers a richer picture of the intersections between seventeenth-century literary culture and the clandestine world of pamphleteering"--

Protest literature, French --- History and criticism. --- French protest literature --- French literature --- Pamphlets --- Pamphleteers --- Politics and literature --- Polemics in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Authors --- Journalists --- Booklets --- Leaflets --- Street literature --- Vertical files (Libraries) --- Political aspects --- Authorship --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699