ISBN : 9782070112708 1 Dans le sillage des grands explorateurs, Robert Louis Stevenson succombe à son tour à Pappel des îles lorsqu'en 1887 il quitte son Écosse natale et, après un court séjour ...américain, s'en va sillonner les mers du Sud dans l'espoir d'y trouver un climat plus clément pour sa santé fragile, et plus propice à l'écriture. L'introduction s'achève par une évocation des « sillages » de Stevenson, ou des nombreux auteurs qui se lanceront sur ses traces et revendiqueront son influence sur eux, malgré la réception parfois négative que lui réservera la critique, jusqu'à ce que soit plus récemment redécouvert son art de la fiction. 4 Le volume s'ouvre ensuite sur la traduction de Veillées des îles par Mathieu Duplay, remarquable par son effort de précision dans la retranscription du contexte socioculturel polynésien, à travers un apparat critique très détaillé. Outre cette précision linguistique et scientifique, cette belle traduction s'efforce également de rendre justice à la poésie de la langue stevensonienne, comme en témoigne le premier paragraphe de La Plage de Falesa, particulièrement réussi en la matière : « Quand l'île m'apparut pour la première fois, ce n'était ni la nuit ni l'aube. En outre, on regrette que l'apparat critique n'explique par certaines références culturelles et préfère avoir recours à des équivalences plus ou moins proches de l'original : le capitaine traite par exemple son équipage de « F.F.V.'s3 » en anglais, ce qui signifie « flying fish voyager », un terme péjoratif faisant référence aux marins capables de naviguer uniquement dans des conditions favorables, comme l'explique Roslyn Jolly dans son édition des South Sea Tales4.
The Proper Pirate: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Quest for Identity explores the nineteenth-century author Robert Louis Stevenson’s psychological journey from a constricted and religious family of ...Scottish engineers to a life of imagination and adventure that culminated in the South Seas island of Samoa. Drawing on contemporary theories of identity development, the author traces how Stevenson overcame Victorian dualities of piety versus passion in his personal life and artistic works, gradually edging toward a more modernist and complicated moral vision. This first full-length psychobiographical analysis of Stevenson follows the trajectory of his life, while highlighting how key memories and conflicts within his personality shaped the narrative structure and themes of his most celebrated works, Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. Stevenson’s relationships to his parents, wife, Fanny, and circle of intimate friends also play a prominent role in this investigation of his emerging identity and artistic work. Drawing on Stevenson’s extensive volumes of correspondence, personal memoirs, essays, novels, stories, and poems, as well as historical documents, multiple biographies, and critical studies, the author uses his background as a clinical psychologist and researcher in personality science to provide new insights into Stevenson’s psychological development. In doing so, he helps to unlock the mystery of how a sickly youth confined to the “land of the counterpane” grew up to become the author of some of the world’s most beloved and enduring works of adventure and fantasy.
European Stevenson Ambrosini, Richard; Dury, Richard
2009., 2009, 2009-10-02
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Edinburgh, late 1860s. Two young gentlemen, two cousins, their heads buzzing with ideas and artistic ambitions (one dreaming of becoming a painter, the other a writer), hang over North Bridge ...watching the trains start southward and longing to start too, the Walter Scott Monument a short way behind them, but their eyes fixed on the tracks leading Southnot just to London, but also, and especially, to Paris. In their Introduction the editors of this volume see this scene with his painter co.
This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts.
The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and ...generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the colonial world, and the emergence of modernism in prose and poetry. Through the pivotal figure of Stevenson, the collection explores how literary publishing and cultural life changed across the second half of the nineteenth century. Stevenson emerges as a complex writer, author both of hugely popular boys' stories and of seminally important adult novels, as well as the literary figure who debated with Henry James the theory of fiction and the nature of realism.
The collection shows how interest in the unconscious and changes in the conception of childhood demand that we re-evaluate our ideas of his writing. Individual essays by international experts trace Stevenson' literary contexts from Scotland to the South Pacific, and show him to be one of the key writers for understanding the growing sense of globalisation and cultural heterogeneity in the late nineteenth century.
Key Features
Sets Stevenson in his literary, scientific and political contextsCovers a broad range of Stevenson's fiction and non-fictionWritten by a team of international scholarsIncludes an authoritative introduction and select bibliography
Correspondence to Dr. Christy DiFrances Remein, Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20037, USA; cdremein@gwu.edu Growing up in the raw ...climate of 19th-century Edinburgh, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894, figure 1) was by his own admission a sickly child. ...the narrator demonstrates an ability to experience delight through what Ann C. Colley calls “a certain elasticity of perception that is such an integral part of childhood”.7 “The Land of Nod” elaborates on the motif of therapeutic adventuring, presenting a navigation of the child’s psyche through a description of nighttime journeys into a fantastic world. ...the narrator’s desire for movement ought not to be perceived as unrealistic: I should like to rise and go where the golden apples grow.2 Although from a strictly physical perspective, of course, such a trip sounds impossible, figuratively speaking this child can alter the activity of climbing a nearby tree into an opportunity to traverse geographic boundaries: I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.
