Il n'est pas question ici de comparer Thackeray a son grand rival, Dickens. Jacqueline Fromonot situe cette ecriture dans son contexte culturel et social, mais aussi biographique, et elle l'aborde a ...partir d'un large eventail d'approches critiques (rhetorique classique, taxonomie des figures, narratologie structuraliste, modelisation de 1'humour et de 1'ironie, theorie de la reception, pragmatique et philosophic du langage, linguistique) permettant d'en saisir toute la singularite. 2 Thackeray est d'abord une voix tres caracteristique, et la monographic de Jacqueline Fromonot souligne bien cela, puisqu'elle commence par examiner 1'extreme variete des regimes d'adresse, notamment a travers les tons et les postures adoptes. L'hybridite du style thackerayen est, elle aussi, soulignee, a travers 1'etude de la fa^on dont 1'auteur combine discours diegetique et digressions theoriques, dans une ecriture qui oscille entre essai et fiction. L'analyse stylistique realisee dans cette monographic souligne aussi le role important des langues dans 1'ecriture de Thackeray, auteur polyglotte. Nous redecouvrons ainsi sous un jour nouveau Henty Esmond, Pendennis, Vanity Fair, The Book of Snobs et The Newcomes, a travers les « etrangismes » qu'ils contiennent et les fonctions que Thackeray confere a ces elements (emprunts, metissage de la langue, mediation, effets humoristiques plurilangues...) Il y a des passages savoureux sur la locution protocolaire « not at home » dont Tecrivain fait ressortir la verite dans sa dimension d'acte langagier. Il en prolonge et complete les approches originales en proposant une description magistrale du style de Thackeray, de ses effets et de ses enjeux, et ce a travers Tensemble de son oeuvre depuis ses debuts jusqu'aux textes de la maturite et en abordant tous les genres pratiques par Tauteur. AUTEURS NATHALIE VANFASSE AMU REFERENCE Jacqueline Fromonot, Figures de I'instabilité dans I'oeuvre de William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), etudé stylistique.
Hamill has made a name with feminist adaptations of classical novels (Sense and Sensibility 2014, Pride and Prejudice 2017, Little Women 2018) and sees her work as analogous to new play development, ...an active collaboration between herself and the original author. Stone, who has brought her insightful eye to classics since her all-male A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 2010, here offered svelte and impeccably choreographed staging that gave the impression of glitz and sparkle with nary a sequin. See PDF The morals we are meant to draw from Becky and Amelia’s experiences, however, were usually bestowed with more shrug than censure—who among us, the Manager asks at one point, has not ignored the suffering of others if we gain what they have lost at a bargain price?
This article argues that Lord Byron's Don Juan repeatedly references digestion-and failures of digestion-to register the visceral effects of almost twenty years of near-continuous global warfare on ...bodies and especially stomachs. If epic is traditionally understood as a poetic form that aggrandizes and gives coherence to the brutality of war, Don Juan reworks epic as a way of rendering the experience of war poetically undigestible. In doing so, the poem develops a non-reparative poetics of indigestion that represents the violence and trauma of war without attempting to celebrate war or make it easily consumable.
The paper examines different degrees of the subjectivity of speakers who act respectively as a narrator, a character in the story, and the author in narrative fictions. According to the speaker’s ...four different cases of being on stage, off stage, whether serving as a reference point and cross-world identification, eight types of construal configurations of speaker’s subjectivity have been summarized. Findings show that the speaker is characterized to be maximally subjective when he/she is an author, and minimally subjective when he/she is a character in the story. The degree of speaker’s subjectivity is greater outside the story than that inside it, and it is also greater when he/she is being weakly perceived than that being strongly perceived. Overall, each configuration is a particular narrative strategy adopted by the author to achieve certain effects, and these configurations, to some extent, provide some cognitive interpretations for these achieved narrative effects.
A Tale of Two Bureaucracies Jenkin-Smith, Daniel
Nineteenth-century literature,
12/2022, Letnik:
77, Številka:
2-3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Daniel Jenkin-Smith, “A Tale of Two Bureaucracies: The Formal Development of Mid-Nineteenth-Century French and British Office Novels” (pp. 93–123)The history of British and French society over the ...long nineteenth century can be framed as two contrasting histories of bureaucratization. In France, a “rational” body of organizational rules and procedures coalesced quickly around the state, taking their paradigmatic form during the First Republic and Empire (1792–1814) but stagnating thereafter. In Britain, these structures developed piecemeal, and over a longer time, gaining relative coherence by the midcentury. In both cases, however, office work became a major social, ideological, and cultural phenomenon, one that warranted literary portrayal despite its apparent unconduciveness to conventional narrative forms. In this article I illustrate the shifting character of “office novels” within these contexts, and I accordingly operate from both a comparative and a longitudinal perspective: comparing novels from France and Britain produced during the midcentury period (pivotal in the history of bureaucracy and of the novel) that focus on office life. I argue that the changing role of the office career between William Makepeace Thackeray’s abortive office Bildungsroman The History of Samuel Titmarsh (1841) and Anthony Trollope’s The Three Clerks (1858) reflects the reform, saturation, and ideological legitimation of bureaucratic forms in Britain over this period. Meanwhile, the transition from Honoré de Balzac’s highly reflexive satirical novel Les Employés (1844) to Émile Gaboriau’s office-hopping Picaresque Les Gens de Bureau (1862) reflects an increasing jadedness in France about the ability of these structures to change.
In this paper, following a midrange methodology that combines insights from narrative theory with human and machine reading, we gather data from fifty domestic realist novels. We find that while the ...average mid-Victorian family hovered just below six children, the average family in the Victorian novel has 2.8 children, and more than a third are only children. Novelists responded to the demands of the narrative when constructing their sibling sets: certain quantities and gender configurations of siblings are wrought from formal necessity. We identify several patterns stemming from our data in the composition of the novelistic Victorian sibling set, including orphans, heiresses, brother-sister pairings, and the long family as a joke. We find that the Victorian novel's focus on lineage leads novelists to prune the long families of history quite aggressively, representing them vaguely if at all. We conclude by offering our methodology, which relies on a combination of minimal computing and close reading, as an example and provocation to scholars seeking to embark on more empirical projects, and to see familiar texts anew.
Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains ...unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been fully explored. Taking a novel approach, she looks at the film from a transnational perspective -- as a foreign production shot in Ireland and an adaptation of a British novel by an American director about an Irish subject. Pramaggiore argues that, in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick develops his richest philosophical mediation on cinema's capacity to mediate the real and foregrounds film's relationship to other technologies of visuality, including painting, photography, and digital media. By combining extensive research into the film's source novel, production and reception with systematic textual analysis and an engagement with several key issues in contemporary academic debate, this work promises not only to make a huge impact in the field of Kubrick studies, but also in 1970s filmmaking, cultural history and transnational film practice.
McMaster has made an extensive identification and detailed study of the many kinds of allusions to be found in The Newcomes. There are allusions to classical, foreign-language, and English ...literature, as well as to the Bible, fables, theatre, opera, popular songs, nursery rhymes, newspapers, art, English and French history, and the topography of London. These allusions saturate the text of The Newcomes and appeal to several different readerships. McMaster specifies what Thackeray's contemporaries would have recognized and responded to and suggests interactions between the text and its readers.
The fate of Colonel Rawdon Crawley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1848)--sent to govern an obscure colonial outpost, where he dies of yellow fever--is a sad end for one of literature's most committed ...gamesters. The name of his destination, Coventry Island, recalls the idiom 'sent to Coventry'--when a person is ignored or informally exiled by his or her peers, usually for some social blunder--and is typically regarded as a classic Thackerian verbal gambit, denoting Crawley's isolation from English society. However, there is a layer of context to the name and the associated phrase I have not seen raised before. In the first half of the nineteenth century, 'sent to Coventry' was frequently specifically...
