Contenu du sommaire : Sciences & savoir dans la littérature américaine au XIXe siècle.
Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
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Numéro | no 71, janvier 1997 |
Titre du numéro | Sciences & savoir dans la littérature américaine au XIXe siècle. |
Texte intégral en ligne | Accessible sur l'internet |
- Avant-propos - Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- Indications bibliographiques - Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Anatomizing America: Science and the Rhetoric of Literary Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century - Mark Niemeyer, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 11 pages Cet article se propose d'analyser les liens établis entre la science et la rhétorique nationaliste littéraire pendant la première moitié du XIXe siècle. La fusion de ces deux domaines encouragea de nombreux écrivains à « anatomiser » leur nouveau pays. Cette tendance, qui eut pour effet de produire des écrits plus "statiques" que des romans de type classique, a également été exploitée à des fins philosophiques par des écrivains de la Renaissance américaine comme Melville, Thoreau et Whitman.
- « Faire parler le silence de la folie » : le projet de Charles Brockden Brown - Marc Amfreville, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 14 pages With the ambition of providing the United States with a national literature moving away from the "Gothic chimeras" of his English contemporaries, C.B. Brown (1771-1810) called upon science, and notably the emerging psychiatric lore, to ensure the verisimilitude of his novels. At a time when Pinel, Tuke and Rush were, according to M. Foucault, "silencing madness" by classifying mental illnesses, Brown let lunatic characters express anguish and fears dangerously akin to those of the typically enlightened and mentally healthy narrators who report them, thus casting a doubt on the very scientific premises he had appeared to rely upon and obliquely questioning the confident optimism of his age.
- L'imagination des savoirs dans l'Eurêka de Poe - Henri Justin, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 13 pages In Eureka, Poe hits on some of the fundamental features of our present view of the universe. In this essay, I investigate the way in which he appropriates the scientific knowledge of his day to elaborate a vision of the cosmos pulsating from and back into "God" or, to our limited reason, "Nothingness." Poe evinces a mixture of expertise, disingenuousness, discernment and rhetoric, but my overall contention is that he was guided by a deep, imaginative sense of man 's paradoxical position as an explorer of his own universe.
- Poe à la croisée des chemins : réalisme et scepticisme - François Brunet, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 7 pages Against the common view of Poe as a romantic occultist, this paper attempts to describe the significance of scientific rationality as a source and model for his short fiction. Through the analysis of "Hans Pfaall", his famous early hoax, we bring to light the problematic of narrative credibility and self-evidentiality, which as J. Irwin has shown, is central to Poe's skeptical imagination. This problematic, which we also relate to the status of written information in the context of Jacksonian democracy, is further evidenced by Poe's deep interest in the invention of photography — a formidable scientific and poetic tool against skepticism.
- Hawthorne au musée : le savoir et la forme de l'oeuvre dans « A Virtuoso's Collection » - Bruno Monfort, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 13 pages This paper explores the textual and narrative strategies devised by Hawthorne to subvert the assumption underlying the conception of the past as an object to be reconstructed by historical knowledge. In a museum historically arranged, the succession of events through time can be duplicated as a succession of objects. Hawthorne 's tale represents the museum as a convenient fallacy, and offers the collection as the more adequate paradigm for the way in which we actually come into contact with the past, through memory and imagination combined. Moreover, the collection provides a pattern after which Hawthorne 's own career as a writer can be conceived.
- Le spleen du maître d'école : Ismaël et le savoir dans Moby-Dick - Anne Wicke, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 12 pages This paper focuses on the highly ambivalent relation that Ishmael-as the narrator of the hunt -maintains with knowledge. This relation seems to be structured around two specific functions : knowledge as an implement of power and as a means of protection or resistance. It will eventually be seen how Ishmael's school-teacher's strategy proves powerless in front of his own Ahabian facet and the fascination for the white whale it entails.
- « A Geometric Joy– » : topologies dickinsoniennes - Antoine Cazé, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 13 pages In the first half of the 19th century, the rapid development of science in its modern form reinforced the belief that the existence of God could be proved. "Natural theology, " as it was then called, was the theoretical framework in which Emily Dickinson was taught science at Amherst College. This article traces the influence of Dickinson's scientific schooling on her poetic use of the concept of "circumference. " By calling into question the dogmatic character of both religion and science through a subversive use of this mathematical notion, Dickinson opposes all forms of centrality and exposes her own, more open conception of the world, which relies on negation and the fluidity of signs. "Circumference" can be viewed as a structuring image of Dickinson's mental universe and it gives shape to her unfinished body of poems.
- ABC of Ezra Pound's Science - Joseph Urbas, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 16 pages Cet article se propose un double but : montrer la grande cohérence de la démarche « scientifique » de Pound - démarche qui, bien plus qu'une simple affaire d'habillage discursif, est au cœur de son art ; et parallèlement, rendre accessible, sous une forme succincte, les idées-force de cette science toute particulière, en d'autres termes faire un travail de vulgarisation que nous assumons comme tel et dont, à travers ses propres écrits, Pound nous démontre à quel point il peut être utile. . .
Hors thème
- L'exil impossible : à propos de « Envy; or, Yiddish in America » de Cynthia Ozick - Josée Antoine, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 10 pages Is translation the necessary compromise and displacement in order to postpone the death of Yiddish, the language spoken by a minority in America ? While posing translation as a form of exile the Yiddish poet cannot elude today, Cynthia Ozick gives evidence that the Jewish writer must acknowledge his position in between and accept the eclipse of his mother tongue, the only way for him to live through his origins and culture.
- L'exil impossible : à propos de « Envy; or, Yiddish in America » de Cynthia Ozick - Josée Antoine, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 10 pages
Comptes rendus
- Daniel Royot. L'humour et la culture américaine - Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Catherine Collomp et Mario Menéndez, dir. Amérique sans frontière. Les États-Unis dans l'espace nord-américain - Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- Christian Lerat et Yves-Charles Grandjeat, dir. Écritures nord-américaines : un singulier pluriel. Fractures/ruptures - Jean Rivière, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- J. D. Stahl. Mark Twain, Culture and Gender - Ginette Castro, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Charles Caramello. Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act - Michel Granger, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- David McWhirter, éd. Henry James's New York Edition - Annick Duperray, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- Jerrold Seigel. The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp. Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modem Culture - Claude Massu, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Tino Balio. Grand Design, Hollywood as a Modem Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 ; Brigitte Gauthier. Histoire du cinéma américain - Jacques Portes, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Paul R. Gorman. Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth Century America - Jacques Portes, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- Thomas F. O'Brien. The Revolutionary Mission : American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 - Serge Ricard, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- John S.D. Eisenhower. Intervention! The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917. 1993. - Serge Ricard, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Michael J. Hogan, éd. America and the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations Since 1941 - Laurent Cesari, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- Robert Buzzanco. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era - Laurent Cesari, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 2 pages
- Igor Maver, éd. Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia - Marta Dvorak, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page
- W. Elliot Brown Lee, ed. Funding the Modem American State, 1941-1995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance - Jean Heffer, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais p. 1 page