The analysis bears on the literary representations of women’s resistance to patriarchal figures, drawing from a wide-ranging corpus. Passive resistance is depicted—and often denounced—in Thackeray and Eliot as a pattern of behaviour imposed by a world that expects women to resist male desire in cour...

Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour

Articles

Jacqueline Fromonot (2010)

Articles

However emphatically Trollope denied the fact himself, it is striking that the characterization of the key character of The Eustace Diamonds, Lizzie Eustace, conjures up Thackeray’s fictional creature, Becky Sharp, the heroine of Vanity Fair, who appeared on the literary scene some twenty-five years...

Bibliographie

Bibliographies

Laurent Bury (2010)

Bibliographies

SOURCES PRIMAIRESBurton Richard Francis, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Londres, H. S. Nichols, 1894.Byron George Gordon, lord, Don Juan, Harmonsdworth, Penguin, 1973, traduction française de Laurent Bury et Marc Porée, Gallimard, coll. « Folio », 2006.Cunningham Allan, The Life of S...

Negative spaces: Levels of negation and kinds of spaces

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Eve Sweetser (2006)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Mental spaces theory offers useful tools for handling long-observed facts about negation, such as the evocation of the corresponding positive situation and its participants: negative sentences regularly bring up one more space than positives. The mental-space construction possibilities become even m...