André Gide, Ernst Robert Curtius. Correspondence (1920–1950). Edited by Peter Schnyder and Juliette Solvès, Paris, Classiques Garnier, ‘Bibliothèque gidienne’, 2019. ISBN: 9782406093176

About the book
This volume rightfully takes its place among the correspondence of great men of letters. The famous French Nobel laureate André Gide (1869–1951) and the German Romanist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), a complex figure of rare erudition, began a correspondence in 1920 covering a wide range of subjects: literature and writing, of course, but also the turbulent relations between their respective countries, having barely emerged from the First World War, the political and cultural debate in general, and translation. The subtlety of both men’s critical analyses here attains a quality and depth that fuel rich and fascinating exchanges, spanning thirty years.

Peter Schnyder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haute-Alsace and a member of the ILLE. The author of various works on French and Francophone poetry, as well as on André Gide, he has edited, with Robert Kopp, *Gide, Copeau, Schlumberger. L’art de la mise en scène* and, with Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, *Vertiges de la vitesse*.

Juliette Solvès is a publisher, visual artist and co-editor of the Catalogue raisonné of Maurice Denis’s paintings. In collaboration with Peter Schnyder, she has published the Correspondence between André Gide and Maria van Rysselberghe, as well as an anthology of André Gide’s Journal.

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Die sozialwissenschaftlichen Förderprogramme der Rockefeller-Stiftungen in Deutschland

Kann sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Probleme beitragen? Unter dieser Fragestellung entwickelte eine der Stiftungen der Rockefeller Familie Anfang der 1920er-Jahre ein groß angelegtes finanzielles Unterstützungsprogramm für die amerikanischen und europäischen Sozialwissenschaften. Die Arbeit untersucht die Einbindung Deutschlands in dieses transatlantische Netzwerk wissenschaftlicher und persönlicher Beziehungen. Die Finanzierung von Forschungsprogrammen und die Entsendung von Stipendiaten führten zu einer engen, aber nicht immer einfache Zusammenarbeit deutscher und amerikanischer Verhandlungspartner. Eine Gegenüberstellung u.a. der Quellenbestände des Rockefeller Archive Center mit den umfangreichen Unterlagen des deutschen Verwalters der Programme, August Wilhelm Fehling, ermöglicht den Zugang zu einer verflochtenen Geschichte (« histoire croisée ») der Austauschbeziehungen und der aus ihnen resultierenden individuellen und kollektiven Erfahrungen.

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Youssef Chahine, a gifted writer, was at once an exceptionally brilliant filmmaker, a profoundly talented theatre director, and a film professor and teacher of distinguished renown. He left behind a vast body of film work, a monumental body of work, marked by a dynamic career spanning from 1950 to 2008. The aesthetic of his films gives him a special, if not privileged, place. His work is both subtle and metaphorical. It reveals his vision of the cultural and political world and, at times, offers autobiographical insights. His love, his disillusionments and his hopes run through his rich and flourishing body of work. The depth and passion of this work have earned him accolades at prestigious festivals such as Cannes. It is optimistic and carries a ‘moral’ message. It moves away from the usual clichés of trashy, entertainment-focused cinema, and above all from the commercial Egyptian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, which dealt with social issues in the form of melodramas that owed their success solely to legendary singers. Her films address, among other things, the struggles of the people, but also subtly raise the question of otherness in a chaotic world, undermined on all sides.

The films selected and/or analysed in this book reveal the author’s genius and bear witness to the filmmaker’s near-perfect mastery of the mechanics of cinema and screenwriting.

Youssef Chahine is, without a doubt, the creator of a comprehensive, mature and profound body of work, as recognised by his peers.

Hadj DAHMANE is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Haute-Alsace, formerly an associate professor at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain. His research focuses primarily on theatre, the subject of his numerous publications. He is particularly interested in intercultural communication. Furthermore, he is in charge of a course on visual and sound anthropology, which is also open to the public outside the university.

Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies/Judéité et Comparatisme Danielle Buschinger et Roy Rosenstein (éds.), Amiens, Presses du “Centre d’Études Médiévales de Picardie”, 2019. ISBN 978-2-901121-78-7

Études offertes à Astrid Starck-Adler par ses collègues et amis à l’occasion de son soixante-quinzième anniversaire.

Comité scientifique :
Danielle Buschinger (UPJV-Amiens), Bruno Dagens (Paris III), Anne Berthelot (Storrs, USA), Marie-Geneviève Grossel (Valenciennes), Till Kuhnle (Limoges), Guy Borgnet (Dijon), Martine Marzloff (ENS Lyon), Mathieu Olivier (Toulon), Florent Gabaude (Limoges), Earl Jeffrey Richards (Wuppertal), Roy Rosenstein (The American University of Paris), Isabelle Weill (Paris-X-Ouest-Nanterre).

Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies/Judéité et comparatisme honors Astrid Starck-Adler on her seventy-fifth birthday. This collection brings together leading scholars in the two fields favored by her in her long career. These are Jewish identity(languages, literatures, and cultures) and comparative studies (relations between cultures, literatures, and languages, whether Jewish or not). Among topics addressed are Jewish languages and cultures (Yiddish, Hebrew, Judezmo, Shuadit, Italkian), linguistics and literatures of other languages, fine arts and music, history and philosophy, with, in appendix, several new historical documents.

Véronique Lochert, Marc Vuillermoz, Enrica Zanin (eds.), Theatre Reflected in Languages: France, Italy, Spain, 16th–17th Centuries, Geneva, Droz, ‘Travaux du Grand Siècle’, 2018.

Theatre in the Mirror of Languages explores key theatrical concepts through a lexicological study focusing on three geolinguistic areas: France, Spain and Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. Divided into eight chapters (Theatrical Genres, Paratexts, Dramaturgy, Characters, Aesthetic Concepts, Trades and Techniques, Theatrical Venues, Reception), the book offers a comparative study of the essential components of theatre based on how they are designated in the three languages. Drawing on a vast corpus of plays, prefaces and treatises, these analyses enable us both to identify correspondences and common practices across countries and to highlight national specificities. This book was produced as part of the ANR project ‘IdT – Les idées du théâtre’.

This book examines reported speech in the so-called news press, adopting a comparative perspective (French and Polish) that takes a broad view of the subject (similarities and differences). The study will be of interest to a wide range of specialists working in the broad field of language sciences, although it is primarily aimed at discourse analysts.

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Aude Lehmann (ed.), Diderot and Classical Antiquity, Paris, Classiques Garnier, ‘Rencontres’ series, no. 354, August 2018.

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Publication type: Collective work

Editor: Lehmann (Aude)
Contributors: André (Jean-Marie), Assembe Ela (Charles Philippe), Bedon (Robert), Bocage-Lefèbvre (Dominique), Calboli (Gualtiero), Felopoulou (Sophia), Gautherie (Aurélien), Gianico (Marilina), Hammann (Christine), Landolsi (Houda), Lehmann (Aude), Merckel (Cécile), Neumuller (Nadège), Pérez (Valérie), Saint Martin (Marie), Smoliarova (Tatiana), Zagdoun (Mary-Anne)

Abstract: Linking Diderot, champion of modernity, with classical antiquity is something of a paradox. Nevertheless, one cannot help but note the omnipresence of ancient authors in the work of the Langrois native, as well as his familiarity with the foundational texts of the Greco-Roman world.

Number of pages: 388
ISBN: 978-2-406-07325-3
ISSN: 2103-5636
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07327-7
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Collection / Journal: Rencontres, no. 354
Series: Le dix-huitième siècle, no. 27
Publication date: 08/08/2018
Year of publication: 2018
Languages: French
Keywords: Antiquity, philosophy, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, painting, art, encyclopaedia, Enlightenment

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Kurzinhalt : 

B. Dieterle : Traumgedichte, träumerische Gedichte und Gedichte über Träume – H.-W. Schmidt- Hannisa : Zur Affinität von Traum und Lyrik – S. Schulze : „Im Traume-Nebel liegt die Wahrheit doch verborgen“. Zum Traumdiskurs im barocken Liebesgedicht – S. Blum : Weltflucht, Witz und erotische Wunscherfüllung im anakreontischen Traumgedicht. Ein Traum von Johann Peter Uz – H.-W. Schmidt- Hannisa : Vom Dichten träumen, vom Träumen dichten. Zu einem Gedicht Karl Siegmund Freiherr von Seckendorfs – C. Steinhoff : „Drum leb’ ich, ewig Träume zu betrachten“. Karoline von Günderrodes Der Kuß im Träume – C. Ilbrig : „Menschenkindermärchen“. Traum und Wirklichkeit in Clemens Brentanos Gedicht Wenn der lahme Weber träumt… – C. Ulrich : Das Verhältnis von Traum und Dichtung in Hugo von Hofmannsthals Gedichte in Terzinen – B. Moennighoff : Der Traum des Satirikers. Das Gedicht Traum vom Fliegen von Karl Kraus – T. Pusse : Insomnia, Vorschlaf, utopischer Schlaf. Dämmerzustände in Rainer Maria Rilkes später Lyrik – R. Neubauer-Petzoldt : „Alles, was geschieht, geht dich an“ : Günter Eichs Träume – N. Shchyhlevska : „Im Traum erscheinen wir euch wieder“. Traum, Transzendenz und Totenreich bei Alfred Gong – J. Ludwig: Das poetische Niveau der Träume. Heiner Müllers Gedicht Traumwald – B. Dieterle : Durs Grünbeins Traumschulung. 
Die Herausgeber Bernard Dieterle ist Professor für Germanistik an der Université de Haute-Alsace. Er ist Mitbegründer des ICLA-Research Committee Cultural and Literary History of the Dream. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa studierte Germanistik und Philosophie in Freiburg i. Br. und Bamberg. Er ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Germanistik an der National University of Ireland, Galway. Er ist Mitbegründer des internationalen Network of Cultural Dream Studies.

Hervé Guibert, a writer, photographer and video artist who made his life (and his death from AIDS in 1991) the subject of his books, aroused a rare fascination during his lifetime. Thirty years after his death, this fascination endures, and Arnaud Genon, a specialist in this extraordinary writer, offers us here a fresh perspective on his work.

Haunted by this seductive and subversive figure, the researcher wrote a letter to 24 of Hervé Guibert’s close friends and admirers (his wife, one of his lovers, and some of his friends). In his letters, he explains his approach and asks each of them specific questions. All of them responded in a personal manner and in their own unique style, bringing to light a kaleidoscopic portrait of an author and a body of work unlike any other, whilst simultaneously providing previously unpublished sources for Guibertian studies.

It is therefore with curiosity, and at times emotion, that we enter the world of Hervé Guibert through the original texts by Christine Guibert, Philippe Mezescaze, Claire Legendre, Bernard Faucon, Laurent Herrou, Arthur Dreyfus, René de Ceccatty, Christophe Donner, Brigitte Ollier, Claire Devarrieux and many others.

In a notebook entitled Souvenirs de lecture, Jeanne, Marcel Proust’s mother, jotted down reflections, maxims and quotations worthy of preserving in her memory or using in conversation. This collection brings us into contact with the intellectual legacy of the author of In Search of Lost Time.

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