Eavesdropping in Marivaux

Eavesdropping in Marivaux
Author: William H. Trapnell
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1987
Genre: Eavesdropping in literature
ISBN: 9782600036351

Pensée de Marivaux

Pensée de Marivaux
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004333509

Envisager la pensée d'un écrivain que la tradition ne tient pas pour un penseur - et dont les textes n’épargnent pas la prétention philosophique -, peut paraître paradoxal, voire naïf. Mais ce serait oublier que la réflexion prend bien des chemins et que la littérature est un espace de pensée. Il faudrait, par conséquent, plutôt s’étonner du fait qu'il puisse sembler anormal d'interroger la pensée d’un écrivain. Mais Ie terrain est, il est vrai, miné... Mieux vaut repartir sur des bases modestes et claires, d'après quelques constats. Ainsi, concernant Marivaux, est-il frappant de relever l'importance que tiennent les réflexions dans ses textes. Rien de plus légitime dès lors que de se demander si ces pensées, apparemment décousues, n'entrent pas dans une conception ordonnée du réel et de « l’humanité ». Il ne s’agit pas pour autant d’en revenir à une position simpliste consistant à attribuer à chaque auteur une conception du monde à partir d’un relevé de ses affirmations explicites ou implicites. Plutôt que de se fourvoyer dans un exposé artificiellement complet de la pensée de Marivaux, il paraît plus intéressant de faire quelques pas en direction de ce qui est pensé dans les textes de Marivaux.

Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping
Author: John L. Locke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199236135

Who among us hasn't eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation in a theater or restaurant? Indeed, scientists have found that even animals eavesdrop on the calls and cries of others. In Eavesdropping, John L. Locke provides the first serious look at this virtually universal phenomenon. Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's "Rear Window"; from chimpanzee behavior to Parisian cafe society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behavior and highlights its consequences across history and cultures. Eavesdropping can be a good thing--an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. Even birds who listen in on the calls of distant animals tend to survive longer. But Locke also concedes that eavesdropping has a bad name. It can encompass cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and secretly monitoring emails to maintain power over employees. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is eye-opening reading. "

The French Review

The French Review
Author: James Frederick Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1989-03
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794

Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
Author: Lindsay Porter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319569678

This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.

Marivaux and Reason

Marivaux and Reason
Author: D. J. Culpin
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This publication is a study of the ideas of Marivaux, the French novelist and playwright. It covers the fields of literature, history and intellectual history and aims first to shed light on both Marivaux, the man and his writing, and then to situate him within the context of the early Enlightenment. The author identifies Marivaux with the philosophical tradition of innate ideas which was increasingly displaced among intellectuals by materialism as the Enlightenment progressed. The consequences of this affiliation are followed through in successive chapters devoted to metaphysics, morality, religion and politics. A substantial conclusion suggests a number of influences that might have combined to form Marivaux's intellectual outlook. This book is the only work to provide a synthesis of Marivaux's ideas that then acts as the frame-work for resolving contradictory interpretations of his work that have been offered by other scholars.

Animal Communication Networks

Animal Communication Networks
Author: P. K. McGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2005-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781139443678

Most animal communication has evolved and now takes place in the context of a communication network, i.e. several signallers and receivers within communication range of each other. This idea follows naturally from the observation that many signals travel further than the average spacing between animals. This is self evidently true for long-range signals, but at a high density the same is true for short-range signals (e.g. begging calls of nestling birds). This book provides a current summary of research on communication networks and appraises future prospects. It combines information from studies of several taxonomic groups (insects to people via fiddler crabs, fish, frogs, birds and mammals) and several signalling modalities (visual, acoustic and chemical signals). It also specifically addresses the many areas of interface between communication networks and other disciplines (from the evolution of human charitable behaviour to the psychophysics of signal perception, via social behaviour, physiology and mathematical models).

Writers of the French Enlightenment

Writers of the French Enlightenment
Author: Samia I. Spencer
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Annotation Dedicated to making literature and its creators more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars, the series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. Entries are written by experts in the field and include bibliographies and illustrations.

Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure

Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
Author: E.J.H. Greene
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1977
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780888640185

The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.