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From: Dalhousie French Studies[(essay date winter 1995) In the following essay, Johnson cites the relationship between language and desire portrayed in such works as Fantasio, Les caprices de Marianne, and On ne badine pas avec l'amour.] When Count...
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From: Nottingham French Studies[(essay date May 1972) In the following essay, King acknowledges that La Confession d'un enfant du siècle is a decidedly Romantic work featuring Musset's projection of the post-Napoleonic social malaise in France and...
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From: The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly ReviewNo one can help being reminded of Shelley in reading much of De Musset 's poetry, written between twenty and thirty; the opening of “Rolla,” and “L'espoir en Dieu,” for example. The poignant sympathy with human suffering...
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From: French Review[(essay date April 1979) In the following essay, Rubin underscores Musset's ironic evocation of Fantasio as a court jester figure associated with ennui, futility, and disenchantment rather than light-hearted comedy.]...
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From: Stage of Dreams: The Dramatic Art of Alfred de Musset[(essay date 1967) In the following excerpt, Gochberg presents the context of Musset's writing of Fantasio.] There is an interval of almost nine months between the publication of Les Caprices de Marianne (May 15, 1833)...
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From: French Poets and Novelists[James was an American-born British novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist, and playwright of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who is considered to be one of the greatest novelists in the English...
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From: The French Review[(essay date April 1959) In the following essay, Ridge discusses Musset's use of anti-heros rather than standard romantic heros in his plays.] It is strange that Alfred de Musset early sets himself against the kind of...
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From: Language and Style[(essay date fall 1971) In the following essay, King analyzes various modes of language--poetic, prosaic, and sentimental--employed in Musset's drama Fantasio, describing the characters and themes associated with each.]...
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From: Romance Notes[(essay date spring 1977) In the following essay, Luce studies Musset's skilled application of language as a medium of disguise, deception, and equivocation in his short theatrical pieces, or proverbes.] An appropriate...
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From: The Fortnightly Review[Swinburne was an English poet, dramatist, and critic. He was renowned during his lifetime for his lyric poetry, and he is remembered today for his rejection of Victorian mores. His explicitly sensual themes shocked his...
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From: The French Review[(essay date April 1979) In the following essay, Rubin examines the influence of the character of the dead jester on the action of Fantasio.] As1 David Sices has commented, "Fantasio is a play that seems to generate...
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From:European Comic Art (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
Spirou's Origin Myth and Family Romances: The Domestication of Adventure in the New Adventure Comic.
This article focuses on the narratives of Spirou's origins and backstory from Rob-Vel to Feroumont and Bravo, examining his progressive departure from the Tintinesque adventure paradigm. The Freudian notion of family...