Suleiman was born in Budapest and came to the U.S. with her parents as a child. She is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, where she has chaired the Department of Romance...
Cette communication vise à interroger une œuvre en ancien français du XIIIe siècle, le Roman de Silence, au regard des questionnements actuels sur le genre et la sexualité. Ce roman met en scène les aventures d'une jeune fille noble élevée comme un garçon...
Borders have traditionally been seen as places where people and cultures mix and bleed into one another, even though they exist to prevent exactly such an exchange. How can we reconcile the ambiguous nature of the border as that which forbids entry whilst...
When Nathalie Sarraute depicts a knitting woman in her 1932 novel Tropismes, a figure “silent and apart, her head bowed modestly, counting her stitches under her breath” (31), I argue that she points to such a woman as a means of thinking through ideas...
Publié au lendemain de la Terreur, La Philosophie dans le boudoir prend l’idéologie révolutionnaire et confronte ses idées telles que la liberté ou l’égalité au réel et au corps. Il s’agira de montrer comment le corps et le langage sont pour Sade intiment...
