Holbein / Thomas More : a hidden dialogue? “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.” ( Paul Cézanne to Emile Bernard, October 23, 1905) This assertion suggests more than one questions: what is the truth? Is there a speech-act in painting? If so, from the painter? Or from the […]
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I : Traditional expectations regarding literature : For some of you the term “traditional” might sound awkward. I chose it in opposition with some other uses of the term – and the concept- of literature, aspects that we will approach when we examine the second category. Traditional literature is best represented by the novel, or at
DE LA LIBERATION DE LA TRADUCTION Ayez pitié de nous, écrivait Apollinaire, de nous qui vivons cette longue querelle de l’Ordre et de l’Aventure. Cité par André Malraux, La tête d’Obsidienne, 52. Ordre de l’écriture-système, ordre des langues particulières à chaque communauté, ordre de leurs rapports aux objets et à leur vision du monde,
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Etude de la traduction par Ben Stoltzfus du roman d’ Alain Robbe—Grillet et de René Magritte: « La Belle Captive ». A mon professeur et ami Ben, dans la joie de transgresser… Wysza Szkola Pedagogiczna Instytut Filologii Obcych Miedzyzakladowa Pracownia Badan Translatorycznych le 11 mai 1998 Prof H. Suzanne La traduction, « La Belle Captive »: une enquête
la traduction, « la belle captive »: une enquête inconclue en littérature comparée. Lire la suite »
Thomas More: A man for all seasons… but one. In this paper we shall see that Thomas More was a very adaptive man in many domains of life, but one. We shall see him in his society, as a man with his family, his contradictions, and as an attorney at law. And we shall see
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Abstract: In this paper we shall analyze the understanding of the concept of “conscience” in Early Renaissance, in other words what Luther, Erasmus and especially Thomas More called “conscience” to explain their decision. This analysis will be supported by Jean Gerson’s concept of the decision-making process. Indeed, Gerson a theologian and professor at the Sorbonne
CONSCIENCE IN THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: THE CASE OF ERASMUS? LUTHER AND THOMAS MORE. Lire la suite »
Hélène SUZANNE Amici Thomae Mori -France Prof. Dr. Polonia University -Poland In this paper we shall present two key-men in the arts and in humanism: the former is Hieronymus Bosch (1455-1516), an exceptional Dutch painter, and the latter is Thomas More (1478-1535) an attorney who became Chancellor of England under Henry VIII, and has
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To analyze Thomas More’s specific attitude toward Martin Luther, specific according to our 21st century eyes and mind, we must try to put ourselves back into their period, the Renaissance, as it was and as it influenced and even changed the societies in which these two men lived. We must then understand the political, economic,
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INTRODUCTION: In this paper I will study this apparently strange but seemingly beautiful necessity of friendship first as an intemporal need for human beings, and secondly its maybe specific form it took in the Renaissance with the examples of Thomas More and Michel de Montaigne who have the reputation to have lived true friendships during
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Le secret… Certainement un des termes les plus divulgués : il semble que les jeunes enfants le connaissent dès l’école élémentaire, surtout les petites filles qui se murmurent dans le creux de l’oreille dans la cour de récréation : « J’ai un secret, mais tu le diras pas. » Évidemment, il se dit, et se dit très vite, entre
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