French Literature and Criticism

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• ÖZGÜL EKMEKCİ

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abstract In this paper, I focus on the term ‘immanence’ in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and show how it relates to her historical account of sexual oppression. I argue that Beauvoir's use of Hegel's master−slave dialectic and of Claude Lévi‐Strauss's reflection on the prohibition of incest lead her to claim tha…

• ZEYNEP DİREK

With a plan to trace the relationship between a purely formal history of writing and the deeper levels of history, Barthes's project in Le degré zéro de l'écriture seems to have failed because it remains unclear what degré zéro historically represents. Drawing on Le degré zéro de l'écriture, as well as Barthes's later…

• DANIEL JUST

I propose that any depiction ... invites the eye to exercise a certain practical “interpretive” capability. The eye “interprets” the task set to it by the painting. The task is a lifeworld task, not a theoretical one; it is meaningful to the viewer in practical, descriptive, and human narrative terms. \n— Patrick Heel…

• AYNUR ELHAN NAYİR
• EMİN ERSÖZ YİĞİT

Against the background of the literary and philosophical debates in France in the mid- and the late 1950s, this article examines Maurice Blanchot's narrative Le Dernier homme (1957), as well as his critical essays from this period, asking whether the emphasis Blanchot puts in these texts on exhaustion, weakness and su…

• DANIEL JUST

Roland Barthes Yazının Sıfır Derecesi (Le Degré Zéro de l’Ecriture-1953)’nden Camera Lucida’ya (La Chambre Claire-1980) kadar bütün eserlerinde döneminin hâkim iletişimsel ve kültürel formlarının bütünüyle özgün bir okumasını yapmakla birlikte eleştiri ve edebiyat kuramlarını derinden etkilemiştir. Bu bağlamda Barthes…

• ESRA BAŞAK KURTULUŞ

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Victor Hugo’nun unlu romani Sefiller, cok genis bir cerceve icinde, toplum hayatinin gercekci sahnelerini, insan ruhunun en derin duygulariyla birlestiren buyuk bir edebi anittir. Acilarla dolu karanlik bir dunyadan uzaklasip, ozgur ve aydinlik bir dunyaya kavusmak isteyen zavalli insanlarin oykusudur. Hugo, icinde ya…

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1862 novel Les Misérables is a great book in more than just one sense of the word.It is great in length in that the original work runs to 1,900 pages and 365 chapters, making it "one of the longest novels in the world" (Guttmann 184).It is also great in terms of literary reputation, being described, for instance by th…

Polonyalı yönetmen Krzysztof Kieslowski’nin, Fransız bayrağını oluşturan renklerden ve bu renklerin temsil ettiği özgürlük, eşitlik, kardeşlik kavramlarından esinlenerek gerçekleştirdiği Trois Couleurs (Üç Renk) üçlemesinin ilk filmi olan Bleu (Mavi), özgürlük kavramının bireysel boyuttaki sınırlarını sorgulayan bir ç…

• MUSTAFA MERT ATALAR