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    The Power of Illusion and the Illusion of Power in Mary Orr’s “The Wisdom of Eve” and Mankiewicz’s All About Eve

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    Dans la nouvelle de Mary Orr, “The Wisdom of Eve”, la narration met en exergue les manipulations machiavĂ©liques d’une jeune comĂ©dienne, Eve, dont l’opportunisme farouche se dissimule sous le masque de l’innocence. Lors du tournage de son adaptation cinĂ©matographique d’All About Eve, Mankiewicz avouera que la relecture de la nouvelle lui avait inspirĂ© l’agencement final du scĂ©nario: “L’idĂ©e me trottait dans la tĂȘte depuis dix ans, mais le deuxiĂšme acte m’échappait.” On peut considĂ©rer que le trope du thĂ©Ăątre constitue le fil conducteur de la nouvelle comme du film. Nous allons donc examiner le trope du thĂ©Ăątre dans All About Eve, et la façon dont ce dernier dĂ©construit Ă  la fois l’espace et le concept d’identité ; puis nous dĂ©montrerons que cette dimension thĂ©Ăątrale est porteuse d'un motif baroque oĂč rĂšgne une esthĂ©tique de l’illusion et de dĂ©doublement

    Deviation and In-Betweenness in “The Sea Change”

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    “The Sea Change”, composĂ©e essentiellement d’un dialogue entre un jeune couple attablĂ© dans un cafĂ©, est une trĂšs brĂšve nouvelle ne prĂ©sentant pratiquement pas d’action. La nature insaisissable de la stratĂ©gie narrative de Hemingway, qui cache constamment au lecteur des informations importantes, fonctionne comme le succĂ©danĂ© de la “vĂ©ritable action”, et nous donne l’impression que la nouvelle peut ĂȘtre mise en scĂšne. Hemingway prĂ©sente le contenu dramatique de sa nouvelle comme une dispute entre un homme, Phil, censĂ© reprĂ©senter la ‘vertu’, et une femme innommĂ©e, qui est le symptĂŽme du ‘vice’. NĂ©anmoins, les distinctions binaires nettes ne tiendront pas. Ceci est confirmĂ© par le jeu de l’intertextualitĂ© prĂ©sente dĂšs le titre, “The Sea Change ”, lequel renvoie Ă  The Tempest de Shakespeare, oĂč mort et vie ont partie liĂ©e en un seul Ă©tat de mĂ©tamorphose. Dans cette optique, la nouvelle peut ĂȘtre lue comme une dramatisation de la quĂȘte poĂ©tique chez Hemingway d’un lieu paradisiaque oĂč les diffĂ©rences s’évanouissent.“The Sea Change,” mainly a dialogue between a couple sitting in a cafĂ©, is a very brief short story with almost no action. The elusive nature of Hemingway’s narrative strategy, which constantly holds back information from the reader, acts as a substitute for “real action” and gives the impression that the short story could be staged for theatre. Hemingway sets up the dramatic content of his short story as a contest of wills between a man, Phil, emblematic of ‘virtue,’ and an unamed woman, symptomatic of “vice.” Yet clear-cut binary distinctions break down. This is corroborated by the symbolic implications of the title, “The Sea Change,” taken from Shakespeare’s The Tempest,where death and life are absorbed into one common state of metamorphosis. From this perspective, “The Sea Change”can be viewed as a dramatization of Hemingway’s poetic search for a prelapsarian locus where distinctions no longer exist

    Introduction to Robert Olen Butler

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    The second annual occurrence of the CRILA’s conference on The Short Story and Cinema took place in collaboration with the research group Suds d’AmĂ©riques (University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines) which hosted the event. Our guest of honour, Robert Olen Butler, whose short story collection A Good Scent from a Distant Mountain won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, is an Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. Prominent film producers Jason Kilot and Paul Cohen are in the pr..

    Special issue: Ernest Hemingway

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    We are pleased to present this special issue on the stories of Ernest Hemingway which was put together by our Guest Editor RĂ©douane Abouddahab. One of France’s leading specialists in Psychoanalysis and literature and a Hemingway scholar, RĂ©douane Abouddahab is a MaĂźtre de ConfĂ©rences in American literature at the University of Lyon II. We are grateful to him for his excellent introduction to this issue and for so meticulously undertaking the editorial work involved. We hope you will appreciate the quality of this volume
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