Arcadia, Eden and the Golden Age: The Myths Behind Utopia
Explore how the Golden Age, Eden, Arcadia and Cockaigne shaped utopian literature through myths of abundance, innocence, harmony and escape.
Littérature
Études, cours et fiches de littérature française, britannique, américaine et espagnole : auteurs, œuvres, mouvements, contextes, méthodes d’analyse et préparation aux épreuves littéraires.
Plato’s Republic: The First Utopia or an Ideal State?
Is Plato’s Republic the first utopia? Explore Kallipolis, philosopher-kings, justice, education, communal life and the limits of Plato’s ideal state.
Serena Joy Character Analysis in The Handmaid’s Tale
Serena Joy character analysis in The Handmaid’s Tale: complicity, power, infertility, jealousy, garden symbolism and life inside Gilead.
Offred as an Unreliable Narrator in The Handmaid’s Tale
Analysis of Offred as an unreliable narrator in The Handmaid’s Tale: memory, trauma, reconstruction, truth, Nick and fragmented testimony.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Historical Notes Analysis
Analysis of the Historical Notes in The Handmaid’s Tale: academic framing, Offred’s testimony, Pieixoto, irony, archives and interpretation.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Ending Analysis
Ending analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale: Offred, Nick, the black van, Eyes, Mayday, ambiguity, trust and the novel’s final uncertainty.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Jezebel’s Analysis
Analysis of Jezebel’s in The Handmaid’s Tale: hypocrisy, male privilege, prostitution, Moira, sexuality and Gilead’s false purity.
The Handmaid’s Tale: How Gilead Took Power
In The Handmaid’s Tale, Gilead does not take power through one sudden act alone. It rises through a sequence of…
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The Handmaid’s Tale: The Commander’s Study Analysis
Analysis of the Commander’s study in The Handmaid’s Tale: Scrabble, forbidden reading, male privilege, desire and Offred’s ambiguous agency.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum
Meaning and analysis of “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum” in The Handmaid’s Tale: mock Latin, hidden writing, resistance and Offred’s survival.
The Handmaid’s Tale: The Wall Analysis
Analysis of the Wall in The Handmaid’s Tale: public executions, fear, surveillance, state violence, bodies and Offred’s moral shock.
The Handmaid’s Tale: The Ceremony Analysis
Analysis of the Ceremony in The Handmaid’s Tale: ritual, biblical language, sexual violence, Serena Joy, the Commander and Offred’s body.
Sur les traces de Tolkien et de l’imaginaire médiéval, peintures et dessins de John Howe
Explorez l’imaginaire médiéval de Tolkien à travers la peinture de John Howe : paysages, mythes, chevalerie, dragons et héroïsme épique.
Fiche méthode bac : réussir l’essai en français
Méthode complète pour réussir l’essai au bac de français technologique : analyse du sujet, plan, introduction, arguments, exemples et conclusion.
Fiche méthode bac : réussir la contraction de texte en français
Méthode complète pour réussir la contraction de texte au bac de français : lecture, plan, reformulation, décompte des mots et erreurs à éviter.
Fiche méthode bac : réussir le commentaire littéraire
Méthode complète pour réussir le commentaire littéraire au bac de français : lecture, problématique, plan, introduction, paragraphes et conclusion.
Fiche méthode bac : la dissertation en français
Méthode complète pour réussir la dissertation au bac de français : analyse du sujet, problématique, plan, introduction, exemples et conclusion.
News from Nowhere: William Morris’s Epoch of Rest
Discover how William Morris turns rest, useful work, pleasure and fellowship into the socialist ideal of News from Nowhere—and where the utopia falters.
News from Nowhere: William Morris, Context and Key Ideas
Explore William Morris’s News from Nowhere through its socialist context, medievalism, Arts and Crafts ideals, plot, themes and contradictions.
What Is a Utopia? Definition, Origins and Literary Features
What is a literary utopia? Explore its origins, defining features, major examples, political purpose, and complex relationship with dystopian fiction.
Ecrire l’histoire à Rome : l’influence de la littérature grecque
Analysez comment Rome écrit son histoire sous l’influence grecque : modèles littéraires, mémoire politique, épopée et invention nationale.
The fictive experience of time through Mrs. Dalloway
The way in which the complexity of time is felt constitutes part of the interest (part of the pleasure) we derive from reading Mrs Dalloway.
Time and Virginia Woolf’s novel technique
xplore time in Virginia Woolf’s novel technique, from inner consciousness and memory to modernist narration, perception, rhythm, and form.
Time on the surface level of Mrs. Dalloway
Study time at the surface level in Mrs Dalloway: clocks, chronology, London, social rhythm, public time, and Woolf’s modernist structure.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: A Modernist Novel
Explore Mrs Dalloway as a modernist novel through consciousness, time, memory, urban life, fragmented form, and Woolf’s narrative technique.
Bac de français : méthode complète pour analyser un texte poétique
Méthode claire pour analyser un poème au bac : vers, strophes, rimes, rythme, images, procédés, problématique et plan de commentaire.
Characters and characterization in The Vicar of Wakefield
Explore characterisation in The Vicar of Wakefield: family bonds, theatricality, comic types, mistaken identities, and Goldsmith’s moral vision.
Structure and Plot in The Vicar of Wakefield
“The Vicar of Wakefield” portrays the rural English life, explores virtue and resilience in the face of adversity, and mocks social and moral issues.
British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
To what extent is Tristram Shandy a parody?
Explore how Tristram Shandy parodies the novel form through digression, metafiction, comic disruption, and Sterne’s playful narrative freedom.
Is Tristram Shandy a novel or an anti-novel?
Explore whether Tristram Shandy is a novel or anti-novel through digression, parody, metafiction, narrative disorder, and Sterne’s wit.
La vie de Charles Baudelaire
Né le 9 avril 1821, à Paris, Charles Baudelaire s’enivrera « vert paradis des amours enfantines » dans la « blanche maison » de Neuilly.
La vie d’Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe est un auteur américain de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, prolifique puisqu’il a écrit plus d’une soixantaine de nouvelles et de poèmes.
Voyage au centre de la Terre et Le Monde perdu : deux quêtes initiatiques
Comparez Voyage au centre de la Terre et Le Monde perdu : descente ou ascension, preuves scientifiques, initiation des héros et imaginaire colonial.
Jules Verne : le pouvoir des légendes sous les images
Comment les légendes des gravures de Jules Verne orientent-elles le regard, créent-elles du suspense et composent-elles un récit parallèle ?
Jules Verne et ses illustrateurs : la fabrique visuelle des Voyages extraordinaires
Découvrez comment Riou, Neuville, Férat, Benett, Roux et les graveurs d’Hetzel ont donné une identité visuelle aux Voyages extraordinaires.
Michel Serres et Jules Verne : géodésiques de la Terre et du Ciel
Comment Michel Serres relie science, volcans, mythologie et initiation pour révéler la structure profonde des Voyages extraordinaires de Jules Verne.
L’impact des illustrations sur l’imaginaire vernien
Découvrez comment les gravures d’Édouard Riou transforment Voyage au centre de la Terre en expérience visuelle, scientifique et initiatique.
Jules Verne : Voyages au Cœur de l’Extraordinaire
Science, exploration, utopie et catabase : découvrez comment Jules Verne transforme les savoirs du XIXe siècle en Voyages extraordinaires.
Sindbad le Marin : merveilleux, fantastique et mythe
Découvrez comment Sindbad associe merveilleux, effets fantastiques et motifs mythiques à travers ses monstres, ses îles et son voyage initiatique.
Sindbad : comment le récit rend l’impossible vraisemblable
Découvrez comment les voyages de Sindbad rendent le merveilleux vraisemblable grâce au témoignage, lieux réels, commerce et détails concrets.
La structure narrative des 7 voyages de Sindbad le Marin
Analysez la structure des sept voyages de Sindbad : récit-cadre, répétitions, catabase, symbolisme vertical et accomplissement du dernier voyage.
Le voyage imaginaire en littérature : explorer les mondes inconnus
De Gilgamesh à Sindbad et Jules Verne, découvrez comment le voyage imaginaire explore l’inconnu, interroge le réel et transforme le héros.
English Romanticism (1798-1832)
Explore English Romanticism from 1798 to 1832 through its historical context, major poets, central ideas, Gothic fiction and literary legacy.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 41 analysis
Chapter 41 analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale: storytelling, fragmentation, truth, Nick, Offred’s agency and the limits of testimony.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 25 analysis
Chapter 25 analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale: Serena Joy’s garden, tulips, shears, fertility, desire, body imagery and Offred’s awakening.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 5 analysis
Chapter 5 analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale: Japanese tourists, the gaze, forced happiness, body memory, freedom and Offred’s quiet resistance.
The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 2 Analysis: Offred’s Room, Identity and Control
Analysis of chapter 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale: Offred’s room, Gilead’s control, colour symbolism, mirrors, fairy-tale imagery and quiet resistance.
The Handmaid’s Tale: analysis of the opening chapter
Analyse the opening of The Handmaid’s Tale: the transformed gymnasium, layered memories, military control, bodily exchange and whispered resistance.
Family in Death of a Salesman: Love, Conflict and Inheritance
Explore family in Death of a Salesman through Willy, Linda, Biff and Happy, including fatherhood, betrayal, family conflict and inherited illusions.
Is Death of a Salesman a Tragedy or a Social Drama?
Is Death of a Salesman a tragedy or a social drama? Explore Willy Loman as a modern tragic hero, Miller’s social criticism and the play’s catharsis.
Death of a Salesman: Structure, Memory and Time
Explore the structure of Death of a Salesman, including objective and subjective time, memory scenes, double exposure, music and the Requiem.
The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization
Explore characters and characterisation in The Great Gatsby: Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Tom, social masks, desire, class, and Fitzgerald’s irony.
The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest
The term quest calls up the fairy tale motif or the German Märchen (Tieck; Grimm), which has been studied by Propp in Morphology of the Folktale.
The Great Gatsby: an American novel
The Great Gatsby reflects 1920s America through the Jazz Age, East-West divisions and the tension between material wealth, idealism and the Puritan ethic.
Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle
Both the novel and the American society correspond to the beginning of a modern era. America is a direct consequence of the age of reason (18th century).
George Orwell – A Final Warning
An excerpt from the 2003 docudrama George Orwell: A Life in Pictures presents a warning about totalitarian power and the dystopian nightmare of 1984.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood: Gilead, power and resistance
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Gilead’s reproductive control, biblical propaganda and Offred’s memories reveal how testimony becomes resistance.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Complete Act-by-Act Synopsis
Read an act-by-act synopsis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, covering the lovers, fairies, Bottom, Puck, Pyramus and Thisbe, and the comic ending.
Cider with Rosie: Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis
Explore Cider with Rosie chapter by chapter, with clear analysis of Laurie Lee’s themes, structure, imagery, memory, childhood and social change.
19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism
Explore 19th-century realism and naturalism through social observation, heredity, environment, class, detail, determinism, and major writers.
Romanticism in Art and Literature
Explore Romanticism in art and literature through its historical context, central themes, major writers, painters and revolutionary ideas.
The Gothic and the Fantastic: Definitions, Themes and Differences
Explore Gothic literature and the fantastic through their origins, themes, narrative techniques and treatment of the supernatural.
« If » – by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s If explores self-control, perseverance, doubt and the ability to face triumph and disaster, with the poem and a reading to follow aloud.