Thomas Pavel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 387161 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Pavel |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Pavel |
| ASSINATURA | PAVEL T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Widespread Stories, Moral Shows
Patrick Colm Hogan’s essay convincingly defends literature’s reliance on moral ideals. It rightly argues that plot-based literary works include a variety of ethical approaches, most often emphasizing the “allocentric-empathic concern for others” (259), and insists on the presence of similar plots and ideals in most, perhaps all, cultural traditions. Accordingly, Hogan rejects the late eighteenth-century idea that cultures, particularly the most s…
Civic Storytelling
Human action in narrative grammars
After sketching out a history of twentieth-century structuralist linguistics and poetics, the article presents Greimas’s theoretical contribution to the semiotic study of narratives at various levels, including actants, actors and their kinds of competence, the semiotic square that gives narratives their general meaning, the variety of figures employed, and the thematic fields evoked
Vérité et résonance
Dans son ouvrage sur Dostoïevski, Joseph Frank, un des critiques américains les plus influents au xxe siècle, décrivait l’auteur de Crime et châtiment comme étant avant tout un être humain qui savait affronter les questions sociales, morales et métaphysiques de son temps pour y proposer des solutions inoubliables. Selon Frank, la capacité du grand écrivain de sortir des sentiers battus était due à sa tendance innée de « sentir la pensée », de dét…
Philosophy of the Novel
Book Review| January 01 2016 Philosophy of the Novel Goldman, Alan H., Philosophy of the Novel. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 209 pp. Thomas Pavel Thomas Pavel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 141. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3323277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Pavel; Philosophy of the Novel. Commo…
Marginal Modernity
The historical period between the mid-eighteenth and the late twentieth century is often deemed to have promoted human autonomy in most countries and most areas of life, culture included. Since, however, concepts tend to gain generality at the expense of content, it is only natural that autonomy ended up meaning a variety of things. In politics, it can designate the egalitarian bill of rights in the U.K. and U.S., but also the superiority of the …
Shakespeare et Cervantès
L’ironie romanesque entre l’involontaire et l’échec
L ’art du roman de Milan Kundera considère Cervantès, Richardson, Diderot, Balzac et plusieurs romanciers du xx e siècle comme de grands novateurs qui ont donné au roman sa forme moderne. En suivant l’argument de Kundera, l’article examine deux genres d’ironie romanesque. Un d’entre eux, visible dans Jacques le fataliste de Diderot, souligne l’impossibilité des personnages de contrôler leur destin. L’autre examine les idéaux poursuivis par les pr…
L'unité du monde dans le théâtre de Claudel
La mesure de la pastorale
Le roman pastoral des xvi e et xvii e siècles raconte le destin d’êtres humains qui, oscillant entre la constance et la faiblesse, passent du dévouement au caprice et de l’inconstance à la fidélité. Bien que l’amour entraîne ces personnages vers la source du Bien, du Vrai et de l’Un, ils demeurent en proie aux troubles intérieurs et aux perturbations engendrés par le désir. La tension entre l’imperfection humaine et l’élan vers l’idéal se reflète…
Reasons for Action
Research Article| June 01 2008 Reasons for Action Thomas Pavel Thomas Pavel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 371–375. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-029 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas Pavel; Reasons for A…
La force de partir
Appels, paris, promesses
Literary Genres as Norms and Good Habits
The article argues that literary genres cannot be defined on strictly formal grounds, since they are determined by the representational goals pursued by literary works. A survey of the subgenres of the novel shows that the differences between them are linked to the way in which they imagine fictional worlds. Generic differences are normative only in the sense that they are good trade habits, useful recipes that help writers achieve representation…
Marcel Gauchet et les tribulations de la démocratie
L'article presente le recueil Democratie contre elle meme qui reunit les plus importants articles publies par Marcel Gauchet dans Le Debat de 1980 a 2001. Une des lecons les plus durables de ce recueil est la reconnaissance d'une verite essentielle pour la sante des democraties, a savoir que la reconciliation definitive de l'etre humain avec lui meme est impossible. Si les religions constituees projettent loin de l'homme ses icertitudes et sa div…
Douceur de vivre, dureté de l'histoire
La part de l'auteur dans l'histoire du roman
L'histoire du roman n'est pas simplement celle d'un des nombreux mouvements de l'esprit universel (quoique dans une certaine mesure elle est cela aussi), mais fait egalement entrer en scene de vrais acteurs, en l'occurrence les auteurs de romans, acteurs dont les projets, les succes, les differends et l'influence reciproque forment le ressort de l'action : l'A. s'attarde ici un instant sur ces auteurs
Réflexions sur l'histoire du roman
L'omnipresence devorante du genre romanesque aujourd'hui et l'indifferenciation litteraire qui l'accompagne rendent plus que jamais indispensable la reflexion sur son histoire : l'A. propose ici une relecture d'ensemble du parcours du roman ; non seulement elle permet de mieux cerner la forme de pensee qui s'y exprime, mais elle apporte un eclairage indirect des plus efficaces sur sa situation contemporaine
Les utopies linguistiques
Comme le XIX e siecle avait ete le siecle de l'histoire, il appartenait au XX e siecle d'etre le siecle du langage. Cela ne devait pas s'arreter a la science, mais concerner tout autant l'art. La litterature avait a se mettre a l'ecole de son support langagier. L'A. revient ici sur cette grande ambition. Il la reinscrit dans l'histoire, il en analyse les apports et les illusions, et il en fait ressortir l'actuelle retombee. Le fameux tournant lin…
Fiction and Imitation
This article begins with a discussion of the views on mimesis defended in recent works by Lubomír Doležel, Dorrit Cohn, and Jean-Marie Schaeffer. It then argues that literary fiction typically represents human beings in their relationship with norms and values. But since norms and values cannot be uniformly reduced to a set of observable facts, they cannot be copied directly but only highlighted indirectly, through examples of human action. These…
Concluding Statement
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Freedom, from Romance to the Novel
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
S/Z
Pavel Thomas. « S/Z » : utopie et ascèse. In: Communications, 63, 1996. Parcours de Barthes. pp. 159-174
Exile as Romance and as Tragedy
Enquete
Melanie Hawthorne, Frank Kermode, Jane Gallop, Thomas Pavel, Toril Moi, Charlotte M. Wright, Faridoun Farrokh, Jenene Allison, Barbara Johnson, Jane Tompkins, Tatyana Tolstaya, Elisabeth Rich, U. C. Knoepflmacher, Alice Friman, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Katherine E. Kelly, William J. Scheick, Hubert Heinen, Carl Fowler, Jean-Pierre Cauvin, David B. Merrell, Lee K. Abbott, Janet P. Sholty, Elaine Marks, Claudia A. Limbert, Clay Reynolds, Denis Hollie…
Fiction and Imitation
This article begins with a discussion of the views on mimesis defended in recent works by Lubomír Doležel, Dorrit Cohn, and Jean-Marie Schaeffer. It then argues that literary fiction typically represents human beings in their relationship with norms and values. But since norms and values cannot be uniformly reduced to a set of observable facts, they cannot be copied directly but only highlighted indirectly, through examples of human action. These…
Some remarks on narrative grammars
Literary Genres as Norms and Good Habits
The article argues that literary genres cannot be defined on strictly formal grounds, since they are determined by the representational goals pursued by literary works. A survey of the subgenres of the novel shows that the differences between them are linked to the way in which they imagine fictional worlds. Generic differences are normative only in the sense that they are good trade habits, useful recipes that help writers achieve representation…
Narrative Tectonics
L’ironie romanesque entre l’involontaire et l’échec
L ’art du roman de Milan Kundera considère Cervantès, Richardson, Diderot, Balzac et plusieurs romanciers du xx e siècle comme de grands novateurs qui ont donné au roman sa forme moderne. En suivant l’argument de Kundera, l’article examine deux genres d’ironie romanesque. Un d’entre eux, visible dans Jacques le fataliste de Diderot, souligne l’impossibilité des personnages de contrôler leur destin. L’autre examine les idéaux poursuivis par les pr…
Reasons for Action
Research Article| June 01 2008 Reasons for Action Thomas Pavel Thomas Pavel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 371–375. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-029 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas Pavel; Reasons for A…
Appels, paris, promesses
Freedom, from Romance to the Novel
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
S/Z
Pavel Thomas. « S/Z » : utopie et ascèse. In: Communications, 63, 1996. Parcours de Barthes. pp. 159-174
Formalism in Narrative Semiotics
Structuralist poetics has often been criticized for its claim that literature, like any other domain of external reality, can be approached with objective methods. Extreme positions have denied poetics-structuralist or otherwise-any relevance in the understanding of literature, dismissing it as yet another variety of logocentric and paternalistic discourse. In a more moderate vein, some critics, notably Paul de Man, have argued against the over-c…
La fin d'un anathème
Bremond Claude, Pavel Thomas G. La fin d'un anathème. In: Communications, 47, 1988. Variations sur le thème. Pour une thématique, sous la direction de Claude Bremond et Thomas G. Pavel. pp. 209-220
The Borders of Fiction
fiction. Claiming that a normative stand is detrimental to the understanding of fictional activities, I will next argue that the distinction between fiction and actuality is but a particular case of a more general two-level ontological model, used notably by mythical thinking. It will be finally submitted that the gradual detachment of fiction from truth is a historical process, in the course of which various types of fictional territories and bo…
Narrative Domains
Fiction and the causal theory of names
Some remarks on narrative grammars
Noun phrases
Recent linguistic research has explored the possibility of using standard logical analyses to explain some phenomena of natural languages. The logical notion of scope in modal contexts has yielded to the linguistic dichotomy of [±specific] indefinite NPs. Donnellan’s (1966) distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite description has been used to extend this dichotomy to include definite NPs. The behaviour of moods in Romance …
Fiction and the causal theory of names
Narrative Domains
Tragedy and the sacred
The Borders of Fiction
fiction. Claiming that a normative stand is detrimental to the understanding of fictional activities, I will next argue that the distinction between fiction and actuality is but a particular case of a more general two-level ontological model, used notably by mythical thinking. It will be finally submitted that the gradual detachment of fiction from truth is a historical process, in the course of which various types of fictional territories and bo…
In Praise of the Ear (Gloss's Glosses)
After forty, Gloss, who once had been the most fervent reader of all my friends, turned away more and more from the company of books. For a while, he still leafed through old favorites, Agamemnon, Tamburlaine, Molloy, but soon even these dignified friends of his youth lost their grip on him. don't understand the black signs before my eyes anymore, he complained to me. Some are larger, some smaller. The lines often stop soon after the middle of th…
The Poetics of Plot. The Case of English Renaissance Drama
Le Mirage linguistique
Rodogune. Jeu rituel
Planning Games
Action, passions
Formalism in Narrative Semiotics
Structuralist poetics has often been criticized for its claim that literature, like any other domain of external reality, can be approached with objective methods. Extreme positions have denied poetics-structuralist or otherwise-any relevance in the understanding of literature, dismissing it as yet another variety of logocentric and paternalistic discourse. In a more moderate vein, some critics, notably Paul de Man, have argued against the over-c…
La fin d'un anathème
Bremond Claude, Pavel Thomas G. La fin d'un anathème. In: Communications, 47, 1988. Variations sur le thème. Pour une thématique, sous la direction de Claude Bremond et Thomas G. Pavel. pp. 209-220
Espaces raciniens
Pavel Thomas G. Espaces raciniens. In: Communications, 47, 1988. Variations sur le thème. Pour une thématique, sous la direction de Claude Bremond et Thomas G. Pavel. pp. 173-186
Fiction, Fact, Phalanx, Phantasm
The Present Debate
Racine and Stendhal
The Resistance of Reference
Narrative Tectonics
Literary Knowledge
The Feud of Language
Proustian Cosmology
Empire et paradigmes
Writing From History
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