This study offers a reinterpretation of the direct tradition of medieval Platonism on the basis of new evidence from the Meno and the Phaedo translated into Latin by Henry Aristippus between 1154 and 1160. In particular, it provides an edition of interlinear and marginal annotations and glosses of the Meno and the Phaedo: the manuscript tradition is particularly useful for understanding which aspects of these two Platonic dialogues were particularly studied during the Middle Ages, as it preserves the considerations of various readers on Platonic philosophy. In the most fortunate cases, it is precisely the manuscript tradition that offers new perspectives that can be used to redesign the networks of reception of the two Platonic texts examined in this study in the centuries following their translation, with particular reference to the 13th and 14th centuries. The research was carried out on unpublished material and manuscript testimonies, with the help of two strategies. First, the medieval sources were submetted to a doxographic analysis, through a bottom-up approach consisting in the identification of the terms ‘Plato’, ‘Meno’, ‘Phaedo’ (or ‘Fedrone’ according to medieval usage). This allowed to understand in which contexts and in relation to which themes the references to the three terms appeared and to provide a list of authors who, between the 13th and the 14th century, had the opportunity to read the Meno and/or the Phaedo in Henry Aristippus’ translation. The second strategy, which we could perhaps describe as ‘inside-out’, was applied in the editing phase of the interlinear and marginal annotations and glosses of the two translations. As an especially important paratextual element, the ‘marginal’ writing proves to be particularly useful for deriving the constituent elements of the two dialogues (inside) that were commented, re-written, re-elaborated and interpreted in the margins of the two texts (outside). By employing both strategies, it is possible to reveal the core concepts of Platonic philosophy that, to a greater or lesser extent, caught the attention of medieval readers of the Latin Meno and the Phaedo.

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This thesis provides a full-length critical treatment of the Essayes (1600-01) of Sir William Cornwallis (c.1579-1614). Cornwallis' Essayes are the first examples of the ‘familiar’ essay in English: to which the rhetorical shaping of persona and the use of the personal voice are central. This is the first such study of Cornwallis since the first half of the twentieth century, and situates his Essayes within their cultural, social, and material contexts. The thesis draws upon previous work on Cornwallis and his Essayes from the 1930s and 1940s, but also on recent developments in early-modern English studies, especially in the fields of the history of rhetoric and the history of reading. The thesis challenges the assumptions behind two major critical approaches to the early-modern essay: firstly that it is a form in which the personal voice can be unambiguously expressed, and secondly that it is an essentially unoriginal genre which is more closely related to reading than to writing. This thesis qualifies these approaches, while demonstrating that the origins of each are found in the rhetorical practices of early English essays. This thesis argues however that Cornwallis’s essays are elaborate fusions of classical commonplaces, humanistic rhetoric, and ethical theories of how to live, resulting from complex interactions between different strands of humanistic educative practices, and that Cornwallis’s use of the personal voice is shaped by ethically-inflected rhetorical theories of affect and imitation. The thesis further attempts to think about how essays were being read in this period, and to do so offers a study of the material traces of reading, in the form of annotations and commonplace books, left by early-modern readers of John Florio’s English translation of Montaigne (1603).

La thèse porte sur une étude génétique de la première mythobiographie de Claude Louis-Combet Marinus et Marina, un projet tut à fait original puisque, jusqu’à nos jours, aucune thèse génétique n’a été réservé à cet auteur. Notre étude englobe le manuscrit autographe de la mythobiographie et le dossier des marginalia, dossiers que l’auteur à prêtés au centre Jacques-Petit et que le laboratoire à numérisés. Nous avons choisi de soumettre ce roman à l’épreuve de la critique génétique afin de surprendre la genèse de l’œuvre, confrontant les avant-textes à l’autographe, faisant la différence entre les brouillons qui parlent des remords et des choix du romancier, et les ébauches abandonnées, qui dessinent un autre roman, celui où la sainte moniale n’était peut-être pas envisagée aussi sublime dans son épanouissement cosmique. Et surprendre aussi à travers le dossier des notes documentaires conservées par l’auteur, la gestation du roman. Gestation et genèse : étude des sources et confrontation de ou des avant-tes au texte, voilà notre double démarche génétique qui permet d’apporter des éclairages et des commentaires, nécessairement lacunaires, sur la première mytobiographie de Claude Louis-Combet / The thesis concerns a genetic study of the first “mythobiographie” Claude Louis-Combet Marinus and Marina, a project completely original because, until our days, no genetic thesis has been reserved for this author. Our study includes the original manuscript of the “mythobiographie” and the file of marginalia, files which the author lent to th center Jacques Petit-center and which the laboratory digitized. We chose to subject this novel to the test genetic criticism to surprise the genesis of the work, comfronting pre-texts with the autograph, making the difference between the drafts which speak about remorse and about choices of the novelist and abandoned sketchs, which draw another novel, were the saint was not maybe envisaged so sublime in her cosmic self-fulfillment. And surprise also, through the file of the documentary notes preserved by the author, the gestation of the novel. Gestation and genesis: study of sources and confrontation of pre-text to the text, here is our double genetic approach which allows us to the provide insights and comments, inevitably incomplete, on the “mytobiographie” of Claude Louis-Combet

Esta pesquisa tenciona compreender as relações do escritor Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) com a literatura surrealista, considerando manuscritos e livros em seu acervo, no patrimônio do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP), bem como a sua obra publicada. A pesquisa reúne e transcreve textos literários e ensaísticos atinentes ao Surrealismo, mencionados nos manuscritos do Fichário Analítico de Mário de Andrade; promove o levantamento de obras e de periódico surrealistas franceses presentes na biblioteca do criador de Macunaíma, recuperando anotações de leitura, as quais sugerem diálogos de criação na esfera da crítica literária e da literatura; congrega igualmente juízos críticos de Mário de Andrade sobre o Surrealismo expressos em sua obra édita e correspondência / This search intends to understand the relationship of the writer Mário de Andrade (1893 1945) with the Surrealist literature, considering handwritten and books in his collection, in the property of Institute of Brazilian Studies of São Paulo University (IEB-USP), as like his published work. The search gathers and transcripts literary and essayist texts pertinent to surrealism, mentioned in the handwritten of Mário de Andrades Analytical Card index; it organizes the survey of works and the French Surrealists periodic presents in the library of Macunaimas creator, recapturing reading notes, which suggest dialogues of creation in the literary critic sphere and the literature; it gathers equally Mário de Andrades criticizes judges about Surrealism expressed in his published work and correspondence.

Esta pesquisa tenciona compreender as relações do escritor Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) com a literatura surrealista, considerando manuscritos e livros em seu acervo, no patrimônio do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP), bem como a sua obra publicada. A pesquisa reúne e transcreve textos literários e ensaísticos atinentes ao Surrealismo, mencionados nos manuscritos do Fichário Analítico de Mário de Andrade; promove o levantamento de obras e de periódico surrealistas franceses presentes na biblioteca do criador de Macunaíma, recuperando anotações de leitura, as quais sugerem diálogos de criação na esfera da crítica literária e da literatura; congrega igualmente juízos críticos de Mário de Andrade sobre o Surrealismo expressos em sua obra édita e correspondência / This search intends to understand the relationship of the writer Mário de Andrade (1893 1945) with the Surrealist literature, considering handwritten and books in his collection, in the property of Institute of Brazilian Studies of São Paulo University (IEB-USP), as like his published work. The search gathers and transcripts literary and essayist texts pertinent to surrealism, mentioned in the handwritten of Mário de Andrades Analytical Card index; it organizes the survey of works and the French Surrealists periodic presents in the library of Macunaimas creator, recapturing reading notes, which suggest dialogues of creation in the literary critic sphere and the literature; it gathers equally Mário de Andrades criticizes judges about Surrealism expressed in his published work and correspondence.

The aim of the present study is to paint an overall picture of how Voltaire interacted with the books that made up his personal library. Situated at the crossroads between history of the book, literary history and literary studies in the standard meaning of the term, it seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which Voltaire used his books and of the different types of notes that he left in them. These notes are of course texts in themselves – short ones, to be sure, but texts all the same – and their material, literary and polemical significance have never before been studied in depth. We begin by classifying the marginalia according to the function they seem to have played for Voltaire and, based on their material characteristics, by developing methodologies to analyse these short manuscripts, along with the non-verbal markings that accompany them. An analysis follows of the ways in which Voltaire used the white spaces in his books, then of the links that can be established between the signs of his reading and the genesis of his published works. Finally, we study the poetics of the marginal notes as well as the dynamics at work in the annotated library as a whole. Throughout, Voltaire’s notes and reading habits are placed in the context of the critical literature that has grown up around the subject of marginalia. Along the way, we compare his marginal notes to those of other literary figures of the period, for the subject of this study is clearly the marginalia of a writer, which are necessarily inextricably linked to his principal activity – writing. Indeed, one might speak of an interpenetration, of a blurring of boundaries between reading and writing. Beyond the marks of Voltaire's reading, the study of marginalia raises questions that are relevant for other non-canonical and paratextual materials. To place them in the spotlight transforms their status, and a note that was 'marginal' comes to be considered a text in its own right.

L\'Esprit Nouveau, revista de estética publicada em Paris entre 1920 e 1925, projeto do pintor francês Ozenfant, do arquiteto suíço Le Corbusier e do poeta belga Paul Dermée, representa uma importante matriz na formação das idéias estéticas e da poética de Mário de Andrade. Lida e anotada por ele em todos os exemplares, esta publicação da vanguarda francesa encerra um alentado diálogo do poeta brasileiro com o modernismo europeu. Paralelamente, os apontamentos autógrafos, sobrepostos aos textos impressos, fazem com que os números anotados gozem da dupla natureza de edição e de manuscrito. Esta pesquisa inclinou-se sobre as correlações entre as leituras, as notas e as obras do autor brasileiro entre 1920 e 1925. Transcreveu e classificou as anotações autógrafas deste escritor/leitor na coleção completa da revista em sua biblioteca, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, na Universidade de São Paulo, e apresentou, no final, um índice da revista LEsprit Nouveau nas estantes do autor de Macunaíma. / L\'Esprit Nouveau, revista de estética publicada em Paris entre 1920 e 1925, projeto do pintor francês Ozenfant, do arquiteto suíço Le Corbusier e do poeta belga Paul Dermée, representa uma importante matriz na formação das idéias estéticas e da poética de Mário de Andrade. Lida e anotada por ele em todos os exemplares, esta publicação da vanguarda francesa encerra um alentado diálogo do poeta brasileiro com o modernismo europeu. Paralelamente, os apontamentos autógrafos, sobrepostos aos textos impressos, fazem com que os números anotados gozem da dupla natureza de edição e de manuscrito. Esta pesquisa inclinou-se sobre as correlações entre as leituras, as notas e as obras do autor brasileiro entre 1920 e 1925. Transcreveu e classificou as anotações autógrafas deste escritor/leitor na coleção completa da revista em sua biblioteca, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, na Universidade de São Paulo, e apresentou, no final, um índice da revista LEsprit Nouveau nas estantes do autor de Macunaíma. Biblioteca de Mário de Andrade, Marginália, Leitura e criação, Modernismo brasileiro, Vanguardas européias

L\'Esprit Nouveau, revista de estética publicada em Paris entre 1920 e 1925, projeto do pintor francês Ozenfant, do arquiteto suíço Le Corbusier e do poeta belga Paul Dermée, representa uma importante matriz na formação das idéias estéticas e da poética de Mário de Andrade. Lida e anotada por ele em todos os exemplares, esta publicação da vanguarda francesa encerra um alentado diálogo do poeta brasileiro com o modernismo europeu. Paralelamente, os apontamentos autógrafos, sobrepostos aos textos impressos, fazem com que os números anotados gozem da dupla natureza de edição e de manuscrito. Esta pesquisa inclinou-se sobre as correlações entre as leituras, as notas e as obras do autor brasileiro entre 1920 e 1925. Transcreveu e classificou as anotações autógrafas deste escritor/leitor na coleção completa da revista em sua biblioteca, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, na Universidade de São Paulo, e apresentou, no final, um índice da revista LEsprit Nouveau nas estantes do autor de Macunaíma. / L\'Esprit Nouveau, revista de estética publicada em Paris entre 1920 e 1925, projeto do pintor francês Ozenfant, do arquiteto suíço Le Corbusier e do poeta belga Paul Dermée, representa uma importante matriz na formação das idéias estéticas e da poética de Mário de Andrade. Lida e anotada por ele em todos os exemplares, esta publicação da vanguarda francesa encerra um alentado diálogo do poeta brasileiro com o modernismo europeu. Paralelamente, os apontamentos autógrafos, sobrepostos aos textos impressos, fazem com que os números anotados gozem da dupla natureza de edição e de manuscrito. Esta pesquisa inclinou-se sobre as correlações entre as leituras, as notas e as obras do autor brasileiro entre 1920 e 1925. Transcreveu e classificou as anotações autógrafas deste escritor/leitor na coleção completa da revista em sua biblioteca, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, na Universidade de São Paulo, e apresentou, no final, um índice da revista LEsprit Nouveau nas estantes do autor de Macunaíma. Biblioteca de Mário de Andrade, Marginália, Leitura e criação, Modernismo brasileiro, Vanguardas européias

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