L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere

Following Michel Foucault’s suggestion about the “soul, prison of the body”, which inverses the traditional conception of the body as prison of the soul, I will scrutinize a detail of Viau’s Theophilus in carcere (the astonishing reference to Danae) that permits him paradoxically to capture/ captiva...

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Main Author: Eric Méchoulan
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Language:fra
Published: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire 2011-12-01
Series:Les Dossiers du GRIHL
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/4983
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L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
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title L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
title_full L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
title_fullStr L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
title_full_unstemmed L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
title_short L’âme, prison du corps ? À propos d’un détail du Theophilus in carcere
title_sort l ame prison du corps a propos d un detail du theophilus in carcere
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