Jacques Dubois (Walloon Professor)
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Jacques Dubois Professor emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège invented the concept of the Literary Institution following the work of Pierre Bourdieu
by analogy with other social institutions such as military, medical, political... He is also a Member of the Groupe µ
. In 1983,he was the main editor of the Manifesto for Walloon culture
.
On May 6 2003, the prestigious collection La Pléiade
was enriched by 21 of Simenon's novels. Jacques Dubois, president of the Center for Georges Simenon Studies has chosen the Simenon's books, written the notes and surveys with another Walloon Simenon specialist Benoît Denis. Jacques Dubois:
We were totally free to choose the 21 works which will be represented in the Pléiade. The choice was difficult and painful. And Benoît Denis: We have of course included the inescapable masterpieces, The Snow Was Black, Act of Passion Mr. Hire's Engagement, The Little Saint. We wanted the different periods of his life, French, American, Swiss, to be represented. As a result we have included works from his beginnings, less known, like Tropic Moon and The House by the Canal, where, nonetheless, all of Simenon is already present. We have included relatively few Maigret
s, as these novels have a rather pronounced standard and repetitive aspect.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
by analogy with other social institutions such as military, medical, political... He is also a Member of the Groupe µ
Groupe µ
Groupe µ is the collective pseudonym under which a group of Belgian 20th-century semioticians wrote a series of books, presenting an exposition of modern semiotics....
. In 1983,he was the main editor of the Manifesto for Walloon culture
Manifesto for Walloon culture
The Manifesto for Walloon Culture , was published in Liège on 15 September 1983 and signed ‘by seventy-five key figures in artistic, journalistic and university circles’ of Wallonia....
.
On May 6 2003, the prestigious collection La Pléiade
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade is a French series of books which was created in the 1930s by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. . Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the complete works of classic authors in a pocket format...
was enriched by 21 of Simenon's novels. Jacques Dubois, president of the Center for Georges Simenon Studies has chosen the Simenon's books, written the notes and surveys with another Walloon Simenon specialist Benoît Denis. Jacques Dubois:
We were totally free to choose the 21 works which will be represented in the Pléiade. The choice was difficult and painful. And Benoît Denis: We have of course included the inescapable masterpieces, The Snow Was Black, Act of Passion Mr. Hire's Engagement, The Little Saint. We wanted the different periods of his life, French, American, Swiss, to be represented. As a result we have included works from his beginnings, less known, like Tropic Moon and The House by the Canal, where, nonetheless, all of Simenon is already present. We have included relatively few Maigret
Maigret
Jules Maigret, Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional police detective, actually a commissaire or commissioner of the Paris "Brigade Criminelle" , created by writer Georges Simenon.Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and...
s, as these novels have a rather pronounced standard and repetitive aspect.
The Literary Institution
According Michel Biron, Jacques Dubois sought to establish the link between institution and text, while institution upon one of sociocriticism's and, his view, neglected goals, namely the conditions of the material conditions of a text.Works
- Rhétorique générale (avec le Groupe µGroupe µGroupe µ is the collective pseudonym under which a group of Belgian 20th-century semioticians wrote a series of books, presenting an exposition of modern semiotics....
), Éditions Larousse, 1970. Réédition en format de poche, Éditions Le Seuil, Paris, 1992. - Rhétorique de la poésie (avec le Groupe µGroupe µGroupe µ is the collective pseudonym under which a group of Belgian 20th-century semioticians wrote a series of books, presenting an exposition of modern semiotics....
), Éditions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1977. - L'essai, la critique in : La Wallonie, le Pays et les Hommes, La Renaissance du Livre, Bruxelles, 1979
- Le secret du Manifeste in : La Revue Nouvelle, janvier 1984 (numéro spécial consacré au Manifesto for Walloon cultureManifesto for Walloon cultureThe Manifesto for Walloon Culture , was published in Liège on 15 September 1983 and signed ‘by seventy-five key figures in artistic, journalistic and university circles’ of Wallonia....
) - L'institution de la littérature : Introduction à une sociologie, Bruxelles, Labor, 1990.
- Réalité wallonne et médias in : Jean-Claude Van CauwenbergheJean-Claude Van CauwenbergheJean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , nicknamed "Van Cau", is a Walloon politician. He is member of the Belgian French-speaking Socialist Party ....
, Oser être wallon, Quorum, Gerpinnes, 1998. - Le Roman policier ou la modernité, Paris, Nathan, 1996.
- Pour Albertine. Proust et le sens du social, Paris, Seuil, 1997.
- Les Romanciers du réel. De Balzac à Simenon, Paris, Seuil, 2000.
- StendhalStendhalMarie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...
. Une sociologie romanesque, Paris, La Découverte, 2007.