La sociocritique d'Edmond Cros

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Edmond Cros — 2016-11-25T15:52:28Z

The Emergence of the Modern European Novel in Spain 1599-1605

Edmond Cros — 2011-11-16T14:51:10Z

I want to put forward the hypothesis that it was between 1599, the date when the First Part of Guzmán de Alfarache appeared in print, and 1605, the publication date of the First Part of Don Quijote, that the European novel emerged. This thesis is not new: I proposed it in 1967 in Protée et le gueux (Cros 1967), where I pointed out that Mateo Alemán's and Cervantes's texts established a genuine conflicting dialogue.

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American Films of the Thirties - The Case of Howard Hawks's Scarface III

Edmond Cros — 2009-12-21T10:22:10Z

These economic determinants are, however, not the only ones worth mentioning, Higham notes two other factors that are part of the superstructure. (1) The shock of foreign cultural models. In contrast to the first wave of immigra-tion, which was predominantly Protestant and British, the second wave, extending from 1820 to the National Act of 1924, was much more heterogeneous: it consisted largely of southern European Catholics. This second wave played an important role in the shaping of an (…)

- Practice / Phenotext

American Films of the Thirties- The Case of Howard Hawks'Scarface II

Edmond Cros — 2009-12-21T10:21:36Z

In a first approach to Scarface I had reconstructed the semiotic system of the initial se-quences of the film before proposing the outlines of a sociocritical reading. The problemat-ics that have emerged may now be submitted to new analyses conducted from perceptibly different and, for that very reason, complementary points of view. Our point of departure is the major semiotic text that emerged from our analysis, namely, the polarity of hiding and unmasking, which seems to run through the (…)

- Practice

American Films of the Thirties - The case of Howard Hawks's - I-Scarface e

Edmond Cros — 2009-11-13T17:41:23Z

I- Toward a Semiological Reading of Film
Study of Sequences
SCARFACE (dialogue and shooting script)* Street scene at night Medium close-up of the globe of a lighted lamp-post, in a low-angle shot; beneath the globe, a sign indicating “22^nd Street.” The camera moves back, and a horse-drawn deliv-ery van comes into view, stopped in a dark, deserted street; then the camera goes around the vehicle. Next we see that the delivery van is stopped in front of a nightclub with its windows still (…)

- Practice

Textual Functions III - Genotext and Phenotexts

Edmond Cros — 2009-01-17T13:44:56Z

This survey studies how the “already said” (Intertextuality, Preconstructed, preconstrained...) is working linked with the interdiscurse, the ideological and discursive formations the transformational codes, using two terms from Julia Kristeva (Genotext and Fenotext) but with a different meaning related with the Human Geography ( genotype and fenotype). Edmond Cros ilstrates this functioning in “Citizen Kane”, “La Muerte de Artemio Cruz” (Carlos Fuentes, 1962) and “Guzmán de Alfarache” (Mateo Alemán 1599- 1604).

- English / Transformational code, Genotext, Phenotext, Ideological and Discursive Formations

Textual Functions II — Textual Processes of Transformation and Codes of Mediation (Continuation)

Edmond Cros — 2009-01-17T10:51:22Z

The process of transformation of the observable reality setts off not only an already elaborated linguistic material but also new intermediary structures
that somehow are capable of displacing signs and homogenizing them within
an identical code, named “Transformational Code” by Edmond Cros. This
article ilustrates such process with the analysis of the first sequence of
“Citizen Kane” (Welles, 1941), “La vida del buscón” (F. de Quevedo, 1626)
and, more briefly, “La Región más transparente” (Carlos Fuentes, 1958), the Litin's film “Viva el Presidente” (from Alejo Carpentier's "El Recurso del
método“1975) a Velazquez's painting,”La Túnica".

- English / Transformational code, Intratextual microsemiotics

Textual Functions I

Edmond Cros — 2009-01-17T10:50:23Z

This article presents some theorical notions from M.Bakhtin and L. Godmann necessary for understanding how is working the process of semiotic
transformation that links the textual structures with the social structures.

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Bibliography

Edmond Cros — 2006-12-03T11:43:39Z

Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, (Coll. Theory and History of Literature, vol. 53 )1988] “Foundations for a Sociocriticism. Methodological Presuppositions ans Their Applications to La región más transparente by Carlos Fuentes” [Translated by Gerald Guinness] On Text and Context. Methodological Approaches to the Contexts of Literature (edited by Eduardo Forastieri-Braschi, Gerald Guinness and Humberto López Morales), PuertoRico, Editorial (…)

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Towards a Sociocritical Theory of the Text

Edmond Cros — 2006-07-28T15:50:29Z

Going back to the 1960s we observe a radical reconfiguration of the idea of the text, resulting from the rapid expansion of general linguistics and literary semiology. This idea was detached from the “philosophy of truth ; it defined a “new object” that was described as a “translinguistic device”and considered as a signifying practice that never ceases to work and that is irreducible to objective signification. While retaining the theoretical concepts implicit within this idea, (…)

- Theory