Justice is one of the moral virtues that, to the greatest degree, orients people toward a community and governs exchanges between individuals. Literature can coherently reproduce moral paradigms originating from the Aristotelian-Ciceronian tradition. The discourse of virtues permeates many levels of literature in the...

UNDER NORSK FILMFONDS seminar om regissorrollen i September tok undertegnede pÃ¥ seg hatten som filmkunstnerens forsvarer. Hva er en filmregissÃ'r om han ikke er en kunstner? HÃ¥ndverker eller underholdningsleverandÃ'r? Er han den kreative drivkraften i et prosjekt? I den norske virkeligheten skal han heist...

In the following excerpt, Call critiques Chateaubriand's depiction of the American wilderness via the myth of Eden, in René and Atala which represent America as a place for escape and isolation. Call further claims that Chateaubriand countered the expectations of paradisiacal settings as regenerative and portrayed René as a Cain figure.

In the following essay, Bouvier looks at Atala in relationship to René to examine the motif of incest in the former. Using a Derridean approach, Bouvier focuses on the structures of silence and secrecy, addressing the paradoxical nature of incest’s dual presence and absence in Chateaubriand's work.

In the following essay, Charlton analyzes Chateaubriand's René as an example of French Romanticism that constructs the melancholic, solitary individualist. Charlton maintains that Chateaubriand presented an ambivalent view of both melancholy and Christianity.