Cyrano de Bergerac: A new version, by Derek Mahon

The essay aims to discuss the fortune of the well-known iconography of the “transparent body” by Leonardo da Vinci, clearly and first of all in the field of artistic anatomy. Some of the most illuminating evidence of this legacy can be found in the plates realized in Paris at the end of the 17th century by the mysterious Valencian engraver Crisóstomo Martínez. These incredible documents are strictly connected to the odd vogue of transparency that, in the same years, seems to affect also European literature, e.g. the pastoral novel Le Berger extravagant by Charles Sorel, the science fiction stories by Cyrano de Bergerac and the famous and “exemplar” tale El licenciado Vidriera by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Cyrano de Bergerac; Chanticleer

Modern Language Journal ◽

10.2307/319208 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 237

Author(s):

Philip W. Timberlake ◽

Edmond Rostand ◽

Clifford Hershey Bissell ◽

William van Wyck

Keyword(s):

Cyrano De Bergerac

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CYRANO DE BERGERAC AS A PREDECESSOR OF SCIENCE FICTION PROSE

RZ-Literaturovedenie ◽

10.31249/lit/2021.01.11 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 113-124

Author(s):

Natalia Pakhsaryan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

17Th Century ◽

Literary Studies ◽

The Novel ◽

Cyrano De Bergerac ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Century Literature

The article considers the genre of Cyranoʼs novel «Another world», widely discussed in both domestic and foreign literary studies. It explores the elements of science fiction in contrast to those of the miraculous, as they appear in the 17th-century literature, and identifies the features of utopianism and the peculiarities of scientific forecasting in the work. Both parts of «Another world» are examined in their similarities and differences from one another, as well as combination of universalism and topical issues of the novel with narrative irony and burlesque.

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