...Barbara M. Benedict The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70 BOOK REVIEWS READING...

... , 2006 . Print . 2014 ACLA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ERIC HAYOT On the Lack of Curiosity Regarding Institutional Life 1 When I was a boy growing up in France my American mother signed me up for the Cub Scouts. I joined a group of other...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... LAKE PRESCOTT Barnard College, Columbia University COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/80 THE USES OF CURIOSITY IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE AND GERMANY. By Neil Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 484 p. Is curiosity a concept or a word? Who invokes it, when and why? Recent studies...

... altogether alien contexts” (3). American objects that took their place as curiosities in European Wunder­ kammern (Cabinets of Curiosities) lead off the analysis in Part 1, followed, in Part 2, by the reverse migration of European icons such as the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Americas. Departing from...

... altogether alien contexts” (3). American objects that took their place as curiosities in European Wunder­ kammern (Cabinets of Curiosities) lead off the analysis in Part 1, followed, in Part 2, by the reverse migration of European icons such as the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Americas. Departing from...

... altogether alien contexts” (3). American objects that took their place as curiosities in European Wunder­ kammern (Cabinets of Curiosities) lead off the analysis in Part 1, followed, in Part 2, by the reverse migration of European icons such as the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Americas. Departing from...

... the “myriad objects that migrated between Europe and the Americas to find their new place within altogether alien contexts” (3). American objects that took their place as curiosities in European Wunder­ kammern (Cabinets of Curiosities) lead off the analysis in Part 1, followed, in Part 2...

... tortured existence except one: I was able to indulge my innate curiosity [quod ingenita mihi curiositate recreabar], since everyone now took little account of my presence and freely did and said whatever they wished. That divine inventor of ancient poetry among the Greeks, desiring to portray a hero...

... con- nected with the rise of imperialist ideology, these curiosity cabinets organized and displayed the non-European in a ritual of appropriation.1 One of many prac- tices helping to restore to Europe its sense of self-importance in the face of an unfolding universe, the collections even obviated...

... of their poetry its elegiac key; but it also gives it a stoic playfulness and perpetual curiosity about the world, a curiosity that stands to be renewed only because no possession is possible. As the sandpiper figures this obsessive curiosity in Bishop’s poetry, so the acrobat stands as an analogous figure...

... of Bakhtin’s thought in relation to congenial late nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in philosophy, with special emphasis on the work of Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emman- uel Levinas. In the end, Bakhtin’s work emerges as neither a curiosity from the past, fit for little more...

... of the poetic, itself. Rather than merely presenting, say, shaving cream jingles or greeting card verses as historical curiosities, his book rigorously demon- strates both the cultural significance and the aesthetic complexity of popular poetries. One of the overarching theses of Everyday Reading...

... Lezama Lima’s essay “La curiosidad barroca” (“Baroque Curiosity”; 1957), because this essay, a foundational manifesto of the New World baroque as “counterconquest” (alongside Carpentier’s essays not discussed here), pivots on an analysis of baroque reason as Latin America’s alternate Enlightenment.11...