Search Results for Louis Marin

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...

... universe, but it has fas- cinated narratologists and literary theorists because it raises and compli- cates questions of exemplarity, rhetoric, and power. Fables exemplify the claim of the example and thus exemplify, as Louis Marin argues, the way in which narratives lay traps for readers...

... obedience to right, we’ve made it right to compel obedience to might.” Still, it’s possible to read Pascal’s apology responsibly while keeping a firm hand on everything that remains indigestibly unapologetic. Louis Marin ( 1975 : chap. 12) shows how Pascal’s skeptical analyses of the limits of human...

... emphatically asserted the passivity of visual perception. Louis Marin, for example, focuses on the difference between the passive reception of “aspects” and the active registering of “prospects.”15 Georges Didi-Huberman similarly distinguishes the con- ceptual knowledge grounded in the “visible...

...). 17 Louis Marin, Portrait o/ the King, trans. Martha Houle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988)~10- 1. Calhoon I The Spectacle of the Body Natural 93 Similarly, in what Ernst Kantorowicz has described as a reversal of the coronation sequence, Shakespeare’s...

... del Consejo de las Ordenes y de la Iunta, trata con el duque de Vzeda, sig. g, fol. 13. The location of this printed Memorial (which bears no date or place of publication) is not given by Luis Astrana Marin in his undocumented and not entirely accurate La vida turbulenta de Quevedo (Madrid...

... de Educacibn, Cuadernos de Cultura, Sexta Serie, No, 5, 1945. Pp. 184. Hawkins, Laurence F. Spanish Handbook for Mariners and Travelers in Latin America. New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1945. Pp. xii + 209. $2.50. Mari, JosC. Trincheras de Papel. La Habana : Publicaciones...

... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...

... Press for the American- Scandinavian Foundation, 1944. Pp. 298. $3.00. SPANISH-AMERICAN* Marin, Angel Consuegra. Inglks B6sico en Viente Lecciones. La Habana : Cul- tural, S. A., 1944. Pp. xii + 304. Perez, Emma. Historia de la Pedagogia en Cuba: Desde...

...-e marin” cer- tain ideas dear to Sartre.2 This is also what Everett W. Knight observed, at the same time recognizing that postulates of existentialism may be detected in French symbolist poets.3 My intention is to pursue the sub- ject further, to confirm by the generality of the works...

..., and the pil- grim’s journey, guided by intellect under the direction of grace,8 than the fact that it is the Mount of Purgatory which the mariners at last sight and from which the storm that sinks their ship originates. Finally, to cite the obvious, the storm, presumably sent by God, results...

.... Nelson, Robert J. Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds. Philadelphia: Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. Pp. 322. $7.50. Rugg, Evelyn, and Diego Marin (translators). JosC Ortega y Gasset: Meditations on Quixote. New York: W. W. Norton 8: Co., Norton Library, No. 125, 1963. Pp...

... modified “Raven”stanzas convey the heat of Rustavelian flame, Swinburne is convinced that his mellifluous “Lady of Shalott” stanzas bring alive the marine world of Malory’s British islanders. Swinburne and Bal’mont are strikingly akin in their supreme confidence as elementally inspired...

... Andrea, Colleci6n Studium, No. 15, 1957. Pp. 327. $3.85. Gerhardt, Mia I. Les Voyages de Sindbad Le Marin. Utrecht: Kemink en Zoon, Studia Litteraria Rheno-Traiectina, Vol. 111, 1957. Pp. 39. Glauser, Alfred. Hugo et la poCsie pure. Genbe: Librairie E. Droz; Paris: Librairie Minard...

... emmes accompagnant les marins sur les vaisseaux de guerre d’antan-mais elle me semble inventCe apr6s coup), et I’assonance en -re dans le juron cCl6bre du Pkre Ubu: bougre de merdre, merdre de bougre (v. plus loin, note 19). D’ailleurs il n’est pas sGr que nom de Dieu soit inoffensif...

...” ust after World War II Ralph Ellison was at a turning point in his Jcareer as a literary critic and fiction writer. Having returned from his last tour of duty in the Merchant Marine, he published a heralded review of Richard Wright’s Black Boy in which he both praised and lib- erated himself...

... comte de Buffon et au dit sieur Panckoucke pour l’impression et dkbit des ouvrages dudit seigneur comte de Buff on Doubtless with Buffon’s permission, Panckoucke made known that the division devoted to quadrupeds and marine animals in the eighth section of Histoire Naturelle des...

... Dictionary; The Flower Vase; Flora’s Lexicon; The Flowers Personified; or The 1 Letter to Justice Lemuel Shaw, April 23, 1849, in Raymond M.Weaver, Herinan Melville, Mariner and Mystic (New York, 1921), p. 274. 2 Frederic I. Carpenty, “Puritans Preferred Blondes. The Heroines...

... becomes “a telltale product of the socio-­economic circumstances surrounding its pub- lication,” thanks to its manuscript circulation by “the eclectic impresario Marin Mersenne” (8). So “what scholarly tradition trains us to regard as the text of Descartes’s Meditations turns out to have been...

..., and sacrifice surrounds Romantic marriage, both lived and imagined. Even if, like the wedding guest and mariner, you stand outside the institution, it nonetheless (and maybe all the more) marks you. A staggering amount of heartache fills this study, which meditates on the peculiar difficulties...