...Philip Stephan Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 DECADENT POETRY IN LE CHAT NOIR BEFORE VERLAINE’S “LANGUEUR’’ By PHILIPSTEPHAN According to the traditional view held by historians of French sym- bolism...

... are to this edition. 2 Quoted in Claude Rawson, “Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chat- terton,” in Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, ed. Nick Groom (New York: St. Margaret Russett teaches at the University of Southern California. She is author of De Quincey’s Romanticism: Canonical Minority...

... scene in the demorali- zation of Ismael and Dalila.s Even a casual reading is likely to make this game memorable as an exhortation to youth to avoid a way of degradation that leads to the pox and a scaffold. In contrast to this moral seriousness, Dame Chat enters in a lighter mood with a handful...

... has become a way of deconstructing hallowed Chi- nese traditions. Here is a passage from Mu Zimei’s story “Container” (“Rongqi The female narrator “I” has a noncommittal, on-again-off- again sexual relationship with her lover Rongqi, a playboy: We chatted continuously, about Karl Popper, about...

... by a distin- guished scholar, if these instances of oversimplification were only wayward moments in an otherwise impressive performance. Unfortunately, however, they are products of the general slackness of critical approach that governs the genre of these essays, the genre of “chatting about...

... produit, elle implique la culture enticre” (p. 275). Clearly, such breadth can not be achieved equally in all periods, for the further back we go the more we are dependent on the circumstantial evidence of translation and imitation ; the literary chit-chat of the sixteenth century, fascinating...

... imagination is surprisingly limited” (p. 205). A fairer criticism is chat he occasionally seems to force the sense of a key term, as in his claim for an underlying religious dimension in “exertion” (pp. 113-14). What this reader most wishes, how- ever, is that the text had been more carefully edited...

... limited” (p. 205). A fairer criticism is chat he occasionally seems to force the sense of a key term, as in his claim for an underlying religious dimension in “exertion” (pp. 113-14). What this reader most wishes, how- ever, is that the text had been more carefully edited to remove inaccurate...

... into chat tendency of Geistesgeschichte which dramatizes a writer’s life as a constant wrestling with ideological issues which enter into new combinations from one work to the next, but rarely resolve themselves satisfactorily in any of his works. Fortunately, Gearey is able to transcend...

... to be thoroughly committed to structuralism, he is not entirely satisfied with certain structuralist tendencies. For example, in discussing the celebrated Levi-Strauss/Jakobson anal- ysis of Baudelaire’s “Les chat he observes that “linguistic descrip- tion will not solve the problem of literary...

... of London, though perhaps not so far away as Chester; and the poet wanted to know how the young, keen-witted doctor could find intel- lectual stimulation among the barbarians, when he inquired if there were “any smallish learned folks with whom you can willingly asso- ciate and chat” in those...

... crkdules, me paraissait 3 moi aussi reel que le fromage au chat, malgrk la cloche de verre. Pourtant la cloche existe. La cloche se cassant, le chat en pro- fite. . . .“2 The cat is to the cheese as the artist is to his work, or the drama- tist to his play. But the narrator is not only...

... she regales him with creamy chocolate, homely speeches about past glories, and impre- cations against unscrupulous stablemen and faithless cooks. Quand je parus suffisamment domestiquk, assimilk au chat Mi- nesse, A la pendule, incorpork A la ptnombre et aux odeurs, elle se...

... the learning experiences “a queer shock; it was as if’ life had impinged upon my creative rights by wriggliiig on beyond the subjective limits so elegaiitly and economically set by childhood memo- ries that I thought I had signed and sealed” (p. 93). What happens then, in the economical chat with 1...

... in the way they did. Then along came Northrop Frye. In his “Polemical Introduction” to Anatomy of Criticism (1957) he dis- missed all evaluative criticism as “literary chit-chat” and “the de- bauchery of judici~usnessWhat was wanted was “a systematic study” of literature, akin to science, seen...

...; golden hair with dark shadows, mysterious green eyes, a husky voice, a queenly bearing and yet a strangely childlike air. On this basis Professor Feuillerat adds to her cycle Le Chat, L’lnvitation au voyage and the much-disputed Beau naz~ire.He then goes on to trace Marie’s career, from...

.... A valid chat- lenge can originate only within the man himself, arising from a con- flict of desires, as indeed does occur in the fifth act of the First Part. The challenge of Beauty, which for Marlowe appears to include the qualities of tenderness and compassion, is symbolized in Tambur...

... Voyages duns Zes Alpes, Carlyle had read of this Genevan as Saussure’s collaborator in his famous scientific investigations.2 Then, too, chatting with an acquaintance whom he called the “small Gene~eseand who was a fellow student of mineralogy, Carlyle had probably heard lively...

... the critical issues I had outlined for our discussion went unheeded, my students, none of whom would ever have that most sinister epithet snarled at him or her, chatted about its rhetorical utility without any sense of danger or personal threat. Arac’s analysis conveys my classroom experience...

... consort to the angelic symphony. (125–32) Milton’s Nativity Ode at once absorbs and transforms this entire tradition. Lurching from hushed calm to the horrifying sound of the dying gods, it possesses the lyric equivalent of surround sound, registering everything from the chatting shepherds...