...William C. Calin Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF GAUTIER D’ARRAS By WILLIAMC. CALIN One of the most interesting recent developments in Old French scholarship is the renewed concern...

...Albert B. Smith Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 GAUTIER’S MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS By ALBERTB. SMITH Attempts to achieve...

... unable to understand the essential dignity of the Fleurs. It has as a focus point the clichk of Baudelaireaii decadence to which Gautier’s Yrkface to the 1868 edition of the poems gave definite form. Moreover, a great deal of Baudelaire’s way of feeling proceeded from contacts made...

... of the Parnassians on the four major figures of Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Banville, and HeLedia. Like the previous book, this one is intended for the general reader as well as students in French and Comparative Literature. The study merits praise, in that it successfully summarizes and clarifies vast...

... for their testimony about the public affairs of their time. But two such works, Partonopeus de Blois and Gautier #Arras’s Evades, do suggest that their authors wrote with political intent, one against, the other for, the elevaiion of a low-born man to power. It is probable that Partottopeus makes allusion...

... Gautier, seeing in all this the sure demise of Racine’s theater, boasted in January, 1838: L’on ne recevrait aujourd‘hui 5 aucun thCQtre une piece de Racine, et . . . si elle hit reque, par hasard, elle serait sifflk assurkment.4 However, that very summer, a girl of seventeen made her debut...

... figures of Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Banville, and HeLedia. Like the previous book, this one is intended for the general reader as well as students in French and Comparative Literature. The study merits praise, in that it successfully summarizes and clarifies vast and sometimes half-forgotten...

... compares him to Oedipus, Hugo to Prometheus, and Gautier calls him “the Orestes of the North.”2 Hamlet is more alive than these heroes of antiquity; he is more alive even that Don Quixote, Don Juan, or Faust.* These other great mythical figures could conceivably not have existed, because...

... in the work of a young and uninspiring Hugo and then in that of the even younger Musset (chap. 2). Chapter 3 shows the work progressing under other hands, especially Gau- tier’s. The dozen pages (53-66) given to Gautier are rich in content and promise, and all the more tantalizing...

... Reviews and for displaying their egotistic “ennui” or their more cosmic “Weltschmerz” as a badge of their independence. The central role in A. E. Carter’s gallery of decadents is played by ThCophile Gautier. His Prfface to the Calmann Levy edition of the Fleurs du Ma1 crys...

... upon. The notes, complete glossary, and index of proper names follow- ing the text are valuable, but here again one could wish for more extensive investigations, and greater exactitude in the dates. Gautier de Tournai’s model, who gives his own name several times as the author...

... to Verlaine,86as he refers to the prevalent delight in the atmosphere of Roman decadence in his homage to Malla~mCMore- over, Heliogabalus was well established in the consciousness even of the ancestors of the men of the fin de s2cle, Baudelaire and Gautier. Baudelaire had translated this passage...

... but rather a reality will appear from four examples which I have found in O.F. texts of the thirteenth century. The first three are from fabliaux of Gautier Le Leu, in which entire occurs in rhyme (1, 2) and is attested by the syllable count (3) : 1. Puis li...

... , informs canonical novels such as Honoré de Balzac’s Séraphîta and Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin , which use sex ambiguity to drive the plot and leave readers in suspense. The statue by Polycles in the Louvre may have inspired Latouche, who ends the novel without naming a true sex. Linton...

... Sir Gautier and Sir John. Then Sir Gautier returns to the English camp, and our eye follows him. We see the English camp and the conference there, and then we see Sir Gautier return to the wall and give his message to Sir John, who takes the message to the citizens of Calais and thus...

... Racine was adapting a Renaissance and French tradition about Achilles. An Anglo-French Collection of Books in the Royal Malta Library. By Fraser Mackenzie. Account of a rich eighteenth-century collection at Valletta. ThCophile Gautier et le Dandysme esthCtique. By J. M. Milner...

... from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history, to distil the eternal from the transitory.” Having gathered sensations on the street, he returns to his studio, where they are “put in order, ranged, and har- monized” in his art.10 Théophile Gautier describes Baudelaire’s...

... satisfying enough in itself. Blunc admires the praiseworthy efforts of Descaves “pour rendre la voix, I’indescriptible voix humaine.” Noir retorts : “ThCophile Gautier dut y renoncer.” Now going back to a review of Schwob’s Le Cmur double, which Renard wrote a few years earlier,l5 we find...

.... Yet most of his poems, many light ones and even those which identify poetic accomplishment with death and the elimination of contingencies, are vers de circonstances. Gautier’s tombeau is one example. Paradoxically, we might ask what emphasizes historical time more than the “Tombeaux...

... on that of Gautier. But the two were apparently different, given Huang’s college education, her bilingualism, and her potential to become an accomplished actress and therefore financially independent. If we only read Tian’s words, we might understand this as a case of overreading by undiscerning female readers...