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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 168–174.
Published: 01 June 1971
...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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 199–205.
Published: 01 September 1957
... makes no attempt to resolve the differences.
Segrais was twenty-eight, just three years older than Mademoiselle
de Montpensier, when he accompanied her into exile at Saint-Fargeau
in November, 1652. Since he left no personal record and since the
preponderant part of Mademoiselle’s memoirs...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 107–112.
Published: 01 June 1957
... emphasis, in midstream as it were, and becomes a lyrical
apotheosis of love. Gobineau’s idealization of love, most cogently
depicted in Les Plkiades, published in 1874, can be traced back as far
as 1847, the date of the nouvelle “Mademoiselle Irnois.” Already in
that work the concept that true...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 438–443.
Published: 01 December 1949
... that the actress was not really a tragCdienne. Thus, the interest
aroused by Rachel, he maintained, was purely personal, and the public
cared nothing for the tragedies she interpreted :
Chose singdiere ! mademoiselle Rachel . . . ne s’apercevait pas qu’elle rkussissait
par le sentiment tout moderne...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 517–525.
Published: 01 December 1949
... of all, however, is a passage from Gautier’s novel,
Mademoiselle de Maupin. The hero, D’Albert, writes to a friend :
I am as weary as if I had gone through all the prodigalities of Sardanapalus
. . . Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, great Romans of the Empire . . . I suffer from
your disease. . . . I...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 118–124.
Published: 01 June 1954
... the fetters of a lowly slave and has been
instrumental in winning for him her father’s favor, he is duty bound
to marry her. Solyman appears with Ibrahim, fresh from victory
over Persia, presents Ulama (the Sophy’s son, but merely “a Satrape
of Persia” in Mademoiselle’s version) to Roxolana...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 June 2024
... 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 also identifies a medical case that uses terms and narrative strategies...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 1972
... of property in Mademoiselle,” There is considerable
point in her asking what he has done with his wife, for the symbolic
suggestion seems to be that he has spirited away Mrs. Bucket because he
means to make Hortense take the role of supernumerary, “spiritual”
wife.
It is convenient...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 21–29.
Published: 01 March 1947
...
and the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin by the latter (1835) show the
attitude. It may seem odd to speak of Edward Lear’s Book of Non-
sense (1816) in connection with Mademoiselle de Maupin-for the
two books seem to be at opposite poles-and it would be somewhat
of an exaggeration to characterize Lear’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and comparisons can begin. Consider an excerpt from Nagamatsu’s “Portrait of Mademoiselle Mako” (1931), which consists of several pages of extended interior monologue. The narration, which begins with the female narrator’s musings about a recent love letter, quickly grows more fragmented and dispersed...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Mademoiselle de Scudéry [Geneva: Droz, 1983], 97n1). In
Heliodorus internal narratives were modeled on the traveler’s tale and thus frequently
took the form of first-person eyewitnessing, but for reasons of propriety the first person
all but disappeared after 1630 (Plazenet, 597 – 624). On reliability...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 203–206.
Published: 01 June 1944
... interested
in French affairs knew of the proposed marriage of Lauzun to
Mademoiselle de Montpensier and of Louis XIV’s sudden and dra-
matic refusal to grant permission on December 18, 1670. To have
spoken after that date of bringing to Lauzun a “premier rebut” would
have been ridiculous...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 461–492.
Published: 01 December 2011
... yesterday, but I am much unhappier to have to refuse the first thing that you
ask of me. The reason for this refusal is that I have never produced a key, either
for Cyrus or for Clélie, and I do not have one myself” (Mademoiselle de Scudéry: Sa vie
478...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., the prince de Condi, was
imprisoned, and Mademoiselle de Montpensier, who turned the guns of the
Bastille against Louis Xfv in the battle of Saint-Antoine. For DeJean, the
emergence of these female warriors at their supreme moment of the Fronde
represents not only a pinnacle of feminist ascension...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 228–234.
Published: 01 September 1960
... the Prince of Navarre judges
only by externals which he twists to suit his sense of insecurity. Even
the least ambiguous expressions of affection leave him unconvinced.
The Princess of Leon is as unwilling to reveal her love in unequivo-
cal words as are any of Mademoiselle de Scudkry’s heroines...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 351–356.
Published: 01 December 1961
... good friends, and when in Paris before
Mademoiselle’s exile, Segrais often visited the crippled writer. He had
already written the long historical novel Be‘rknice, which was pub-
lished in 1648. It does not seem improbable that they discussed the
novel as a form and the ways of bringing...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 53–59.
Published: 01 March 1958
..., “there are reasons to assume that these works
can be rightfully credited to Corneille.” The first premise, though
announced by Poulaille with a semblance of excitement, comes of
course as no revelation. Every MoliPre student learned from the
outset that Grimarest’s shaky testimony, old Mademoiselle...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 215–241.
Published: 01 June 1940
... et en vous assurent que je vous suis,
et vous cerai toujours tendrement atachC
j’embrasse mademoiselle votre fille et la remersie de l’honeur de
son souvenir, la miennel’ vous fait bien des compliments
10 Paper torn : words in brackets supplied.
11For Mme. Geoffrin’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 275–302.
Published: 01 September 2022
...) fidelity the sound of an absent voice. Reflecting on two of the greatest female performers of his era, he writes: “Peut-être trouvera-t-on de nos jours l’art de décrire avec exactitude le talent de mademoiselle Mars ou celui de madame Pasta, et dans cent ans d’ici ces talents sublimes auront, dans la...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 527–538.
Published: 01 December 1940
... and
light-hearted merriment, he wrote to Mlle de Rambouillet deploring
the fate of an eminently useful conjunction :
Mademoiselle, car itant d’une si grande considkration dans notre
langue, j’approuve extrtmement le ressentiment que vous avez du tort
qu’on veut lui faire, et je ne puis bien...
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