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Journal Article
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
....
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 during the period of
1652 to 1657 deals...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 107–112.
Published: 01 June 1957
... 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 passion does not demand reciprocity...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 438–443.
Published: 01 December 1949
... 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 qu’elle y apportait. Le jeune...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 517–525.
Published: 01 December 1949
... debauchery, a
Nero-bureaucrat, a Heliogabalus-shopkeeper.40
Most noteworthy 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...
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 (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
... purpose. The new attitude, undoubt-
edly a product of the disharmony between the artist and society which
was one of the final manifestations of Romanticism, began to appear
in the 1830’s. Certain prefaces of Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier
and the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin by the latter...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... kind of focus, from which new readings 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...
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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 (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 (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 (1958) 19 (1): 53–59.
Published: 01 March 1958
... 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 Poisson’s
hazy recollections, La Grange’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 215–241.
Published: 01 June 1940
... 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 daughter, Marie ThCrGse, Marquise de la FertC-
Imbault, 1715...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 275–302.
Published: 01 September 2022
... mademoiselle Mars ou celui de madame Pasta, et dans cent ans d’ici ces talents sublimes auront, dans la mémoire des hommes, une physionomie distincte” (Perhaps in our lifetime someone will master the art of describing so precisely the performances of [the actress] Mademoiselle Mars or [the singer] Giuditta...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 527–538.
Published: 01 December 1940
... :
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 espirer de 1’AcadCmie dont
vous me parlez, voyant qu’elle se veut itablir par une si grande
violence . . . .17...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 177–192.
Published: 01 June 1975
... and shifting on becomes even more dense before we ar-
rive.
Mademoiselle 0, in an echoic scene, reads to the Nabokov boys. The
single page listed for “Stained glass” refers to this occurrence, particu-
larly to the “harlequin pattern of colored panes inset in a whitewashed
framework on either...
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