...R. L. Frautschi Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 NICOLAS DE TROYES AND THE PRESUMED BORROWINGS FROM PANTAGRUEL By R. L. FRAUTSCHI Several commentators have been tempted to ascribe...

...Amy S. Wyngaard Most critical accounts of the history of pornography note that the term is traceable to Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne's Pornographe , which they dismiss in the same breath because of its nonpornographic status. Although Rétif wrote only one pornographic novel, L'Anti-Justine...

... marriage, but in doing so he is being true to his genuine nature, and he finds himself in spite of himself. The characters most in touch with reality are the two servants, Louka and Nicola. It is a necessity of their class that, though they may have romantic daydreams, these dreams should...

...) by Nicolas Boileau’s 1674 Art poétique and best exemplified by the tragedies of Jean Racine. Hélène Bilis aligns Passing Judgment with the well-established body of scholarship that has questioned how closely tragedians in practice adhered to these rules. More specifically, Bilis explores, through...

...Lionel J. Friedman Nicolas James Perella. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969, 356 pp. $10.95. Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 REVIEWS The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism...

...Nicolas J. Perella G. Singh. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1968. ix + 225 pp. L. 2500. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 AKTHUK SHEKBO 123 I reject in toto Hopkins’ conclusions and the methods used to arrive at them. My...

... and Experience in the Age of Descartes. By Christopher Braider. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xii + 340 pp. Five of the six chapters composing The Matter of Mind explore works by an equal number of major figures of French classicism: Nicolas Poussin, Pierre Corneille, Molière, Blaise...

... because they resented it.” ROGERB. OAKE Reed College The Pieresc Papers. By FRANCISW. GRAVIT.Ann Arbor: University of Michi- gan Contributions in Modem Philology, No. 14, February, 1950. Pp. 57. $1.00, The influence of Nicolas-Claude...

...: Ohio qni- versity Press, 1977. 164 pp. $12.00. Jones, Gwyn (editor). The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English. Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1977. xxxvii + 313 pp. $12.95. Kiessling, Nicolas. The Incubus in English Literature: Provenance and Progeny. Pullman...

... to Gray. Of great importance here are the popularity of the later Italian painters in England (notably the Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Nicolas Poussin), the combination of naturalistic pictonalism (enargek) with the conveying of “sophisticated moral and psychological truth” (p...

.... Hampton, John. Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger et la science de son temps. Genbe : Librairie E. Droz; Lille: Librairie Giard, 1955. Pp. 205. Hernandez de Mendoza, Cecilia. Iris. Bogoti : Editorial Iqueima, 1954. Pp. 117. Kruse, Margot. Das Pascal-Bild in der franziisischen Literatur. Hamburg...

... it.” ROGERB. OAKE Reed College The Pieresc Papers. By FRANCISW. GRAVIT.Ann Arbor: University of Michi- gan Contributions in Modem Philology, No. 14, February, 1950. Pp. 57. $1.00, The influence of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, erudite and scholar of the early seventeenth century, has...

... 1941 translations of the so-called negrista verse of the Puerto Rican poet Luis Palés Matos (78–79), which Feinsod contrasts with Hughes and Ben Carruthers’s 1948 translations of Afro-Cuban poems by Nicolás Guillén, Cuba Libre (84–85). The common touchstone for these poems is a particular genre...

..., interruptive as well as contrapuntal, strictly causal as well as loosely analogical. This seemingly impossible set of contradictions is resolved at a higher level, namely, by a psychoanalytic reading of slavery in the cultural text that Gikandi bases on Nicolas Abraham and Mária Török’s account of introjection...

... on the cultural background and the artistic achievements of the major English poets from Dryden to Gray. Of great importance here are the popularity of the later Italian painters in England (notably the Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Nicolas Poussin), the combination of naturalistic...

...Gita May Victor Brombert. New York: Random House, Studies in Language and Literature, SLL 24, 1968. xii + 209 pp. $2.45, paper. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 NICOLAS J. PEKELLA 125 intense sincerity that Leopardi’s...

... Francon, “Montaigne humaniste et folkloriste”; Steven Hess, “Pre- liminaries to a Study of Gallicisms in Old Spanish”; Urban -1.. Holmes, “The Monkey in Mediaeval Literature”; Nicolae Iliescu, “Inferno XV: ‘Se tu segui tua stella’ ”, Red .Jasinski, “Le Sens des Trois contes...

... has not been provided by Par Bergman. The cult of speed, of paroxysm, of “simultaneousness,” made possible by fast means of transportation and cosmopolitanism, which draws Bergman’s attention in the second half of his book, is again focused on minor figures: Nicolas Beauduin and Henri...

... society at a given time” (4). It follows that Kavanagh will offer not a seamless narrative history but a series of “flash points” (5), from Jean Bodel’s thirteenth-century work Jeu de Saint Nicolas to French New Wave film. The center of the book is three chapters on eighteenth-century texts...

... history but a series of “flash points” (5), from Jean Bodel’s thirteenth-century work Jeu de Saint Nicolas to French New Wave film. The center of the book is three chapters on eighteenth-century texts, including an extended look at Giacomo Casanova’s Histoire de ma vie. Readers familiar...