... Maurice Rat has called le miracle racinien. ALVINEusns University of California Stendha2 et Helve‘tius: Les Sources de la philosophie de Stendhal. By JULES C. ALCIATORE.Genhe: Librairie Droz, 1952. Pp. vi + 301. “Dans...

...Richard Switzer; Roger Williams Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 STENDHAL THE MUSIC CRITIC ANALYSIS OF CONCEPT AND VALIDITY OF JUDGMENT By RICHARDSWITZER arid ROGERWILLIAMS Stendhal’s views on music provide a subject which has frequently...

...Jules C. Aalciatore Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 STENDHAL, DESTUTT DE TRACY ET LE PRECEPTE NOSCE TE IPSUM Par JULES C. ALCIATORE Depuis le 21 avril 1804, Henri Beyle, qui cherchait B approfondir sa connaissance de...

..., Ilse Graham provides refreshing new points of de- parture and reaffirms Schiller’s validity in modern times. GERHARDBAUMCAERTEL Trent University Stendhal: The Education of a Novelist. By GEOFFREYSTRICKLAND. Cam- bridge...

....” (His analyses of Baudelaire and Stendhal are quite suggestive in this respect.) He also addresses issues of intertextuality, particularly with re- spect to the relation between a given text or textual fragment and motifs prevalent in the author’s corpus of writings, and he at times leans toward...

.... PERELLA University of Callfornia, Berkeley Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom. By VICTORBROMBERT. New York: Random House, Studies in Language and Literature, SLL 24, 1968. xii -I- 209 pp. $2.45, paper. Victor Brombert has written a book which is authoritative...

... truths about human nature than almost any novel one can think of. And yet the reader is constantly reminded of a certain sameness, and even flatness, in the style, and perceives that some of the greatest effects are not brought out as they might have been. Admirers of Stendhal tend to pass...

...Louis Tenenbaum Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 LOVE IN THE PROSE FICTION OF GOBINEAU By LOUISTENENBAUM Gobineau has justly been recognized as the successor to Stendhal and Mkimbe, the outstanding representatives of la tradition siche...

... was hailed on its appearance as a masterpiece ‘‘oh le sublime 6clate de chapitre en chapitre,” should have inspired from the outset the strongest reservations as to its composition? If it is not the greatest of Stendhal’s novels, it is the one into which he put most of himself, of his memories...

... philosophie de Stendhal. By JULES C. ALCIATORE.Genhe: Librairie Droz, 1952. Pp. vi + 301. “Dans tous les genres,” writes the author of this scholarly work, “Stendhal est philosophe et psychologue avant tout.” Moreover, in his critical as in his imaginative writings, “ce sont toujours...

..., for his invaluable suggestions and encouragement. JULIEN SOREL-SOLDIER IN BLUEX By GARYM. GODFREY Ever since Stendhal’s impulsive decision to change the title of Julien to Le Rouge et le Noir, critics have advanced a plethora of arguments...

..., “Goethe on Stendhal” (pp. 2O7-34), presents in toto the problem (heretofore receiving only partial or particular treatment) of Goethe’s evaluations (1818-1830) of Stendhal. The far-sighted penetratioii and enduring validity of Goethe’s comments, their influence, and the scholarly dis...

... in the work of some critics who do not forgive Gobineau his Essai sur l’intgalite‘ des races humaines and intend to make him pay for that. Gobineau is both more and less fortunate than Stendhal. If, like Stendhal, he did not attain great literary success during his lifetime, after-fame came...

.... GERHARDBAUMCAERTEL Trent University Stendhal: The Education of a Novelist. By GEOFFREYSTRICKLAND. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. xi + 302 pp. $16.50, cloth; $5.95, paper. Geoffrey Strickland, it should be noted at once, takes the word education of his title...

... a nation’s mores shape the spirit of its dramatic works. Soon enough its dramatic works shape its spirit.] — Marie-Joseph Chénier, De la liberté du théâtre en France n his 1823 pamphlet Racine et Shakspeare Stendhal famously com- Iplained that French theater had become hopelessly...

.... ROMANCELANGUAGES Alciatore, Jules C. Stendhal et Helvetius: Les Sources de la philosophie de Stendhal. Genbe: Librairie Droz; Lille: Librairie Giard, 1952. Pp. vi + 300. Apollinaire, Guillaume. Textes inidits. Avec une introduction par Jeanine Moulin. Geneve: Librairie Droz; Lille...

... for a type of artistic creation whose external traits are taken from reality, but which owe their existence solely to artistic inspiration. Among the readers of QuatremGre de Quincy’s essay are Stendhal and Victor Cousin. Stendhal, in his Histoire de la peinture en Itdie, adopts...

... for Stendhal, for Nerval, for Baudelaire, for Flaubert, for Mal- larmC, in brief, for most of the writers that singularize the French nineteenth century as one of the high moments in world literature? If so, the options that lie behind so much painstaking documentation need to be reexamined...

.... Another advantage of the apparent discrepancy in visions is that it adds a new element to the overexplored terrain covered by Terdiman. The interrelationships among Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust have been studied over and over again, but the paradox posed by Terdiman revi- talizes...

...: a change in the length of Cleopatre’s nose would change the course of history. To some, love is a strength; to others, an infirmity or a disease; to still others, a complex mixture of imagination and self-hypnosis, as Stendhal, that classical roman- tic, was to argue in De Z’Amour. In her...