...James T. Chiampi Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 James T. Chiampi TESTIFYING TO HIS TEXT: PRIMO LEVI AND THE CONCENTRATIONARY SUBLIME I n his Estetica, first published in 1902, Benedetto Croce offered a remarkably prescient definition of the atrocious sublime: Che...

...Phillip John Usher Jan Miernowski (ed.). Le Sublime et le Grotesque . Geneva : Droz , 2014 . Pp. 344 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 BOOK REVIEWS 21 5 Jan Miernowski (ed Le Sublime et Ie Grotesque. Geneva: Droz, 2014. Pp.344. This book gathers...

...Amanda Vredenburgh; Hall Bjørnstad Abstract Dans cet article, nous proposons le concept du « sublime royal » pour repenser le sublime au dix-septième siècle, avant, avec et autour de Boileau, en nous penchant moins sur l’intervention de Boileau elle-même que sur le contexte qui a rendu sa réussite...

...Efraín Kristal Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Efrain Kristal UNREQUITED SUBLIMATIONS: BORGES READS SPINOZA The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy cites Jorge Luis Borges-along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Heine, George Eliot, and George Sand, Somerset Maugham...

... l'analyse des poemes de Louise Labbe contribuer davantage a l'argument, mais M. Huchon ressuscite une epoque et des hommes de maniere autrement energique que ne l'aurait peut-etre fait un commentaire. (EVE-ALICE ROUSTANG-STOLLER, Barnard College) aLes Sublimes Portes. D'Alexandrie Venise, parcours dans...

... Romains, Le Discours sur l'histoire universelle, et Les Natchez! Je deviens tellement l'ennemi de mon siecle que tout, sans en excepter une ligne, m'a paru sublime" 2. See Patrick Labarthe's valuable insights into Baudelaire's emulation of the work and the person of Chateaubriand (69-136). 3. The paratext...

..., affections and thoughts. The puzzle runs as to the dwelling place of this Beauty-Pulchritudo that has been abstracted into a percept without sensation, affection or thought. The question seems at first sight similar to Kant's formulation of the sublime -- the feeling of a presence beyond senses...

...-1830 Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2002. 10. Longinus, On the Sublime, trans. Benedict Einarson (Chicago: Packard and Company, 1945) 43. 11. For the general context of the relationship between Vico and Bouhours, I rely on Mario Fubini's Stile e umanita di Giambattista Vico (Bari: Laterza, 1946...

... of morality, ethics, perversion, and the sublime. In its choice of textsnarratives collected into thirteenth-century cyclical manuscripts such as the epic Cycle de Guillaume, the Vulgate and Tristan cycles of Arthurian prose romance, and the Roman de Renart-Sunderland's book is an example of recent efforts...

... a superior knowledge. Laughter is allied to skepticism and irony; it arises from a schism between what some theologians call our divine and our human natures, between our sublimity and our baseness, a schism enacted by the Fall. Laughter, Baudelaire asserts, is thus "un des plus clairs signes sataniques de...

..., the author explains, was the Longinian concept of the sublime, influentially reinterpreted in the seventeenth century by Boileau, as an elusive, indefinable force within poetic language that ravished the reader. The sublime allowed the Ancients to devise alternatives to the key tenets of the Moderns...

... excellente mise au point sur la question du sublime et du grotesque (lesquels se rejoignent dans l'horreur medusante), sur la notion de pathetique-« l'identification horizontale, Ie sentiment d'egalite que provoque par l'identification Ie pathetique democratique brise la verticalite du sublime (lie...

... sublime nair underlying each narrative. While they vary in subject matter and in their respective doses of fictionality, all the texts in the study aim to provoke a sense of pity and horror in their readers, depicting conspirators with which readers are meant to identify, even as the sociopolitical...

... reason and moral concerns. Their primary weapon in making this argument, the author explains, was the Longinian concept of the sublime, influentially reinterpreted in the seventeenth century by Boileau, as an elusive, indefinable force within poetic language that ravished the reader. The sublime allowed...

..., batardise, ecriture," 71-82 Leushuis, Reinier, " Dialogue, Space, and Selfhood in La Chatelaine de Vergi and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron 70" 323-341 Kristal, Efrain, "Unrequited Sublimations: Borges Reads Spinoza," 225-236 Levine, Suzanne Jill, "Borges: The Reader in the Twenty-First Century," 117...

...Geneviève Patard Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Genevieve Patard MADAME DE MURAT ET LES FEES MODERNES M me de Murat fait preceder son troisieme recueil de contes, intitules Histoires sublimes et allegoriques, d'une epitre adressee « aux Fees modernes ». Ce texte...

..., etc "Seule la haine peut viser, non pas Ie sublime qui serait en bas, accidentellement en quelque sorte, par veulerie ou aveuglement du monde, mais Ie sublime de la bassesse meme" (202). The book's epilogue-"Au-dela de la haine"-lurches forward into the extreme contemporary, to show how "la misologie...

... of ­children from a summer camp comes into view. At the edge of the beach a child stands aloof, s­ilent. He becomes the focus of the ­woman s attention. The sublimity of the seascape has brought tears to his eyes. He says that t­here is no point in explaining why he is crying, that no adult would understand...

... exhibited in 1787, the same year that Dunker's image was published. Goethe emphasizes the sublime effect of the painting's topographical structure. He writes, "While other artists have painted the open sea, which conveys the idea of a vast watery expanse but cannot show that the waters are rising, [More...

... poetique, poeme en prose, etc Elle revient ensuite sur Ie culte de l'emotion dans la litterature romantique, et propose une excellente mise au point sur la question du sublime et du grotesque (lesquels se rejoignent dans l'horreur medusante), sur la notion de pathetique-« l'identification horizontale, Ie...