...Zeina Hakim Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine . By Ziad Elmarsafy . Lewisburg , Bucknell University Press , 2003 . Pp. 193 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Book Reviews Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal...

...Ehsan Ahmed Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 Ehsa11 Ahmed WISDOM AND ABSOLUTE POWER IN GUILLAUME BUDE'S INSTITUTION DU PRINCE Recognized as France's most eminent early humanist, Guillaume Bude (1468-1540), whose indefatigable efforts led to the establishment...

... penitents and confessors, and points to a rigorist stance on the part of the author nearly twenty years before it became the dominant position of the church once again. Tackling a range of thorny questions such as the aim of confession, deferred absolution, and the nature of sin, Gournay examines confession...

... allusive quotations, Dante opposes to the absolute time of Eden the idea of an imperfect time, tied to the pattern of an all-human knowledge, which Dante himself connected to the teaching and character of Brunetto Latini. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York...

... un nouveau modèle pour penser le développement de l’assentiment affectif à l’absolutisme et la manière dont les sujets y participent. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 The sublime absolutism affect Boileau Louis XIV Dans la version...

... continues the interest that Racine shows elsewhere in the links between absolute sovereignty and absolute submission. In Britannicus, for instance, he relies on the implied message that Louis XIV, the absolute monarch, is a good king because he liberates his population from slavery, i.e. their routine...

... the clutches of the New York map, how she would leave umbrellas behind on rainy days. A lot of laughter. I have been remembering how we drove together to upstate New York and shared a room in a tarted-up nineteenth-century inn, where we had two days of absolute delight, eating well, talking nonstop from...

..., and on a different level, between the desire for an absolute ground and the critique of the illusions of grounding? It would be predictable for investigations into the intersections between national traditions to call into question the very notion of a national literature as a discrete geographically determined...

..., the aesthetic metaphor in "£1 Zahir" does not just recall all of history, it also announces the imminent collapse of the division between the finite and the transcendent, or between representation and the absolute-and thus the end of history itself. As was suggested earlier, Borges's strategy in writing a story...

... antisemite whose views became Vichy's ideological grounding for its revolution nationale, that is, on the surface one who was in absolute contradiction with Aragon's most fervent beliefs during the German/Nazi Occupation of France. And yet or so it seems to me, I can see a transhistorical structural...

...; hereafter OC ["enigma of a sentence written by a god"; What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in the human languages there is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe; to say the tiger is to say the tigers that begot it, the deer...

... indecipherable handwriting on legal pads with scotch-taped addendums), is a literary term that means the description of a work of art within another work. The remainder of the article made absolutely no sense to me. I have since encountered examples of ekphrasis in my life ("Look!" I say excitedly to my four...

... superiority of the human spirit was also its inferiority, attributable to the species' duplicitous, intermediate status in the order of creation-at once superior to material life and inferior to the pure realm of absolute truth. In a moralistic spirit (foreign to his main inspiration, Jean Paul) Baudelaire...

... suffering, is shareable; and something, instead, is absolutely mine: there is, after all, no person more present in Christine’s ballad than the first person. And then there’s Judy Garland, whose album cover for Alone (1957) features Garland standing, black-gloved hands clasped, against a fog-shrouded...

..., intrinsic link between the French adjective pervers and contradiction, but I am sure that in Le Plaisir du texte , there is an insistent connection between them. As I said earlier in the present essay, perversion has been absolutely central to my reading of Le Plaisir , over more than four decades...

... U. P., 1989), p. 210. 6. Appropriately, "the 'ogre,' by definition, reigns supreme in the sphere of eating and incorporation. He is nothing short of the absolute, a kind of super-cannibal In the body of the ogre, supernature and infraculture are conjoined and form cannibalism: the ogre is a god who...

.... The absolute other (the "barbaros," who cannot even speak, he who stutters [Sanskrit, Barbara]) becomes for the author an essential ally, a host with a gift: Pelissier, speaking on behalf of this long drawn-out agony, on behalf of fifteen hundred corpses buried beneath EI-Kantara, with their flocks unceasingly...

... "LIVRE" 447 That performance and writing constitute contrary reciprocal proofs of an absolute metaphysical principle, fictional in essence though this principle may be, is stated in many ways throughout Mallarme's critical prose, most categorically, perhaps, in La Musique et les Lettres: Je pose, ames...

... coincide is in their understanding of art's ultimate purpose. Above all, both view the creative and imaginative endeavor as a life-affirming enterprise. For Nietzsche, the artistic vehicle of life's absolute affirmation is tragedy. We read in his Twilight of the Idols: Tragedy is so far from providing...

..., an extrapolation from the given of the senses, or, again, a conception of possible infinity inferred from a finite given: "nature mirrored by the soul is more abysmal than when seen directly This reflection is an augmentation of reality." 12 Infinity is the only reality, be it called God or moral ideal or absolute...