...Joseph R. Johnson Abstract What is the physician’s species? In the vernacular beast fables and so-called beast epics that suddenly flourished in the twelfth century, medical (mal)practice forms a central concern. Nearly a tenth of the stories in Marie de France’s Aesopian fable collection deal...

... . “ The Decorated Manuscripts of the Bestiary of Philippe de Thaon (the MS. 3466 from the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the MS. 249 in the Merton College Library, Oxford) and the Problem of the Illustrations of the Medieval Poetical Bestiary .” In Third International Beast Epic, Fable and Fabliau Colloquium...

... follows, this deliberately inconclusive quest systematically refuses the mythical proportions of the epic 1. Conde, Maryse. La Belle Creole. (Paris: Mercure de France, 2001), 183. All subsequent references to the novel will be to this edition and will indicate the page number. 2. The title of the recent...

... all Swedenborg), believes in symbolism and in correspondences that weave between similar things the web of universal harmony, relating the flower and the star, the beast and the criminal, the depths of ocean and the depths of heart, the vault of the skull and the celestial vault. In one text...

... and foreign, man and 16' "Discours des ,niseres" 20. 17' "Continuation du discours des 111iseres" 35. 18. "Continuatio1l du discours des 111iseres" 35-36. 19. The image was later borrowed and famously redeployed in support of the Huguenot cause by Agrippa d'Aubigne in his epic poem of Protestant persecution...

... of the world (from which we are left to infer propositions about life), it acquaints us with scenes, objects, people, and circumstances in such a way that we learn through that acquaintance."3 reads him, Panurge fulfills a very positive role as the epic comes or devoted ally of Pantagruel, indispensable...

... with praise or blame, the desire of an older Odysseus to strike out on a new adventure, to push further into the unknown and prove himself once again a hero, in Pascoli's piece Odysseus desires to leave Ithaca and turn back. He returns to the sea in order to go back over his past epic voyage and, through re...

... bruyants, et la felure, l'Instinct de mort silencieux" (384). In other words, the "epic" mode of Les Rougon-Macquart involves a subordination of instincts and temperaments to what Deleuze terms the "grande manreuvre" (384) of the death drive, or "la felure," encapsulated in the symbolically freighted train...

... and not the genres normally associated with quarrels, such as essays or epic; she employed a complex and equivocal voice, through satire, anonymity, suggestiveness, and prosopopoeia, deploying an indirectness often typical of women quarrelers. 2 In this article, I consider the effect of both that strategy and her...

...: If the Quart Livre remains a painfully relevant book for us today it is precisely because our own century, like Rabelais' has persisted in a headlong quest for the stasis of a definitive Answer, confirming in the process one of the most important underlying messages of Rabelais's last epic. From Stalinism...

... reading the poem in isolation. Most traditional readings of the Book of Revelation condition us to see the end of the world as a spectacular violence convulsing through creation, an epic of such sublime sweep that it combines CGI-enhanced horrors with Cecil B. DeMille-sized casting. It is a public...

... of art and history. Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit has compared it to the cinematic equivalent of an epic poem. Sylvie Lindeperg characterized it as a valuable piece of ideological capital inhabiting a "chaotic space between contradictory projects whose interweaving has become the stuff of legend."21...

... on the map, which is also dotted with small trees and bushes. Cross-topped huts presumably represent the dwelling places of desert solitaries, as do the caves puncturing the mountainsides. Human figures are scattered across the landscape and wild beasts, too, larger than they should be in relation...

.... 2. Mireille Huchon, Louise Labe: une creature de papier (Geneva: Droz, 2006) 11113,212-18,227. Huchon also perceives a small Medusa emblem in Pierre Woeiriot's 1555 engraving of Labe, but this interpretation is dubious since the head in question resembles that of a beast, not a woman, and lacks...

... novel will ultimately consider what is original and idiosyncratic about Le Quatrieme siecle and how it reworks the trope of rhythm as a fundamental aspect of Caribbean poetics.3 Le Quatrieme siecle is a classic of Caribbean fiction that has the historical sweep of epic narrative in that it traverses...

... searing fire, an apocalyptic calypso" (1), a narrative encapsulated and perpetuated in what she calls the "folkloric-tropical-negritudinal rubbish" that has constituted elite Haitian intellectual culture. Haiti is not a country, she insists, but an "epic failure factory," the site of an environmental...

... to be a rehandling of the Pharsalia of Lucan, a sort of epic parody. There is no contemporary verse translation of Lucan to play host to the parasite, as the first three books of Lucan played host to Petronius' poem, and as in any case the whole rationale of the exercise is too remote to us, I have concentrated...

.... It is quite clear to see that he spoke the truth: men, birds, animals, all wild beasts in cave and burrow constantly seek out new companions, and man more than any living thing. I insist, man above all creatures-all others mate by natural instinct in the right season. misguided man does it unrestrainedly, all...

... into the ordered Greek tradition of neoclassicism to the eruption of the sea-monster in the climactic recit de Theramene at the end of Racine's Phedre-a baroque figure which Racine seems to have borrowed, significantly enough, from Seneca. Hippolyte's ferocious battle with the beast mirrors Racine's own struggle...

... the couple's embrace. The scene recalls Sergei Eisenstein's use of montage to animate statues in October as well as Jean Cocteau's more recent film, La Belle et la Bete, in which the partly animated caryatids observe the protagonists inside the Beast's castle. Intertextual moments like these have become more...