...Alex Weintraub Abstract In On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Friedrich Nietzsche misquotes Stendhal’s definition of beauty. Beauty is not, as the German philosopher claims, “a promise of happiness ” (72). Rather, Stendhal proposes in a footnote to his book De l’amour (1822)—in a chapter entitled...

... noteworthy contribution to a better and fuller understanding and appreciation of the eighteenth century in all its complexity and singularity. (GITA MAY, Columbia University). Beauty Raises the Dead. Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siecle. By Robert Ziegler. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. Pp...

... of the creation of “ordinary beauty,” of making beauty part of everyday life. My story of beautification starts in early modern Europe, particularly seventeenth-century France. Like cuisine, like drama, like literature, like all of Versailles, flowers were turned to political use. For flowers to serve...

...Josué Rodríguez Abstract This article explores the poetry and essays of Peruvian surrealist poet César Moro (1903–56) in relation to the French surrealist aesthetic of convulsive beauty as defined by André Breton (1896–1966). By examining Moro’s textual construction of a speaker who privileges...

... of “communal luxury,” the right of workers to beauty, to pleasure, and to a life of the mind. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 food studies pastry production consumption working-class literature Food is undoubtedly...

... breaking with any objectively determinable law.2 I will argue in this article that Lyotard's reading of Augustine's Confessions, as it appears in his last book The Confession of Augustine, envisages a similar non-objective investigation of Beauty, one that consists of enacting the temporal creation from...

... in their relationship to beauty and beastliness sometimes right up until the point of death, and indeed even beyond. It is this" loss" of identity or rather ongoing change in identity which is pertinent. When it is evident that in fact there is no pure distinction between opposites, then the "point" of transformation...

... much like that of Griselidis. Although she appears innocent at the beginning of the tale, she nevertheless possesses "certains tendres appas" (Contes lOO) that fuel her father's incestuous desire. Perrault intimates here that feminine beauty feeds male desire, which ends up disculpating the male...

... the enactment of memory and trauma in four films on the Holocaust, two French documentaries-Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (1955) and Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1984)-and two Italian fiction films-Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful (1997) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1973). A comparison between French...

... by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 postwar Europe world culture artistic beauty truth For a long time, as a child, I had to go to bed early. Every evening, at nine o’clock, my mother came to the room I shared with my sister, gave us a goodnight kiss and turned off...

... is, instead, the ignorance of what appears and of those to whom it appears as appearing, in what Gillian Rose calls "the sensation and the envelope of visible and invisible beauty." 3 Ferzan Ozpetek's Ignorant Fairies is, as of this writing, the most commercially successful queer film in Italian cinematic...

... by the "barbarian" or the "savage." Likewise, the purposelessness and lack of instrumental concerns at the roots of the decadent notion of "art for art's sake" lie behind the anthropological construction of an unpractical "savage" life devoted to the cultivation of beauty as the epitome of wastefulness...

... of divine creation where ascertainable truth gives place to potential truth: "what is it to look at the ocean, compared with looking at the possible! "5 It is this rivalry with God-"the poet putting himself in the place of destiny"6-this going beyond, which engenders beauty: "in art, however lofty the truth...

... the Father draws him [John 6:44]. The one who draws is present and yet in some way not present, for he draws nowhere else but to himself. For at no time and no place is the Father present by faith without the Son, so that he may attract by beauty [ ut ad speciem trahat ]” (Bernard, “Harvest” 9). At least...

... well to recall how synonymous she and the Romantic Italy she promoted were in the imaginary of nineteenth-century Europe. Early in Corinne, the Italian Prince Castel-Forte remarks to Oswald that Corinne is the very "image of our beautiful Italy" (ii.2), but his complement cuts both ways. Though Castel...

... his tale and nlellloirs, as do episodes which denlonstrate the power of cross-dressed beauty without advancing the plot in any way; indeed, if fetishism can be defined as a partial arrest of the metonymic function"5 then one could well characterize Choisy's attitude to fenlale attire as fetishistic...

... thought to describe the woman and the painting: Just as the figure of this girl had been enlarged by the additional symbol which she carried before her, without appearing to understand its meaning, with no awareness in facial expression of its beauty and spiritual significance, as if it were an ordinary...

... of love in Andreas Capellanus’s twelfth-century Art of Courtly Love , that is, “a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex” (28). Proust may not have known Capellanus directly; and though he refers to such Old French works as “Le...

... aggravates the distress caused by object loss. Underfed, starved for beauty, des Esseintes suffers both from chronic intestinal disorders and from an unhealthy fixation on words as rare as the mother's satisfactory response to his cries for help. Freud's hypothesis concerning the infant's original...

... associated with sexuality in male-authored texts. In one of the most widely read novels of the era, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe of 1819, the beautiful Rebecca pays a high price for unintentionally beguiling a Templar Knight. Carried off against her will, she struggles throughout the novel to retain her purity...