... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... that the "real" identities of the characters in the film are not ab- 366 CAROLINE SHEAFFER-JONES solutely fixed, as they may appear to be, but are instead constantly in flux. There is a spectrum along which the characters shift in their relationship to beauty and beastliness sometimes right up until the point...

... 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 Work Cited Proust Marcel . Swann’s Way , vol. 1 of In Search of Lost Time , translated by Scott Moncrieff C. K. and Kilmartin Terence , revised...

... 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 history. (It was distributed in the United...

... 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...

... says, “I would say that this venerable man [Benedict] ‘lived with himself’ because he was always on guard and watchful” (II.III.7, 23). See, too, Johnson’s comments on James Baldwin at the end of At the Center of All Beauty (241–42), where reading and writing become ways of “revealing my self...

... 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...

... as “poetic and lucid” (poëtisch en lucide) as the painting (99). In La Prisonnière , the painting was, according to an art critic in the paper, “of a beauty that was sufficient in itself” (d’une beauté qui se suffrait à elle-même). After reading the review, Proust’s character Bergotte “ate a few potatoes...

... 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 Miracle de Théophile,” “Les Quatre Fils Aymon” (1: 38), or “La Chanson de Roland” (1: 216), there is little evidence that he knew the romances...

... 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...

...Michele Rak Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Michele Rak LOGIC OF FAIRIES "I fatti degli altri sono come racconti dell' Orco" G.B.Basile, Lo Cunto de Ii cunti, egloga 2 v.298 At some point in the history of the European fairy tale, beautiful princesses escaped from...

... of the unhappily joined couple of Griselidis to the broad comedy allowed by a pair of coarse peasants. La Fontaine's fable told of a laborer to whom Jupiter had granted the wish of being able to choose between having beautiful or bad weather. Preferring exclusively calm sunny weather, La Fontaine's peasant saw his...