...Susan Harrow Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Susan Harrow ZOLA: COLORIST, ABSTRACTIONIST M anet's pools of glossy black, Mallarme's spaces of absolute white, Whistler's liquid blues and silvers 1 The work of Zola's contemporaries drives the search for pure color...

..., however, because it is somewhat flat. It is situated in the middle of the eye. It is white and shiny so that it may quietly receive a variety of colors. With its white and shiny quality, it rapidly reflects colors just as we find in clear glass. A receptacle of images, the fountain is, according...

...Michael Riffaterre Michael Riffaterre HUGO'S ORIENTALES REVISITED Ever since Sainte-Beuve praised the eclat eblouissant, the dazzling vividness of their colors, the poems of Les Orientales have been regarded as a masterpiece of colorful pittoresque, a poetry of light, a perfect example of how...

... for the unimaginable devastations Andeans suffered: the destruction of their communities, the plagues of death that reduced native populations to one-tenth of their size before the conquest, and the insistent degradation of life itself. Doctrineros also had to explain the different colores of human beings now evident...

..., communicating to us the vital feeling of contact with roots and the exquisite, still faintly smiling, tonality of faded things), such sites are known to mysteriously unveil the future: they already fly the colors behind which we will later rally. In contact with that earth we were somehow promised, we unfold...

... writing, respectively. One of the most fascinating points of overlap is the unexpected emphasis on aurality, which comes up in so many essays. Samoyault addresses the "visualization of voice" through the "colorization" of written works (244): "As a modality of the visible, the color of words or letters...

... was Surrealist ekphrasis. As is well-known, Breton liked Tanguy's dream-like landscapes of regression bathed in a strangely amniotic light. This is how he evokes the color suffusing these oneiric landscapes whose originality lies in suggesting the color of ghosts: "(Tanguy's) genius lies in having made himself...

... that includes silk stockings and satin shoes. If the mixture of styles is tasteless, so are the colors: cherry red for the dress, sky blue for the white-embroidered shawl, multi-colored bracelets, and coral necklaces. Tristan ignores the stability that comes from the white stockings and sky blue shoes repeating...

... of the novel. What then shall we say of le Chourineur’s embarrassing appetite for the discordant colors and shapes on his plate? Can he wrest agency for his act of eating from the narrator’s parodic mastery? Can he transport his jubilation at the panoply of textures and tastes away from its patronizing screen...

... [especially] in Engeland,” Proust is “so familiar as almost to rank as an English writer” (99, quoting Cyril Connolly). He promised the other volumes if I caught on. ________ It is perhaps odd that an under-pattern to the painting, Mary’s color, struck me as it did, since the woman’s dress had been...

... s'abandonne[ giving itself over to one who watches, "l'reil contemplateur." Though the sun's power dissipates, its declining rays determine the viewer's vision, coloring the surrounding universe. Valery emphasizes the sun's importance and continuing presence in the structure and sound pattern of the first two...

... not only ranges from the polished rhetoric of a Roman orator to the rough colloquialism of the corner bar, but is further colored by a number of regional inflections. BOOK REVIEWS 2°7 To these and the numerous other unmentioned obstacles that confront the author of a new translation is added another...

... novel, seems to represent the very embodiment of racism. In her eyes the world is strictly divided along color lines, between a superior white race and an inferior black one. The child of an interracial marriage, Cajou inevitably turns this vision of the world upon herself, convinced she is doomed...

... treated the sausage as a matter of course, not as an off-color joke; neither did he seem to expect it to be understood as a double entendre, as Giovanni Francesco Straparola routinely had done in the enigmas that concluded each of the stories of Les facetieuses nuits. Perrault's third tale was "Peau...

... simply “Pinks,” leads us from the color associated with springtime bloom, childhood delights, and desserts to painterly preferences and practices, but also to the more dangerous attractions of the Albertine sexual galaxy. Chapter titles (such as “The Quiver of Life,” “Croissants and Coffee, for a Change...

... of swallowing “de petits morceaux de gomme” (861). 9. Note that black is the color of the last meal given by Madame Moreau, an intertextual allusion to À rebours (1884) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, who was likely referencing Grimod de la Reynière. 10. I thank Alison James for this insight. 11...

... reference that few can afford to purchase but many will photocopy, it is unfortunate that so many of the black-and-white figures are of relatively poor quality. (And none are in color, even though ink color is a prominent part of several of the examples that the author must describe verbally.) Most...

... Selassie, the ruler of Ethiopia, who had ordered an electric chair from the United States in an attempt to make his country seem more "civilized": "Por un motivo cualquiera las intenciones del mandatario de color no pudieron llevarse a la practica, y la silla electrica - que no podia quedarse sin uso - fue...

... jeunesse , In esso Venezia è rappresentata come una città incantata, come una città vista attraverso I fantasmagorici veli di un sogno ed è descritta in una prosa poetica, che ha le fascinatrici esuberanze di colore dell’ultimo grande pittore veneziano, di Tiepolo (quoted in D’Ascenzo 206) 3...

... the manuscript, long before verse numbers ever appeared in print editions, consist of the use of colored initials and red rubrics to indicate the beginning of each canto (also in the manuscript’s two additional works) and the use of Dante’s terzina structure as the fundamental building block of the work...