... functions in this text not only to reflect a socioeconomic reality of the nineteenth-century politics of eating, but also to introduce a budding aesthetic principle. The harlequin meal, composed of bits and pieces of various origins reassembled as a patchwork whole, inaugurates in Sue’s novel a reappearing...

... moderne : comme en témoignent les notes composant le dossier préparatoire de La Belgique déshabillée , il préfigure à certains égards un profil d’écrivain-journaliste qui jouera un rôle de premier plan dans l’espace intellectuel de la Troisième République et en lequel on peut reconnaître l’avatar du...

...Anke Bernau Abstract In An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence , which addresses itself to the profound challenge of how to “compose” a common world in the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour proposes that the mode of religion [REL] offers a model for all the others—that of reprise. Emerging from...

... constitute a transitional phase. Certainly, there is evidence that death was more Abbreviations used: IMP =Imparfait; PC =Passe Compose; PR =Present; PS =Passe Simple. I am grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for the award of a Major Research Fellowship that enabled this article to be researched and written...

..., a member of the Guelph political party, and apparently a lifelong political insider. In 1260, when banned from Florence after the rival Ghibelline party seized power, the polymathic Brunetto fled to France, where he spent seven years in exile. During that time he composed-in French, rather than in Italian...

... of verbal but also of musical texts, he was intensely aware of the importance of a real, live audience. For a composer of an opera to be able to enjoy his own work, the work has to be performed, which in most cases means before a live audience. When Rousseau points this out in book 8 of the Confessions...

.... The first is a direct work of criticism about Proust, the second an indirect reading of certain Proustian themes: space, time, and identity; the last is a collaborative work in which a composer plays an active interpretative role, in this case Morton Feldman, whose composition was inspired by Beckett's...

... to 1370. Zayaruznaya demonstrates with aplomb that late medieval motet composers were far more sensitive to the texts they were setting than has previously been realized, responding to their "matiere" (or subject matter) in myriad subtle ways. Her focus is, specifically, on texts concerning fragmentation...

... and influences. Perrault's first piece in a popular vein drew upon the ubiquitous chapbook Griselidis, published for mass consumption throughout France. In composing his own version, Perrault had no greater ambition than to produce a modern novella (Perrault 1695; rpt. 1980 aiiv, 5), that is, a narrative...

... this "nightingales' way" of lyric re-creation, poets often composed in Occitan rather than in their own languages. And in Spain, Italy, and the Occitan homeland in between, there also developed a second form of reception in which excerpts of troubadour songs were repeqted verbatim in works of an overwhelmingly...

... to the deep fascination exerted by Gnosticism. This can be seen in works such as The Da Vinci Code. ENRIQUE GAVILAN from the fact that Wagner's model itself, Wolfram's Parzival, probably was composed with a strong Gnostic flavor in mind.5 Parsifal is truly about redemption, but this is not new ground...

... rencontre! Ils multiplierent l'epithete de fa~on en composer la deuxieme partie de leurs alexandrins, et n'eurent plus a se mettre en frais d'invention que pour leur premier hemistiche. Alors commen~a Ie regne de la cheville. 1 This is presumably one of the very first occasions in the history of French...

...; the Medicean poet-philosopher Poliziano composed celebrated imitations of Catullus, Tibullus, Horace, and Ovid; and Sannazaro is remembered primarily for his vernacular pastoral romance Arcadia (1502). Below, de Stael uses the term "Middle Ages" [moyen age] for what one would now consider to be the Renaissance...

... evening and the viewer's quest, Valery creates a form and language patterned on his understanding of music.6 It is my aim in this essay to demonstrate how closely Valery incorporates his musical ideas into "Profusion du soir," and how masterfully he composes a poetic music. 7 As a classical sonata-form...

... Angenot's Champions des femmes: Examen du discours sur la superiorite des femmes, 1400-1800 as belonging to the long tradition of polemical texts arguing in favor of women's equality and even superiority to men. Angenot states succinctly: aMadame Galien avait compose Chateau-Thierry une Apologie des dames...

... with progress, Norman shows that the Modern party in the Quarrel was composed of reactionary "presentists" with a deep prejudice against the past, whereas the Ancients were tolerant readers who accepted, and indeed were fascinated by, the strangeness of antiquity. The Ancients, the author convincingly argues...

... oculis: 4 The eye is composed of many different parts. Vision, however, arises from only one of these parts which is called the crystalline humor. The rest of the humors and small tissues exist only to aid the crystalline humor. [ ] The crystalline humor is white and luminous. It is not completely round...

..., such as Brunetto Latini, and even to compilations and translations derived from or imitating French works composed in "nostro volgare."12 If so, then French in Dante's time tends toward a generic as well as a linguistic distinction. In such a world, the borders between literatures, as well as nations, are much...

... in a competitive and ambitious mode. Kharjas are the final segments of the muwashshah , a strophic form composed mainly in Arabic or Hebrew that originated in al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) at the end of the ninth century. The genre treats themes of love, praise, and wine, and like troubadour lyric...

... were composed within a framework of male literary sociability; each writer sought to construct his own literary voice through a pattern of address to male colleagues. In the case of tributes to Labe, a woman who has stepped into a male poetic exchange, two potential modes of address, to the woman...