..., significant. Few readers, surely, w­ ill read the final chapter and take solace in the thought that one can always count on one s friends. If anything, friendship ­here is l­ittle more than a fallback; words such as ami and s aimer bien seem like a stopgap vocabulary to describe relationships, the former...

... of chronicle and narrative (Crow 16; Vitz 96-125) and its subject matter is the family history of the Counts of Pontieu, although as Danielle Regnier-Bohler argues, it is more a "fable biographique" (75) than a strictly historical account. There are three different versions of the work, two of which date from...

... along in my ­career, Ross had a way each time of hitting the nail on the head with the same right advice. I could always count on him to see clearly, to speak g­ ently, kindly, and firmly. He had precisely the quality he critiques Flaubert s characters, t­ hose surrounding Emma, for lacking: empathy. I...

... her to him by force, as she strongly refused him. But the count, who wished for this, married her anyway. . . . la dame ront amenee. Si li ont a force donee, Car cele mout le refusa. Mais toutes voies l’espousa Li cuens, que si faire li plot. (4763–67) Some 1,300 verses later, Enide...

... than it may seem. I already hinted at the kind of objects that populate the pages of the book, “todo lo que no cuenta.” The book does not pose a straightforward relationship between what counts and what can be named. On the contrary, having a name might be the symptom of a thing not counting...

... heroine, Therese, is the victim of the polygamous comte de * *. In this story, we discover, via the American Dick Palmer's narrative, that when Therese met her future husband, a Portuguese landowner, she was unaware that he already had a wife in Havana. Though Therese and the count have a son together...

... to linguistic issues, stages its own quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In book 1, Count Lodovico da Canossa is chosen to describe the perfect courtier, and he identifies the essence of courtiership as "la grazia." The secret to grazia, in turn, is to avoid affectation in all forms of comportment...

... in terms of specific operations of language.4 What is a sentence? What is verse? What is a consonant? These are the pertinent questions, not what is Classicism, or Romanticism, or Symbolism? For the only difference that really counts, the difference between poetry and prose, depends upon them. 1. Valery...

... counts on such words to awaken his readers' metaphysical anxiety, to revive in our reasonable world the idea of the Unknown: this method will be taken up again by the Surrealists. But the word nombre, for all its poetic haze, has precise meaning, which is order. Hugo has a definition for it: "order...

... of becol11ing but of forlnlessness." What counts in Inaroonage, then, is the disappearance of a black culture which is projected onto a totality defined by sacrifice and lack. The structure of the arglunent is not always clear to the reader. Even though the chapter titles suggest a conceptual coherence...

... mathematics being repeated application of the generative principle: "j'ai toujours aime l'arithmetique elle me l'a bien rendu" (Comment c'est 57). Counting is Beckett's way of categorizing, classifying, whether the sequence of generations, of Kraks, Kreks, and Kriks of frogs in chorus (Watt 137-8...

.... Building on the insight (after Kant) that what counts in reading Versailles is "Ie point de vue du sujet regardant" (130), Jeanneret explores the role of the grotesque in "cette perception passionnelle de Versailles [qui] recoupe jusque dans les termes l'effet du sublime tel qu'il est decrit par Longin et...

...: Confession and Narrative Authority in the Heptameron," Critical Tales, 146-71. 6. Marguerite de Navarre, Comedie de Mont-de-Marsan, ed. Christian Barataud (Mont-de-Marsan: Editions J. Feij6o, 1995). 206 MICHELLE MILLER of grace. In the play, a type-cast Roman Catholic dubbed "la Superstitieuse" counts out...

... research for this conference. Yet as I read my way through the feminism in the Romanic Review, I began to see-I could not help but see-Gravdal as a key player, as a figure of great interest: articles either by or about her make up at least a third of the journal's medievalist feminism (not even counting...

... is not a nlatter of becol11ing but of forlnlessness." What counts in Inaroonage, then, is the disappearance of a black culture which is projected onto a totality defined by sacrifice and lack. The structure of the arglunent is not always clear to the reader. Even though the chapter titles suggest a conceptual...

..., the heroine, who loves an impoverished electrical engineer, Georges, is forced by the terms of a legacy to betroth herself to the loathsome and decadent aristocrat, Adolphe, the comte de Champlan. We soon learn that the real reason for the count's desire to marry Claire is that he has the most dishonorable...

... be counted among literary fairy tales. The extent to which they nonetheless influenced German folk knowledge of fairy tales in individual cases cannot be known in objective terms, because it is impossible to identify positively the origins for any given storyteller's use of a motif that has become so well...