...Hervé Picherit [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 demystification accommodation graduates I was deeply saddened in 2018 to learn of Hayden White’s death. 1 I had the privilege of meeting White my...

... "total artifice les (ranges obstinees" displayed in Mankiewicz'sJulius Caesar are a degraded (and degrading) spectacle insofar as they pretend to pass for real, while crushing all the diversity of details presented by reality under a flattening gloss of excess: Demystification of the type practiced...

... dire la verite et dire l'heure etant qu'on ne peut dire l'heure sans se poser la question de savoir s'il faut dire la verite, et du role de l'ecriture dans toute cette affaire. Toute verite, en litterature comme ailleurs, n'etant que la demystification d'une mystification qui la fonde et qu'elle denude...

... in forms that over four centuries later, we see almost everywhere, and that it pleases us to call "demystification" and "plurivocity." A number of scholars recognized as much in the nineteen sixties, but given the controversy that their insights engendered, the pertinence of 194 ANDREW PIGOTT the modern...

... spectacle and to the worship of a saint whom they believed capable of suturing mistere and faintise back together again. Tellingly, though, they did not seek to conceal completely the danger of demystification inherent in the misfired feinte . On the contrary, the procès-verbal reports that Satan...

... act of demystification requires a neologism; any change—in our thinking, behaving or reading—requires a new word to mark this change ( Mythologies 834). A reading of dream life that claims for Emma’s imagination a new status in Flaubert’s novel also calls for a neologism. For a long time in Flaubert...

... of Demystification." Tropos, 26 (Spring 2000): 5-24. ...

... vierge ainsi visitee par un dieu est deja present dans la mythologie et I'histoire des jumeaux romains n'en est qu'un exemple parmi d'autres. Mais l'ambigulte du conte peut aussi representer pour Ie lecteur mondain averti auquel s'adresse Madame d'Aulnoy, une operation de demystification du sacre. Le mot...

... is also to be aware of the possibility of writing the history of such a­ ctual relations in Maupassant s life from the perspective of ­those w­ omen, and this reading of Bel-A­ mi is inspired in no small regard by Melanie Hawthorne s remarkable rediscovery and demystification of the life and legend of one...

... for an eventual demystification of [its] authority,” institutional buildings in particular “disguised their own histories of fabrication and subsequent restorations,” because “to fix an image or temple in time is to reduce it to human proportions” (7–8). This perspective seems particularly fitting...

... femmes "les reines des rois"36. En utilisant de nouveau ce processus de demystification, Brantome, tout en restant fascine par Ies courtisanes, fait apparaitre non I'etat privilegie aque I'idee d'une reine est destinee susciter, mais plutot la banalite de faire de aI'erotique une carriere payante. Comme...

... a l'esprit tant les caracteristiques propres a cet ecrit que les quelques elements bio-historiques qui l'entourent. La Demystification de Pie VI L'Histoire de Juliette est un long roman. Alors que la derniere version de l'histoire de Justine tient en quatre volumes dans son edition originale, celIe de...

... vision.» (Haeres 64) SUBJECTIVITY IN ANDRE FRENAUD'S "LE SILENCE DE GENOVA" 427 de verite si Ie cloaque fume!" II. 742-47; Sorciere 47), but at least it ends. The demystification of Rome's grandeur and the narrative completion of the text therefore imply one another. The ironic intention enlightens...

..., Gilbert's poverty is a product of these connections and of the interests in his authorial identity that they channeled. His misere is an easy myth to puncture-this essay certainly does not pretend to offer the first demystification of it. Rather, it underscores the necessary links between authorial poverty...