...Estelle Doudet Lynn Forest-Hill . Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama, Signs of Challenge and Change . Aldershot – Burlington (USA) – Singapour – Sydney : Ashgate , 2000 . Pp. 215 . Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS nouvelles...

.... It is an implicitly dramatic form: a devotional text such as Sawles Warde has the potential to become a closet drama if read aloud, and it is possible that such devotional texts influenced the otherwise obscure early history of the psychomachic morality play. Psychomachic drama such as The Castle of Perseverance...

... by addressing the presence of Gnosticism in Parsifal in order to confront a more general theoretical problem about how the past is staged, both its impossibility and necessity. Richard Wagner's extraordinary originality in the creation of the character of his final drama and the combination of the typical...

... and Prometeo's didactic explanation, thus manifesting the dual nature of thaumast6n: Quien triunfa para enseiianza de quien da ciencia, da voz al barro y luz al alma. (Dramas 2079) In chapter 9 of Aristotle's Poetics we find a relation between thaumast6n and the tragic emotions, which a poet must achieve through...

... attempted to answer certain fundamental questions: what was the artistic process by means of which the comedias were generated, especially in such astonishing numbers? With playwrights like Lope producing literally hundreds of these dramas within a relatively short time, were there certain loci of tension...

... and undermining the model of spiritual unity it signified (Rey-Flaud). Indeed, as I will now illustrate with a case study, medieval religious drama resisted Double Click by staging encounters with opposition, reactivity, and dissonance—and did so in part by playing with fire. Mystery plays generally used...

... the synagogue (quidam de sinagoga, a­ fter 882) questions Isaiah about the meaning and veracity of his vision. Though a g­ reat deal of bibliography has accumulated around multiple facets of this t­riple play, combining opera, drama, and ballet (Muir 1 5 Latin lections and responsaries sung, extensive Old...

..." of the Revolution: "Depuis un mois, [Ie Negus] ne croit plus a la Revolution. L'Apocalypse est finie" (488). However, he continues to find refuge in the romantic notions associated with combat, which derives its drama from the risk of heroic death: "Depuis Ie lance-flammes de l'Alcazar, Ie Negus s'est refugie dans...

... allegorical. 2 The meaning takes hold in a different way, closer to what T. S. Eliot describes in Elizabethan drama and in Dostoevsky: “a kind of doubleness in the action, as if it took place on two planes at once. In this it is different from allegory, in which the abstraction is something conceived...

... awareness of, and concern for, language "must ultimately break down1 There will inevitably be an "irresistible revulsion of humanity," he argues, unwilling to "carry any longer the burden of modern civilization." 10 Eliot's myth of modernism (and its drama) is compatible with other important modernist myths...

... to the other: If our analysis has shown that the Apolline in tragedy has by means of its deception carried off a complete victory over the Dionysiac essence of music, using it for its own purposes-namely a supreme clarification of drama-we might certainly add one very important reservation: at its most...

...) It consists of a narrative (Princess Zoza's story), during which another 49 stories are told. The forty-ninth story is a mirror image of the first and of the entire work, but is somewhat more complex than a 'mise en abime'. (ii) It mirrors humanistic theatrical drama: its five comic days mirror the five...

... but neglected literary art as such. Charles Péguy’s (1873–1914) L’Argent suite (1913) makes fun of Gustave Lanson’s (1857–1934) course on seventeenth-century drama, during which the professor made sure to mention every forgotten tragedy that might have influenced Pierre Corneille, but had little to say about...

... anyone interested in the transition from medieval to early modern drama or, for that matter, in “the tensions, antagonisms, and instabilities that imbued popular devotion at the dawn of the Reformation” (110). Rather than downplaying the superficiality, obscenity, and kitsch that characterize farce, Noah...

... offering perf­or­mance reviews, health advice, religious counsel, and sexual f­avors (Lynch; Cavicchi; Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity). In the twentieth c­ entury, radio programming, telev­ i­sion shows, and tabloid journalism intensified this phenomenon. Think, for example, of the feelings that Princess...

..., and ceaseless willingness to reconsider what is thought of as “truth,” is, however, closely related to doubt, with both loving and violent consequences. In medieval accounts of the Assumption, such as that found in the Golden Legend or in late medieval English drama, the final “translation” of Mary from earth...

... to her shift from prose to film and drama, Duras did not abandon this plan. In many of her works from this time-the "texte-theatre" India Song (1973), for example, which was adapted to the screen in 1974, the play L'Eden cinema (1977), the improvised reading of a script in Le Camion (1977...

... cohesion as local, ancestral land" (165). In these two collections, Vauquelin thus "dismantles attempts to claim poetic territory even as he writes them," creating "an oddly self-effacing landscape fraught with psychological and social drama" (172). The chapter's second panel takes up Jacques Peletier du...

... consider, then, for a moment this crux in Phedre: a fateful crossing of paths in the drama and of creative paths in Racine's use of Senecan mate- 12. Even so, when Louis Meridier gives similar credit to Racine in an explicit comparison of Euripides, Seneca, and Racine, he can hardly be accused of ignoring...

...Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson 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 primarily symbolic or aesthetic purposes...