... of the nineteenth century. By examining commercial ephemera produced and distributed in Barcelona, alongside theories of male homosociality and empire, this essay demonstrates how Spanish men—specifically Catalans—commercialized fantasies of bourgeois masculinity, thus contributing to the consolidation of cultures...

...Emily Apter Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Emily Apter POLITICS "SMALL P": SECOND EMPIRE MACHIAVELLIANISM IN ZOLA'S SON EXCELLENCE EUGENE ROUGON Balzac famously wrote of La Chartreuse de Parme that Stendhal "a ecrit Le Prince moderne, Ie roman que Machiavel ecrirait...

...Dorian Bell Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Dorian Bell BEYOND THE BOURSE: ZOLA, EMPIRE, AND THE JEWS Puis, apercevant du monde a sa gauche, deux hommes et une femme, it eut l'idee de les questionner. Mais, a son approche, la femme s'enfuit, les hommes l'ecarterent...

... motivation for and an inevitable result of the creative processes of reading and writing, a pledge of their immortality. State University of New York, Empire State College Works Cited Almeida, Ivan. "Conjeturas y mapas Kant, Pierce, Borges y las geografias del pensamiento." Variaciones Borges. 5 (1998): 7-36...

...Karin Westerwelle Résumé Le poème « Les Bijoux » de Charles Baudelaire, condamné par la censure du Second Empire, invite le lecteur à assister à un défilé d’images concernant une femme de couleur brune, ornée de bijoux et fardée, qui offre au regard spectateur sa nudité en dansant. La fascination...

... to decontextualize and fragment information communicated their anxiety through their uses of the arlequin metaphor. By the Second Empire, a growing market for reliable inoffensive information encouraged the publication of recurrent general-interest articles that would come to be known as marronniers. Neither term...

... allied with Juan de Herrera’s designs to project an immutability beyond space and time, Sigüenza, this article shows, enacts a ventriloquist mimicking of artisanal practice that vindicates process and local experience in conflict with the notion of a petrified center of empire. It also examines...

...Morgane Kieffer Résumé Cet article interroge la manière dont trois récits français contemporains, Propriété privée , de Julia Deck (Minuit, 2019), Les États et empires du Lotissement Grand Siècle de Fanny Taillandier (PUF, 2016), et Fabrication de la guerre civile , de Charles Robinson (Seuil, 2016...

.... The argument that the topic was fashionable in 1670 is true as far as it goes, but it does not go very far. 5 In Racine's political model, the Ottoman empire acts as a latter-day equivalent of the Rome of the first century C.E., which is to say the same topic that had furnished him with the plots...

..." was there exacerbated by the novel's insistence on the funereal aspects of that Second Empire world: the Bois wrapped "dans un linceul d'ombre" where "tout allait en se mourant" (46-47). In the final chapter's flashback, the young woman's early visions of this "nuit si navree" (47) appear even more ghostly, not only...

... of foreigners into empires. Given their implicit disagreements about how to write essays, why do Montaigne and Bacon agree on w­ hether to write them? Why, if he wanted to write so differently from his pred­ e­cess­or, did the En­glish author write (or say he wrote) essays at all? In order to understand what...

... apparently capable of driving citizens of the Second Empire to distraction, if not to outright madness. Indeed, one marvels that such a traumatized population managed to do anything at all, let alone build such impressive buildings, write such long novels, or stage so many revolutions. Following Walter...

... of her territories. 11 Furthermore, whereas the main character of the Aeneid is both an ancestor of the poem's patron Caesar Augustus and the founder of the Roman Empire, Jeanne d'Albret's relationship to Judith and to her narrative is always evoked by analogy. The example of the people of Israel seemed...

... to five hundred gulden a year, while assistant censors earned between three hundred to four hundred gulden a year (Bachleitner Die literarische Zensur in Österreich, 58). ­Under Sedlnitzky s direction, t­hese censors w­ ere responsible for controlling the entire book trade in the Empire and halting...

... to "effectuer avec methode l'inventaire de ce qu'il nous reste adecouvrir, en allant non pas vers Ie plus probable avec un detail croissant, mais vers ce qui promet Ie maximum d'incertitude" (30). His rationale? First, suggests Pierssens, by analyzing the Second Empire education system, we might better...

... exert” (6). Empirical methods of research show that things matter because they not only exist as objects in the world around us in which we invest meaning but also partake in shaping that world and driving its course. As such, material objects shape how we, as social actors, envision ourselves...

... the USSR and the United States, and did not have the skill to survive.8 As Rosa Luxemburg remarked about the 1905 General Strike in the Russian Empire, "The Russian Revolution has for its next task the establishment of a modern civil-democratic constitutional state."9 Gender in Aime Cesaire's play troubled...

... in French military culture-in theory, if not always in practice-from the First Empire to the Second Empire, and the decades leading up to the First World War. Founded on the Revolutionary principle of fraternite, this evolution in social relations would lead to a diverse range of friendships among soldiers...

... much model an entire empire as duplicate it. Here we have the kind of epistemological fantasy so common in Borges, one in which, to borrow Barrenechea's language, a representation is not a simplification of a reality which exceeds it, but instead the equal of that reality. The assumption of Borges's...

... Leonard Bloomfield’s views of language. Bloomfield, by contrast, was an adept of behaviorism. Just as Francis Bacon did for science centuries before, Bloomfield ( Language ) called for a strictly empirical, mechanist, linguistics that should stop relying on invisible, mental meaning and study instead...