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... function, what exposes him to the dislike and mockery of his companions, is to deprive the other knights of their enjoyment. What Agilulfo clings to, in other words, is not an outmoded literary genre or even anything so noble as ideals. When I mentioned before Agilulfo's irritating and impractical...

... the taste of his contemporaries, he wants the piece performed not to please others but for his very own enjoyment: Echauffe de la composition de cet ouvrage j'avois une grande passion de l'entendre, et j'aurois donne tout au monde pour Ie voir representer a rna fantaisie, a portes fermees, comme on dit que...

... not be a space of aesthetically pure enjoyment, but instead was necessarily part of a political program (Richelieu's) that put the spectacle's manipulation of bodily passion in the service of power. Though it wears them lightly, The Aesthetic Body is not without polemical dimensions. As I've noted, part...

... with the author’s well-documented subjugation of the metaphysical to aesthetic-intellectual enjoyment, Jullien studies this material as “a source of narrative inspiration” (xix) for his essays and stories, and particularly for the conception of world literature that emerges from their interstices. The Borges...

..., looking for the book before books, enjoyment of the anticipation of reading, enjoyment of the anticipation of the end of reading). Confronted with these alternatives, our Reader seems a very serious fellow: I like to read only what is written, and to connect the details with the whole, and to consider...

... with the unabashed enjoyment he derives from his "lave- ment nourrissant a la peptone" (345). Everything about des Esseintes' behav- ior, from his hygienic practices to his artistic predilections, situates him squarely in the pre-genital stage of sexual development, to which his misogyny and occasional bouts...

... that invite curiosity, questioning, and enjoyment to both eastern and western audiences. Chapter two is one of the book's most useful interventions, using comparative analysis of passages to analyze the semantics, language, and translation politics of the Devisement. Gaunt argues that the Franco-Italian...

... leap into love, From love into knowledge, From knowledge into enjoyment, And from enjoyment beyond all human sensations. There I want to remain, yet want also to circle higher still. (59) Mechthild, like others writing around the same time as she does, always wants more. Her desire...

... possibility. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the famous scene in which Elmire's second audience with Tartuffe is overheard by Orgon from under the table (see Figure 1). Indeed, I would like to suggest that the whole scenario may be read as a sex game devised by Elmire as much for the enjoyment of her...

... represented a new and peculiar book, both for the wide spectrum of its narrative forms and eminently for the choice of treating the folk story as a literary genre. The folk story of fairies was thenceforth an enjoyable widespread night entertainment, as witnessed by an interesting letter of Andrea Calmo...

... to undecided undergraduates or interested lay readers? 8 By imparting to students that before they are workers, they are first and foremost persons endowed with the capacity for thought, for the absorption of aesthetic enjoyment, we prepare them to live life not as something to be submitted...

... and aesthetic support for Calderon's dramatic art. Chapter 4 of Aristotle's Poetics seems to be the starting point for the discussion I have proposed, for here the author sketches an epistemological theory of aesthetics in which sensual pleasure takes a back seat to the enjoyment of recognition and learning...

..., as shared sensational (and egalitarian) enjoyment, this same body constitutes a profoundly social, indeed critical tapas: it is perhaps always also the site where the tragic disparities of human existence in an unjust social configuration are denounced (sometimes angrily, sometimes comically), and where...

....6 Although this short drama might seem to scoff at the notion that passing time and the numeric, rosary-type repetition of prayers can play any role in blessedness, the play actually stages a convergence between this sort of Roman Catholic ritual and what seems the enjoyment 4. "'Et puis, quelles...

...” (92–93). Psychoanalysis may be “admirable,” but Barthes is an admirer, not a believer; for him psychoanalysis “is a fiction.” His comparison of psychoanalysis to “les voies admirables d’une très grande ville” combines with the image of it as a “monument” to suggest an enjoyable, touristic relation...

... cookbooks of the era, as "livres precieux que tout homme de bien doit avoir dans sa bibliotheque" (MO 1:242). He appreciated female company, but he is also the only memoirist of the period to describe the enjoyment he occasionally took in passing for a girl. Of one such incident, he wrote, "Je fus pris pour...

... wayward lambs on their way despairing, having been refused the sacraments, but rather that they would be made aware that the enjoyment of the sacraments depends on self-amendment and not on the gullibility of the confessor. Gournay demonstrates here awareness of a key argument for laxists, namely...

... such narratological transgressions as ironical twists and games with the reader, it must be conceded that these are designed for the enjoyment of the more attentive or sophisticated readers, although popular detective novelists like San Antonio (Frederic Dard) and the less than popular New Novelists alike have used...

... juxtapositions of high and low culture. In Lo cunto, the names of learned figures from antiquity precede an enumeration of Neapolitan street performers, while lines from Vergil's Aeneid are found beside allusions to works performed in Neapolitan puppet theaters. Central to the enjoyment of these tales...

... after having forced a parody of consent. The Caribbean and its peoples live by tourists' enjoyment of the hundred thousand beauties of our land. While others are sated, these peoples are powerless and frustrated in their losing battle for survival-an omnipresent neurosis, a disguised and multiform...