...Phillip John Usher Jan Miernowski (ed.). Le Sublime et le Grotesque . Geneva : Droz , 2014 . Pp. 344 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 BOOK REVIEWS 21 5 Jan Miernowski (ed Le Sublime et Ie Grotesque. Geneva: Droz, 2014. Pp.344. This book gathers...

... and historical custom. 504 THOMAS HARRISON But in praising these other traditions, Baudelaire unwittingly reinforces the tradition to which he belongs. The richest and purest form of comedy, the "absolute comic," his essay contends, is the grotesque, which is categorically diffe'rent from that verbal punning...

... ouvrage pessimiste BOOK REVIEWS 127 dont l'innocence est mise en cause. Les reecritures de la pudeur de Virginie poussees a l'extreme, mettent en fait l'accent, comme Ie constate Monglon, sur l'equivoque du personnage. Dans "La Mort au feminin: du gothique au grotesque macabre", Joelle Prungnaud analyse...

... excellente mise au point sur la question du sublime et du grotesque (lesquels se rejoignent dans l'horreur medusante), sur la notion de pathetique-« l'identification horizontale, Ie sentiment d'egalite que provoque par l'identification Ie pathetique democratique brise la verticalite du sublime (lie...

... d'une distance entre Ie temps du recit et celui du narrateur" (138), Grossman remarque que c'est en elles que l'esthetique hugolienne est la plus sensible: "sublime and grotesque, poetry and prose, intermingle and heighten each other, sometimes most strikingly in the digressions" (324). Mon essai...

... poetique, poeme en prose, etc Elle revient ensuite sur Ie culte de l'emotion dans la litterature romantique, et propose une excellente mise au point sur la question du sublime et du grotesque (lesquels se rejoignent dans l'horreur medusante), sur la notion de pathetique-« l'identification horizontale, Ie...

... Bringuenarilles, mort par indigestion de casseroles. Cette mort, avance Rabelais, surpasse en grotesque celle d'Eschyle, qui "par ruine feut tue et cheute d'une caquerolle de tortue, laquelle, d'entre les gryphes d'une aigle haulte en l'air tombant sus sa teste, luy fendit la cervelle"5. II n'est point besoin...

... simple, Miernowski compares Flaubert's mariage of the two notions ("Jamais la symbiose [du sublime et du grotesque] n'a ete aussi etroite" [298]) to their more tenuous relationship in the writings of Celine and Amelie Nothomb, wherein symbiosis is replaced by "[une] dialectique sublimo-grotesque" (317...

... coiffure, car elle se drapait grotesquement dans cet ample mantelet, s'en couvrant tout Ie derriere de la tete. Ses gros bras etaient garnis de bracelets de toutes les couleurs; des bagues de toute espece surchargeaient ses doigts, de grandes boucles pen- daient a ses oreilles, et un collier en corail...

... of capital punishment in the novel, hyperbolic and grotesque excesses of cruelty on the part of the patriarch and his regime, also may be traced to images from Garcia Marquez's early journalism. One is the electric chair, imported to the Third World from the United States as a more civilized way of killing...

... caricature maupassantienne suit initialement un schema satirique ; mais, fidele a un realisme teinte de philosophie schopenhauerienne, elle peut tres vite tourner au portrait. Les divers procedes utilises par Maupassant concourent tous a une elaboration du grotesque: en creant un personnage moyen au sein...

... his polemic and philosophy with elements from the rich world of his 'imaginaire' " (41).2 In the following pages, I will argue that, beyond their surface arguments against the death penalty, Hugo's inspiration for these works stems not only from a Romantic fascination with the grotesque, but also from...

...-Quentin-en- Yvelines 2. Cette photo de Nadar, qui avait photographie Sand en Moliere en 1864 (et son fils Paul ensuite, portant la meme perruque), a ete souvent reproduite. Sans legende, elle est incomprehensible, et Sand y parait grotesque. Voir Claude Malecot, George SandFelix Nadar, Monum, Editions du...

..., and the glittery oranges (not to mention Rodolphe’s efforts to “pass” in the worker milieu by donning a clownish ensemble consisting of a dirty overcoat, a misshapen hat, grotesque overshoes, and a red tie), we come to the description of Mme Pipelet as concierge, so compliant with the stereotype of a concierge...

.... To believe otherwise is to fall into the trap of the book, which is precisely to make us believe that homosexuality is a trap. The device of the interrogation, which aims to uncover a secret, as well as the processes of rumor and gossip, is the extreme and grotesque forms through which the violence...

.... The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Davis, Judith M., and F.R.P. Akehurst, trans. Our Lady's Lawsuits in L'Advocacie Nostre Dame and La Chapelerie Nostre Dame de Baiex. Ed. Gerard Gros. Tempe: ACMRS, 2011. de Montemayor, Jorge. Glosa sobre las coplas de...

... litteraire. Geneva: Droz, 2014. - - - . Le Sublime et Ie Grotesque. Geneva: Droz, 2014. Migraine-George, Therese. From Francophonie to World Literature in French: Ethics, Poetics, and Politics. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,2013. Montandon, Alain, and Saulo Neiva, eds. Dictionnaire raisonne de la caducite des...

... metonym reducing the Carolopolitan bourgeoisie to a gaggle of grotesque "ventres" marching about town in a mix of trigger-happy, nationalistic elan and absurd horror. Rimbaud-mutatis mutandis, every bit the equal of Daumier in the visual domain in this respect-manages to capture the preening self-regard...

... beneath the threshold of apprehension, in other words, that which cannot come to presence. There is yet another emergence from sub + limen that is apt for Auschwitz, indeed, grotesquely apt: the 2. Levi describes the scene that follows the selection of those to be gassed in his chap- ter "Ottobre, 1944...

.... Haroun presents himself as a narrator who sees beyond the surface to the bleak reality of things. This is most clearly demonstrated in his description of Algiers, a city in decay: “Cette capitale grotesque qui expose ses viscères à l’air libre m’a semblé la pire insulte faite à ce crime impuni...