...Mary Shaw Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Mary Shaw SEMIOSIS AND HUNGER: RIFFATERRE ON MALLARME Hope is a subtle GluttonHe feeds upon the FairAnd yet-inspected closely What Abstinence is there- His is the Halcyon TableThat never seats but OneAnd whatsoever...

...Juli Highfill Abstract Luisa Carnés’s novel Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras (1934) recounts the corporeal and sensory experience of workers in a pastelería , capturing their hunger and fatigue amid the smells of freshly baked pastries. These working women are thus inserted into economic space, defined...

... evokes the personal and collective trauma of the Holocaust. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2021 Georges Perec food hunger memory trauma Holocaust In her last published book, Word of Mouth: What We Talk about When We Talk about Food...

... appetite diminishes, his stomach cramps grow sharper, his digestive problems worsen, as he is punished by the frustration of his hunger for the primary oral object. Re-enacting the gender swap he had dreamed of with Miss Urania, des Esseintes assigns himself the Chimera's role in Flaubert's dialogue...

... trudged across a frozen bridge. His beard caked with ice and his hands numb from the cold, the old soldier had long ago abandoned his exhausted horse to continue alone on foot. Thousands of Napoleon's men faced the greater nightmare of abandoning their comrades, weakened by exposure, hunger, and fatigue...

...- verse of the Room," 307-21 Sasson, Sarah Juliette, "Du Manteau de la Pairie au drap de la roture: les prejuges nobiliaires dans Le BaL de Sceaux," 295-305 Shaw, Mary, "Semiotics and Hunger: Riffaterre on Mallarme," 111-21 "Parody and Metaphysics: Le Coup du 'Livre 445-456 Sheaffer-Jones, Caroline...

... distraction froln the boredonl of bourgeois life. This bohenlian tlees at the first pang of hunger. The official bohell1ian, of "Bohell1ia proper," is 'Io the subject, in part, of this book" (xxxi). The official bohenlian is described with such reverence that it is no surprise that so (l1any "anlateurs" were...

... his lot ("condicio the wolf's woes are not so much attributed to fate as to his lack of nourishment. While Samaniego's animals compare their "fortuna"-the wolf suffers from his "triste suerte" (sad lot)-Phaedrus's fable, in contrast, stresses the wolf's hunger with a cluster of terms: "quo cibo" (what...

... was in short supply, Théophile Gautier remarked that a friend had gone out “in search of the food one hunts most zealously,” by which he meant news. 13 His turn of phrase, like the metaphors we have been considering, takes it for granted that information, too, is something for which people hunger. Ferguson...

... conception of the parable fundamentally hinges on paradox and incomprehensibility, thereby tying in with Kafka’s (and, more broadly, modernist literature’s) suspicion toward revelation. Read through this lens, it becomes clear how Kafka’s parables, notably “The Hunger Artist”; Karen Blixen’s “A Consolatory...

... with the language of regional products in the text and with the complexity of the narrators' commitments both to challenge Latin Christian audiences and to increase their hunger for Asiatic diversities (in many senses). Gaunt also validates the Devisement at the expense (and I believe through the under-reading...

... prey animals out of all those who are not “in the know.” In an animal clinic, the line between truth and falsehood, between the cure and the disease, is never more than a hunger pang away. The first part of this essay will consider the fable physician in isolation, suggesting that two qualities...

... been sufficient to assert that they belong to a domestic space, to a space separated from public life; one from which only groans or cries expressing suffering, hunger, or anger could emerge, but not actual speeches demonstrating a shared aisthesis. And the politics of these categories has always...

...). And if the latest “feuille satirique” doesn’t have enough to satiate the public’s hunger for combat, it can always turn to the delightful and titillating volumes published by a few of those Pandoures, those members of the Chambre basse, those desperados of literature, such as Jean Zorobabel Aublet de Maubuy, whom...

... and majoring with us as a consequence of the hunger so many students have for a space in which to think about themselves and the world in open-ended, complex, nondeterministic ways. At my own institution, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies is booming with students, many of whom major, precisely because...

... are driven by hunger, and the narrative contains two discourses, "burlas" and "veras." On the other hand, she finds various characteristics in Castro's Vida and Pasamonte's Vida y trabajos that contradict the common notion of their being picaresque narratives. Although the study stops short of drawing any...

... own past confirmed—the déjà vu of his sentences. (email communication, April 12, 2019). Drion would accompany us sometimes to the museums. In truth, with the visits to the galleries and grounds comes a memory of longueur and hunger, since we were young children. In the Hoge Veluwe, the adults...

... Don Juan, for example, epitomizes, in a figure always and everywhere valid, not only the seducer in his various forms but one kind of appetite, just as Macbeth symbolizes another sort of appetite, that of men who are nothing but a blind, insatiable hunger: the conquerors, the ambitious.22 These types...

... and hunger were causing frequent desertions in the Continental army. Rochambeau’s military experience and his “connaissance parfaite des hommes” (Decré 122) proved invaluable to the battle (itself decisive in ending British rule), as did by all accounts his sensitivity in playing second fiddle to the less...

... accorded the significance I wanted to give them. Priscilla’s work and her example helped me to have confidence in my conviction that the domestic arts and the intellectual crafts can—and must—cohabit, cross-fertilize, thrive, and join larger contemporary dialogues about gender, hunger, consumption...