..., in the context of educational reforms by which “French literature” was established as a school discipline, replacing the older humanities curriculum built on ancient languages, rhetoric, and appreciation of Greek and Latin classics. The core tools of rhetoric—tropes, genres, argument—were adapted into the new...

...Julie Singer; Colette H. Winn Yonsoo Kim analyzes the interplay of literature, religion, and medicine—and of gender, ethnicity, class, and ability—in “Teresa de Cartagena’s Illness and Disability as Embodied Knowledge.” Adopting an intersectional framework, Kim argues that the fifteenth-century...

...Aubrey Gabel aag2188@columbia.edu Alison James , The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 In The Documentary...

...Mark J. Mascia Mark]. Mascia TO JUDGE THROUGH VERSE: THE SONNETS OF LOPE DE VEGA'S LA CIRCE AND HIS ENGAGEMENT WITH LITERATURE I n Lope de Vega's collection of poetry, La Circe (1624), a number of sonnets offer observations on different aspects of poetry writing. The specific themes which Lope...

... noteworthy contribution to a better and fuller understanding and appreciation of the eighteenth century in all its complexity and singularity. (GITA MAY, Columbia University). Beauty Raises the Dead. Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siecle. By Robert Ziegler. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. Pp...

...Alison Baird Lovell Book Reviews Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 230. In her first book, Virginia Krause of Brown University has analyzed a concept intrinsic to Renaissance culture in France...

...Joanna Augustyn Marina Van Zuylen . Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2005 . Pp. 238 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 4°1 Marina Van Zuylen. Monomania: The Flight from...

...Juliette Cherbuliez Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Juliette Cherbuliez ON LETTING SLEEPING BLONDS LIE: GENDER, LEISURE LITERATURE, AND THE IMAGINATION IN FONTENELLE On dit de M. de Fontenelle qu'a la place du creur, II a un second cerveau. Charlotte-Elisabeth Alsse...

...Jennifer Gipson Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Jennifer Gipson LITERATURE AND THE DEATH OF FOLKLORE: IN AND AROUND NERVAL'S SYLVIE "Avant dcrire, chaque peuple a chante."l With this seeming truism, Gerard de Nerval (1808-55) opens "Les Vieilles Ballades fran<;aises...

...Seth Kimmel Anthony J. Cascardi Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2012 . Pp. 351 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS apar ailleurs l'appui de ses raisonnements, fournissant au lecteur nombre...

...Toby Wikström Larry F. Norman The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2011 . Pp. 296 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 588 BOOK REVIEWS Quijote intelligible as a reflection on political...

...Simon Kemp Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Simon Kemp STIMULUS AND RESPONSE: BEHAVIORISM, TROPISMS, AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT AND LITERATURE Literary criticism's model of choice for the understanding of fictional minds has been, at least until recent...

... of the Tristan tradition, and by extension, the literary and affective investments of the lai . This narrow critical question leads to a broader problem of how literature can or should be read. Reading “Chèvrefeuille” as imbricated in the twelfth-century Tristan tradition underscores the pleasure of recognition...

... of princes, the régime de santé took a political turn, something that is also echoed in satirical literature. One clear example of the politics of the régime de santé is the banquet scene of L’Isle des hermaphrodites ( The Island of Hermaphrodites ), published in 1605 and circulated widely in Paris...

..., and most of all a disabled (deaf) woman of letters. Her work Arboleda de los enfermos represents a hybrid paradigm in which literature, religion, and medicine interact with one another in medieval Europe. Teresa’s use of embodied metaphors to describe her experience of isolation and loneliness helps...

... be challenged by the perceived need to shield children from traumatizing scenes. This essay examines four recent children’s books published in Italy that dramatize immigration from Africa. Authors Maria Attanasio, Erminia Dell’Oro, Dino Ticli, and Francesco D’Adamo allude to canonical Western literature...

...Mary Franklin-Brown Abstract Through a study of early French romances, especially the Conte de Floire et Blancheflor and Alexandre de Paris’s Roman d’Alexandre , this essay offers a new approach to the automaton in medieval literature. Bruno Latour’s plural ontology, which elaborates on the earlier...