...Mark J. Mascia Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 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 sonnetsoffer observations on different...

... noteworthy contribution to a better and fuller understanding and appreciation of the eighteenth century in all its complex- ity 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 Renais- sance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 230. In her first book, Virginia Krause of Brown University has analyzed a con- cept intrinsic to Renaissance culture in France...

...Juliette Cherbuliez 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, Lettres, 28 Les ombres, les angoisses, les epouvantes, les...

...Jennifer Gipson 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" in La Sylphide in July 1842. Nerval, a member of the Petit...

...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 par ailleurs al'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...

...Joanna Augustyn BOOK REVIEWS 4°1 Marina Van Zuylen. Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 238. Dictionaries reveal how the nineteenth century may have "invented" mono- mania. The Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des...

...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 fictionalminds has been, at least until recent...

... then undergirds an optimistic vision of cultural democritization and opportunity. But perhaps against its intentions, the film shows, in fact, how little success in the first reading style entails success in the second. On the contrary, the literature classroom comes across as a framework highlighting...

... honors seminar on meta- literature and the self- reflexive text. My very gifted students Peter Brown, now a reader at Australian National University, was one of them and I, together with Anne Freadman, would meet once a month at Ross s apartment in a high- rise residence on Sydney s North Shore. To me...

... scholarship on medicine and literature has yielded new understandings of the intermingling of medical and literary discourses, and particularly of the ways that medical concepts, metaphors, and thematics can function within literary texts. However, despite the considerable body of work that has built up since...

... of medieval romance literature. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Alexander the Great medieval romance ingenuity medieval French invention Alexander the Great, as he is presented in the medieval romance tradition, is an enginëor in both...

...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...

... 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...

..., casually incomplete, riddled with hiatus and hardly delivering the well-rounded summary or "document" their title announces. Nowhere in this list of "histories" by Borges do we find a history of literature or, for that matter, of anyone literature. The closest Borges gets to writing literary history...

... Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Michael Bell is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies as well as the current Director of the Centre for Research in Phi- losophy and Literature at University of Warwick. His many...