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... ultimately that, in dark and disorienting times, literature—which perhaps does nothing so well as help us to grapple with the ways in which the past and the present, and thus any possible futurity, are mutually entrammeled with one another—may help us get certain ideas, if not infallibly right, a little less...

...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...

... popularity of the immersion program in the K–12 system means that there will be a growing number of bilingual students enrolling in American universities in the coming years. Since only a limited percentage of them are interested in specializing in French literature, French programs have the opportunity...

...Liesbeth François [email protected] Dominique Jullien , Borges, Buddhism, and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave , 2019 . Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Dominique...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Aubrey Gabel [email protected] 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...

...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...

... 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...

...—their freedom. The novel puts forth apocalypse as a model for the work of literature itself—revelation that rends normative reality in order to replace it with something else. Returning to the prophetic apostrophe to Chicoutimi, Edelman’s No Future is also instructive in helping us make sense of why Lambert...