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... cultural priorities. If "modernite" seems unthinkable without reference to the French tradition, "Ie modernisme" is, however, much harder to place within those parameters. The danger in attempting to open trade lines in both directions is, of course, that the institutional force behind modernism...

...Renée M. Silverman Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Renee M. Silverlnal1 QUESTIONING THE TERRITORY OF MODERNISM: ULTRAiSMO AND THE AESTHETIC OF THE FIRST SPANISH AVANT-GARDE T he prohlell1 of situating the subject in tin1e and space is perhaps a con1monplace in what...

...Shirin A. Khanmohamadi Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters (eds). Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. 253 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 200 BOOK REVIEWS Karina F. Attar...

...Víctor Sierra Matute Abstract Early modern culture was most fully expressed in events where materiality and textuality are inextricably intertwined: theatrical spectacles, royal parades, triumphal arches, processions, poetic tournaments, and jousts. At the other end of the spectrum, mainstream...

...Leigh Mercer Abstract This essay examines the display of technological objects, consumer goods, and other materials within the earliest Spanish realist cinema, as well as the manipulation of things in pioneering fantasy films, to reveal how Spanish filmmakers projected the modernity of Spain...

... them as old-fashioned and retrograde. Looking at ways women express their refusal of marriage, sexual encounters, or maternal assignations, I reinterpret Racine’s plays, Lafayette’s novels, or Perrault’s fairy tales through a female gaze, thus modernizing their interpretation. I also claim...

... pages of Maternal Echoes. (VINCENT AURORA, Columbia University) Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.Cruz, Anne J. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 297. The study sets out to "explain the failure of social reform as proposed...

... our true memory, did this loss occur with the invention of the printing press (as the praise of medieval mnemonics and poetry games sometimes lead us to believe) or with the industrialization of modern society and today's "cybernetic culture" (as he suggests elsewhere)? Similarly lacking in coherence...

...Scott Marentette William Marx . Naissance de la critique moderne: La littérature selon Eliot et Valéry . Arras : Artois Presses Université , 2002 . Pp. 411 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 432 BOOK REVIEWS Excerpt from "Subjects": What is my 'mind...

...Sophie Robert Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Sophie Robert ADRIENNE MONNIER ET L'ESPRIT MODERNE En novembre 1915, Adrienne Monnier ouvre sa librairie : « A. Monnier, aLibrairie, Location de livres » 7, rue de l'Odeon Paris, qui sera rebaptisee La Maison des Amis des...

... modernisme" and its tendency to degenerate into artifice. Indeed, Gide's commentary in these notations anticipates closely, if with a negative twist, what a much more recent discussion of modernism has identified as Cocteau's debt to the popular art of cinema, and more precisely to Charlie Chaplin...

...Pericles Lewis Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Pericles Lewis PROUST, WOOLF, AND MODERN FICTION V irginia Woolf began reading Marcel Proust in 1922. In an essay "On Rereading Novels," published in the Times Literary Supplement on July 20, 1922, she comments...

...Geneviève Patard Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Genevieve Patard MADAME DE MURAT ET LES FEES MODERNES M me de Murat fait preceder son troisieme recueil de contes, intitules Histoires sublimes et allegoriques, d'une epitre adressee « aux Fees modernes ». Ce texte...

...Jean-Claude Carron William J. Kennedy , The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2003 . Pp. xiv + 383. Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 114 BOOK...

...Maurice Samuels Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Maurice Samuels METAPHORS OF MODERNITY: PROSTITUTES, BANKERS, AND OTHER JEWS IN BALZAC'S SPLENDEURS ET MlSERES DES COURTISANES Why are the brothels of modern French literature filled with Jewish prostitutes? From Yanda...

...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...

...Margot Irvine Rachel Mesch . Having It All in the Belle Époque: How French Women’s Magazines Invented the Modern Woman . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2013 . Pp. 241 . Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 BOOK REVIEWS figures of benefaction that genius both...

...Maurice Samuels Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Maurice Samuels FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL: THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY, SIMON DEUTZ, AND MODERN FRANCE S FIRST ANTI-­SEMITIC AFFAIR At 5:30 p.m. on November 6, 1832, police agents raided the ­house at No. 3, rue Haute-d­ u-C­...

...Lise Forment Abstract Cet article se concentre sur la participation de Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier aux Querelles des Contes et des Femmes, et cherche à éclairer le sens de son intervention dans les débats entre Anciens et Modernes. La conteuse y fait entendre une voix singulière, qui ne se résume pas...

... and Guez de Balzac, which comprised an impoverishment of the language in her eyes, she defended the Pléiade, in what amounts to an early querelle des Anciens et Modernes . 7 Despite her hankering for earlier usages, it would be injudicious to regard as reactionary this “obligation religieuse de...