...Pierre Force Michael Call . The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print . West Lafayette : Purdue UP , 2015 . Pp. 294 . Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Book Reviews Michael Call. The Would-Be Author: Moliere and the Comedy of Print. West...

...Michael Call Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Michael Call ALCESTE AT THE PRINT SHOP: PUBLICATION AND AUTHORSHIP IN MOLIERE'S LE MISANTHROPE I n the stormy first scene of Le Misanthrope, Alceste announces in comically grandiose fashion his intention to "rompre en...

...Julia Prest Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Julia Prest ELMIRE AND THE EROTICS OF THE MENAGE A TROIS IN MOLIERE'S TARTUFFE At first sight, the character of Elmire in Moliere's Tartuffe appears to have much to commend her, and modern critics and theatergoers generally...

... shortcomings. Molière thus articulates the profoundly divided nature of Alceste indicated by Donneau de Visé (“ridicule”/“juste”), Rousseau (“un homme droit, sincère, estimable,” but also facing the world as “un personnage ridicule”), and recently by Georges Forestier and Claude Bourqui (the melancholic...

... of the seventeenth century, the renlainder of the seven-part book is organized in groups of essays treating specific authors. Of these, five essays are devoted to Pascal, three to the nl0ralists in general, five to Fenelon, four to the Preciosity, and one each exclusively to Moliere, Corneille, and Racine. Sellier...

... of English at Washington State and specialist on the English reception of Montaigne, was written for the Oxford series of Very Short Introductions, which claims over 650 titles, very few of which are devoted to French authors. They’ve done Voltaire and Descartes but not (yet) Molière or Proust. Even more...

... by the books themselves and on Moliere's keen awareness of this phenomenon. A common interpretive practice in the seventeenth century was to identify authorial voice with one or more character. Call convincingly shows how Moliere played with the expectations of the public in that regard, and in so doing he...

... pour l'influence importante d'Erasme sur Moliere que pour la presence plus generaIe de cet auteur dans Ie siecle22 De nombreuses editions revelent une presence constante de l'reuvre d'Erasme dans Ie paysage litteraire fran~ais, meme si son discours reste quelque peu a la marge dans la mesure OU Erasme...

.... La Spiritualite des ecrivains. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Mitterand, Henri. Zola, tel qu'en lui-meme. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009. Moliere. The Lavish Lovers. Trans. David Edney. Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de. Tartuffe...

... amitie': French-Turkish Trade and Artistic Exchange in Moliere's Bourgeois gentilhomme," 155-166 Moudileno, Lydie, "Retrouver la parole perdue: Edouard Glissant et Ie recit d'esclave Reconstitue," 83-91 Obergfell Malicotte, Sandra, "The Illuminated Geste de Saint Gille: Questions of Genre," 285-300...

... Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 524 INDEX McClure, Ellen M., "'Vne parfaite et sincere bonne Correspondance et amitie': French-Turkish Trade and Artistic Exchange in Moliere's Bourgeois gentilhomme," 155-166 Moudileno, Lydie, "Retrouver la parole perdue: Edouard...

.... Christine de Pizan, Montaigne, Molière, Diderot, Hugo, Giono. Paris: Presses de l Université de Paris Sorbonne, 2016. Billis, Hélène E. Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2016. Bowser, Rachel A. and Brian Coxall. Like...

..., they create an effect of temporal depth to the extent that they belong, by their very nature, to the past. Five literary citations appear within and around the text. The first, taken from Lucian's Philopseudes, precedes the narrator's account as an epigraph. The four others come from Virgil, Moliere...

...." A Philological Commentary. Newark: Moliere & Co., 2003. Kallendorf, Hillaire. Exorcism and its Texts. Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Le Thiec, Guy and Alain Talon Eds., Charles Quint face aux reformes. Colloque international organise par...

... inquiry, and that is what the seventeenth-century specialist Larry F. Norman, best known for his 1997 study The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction, does in his new account of France's Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns (1687-1716). Upsetting the facile yet enduring view...

... frequently levelled at classicism by the Romantics16). The true mark of poetic genius is thus not originality but "primitiveness." The word has no chronological connotation: "one can be primitive in any epoch: whoever draws direct inspiration from man is primitive." 17 In Amphitryon Moliere is only original...

... L’École des femmes » ; aucune ne s’est élevée non plus contre le partage ainsi esquissé par Molière. Au regard de la participation des femmes aux querelles de façon générale, leur activité paraît ainsi relativement faible, ou du moins peu visible, sur le terrain de la littérature. De Marie de Gournay...

... me my diploma till i took the last exam. a take-home it was, and i didn’t recognize the passages, except for one, molière . . . or maybe marivaux. but the names were somehow based on phèdre . i decided anyway that this might be okay. theater. familiar territory. then i forgot, didn’t get...

...-Quentin-en- Yvelines 2. Cette photo de Nadar, qui avait photographie Sand en Moliere en 1864 (et son fils Paul ensuite, portant la meme perruque), a ete souvent reproduite. Sans legende, elle est incomprehensible, et Sand y parait grotesque. Voir Claude Malecot, George SandFelix Nadar, Monum, Editions du...

... are shown as having confiscated the male pencil and borrowed rays that do not belong to them. Le Brun suggests they have ghostwriters (“teinturiers”) to do their work and ends with an allusion to a familiar source denouncing femmes savantes : “Et surtout, croyons-en Molière: / Redoutons les femmes auteurs...