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...Simone Ventura Catherine E. Léglu . Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State UP , 2010 . Pp. 216 . Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Book Reviews Catherine E. Leglu...

... affection, he had experienced family life as solitude and darkness. Pale, unspeaking, inactive, unmoving, des Esseintes' mother is a presence registered as an absence: "une longue femme, silencieuse et blanche, [qui] mourut d'epuisement" (80). Allowing for the substitution of word for breast, the mastery...

... and her mother in her efforts to understand the events leading up to her son's death, it is not their words that eventually lead to her understanding. Rather, as this paper will show, it is the eruption of the mundane in the novel that ultimately resolves the narrator's questions and absolves her of her...

... the stereotypically virile voice so cherished by authors such as Hugo, Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert in favor of a weepy sentimentality that was identified not merely as feminine, but effeminate. As later Romantics sought to construct a genealogy for themselves, they unhappily found themselves with two mother figures...

... mothers and of unhappily weaned infants, of matricide, idealization and substitution, but we meet the configurations of loss and alienation at every level of the Decadent experience. For loss - 'object loss' as psychoanalysis specifies - is the very condition of Decadence. "Dispossessed of a natural...

... by a sexually related trauma, and by her daughter's decision to become a prostitute on a night they had no food. Her daughter's body is a kind of family legacy because she has inherited her mother's chest, "the well-known chest of the Fanon girls" (103). Bodies in this sense are not so much discrete objects...

.... It ensnares the male writer in his own empowerment, multiplying his semiotic authority as it ostracizes him from his own cultural and individual identity. This peculiar false empowerment underlies Maupassant's frequent portrayals of the mother-daughter relationship.1 In effect, Maupassant's seemingly in- 1...

... mother. For in the case of Reynalda and Marie-Noelle, the mothers are emotionally absent from their lives, while in the case of Nina, the mother has died. The looming presence of II Lago di Como signals and conceals an unknowable truth about the history of the three women. It is the most significant site...

... by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 postwar Europe world culture artistic beauty truth For a long time, as a child, I had to go to bed early. Every evening, at nine o’clock, my mother came to the room I shared with my sister, gave us a goodnight kiss and turned off...

..., especially the father, mother, and children," is a fairly new concept. Indeed, as Flandrin points out, this type of definition appeared for the first time in a French dictionary like the Littre only in 1869. Before that date, that is during Sand's life and well before that, the term "family" tended to refer...

... fortunes in England. Her account draws on Palmer and explores how d'Aulnoy, a writer for adults, became Mother Bunch, a fantastical teller for children, in the British tradi- ation. "Comment l'auteur des Fees la mode devint 'Mother Bunch': Metamorphoses de la Comtesse d'Aulnoy en Angleterre," Marvels...

... of the self and recognition of the other, which can happen when a female child refuses to identify with an omnipotent but demeaned mother, whilst also failing to find support from an idealized but indifferent father. This experience not only deprives the daughter of positive female identification, but is also...

... the mother's clothes and demeanor ("replete, haJee, vetue de bure") and the daughter's expensive if inelegant toilette also reveals the Lhery's equivocal class status. A subtle hint early on, moreover, suggests that the Lherys are not the strong patriarchal, closely-knit, nuclear family that they at first...

... mother and sisters, while her father remained in Vietnam; conjugal relations between her parents had long since deteriorated. Le felt, and continues to feel, profound guilt at what she viewed as the betrayal and abandonment of both her father and her childhood. Despite the fact that, in several respects...

... of the mirror) mastery over his own story as well. If he knows the difference between himself and Pierre ("Besides, my name was not Pierre," etc then he knows the difference between truth and lie, between memory and invention, does he not? Indeed, he proves it byevok- ing his mother: " toi, je veux dire moi, tu...

... to Proust s Charlus). Consider another more condensed example of Leduc s attentiveness to what I call the multivariable experience of sexuality. La Bâtarde recounts several outings taken by the young Leduc and her mother to see different shows while they were living under the same roof in Paris.2 (They once...

... and digs up the effigy. She then strangles the two children before their mother, ties Villehade's hands and feet with the same rope used to strangle the children, and buries Villehade alive along with her dead children in the same grave in which the effigy had been buried. When the prince returns...

..., and the personal mourning of Lila, an orphan who loses her six-month-old son (like Nfissa in The Naive Larks) (25-32).6 It also includes the victims of violent crimes, of so-called honor killings, such as Touma, killed by her brother Tawfik for having frequented Europeans, and over whom only her tearful mother...

... SPURLING the rest of the population in wartime France), profoundly demoralised by his country's recent surrender to Germany, tormented by anxiety about missing or murdered friends, and emotionally in turmoil over the loss of his mother who died during the portrait sittings. It took him a while to recognise...

..., when Giovanni was only eleven, and his mother, Caterina Allocatelli Vincenzi, died in December of the following year. Within the space a few years, Giovanni also lost his older sister Margherita to typhus, his brother Luigi to cerebral meningitis in 1871, and finally his oldest brother Giacomo, who had...