...Sandra Pierson Prior Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Sandra Pierson Prior THE LOVE THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME: DISPLACING AND SILENCING THE SHAME OF ADULTERY IN LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETE For some, Lancelot, the hero of Chretien de Troy's Chevalier de la Charrete...

...Tobias Foster Gittes Albert Russell Ascoli . A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance . New York : Fordham UP , 2011 . Pp. 384 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 580 BOOK REVIEWS 114). Recio's edition amends...

...Thomas Wynn Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Thomas Wynn THE PROBLEM OF NAMES AND SUBJECTIVITY IN CORNEILLE'S RODOGUNE I mprisoned in the Bastille, Voltaire's Ingenu is introduced by his cellmate to French theater. After Racine's Iphigenie, Phedre, Andromaque...

...David Georgi Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 David Georgi READING THE SIGNS IN VILLON: PUNS, PROPER NAMES, AND IMPLIED LANGUAGE THEORY IN THE LAIS V illon's Lais quickly announces itself as the last will and testament of a poor scholar named Fran<;ois Villon...

..., or material permanence. The decay of closed-down houses and abandoned farm tools speaks to and reproduces the imprint of rural extractivism, symbolic violence, and ecological precarization on the Galician countryside. The act of naming can determine what things are and the emotions they awaken: utensils...

... instead reveal Deshoulières’s engagement with the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns and the debates about the animal machine. While such interventions constituted an important strategy for making a name for herself, they are characterized by elusiveness. Although that elusiveness has been read...

...Michelle M. Hamilton Abstract The tale of the City of Brass, best known today from the Arabian Nights , tells of the imagined encounter between humans and the occult properties of the material world, namely, the powers inherent in minerals. In the Middle Ages knowledge of such properties...

... on vernacular accounts of Mary’s Assumption, it argues that reprise leads to violent as well as loving conversions; indeed, violence can proceed in the name of love. The essay concludes that composition, reprise, and conversion come together in ways that trouble late medieval accounts of the Assumption...

... asked spectators to suspend disbelief in the name of conversion even as they maintained skepticism about sacred simulacra. Latour’s metaphysics allows us to see how mystery plays deployed multiple modes of existence, each of which mediated the others but could not reduce or explain them. States’s...

... as paradoxically mutable. On its textual level, the short story can be read as analogously vacillating between different articulations and identities. In probing this double problematic of "TristanVox," I will account for such interrelated issues as characteristic voice, name and naming, intertextuality...

... of Lonnrot's interpretation. In "El jardin de los senderos que se bifurcan," Yu Tsun, a Chinese spy working for the Germans during World War I, must tell the Germans to attack a city named Albert. To do so, he murders a man with the same name, is arrested, and has his name linked with his victim's in the news...

... that contamination to the presence or absence of author’s name or explicit thesis: “What other purposes might be served by the abjection of the death penalty, as represented by Hugo? As well as marking the paralysis of death in life and life in death, the horror of the narrative might act as a border, putting...

... platonic suitor. In this novel, the husband does not die; the wife does, which allows the husband to find a more congenial mate. In the earlier novel Sand uses a first name as title (as she did in most of her early novels) whereas the later novel does use a family name. The early refusal 380 FRANOISE...

..., it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert,” makes of the church “something entirely different from the rest of the town: an edifice occupying, so to speak, a four-dimensional space—the name of the fourth being Time.” The church tower, which the sedentary Aunt Léonie observes from her bedroom...

... by an unnamed author, who is writing in 1963 or 1964 ("fifty-five years later 4 Is the Author (let the capitalized noun designate his identity in lieu of a name) the same person as the boy, grown up? Yes and no, in more ways than one-and it is in the multiple ways in which this text performs that "yes...

... in their verse. Yet literary fame, which emerges as a constant preoccupation in his poetry, seems largely to have eluded him: he was never officially named to the Pleiade's circle; his death in 1560 or 1561 went unmentioned in the verse of his colleagues; and his books, with the exception of a 1572 edition...

... used by the author of Inquisiciones: Out of this aboriginal sensible muchness attention carves out objects, which conception then names and identifies forever-in the sky "constellations," on the earth "beach," "sea," "cliff," "bushes," "grass." Out of time we cut "days" and "nights," "summers...

... been very well discussed by Nicole Aas-Rouxparis in "La Femme-oiseau de la mosa"ique: Image et chant dans La femme sans sepulture d'Assia Djebar." 5. This mosaic was displayed on the wall of a peristyle pool in what has been named "The House of Ulysses and the Pirates," or "House of Ulysses...

... as trompe l oeil to the extent that the apparent conventionality of the causerie often serves as a conduit or set up for the revelation of deeper or darker secrets and truths. Onomastics and toponymy are frequently significant elem­ ents in Barbey s stories. Names, nicknames, and the act of naming...

...-Michel de Mory Desgravières de Prémont, her second cousin; her godmother was Marie-Michelle Pelletier, the wife of noble homme Claude Carrié. Both signed along with her father. 1 It is striking, in view of the traditions, that “Constance” was apparently neither the name of the child’s godparents nor...