.... (CHRISTINE CHISM, UCLA) Anna Zayaruznaya. The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. Pp. 234 + appendices. Broadly speaking, Zayaruznaya's The Monstrous New Art is about text-music relations in the ars nova motet with a focus on the period span- ning 1315...

...Nathan D. Brown Nathan D. Brown CURIOUS SAVAGES: CULTURAL TRANSVESTISM, IDENTITY, AND NEW FRANCE IN ALAIN-RENE LESAGE'S LES AVANTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE ~~Voici un sauvage curieux que je vous amene. Sans aller au Canada, vous allez voir un Iroquois, mais un Iroquois qui...

...Solange Alberro; Monique Dascha Inciarte Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Salange Alberra A HERETIC IN NEW SPAIN: ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, ALIAS BROTHER MANUEL DE QUADROS TRANSLATED BY MONIQUE DASCHA INCIARTE Fray Manuel de Quadros's case was much talked about...

... the contemplative moment, the sun's grad- ual withdrawal, and the viewer's perception and ambitions. The new angel, "L'Ange frais," that appears in stanza four is at once the culmination of sunset and the creation of the viewer's contemplative vision. Its appearance, following as it does the "travaux du couchant...

... Louis XIV (Paris: Minuit, 1981),66-92. On Augustus Caesar's seizure of power as an emancipatory tactic, see Orlando Patterson, Freedom (New York: Basic Books, 1991) 258-63. 5. On the choice of topic and its links with events in the Middle East, see Forestier's notes, OC 1:1492-1499. 6. In addition...

... to represent allegorically the author's ideal of the new and improved Haitian state based on ethnic fraternity and worker solidarity, is a glaring instance of the Caribbean writer's repressed li- bido. Far from being a celebratory "chant de koke," the novel's utopian thrust is grounded on a redirected...

... reflections on the ways in which creolite translates time-honored models of literary history, while pro- viding new ascriptions of literary genesis, genealogy, and genetic criticism. There are myriad serviceable models of literary history still in use, many of them overlapping. One thinks of the encyclical...

... dolorisme familial, Michelet compte sur un paternalisme. Si differente qu'en soit aujourd'hui la formulation, ces questions restent au creur (si j'ose dire) de nos debats actuels sur une institution plus decriee, et pourtant plus resistante, que JamalS. New York University ...

... the passage through both life and death. The masterpiece is the creation of a new vision of the poet. It is his "nuit qui parle," as Cocteau states when op- posing "expiration" to "inspiration." If the film does not show that earlier period when the young Prince turned into the Beast, this work nevertheless...

... un inconscient. On ne peut imaginer plus hau- taine, ni plus desesperee defense de la poesie. New York University ...

... abandonnant les valeurs traditionnelIes de fidelite, de probite et de constance? Et qu'ont agagner l'homme et la femme dans un univers tel que Brantome l'imagine et Ie propose?44 State University of New York at Binghamton 44. Mes sinceres remerciements a Cynthia Skenazi et aux collegues du colloque de...

... hommes, desquelz en prinsmes une partie et renvoyasmes Ie reste. Peu apres, arriva Ie recepveur de Monsieur Ie mareschale de la Marche et rna femme, laquelle ne me recognoissoit plus acause que j'avoys grande barbe et estoys devenu mesgre et tout change de couleur ; et ne peust parler amoy 55. New...

... of disciplinary cross-pollination which enhances current scholarship in early modern literary studies. (ALISON BAIRD LOVELL, City University of New York, Graduate Center) Martine Reid. Signer Sand. L'(Euvre et Ie nom. Paris: Belin, 2003. Pp. 237. 2004 marque Ie bicentenaire de George Sand comme celui du Code...

... with a Cartesian reason, a Rousseauistic moral sense, and a new thirst for happiness. He is master of his person, of his possessions and of his dealings-the individual par excel- lence being a male, of legal age, and property holder. Before him stands the Nation, no longer made up of orders granted privileges...

... of groundbreaking, and it provides a fresh agenda for literary theorists, life-writing specialists, historiographers, and anyone with an interest in twentieth-century cultural history. It even has an index. (ANN JEFFERSON, New College, Oxford) ...

.... Language as code. I remember the language of Surrealism, language as code, magic was Ignorance. I remember Michael Riffaterre wiping away ignorance. With all those books. I remember Michael Riffaterre wiping away ignorance with all those books and I felt naked and afraid. I remember the new codes...

... translator, Richard Helger- son, has put it, during the prosperous 1540s, Du Bellay wanted "a rebirth of the Roman Empire with France as the new Rome."4 In this text devoted to exploring the role of the vernacular in a newly-constituted Europe, Du Bellay first laments the effects of Babel and claims...

... by the water, with equally long conversations about poetry. This was the Mike Riffaterre I knew best, and long. Graduate School of the City University of New York The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University ...

...-century French studies. For Samu- els, the shock and parry arguments presented in Walter Benjamin's "On Some Motifs" gave rise, on one side, to a cottage industry of urban Paris mono- graphs focusing on new manias of technological modernity, criminal patholo- gies, perversions, and phobias of all sorts...