...Adele King Robert S. Thornberry Les Ecrits de Paul Nizan (1905–1940): portrait d’une époque . Bibliographie commentée suivie de textes retrouvés. Paris : Honore Champion , 2001 . Pp. 752 . Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS 117 to be nature...

...Elena Russo Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Elena Russo THE NAKED PHILOSOPHE AND THE SHAMELESS PRUSSIAN: DIDEROT'S PORTRAIT SITTING I n one of the most intriguing passages of his Salon of 1767, Denis Diderot recounts at length his dealings with the Prussian-Polish...

... the question of identity in their works, using the genre of the portrait (among other techniques) to destabilize assumptions of the single and unified nature of the subject. Moving from the Parisian center to the peripheries, this pair of nineteenth-century voyagers challenged the hegemonic centrality...

... characters, paints portraits of women of extraordinary character and strength, and in Les Cloches de Bale he has the most eloquent arguments in favor of full female emancipation and equality as are to be found anywhere. Yet his PCF was male-dominated party that under the impact of the great leader Stalin...

... vie parisienne », regrette qu il n apprécie dans la vie d officier que « les avantages attachés à l épaulette », souligne sa faculté à se trouver presque toujours à Paris quand il est en garnison à proximité et déplore ses chroniques dans la presse « légère » (SHD2). Portrait à charge d autant plus...

...Dominique Jullien Gita May s Vigée Le Brun Dominique Jullien On Reading Gita May s Last Book When Gita May retired from Columbia in 2006, around the same time I had left Columbia for UC Santa Barbara, she published her last book: a biography of the ­eighteenth-­century portrait painter Elisabeth...

... true. Letters, portraits, light verse: Celimene and her friends are involved in a dizzying circuit of literary production and consumption, and Donneau de Vise noted that those who criticized Moliere's portrayal of this society only revealed their own ignorance and low social standing: "L'on ne peut ne...

... hate a sanctimonious portrait of himself as a nice guy, so I just want to add that Phil could dish with the best of us, but he did it more The Romanic Review Volume 105 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University ALICE KAPLAN discreetly than any of us. There was no one I'd rather talk to when...

... notre article, et son don de capter en des termes frappants le fondement paradoxal du pouvoir inspire déjà notre première tentative de définir le sublime royal ci-dessus à partir du constat suivant de son article magistral « Le corps glorieux du roi et son portrait » : « Le portrait du Roi est une des...

... is indicative both of her or his gender and of the context of the utterance, of the social positioning and the intentions of the interlocutors, of their awareness (or lack of awareness) of all the pertinent sociological variables in play in the situation. The portrait of La Chauplanat offers a lesson about...

... fills the pages of her fiction seems also present in this last comment. 1 Sartre's interest in her work, she goes on, prompted him to provide a laudatory preface for her second publication, Portrait d'un inconnu (1947) (188). When asked by Dupuy-Sullivan why she thinks Sartre admired Portrait, Sarraute...

... correspondence with friends and acquaintances, and then she passes to a close reading of his written portraits of Mallarme. By insisting on Mallarme's absence or death ("La Jeune Parque" appears as a veiled "Tombeau de Mallarme Valery was able to posit other goals for poetry than composing an ideal Book. His...

...; and concludes by assessing the text's misogynistic denouement. For the purpose of clarity, the main character will be referred to as the werewolf when in a lupine state in the lay and as the baron when in human form. Initial Portraits of the Werewolf, the Male, and the Female Bisclavret runs a total of 318...

... A Bird of Curious Plumage, Bern Archer Brombert's Cristina: Portraits of a Princess, and Arrigo Petacco's La principessa del nord. Prior to these studies one of the significant sources on the princess was Aldobrandino Malvezzi's three-volume biography, La Principessa Cristina di Belgiojoso (1936-1937). 4...

...) and, to quote Leduc, women writers dare to say so. Nathalie Sarraute s first novel, Portrait d un inconnu (1948), is an exception to this rule of female relations in that it has a male narrator who recounts his fascination with the relationship between a young woman acquaintance 7. Toril Moi describes the book...

... now, I feel much as Aragon himself felt about the nearly three dozen portrait drawings the painter made of him in 1942. At first the poet did not like them at all, claiming they looked nothing like him (he said they turned him into a rugby player). Matisse had drawn a plump, debonair youth, carefree...

... discourse from the Tunisian perspective, Albert Memmi begins his study with the portrait of the colonizer before discussing the colonized, as the second cannot exist without an oppressor in the context of colonialism. In addition, it seems that French institutions have been traditionally protective...

... of a subjective reaction to architecture eventually translate into the complete portrait of the viewer and his passions. In the fantastic genre's variations on the theme of Piranesi's Prisons, the final portrait of the devastated artist constitutes, as we hope to demonstrate, the literary response to his ruin...

... for the inside cover of Triolet and Aragon's CEuvres romanesques croisees, and Picassos's portrait of Stalin, which sparked the notorious Portrait Affair. This was the first of a series of deepening crises in Aragon's political and artistic career, when he was denounced and publicly humiliated by the Communist...

... and Claude Bourqui. He regrets that The Romanic Review Volume 105 Numbers 3-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University BOOK REVIEWS the portrait of the author that appears in the plays themselves was entirely excluded from the reasoning that led to editorial decisions. In Call's own approach, the portrait...