...Roger Pensom Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Roger Pensom RACINE: CE QUE LA TRAGEDIE N'EST PAS.1 II n'est pas de tache plus delicate que la recherche de l'originalite d'un ecrivain qui ne pretend pas en avoir. (E. Vinaver) En posant que "Berenice n'est done pas une...

...Ehsan Ahmed Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Ehsan Ahmed L'ETAT, C'EST L'AUTRE: PASSION, POLITICS, AND ALTERITY IN SENAULT AND RACINE I n seventeenth-century France, the relationship between the passions and politics receives its fullest didactic treatment...

...Stephen Bold Stephen Bold THE ANXIETY OF SENECAN INFLUENCE IN RACINE, OR PHEDRE IN THE LABYRINTH For those who would make sense of Jean Racine's career, Phedre will always present a paradox: at once a summit and an impasse. In this paper I propose not so much a resolution of this paradox as a new...

...Zeina Hakim Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine . By Ziad Elmarsafy . Lewisburg , Bucknell University Press , 2003 . Pp. 193 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Book Reviews Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal...

...Ziad Elmarsafy Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Ziad Elmarsafy "0 HOMINES AD SERVITUTEM PARATOS BA]AZET AND THE SCANDAL OF SLAVE RULEI O f all Racine's plays, Bajazet is, according to the ARTFL database, the one where the word "esclave" occurs most frequently.2 More...

... a playwright not unlike his beloved literary masters, among them, Racine (Stendhal 117). To understand her treasured eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Mme May had to set the context of the Age of Louis XIV and its avatars who, like Racine, served as examples (positive and negative) for the authors she...

... of Columbia University 1°4 RONAN Y. CHALMIN de plaire et de les savoir pratiquer 3. » En associant ici « honnete homme » et « plaire », dans une pratique a acquerir, Mere formulait la theorie du discours de la mondanite dans ce siecle devoue a la sociabilite. Avec Britannicus (1670), Racine reflechit lui...

... 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...

... a la troisieme partie qui etablit Ie critere de la bonne critique: sa capacite a repeter Ie cri. L'urgence du choix A fa source de fa critique: fa racine *krei- Le « cri » de la critique se comprend de deux manieres. D'une part il s'agit du premier temps de la critique. Avant d'entreprendre une...

... personnage de Phedre dans la piece eponyme de Racine (dont les vers, cites dans Contre Sainte-Beuve, sont paraphrases dans Swann) renforce de maniere comique sa feminisation. La scene, ou c'est d'ailleurs Ie comique qui l'emporte, n'est pas sans etrangete, car si l'accoutrement feminin et la conduite...

... (1915–80) Sur Racine ( On Racine ; 1963), a seductive description of Racine’s imaginary world, triggered the hostility of the Sorbonne professor Raymond Picard (1917–75), whose pamphlet Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture ( New Criticism or New Fraud ; 1965) attacked Barthes’s subjective...

... Antoinette Deshoulières (1638–94) was notorious both in her own time and in literary history for her involvement in one particular quarrel. She is considered by some to have composed the scathing anonymous Sonnet burlesque, sur la Phèdre de Racine , which was circulated in January 1677 and which triggered...

..., one at the Sorbonne on Racine, the other at Stanford on the authority to speak in Old Regime society. Enchanted by this place that looks more like paradise on earth than a workplace, I attend my first American seminar dedicated to Chrétien de Troyes. We had been assigned to read his entire oeuvre...

... tisanes. Cette nuit-la, je decidai d'avoir recours a mon talent. Pourtant il ame manquait les elements necessaires la pratique de mon art. Les arbres-reposoirs des invisibles. Les condiments de leurs mots favoris. Les plantes et les racines de la guerison. Dans ce pays inconnu et inclement, qu'allais-je...

... the writer Bergotte reflects on Racine's use of ancient myths. This feed of different genres of text serves to remind us of how the consumption of literature is integral to Marcel's experience of love in the novel, from the mother's reading George Sand to her needy son in Combray through to the cohabitation...

... beau, vers les regions ou Ie sublime et Ie grotesque se frolent et s'unissent, est une entreprise tentante, mais risquee," the two notions "ne partagent point les memes racines" (22), which is a good indication of the value of a conference and a book that bring together specialists of different periods...

... department are named and described. When the class reaches l’Aisne, Duval tells his pupils that it is perhaps France’s literary figures that bring the nation the most glory, writers such as La Fontaine and Racine, both born in the department. He has students take turns reciting a scene from Racine’s Athalie...

... Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 INDEX VOLUME 93 (2002) Ahmed, Ehsan, "L'Etat c'est l'autre: Passion, Politics and Alterity in Senault and Racine," 275-293 Amossy, Ruth, "Reflexions sur la 'critique d'art' surrealiste," 141-50 Beaujour, Michel, "Riffaterre ou Ie peu...

...: these are the moments that interest Cixous and that make up an essential part of what she considers ecriture feminine. She explains in Photos de racines that a story's most intense moments occur between the scenes: "La richesse d'une histoire se situe dans les interstices. Dans Ie grand theatre, les moments les plus...

... Ronsard et son ecole, au XVIIe avec Racine et La Fontaine Ce fut Ie romantisme qui altera ce principe dans la conception comme dans Ie style, frustrant ainsi les Muses fran<;aises de leur heritage legitime. L'Ecole romane fran<;aise renoue la chaine gallique, rompue par Ie romantisme et sa descendance...