...Mary Shaw Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Shaw MOURNING SONG FOR MICHAEL (NOVEMBER) i couldn't come for i was sick on each official sender that in june this early fall but now it is november last time i came your eyes wouldn't stick emptiness in front...

...Heidi Holst-Knudsen Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Heidi Holst-Knudsen NERVAL ET LA MISE EN CAUSE DE L'AUCTORITAS SCRIPTURALE: "LE SONGE DE POLYPHILE" P armi tous les episodes heteroclites qui composent l'introduction de Voyage en Orient de Nerval, les chapitres...

... discourse. A close reading of Gilles’s twelfth-century Carmina de urinarum iudiciis ( Songs on Judging Urine ) and Gentile’s fourteenth-century commentary on this verse treatise shows that both of these experts in uroscopy tie their excremental imagery into a nuanced poetics that extends from the paratexts...

..., "understanding song requires understanding song in romance." An important point in the first chapter is that some of the earliest manuscript witnesses to the chansons of the trouveres are not in fact the chansonniers, but rather narratives with songs such as Jean Renart's Roman de La Rose au de Guillaume de Dole...

... a key moment in the narrative: the moment that enables Homer to become Odysseus (7). The Sirens' song, he claims, presents the pretext that allows the conversion of the narrator and the storyteller. But where do these intricate equations and exchanges operating among men leave the Sirens? One...

..., primarily by a lack of unity. Zayaruznaya rightly notes that her findings-even as they focus on the monstrous-point towards broader aesthetic strategies in ars nova composition and, consequently, that her methodology might productively be applied to other repertoires. Chapter 1, "Songs Alive," sets out...

... Press, 2002. Pp. 375. In this richly detailed book, Ardis Butterfield challenges us to rethink not only the history of the chanson but of all medieval French lyric poetry and narrative: as stated on the very first page, "understanding song requires understanding song in romance." An important point...

... toward his death. It does nonetheless make use of some literary conceits. One of these, a story within a story, occurs in chapter 16 when the condamné overhears a girl’s song telling another story of capital punishment, understood less in terms of its consequences than of its causes: crime, arrest...

... spawned offspring which try to arrogate his uniqueness but fail in doing so. Gongora is the "cisne" (1) whose song illumines not only the "Betis", or Guadalquivir River, but also the intangible space of Spanish poetry as a whole. He is "sonoro" (1), a word appropriately rhymed with "arco de oro" (4...

..., Frutti delle moderne commedie, Padova, 1628. For study of this late seventeenth-century theatre genre see Andrea Perrucci (1651-1704), Dell'arte rappresentativa premeditata e all'improvviso, Napoli, 302 MICHELE RAK Addressed to a courtly audience, II Cunto was to be staged with songs, mime, and dance...

... findings-even as they focus on the monstrous-point towards broader aesthetic strategies in ars nova composition and, consequently, that her methodology might productively be applied to other repertoires. Chapter 1, "Songs Alive," sets out to show that songs were not infrequently imagined as having bodies...

... of storytelling to generate new ways of positioning the written text vis-a-vis orality and tradition. Nerval was not alone among nineteenth-century writers in his fascination with the songs, stories, or customs-traditions populaires-that we might today group under the term "folklore."2 However, Nerval's ceuvre...

..., the rhapsodist who (that is what rhapsoidein means) sews songs together. Songs, or voices, stories, memories. It is part of this art I wish to recall, with stories and memories of a peculiar kind, all of which revolve around odd visits and strange returns. It could begin with this scene. A woman, a foreigner...

... be deeply serious-for example, the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer or Alexander Pope. But "light poetry" included all poetry produced by integrated communities, such as the sea-chanties of sailors, the songs of any criminal or illegal underclass, spirituals of the African diaspora, the songs of hoboes and tramps...

... the puzzling questions that medievalists had always been asking: those singers could memorize several thousands of lines without difficulty, and when they were asked to sing the same song again a couple of hours later, one would of course hear the same song, but with so many variants that it was impossible...

... translation (such as when the phrase "Oll;'1 ll" is translated literally BOOK REVIEWS 299 as "Song of Songs" instead of for its implied meaning as "The Highest Song") can generate its own strange kind of beauty. In his 1951 essay "La muralla y los libros," Borges describes the aesthetic act as "a revelation...

... par la duree de son reve. 206 CEDRIC LAVAL par Ie recours a l'imparfait iteratif qui introduit dans Ie texte un principe de recurrence et d'habitude peu compatible avec la singularite du songe, la pre- miere phrase du niveau de representation onirique semble aller a rebours de son ouverture explicite...

..., troubadour song was imitated and assimilated by poets in their own languages, 1. See Jane Gallop's contribution concerning the Romanic Review's role in publishing medievalist feminist scholarship. 2. See Catherine Leglu, Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan and Catalan Narratives...

...? a myth, an ancient story, here told in modern greek by cacoyannis. agamemnon, a king, a really big shot, is told to sacrifice his eldest daughter . . . 9 and here’s what lise wrote in 1982— Iphigenia’s Third Song Mother, it is time, oh it is time, the moment is at hand to quit our...

... will never hear the truth of the matter better described); "La verite qui est couverte / Vous sera lores descouverte / Quant espondre m'orres Ie songe, / Car il n'i a mot de men<;onge" (2073-76, The truth, which is hidden, will be quite open to you when you hear me explain the dream, for it doesn't contain...