MLN articles from September 1994

MLN archives from September 1994

Saint Genest and the uncertainty of baroque theatrical experience. (Jean Rotrou's "Le Veritable Saint Genest") (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... Theatre consists of a split in the community, a division between players and audience. On both sides are people who play roles--some play at watching and others at being watched. Only occasionally does a dramatist remind us that there is...

Hoc est sacramentum: painting blasphemy. (symbolism in the eucharistic enunciation) (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... Il est . . . des objets que le regard aussitot modifie, et des spectacles qui ne supportent pas les spectateurs: ce sont les mots.(1) Classical representation, at least in its development and articulation in the central texts of Port Royal,...

Leo Spitzer's Racine. (1948 interpretation of Racinian tragedy) (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... The reception history of Racinian tragedy veers off in one of its more curious directions when, in 1948, Leo Spitzer announces that "Phedre is the ideal type of a baroque tragedy."(1) The essay which contains this statement confronts what has...

The lost letters of Sophie Volland. (rumored lover of French philosopher Denis Diderot) (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... A Note from the Editors What follows are excerpts from the recently discovered autograph manuscript of the letters of Louise-Henriette Volland (known to posterity as Sophie Volland), addressed to her lover of twenty-eight years, the French...

Chemistry, an anti-marriage: Balzac's 'La Recherche de l'Absolu.' (chemistry in literature, Honore de Balzac) (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... In the piece that follows, I would like to address a number of issues which I believe to be peculiarly local to the textual structures of Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu. These are issues whose interpretive force can be extended neither over...

"High" poetics: Baudelaire's 'Le Poem du hachisch.' (Charles Baudelaire, hashish and poetry) (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... by the metaphorical movement, are the new "sens" of the proverb. If there is a "transport" of the "sens propre" to "sens figure" in metaphor, Rome, in our case, has been taken to its "sens forme," to its "deux formes de l'eternite." That...

Animation of the work of art: Michel Butor's 'L'Embarquement de la Reine de Saba.' (French Issue)
September 1, 1994... ". . . ce qui me gene, dans le mot 'creation,' c'est qu'il est lie a une illusion soigneusement entretenue, l'illusion de la gratuite de l'oeuvre d'art." Michel Butor Despite the benefits the interpretation of literature, as of all art,...

Oeuvres poetiques completes, vol. 2.
September 1, 1994... The appearance of the second volume of Gerard Defaux's masterful edition of Clement Marot's works completes this most valuable and satisfying enterprise, which is of the utmost value to scholars of French Renaissance poetry and of French...

Sampling the Book: Renaissance Prologues and the French 'Conteurs.'
September 1, 1994... Comment penetrer darts l'univers de l'oeuvre? Comment passer de l'exterieur a l'interieur? Toute une serie d'indicateurs jalonnent le parcours du lecteur et, progressivement, l'initient a un ordre nouveau; titres, prefaces et autres seuils...