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Full-Text Articles in Modern Languages
Science Fiction In France: A Brief History And Selective Bibliography, Arthur Evans
Science Fiction In France: A Brief History And Selective Bibliography, Arthur Evans
Arthur Bruce Evans
No abstract provided.
Milagro En El Mercado Viejo: Metadrama Y Racconto En O. Dragun, Isabel Alvarez-Borland
Milagro En El Mercado Viejo: Metadrama Y Racconto En O. Dragun, Isabel Alvarez-Borland
Spanish Department Faculty Scholarship
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Murder And Suicide Revisited: Johannes R. Becher's Literary Treatment Of A Youthful Tragedy, Robert K. Shirer
Murder And Suicide Revisited: Johannes R. Becher's Literary Treatment Of A Youthful Tragedy, Robert K. Shirer
German Language and Literature Papers
The final poem of Die Gnade eines Frühlings, Johannes R. Becher's first book of verse, is entitled "Darstellung." The poet displays himself in front of "das Volk," who will judge him:
Er bebt. Sol1 seine Scham entschleiern . . .
"Alle meine Schamgebundenheiten
Wollen überwunden an mir niedergleiten!"--
Da ward es Licht!
The poet, by putting himself and his shame on exhibit-by the public confession of publishing his work-is bathed in a cleansing light and can overcome his guilt.
Forty years later, Becher reflected in his diary upon his youthful attraction to the confessional elements of Catholicism. He recalls his …
Review Of: Mexican-American Language: Usage, Attitudes, Maintenance, Instruction, And Policy, Shaw N. Gynan
Review Of: Mexican-American Language: Usage, Attitudes, Maintenance, Instruction, And Policy, Shaw N. Gynan
Modern & Classical Languages
The prologue to this collection indicates the contributors' enthusiasm. The quality of some papers is good, but more than enthusiasm is needed to make certain selections valuable.
The Portrait On Stage In Molière's Theater, Nina Ekstein
The Portrait On Stage In Molière's Theater, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Literary portraits, while common in a wide variety of genres, are not often thought of in connection with the stage. Discussions of dramaturgy make little mention of portraits, which is perhaps not surprising when one considers that theater is the domain of action, movement, and conflict; the portrait, on the contrary, is primarily descriptive. Verbal portraiture would not seem to be terribly effective in a theatrical context: it is unlikely to advance the action of the play, nor would it lend itself readily to gesture and movement. Theater requires the physical presence of its object, portraiture depends on a certain …
Symbols, Referents, And Theatrical Semantics: The Use Of Hands In The Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
Symbols, Referents, And Theatrical Semantics: The Use Of Hands In The Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
One of the most important products of the application of New Criticism to the comedia was the discovery of the functions of clusters of images to the dramatic and theatrical themes within a play. Among the most pervasive and subtle images and symbols are those involving hands and, by extension, arms, rings, gloves, and daggers. A quick, impressionistic overview of the connotations of hands reveals a number of different and often contradictory meanings: trust and treachery, power and submission, salvation and damnation, to mention only a few. So ubiquitous are hands, and so necessary are they to the plot complications …
The Comedia As Playscript, Matthew D. Stroud
The Comedia As Playscript, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The relationship between literary text and theatrical performance is the subject of intense discussion and occasional animosity between those who believe that performance is only the faithful translation of the text from one medium to another and those for whom a playscript is only a starting point or a secondary element to performance. We do know, however, that the comedias were written to be performed, that there are performance signs imbedded in the texts themselves, and that if we ignore performance altogether we end up teaching the literary texts as though they were novels or poems. The problem that this …
Le Misanthrope And Tartuffe: Two Critiques Of Verbal Portraiture, Nina Ekstein
Le Misanthrope And Tartuffe: Two Critiques Of Verbal Portraiture, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Portraiture is a deeply rooted and characteristics feature of seventeenth-century France. Verbal portraits abound in the literature of the period. By the time Molière wrote Le Misanthrope and Tartuffe (1664-1669), the «gallant» portrait had already known a great vogue, first with Mlle de Scudéry's Grand Cyrus (1649-53) and Clélie (1654-61), and then in the salons of the nobility and the bourgeoisie, as reflected in the Divers Portraits (1659) and the Recueil de Portraits et Eloges (1659). Adaptations of the verbal portrait would later appear in memoirs, letters, sermons, novels, and «caractères», remaining an important force in literature to the end …