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South Central Review, 2004
general to produce a compelling reading of the texts. Ann Hardy’s production study of two New Zea... more general to produce a compelling reading of the texts. Ann Hardy’s production study of two New Zealand texts dealing with religion is significantly more effective because it is focused, well organized, and generous with relevant context, providing an engaging argument about representations of masculinity and religion in New Zealand. Paul Sutton’s account of La Femme Nikita offers a valuable insight into that film’s relationship with its Hollywood remake but is otherwise too brief to sustain a very complex argument. Finally, Jane KnoxVoina’s treatment of Soviet and post-Soviet filmmaking in relation to advertising and other forms of popular discourse again succeeds owing to the quantity and quality of context provided for another underexplored cinema. While a number of the essays are notably successful in terms of their individual arguments and those on lesser-known cinemas have the potential to be very useful to scholars less familiar with cinema in, say, Paraguay, what we have here is fascination in fragments. The anthology as a whole does not offer a coherent new statement on the relationship between women and cinema. Rather, the majority of the essays tend to find new illustrations for theoretical positions already familiar to scholars. Perhaps the terms of the assignment are simply too broad to offer the possibility of such a unified treatment, or perhaps women represent something more complex than successful or unsuccessful resistance to a patriarchal institution.
South Central Review, 2002
French Studies
Reviews 663 intellectually, epistemologically, and historically. This first instalment in a compl... more Reviews 663 intellectually, epistemologically, and historically. This first instalment in a completist compendium of Flaubert scholarship and trivia is handsomely documented, containing occasional intercalations of contemporary newspaper advertisements, a well-designed system of abbreviations, and a wealth of extensive footnotes.
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2014
Modern Language Review, 2020
Acknowledgments Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of I... more Acknowledgments Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity Chapter 1 Towards a Visual Discourse: Theories of the Origin of Language, Enargeia, Ekphrasis and Associationism Chapter 2 Diderot's Visual Prose: Gesture, Hieroglyph and the Visual Imagination Chapter 3 Baudelaire and the Salons: The Critic as Artist Chapter 4 Les Paradis Artificiels, Le Surnaturel and the Prose Poem : The Aesthetics of Psychological Flanerie Chapter 5 Ruskin and the Language of Images Chapter 6 Ruskin's Moving Images: The Politics and the Poetics of the Paragone Conclusion Diderot, Baudelaire, Ruskin: Envisioning Visionaries Bibliography
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009
Eighteenth-Century Life, 1999
... a drama of madness, depravity, and violence, was frequently used by Burke and others as a ref... more ... a drama of madness, depravity, and violence, was frequently used by Burke and others as a reference point for the ... the queen and her children through their luxurious clothes, coiffures, accoutrements, and regal bearing, Pellegrini's images portray Louis, Marie-Antoinette, their ...
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2008
Comparative Literature Studies, 1995
This book is the result of the enormous generosity and support of several institutions and innume... more This book is the result of the enormous generosity and support of several institutions and innumerable friends. initial research was begun on a fellowship at the Clark Art institute, where conversations with Tamar Garb, elizabeth hutchinson, michael Ann holly, mark ledbury, and the rest of the fellows and staff helped me bring the project into focus and start to wrestle with ways to deal with painting and literature in a single study. A subsequent residency at the national humanities Center as a Florence Gould Foundation Fellow allowed me to write the bulk of the text in the most glorious and supportive setting i could ever imagine. i extend my heartfelt gratitude and affection to the nhC administration and staff for their tireless help and constant good cheer:
Romanic Review
This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “... more This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “public writers” who were committed to diametrically opposing sociopolitical discourses, constructed aspects of their authorial identities and indeed the social import of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works. Reflecting on the dialogical generation of meaning, I trace the ways in which reading Balzac and Sand together reveals a...
South Central Review, 2004
general to produce a compelling reading of the texts. Ann Hardy’s production study of two New Zea... more general to produce a compelling reading of the texts. Ann Hardy’s production study of two New Zealand texts dealing with religion is significantly more effective because it is focused, well organized, and generous with relevant context, providing an engaging argument about representations of masculinity and religion in New Zealand. Paul Sutton’s account of La Femme Nikita offers a valuable insight into that film’s relationship with its Hollywood remake but is otherwise too brief to sustain a very complex argument. Finally, Jane KnoxVoina’s treatment of Soviet and post-Soviet filmmaking in relation to advertising and other forms of popular discourse again succeeds owing to the quantity and quality of context provided for another underexplored cinema. While a number of the essays are notably successful in terms of their individual arguments and those on lesser-known cinemas have the potential to be very useful to scholars less familiar with cinema in, say, Paraguay, what we have here is fascination in fragments. The anthology as a whole does not offer a coherent new statement on the relationship between women and cinema. Rather, the majority of the essays tend to find new illustrations for theoretical positions already familiar to scholars. Perhaps the terms of the assignment are simply too broad to offer the possibility of such a unified treatment, or perhaps women represent something more complex than successful or unsuccessful resistance to a patriarchal institution.
South Central Review, 2002
French Studies
Reviews 663 intellectually, epistemologically, and historically. This first instalment in a compl... more Reviews 663 intellectually, epistemologically, and historically. This first instalment in a completist compendium of Flaubert scholarship and trivia is handsomely documented, containing occasional intercalations of contemporary newspaper advertisements, a well-designed system of abbreviations, and a wealth of extensive footnotes.
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2014
Modern Language Review, 2020
Acknowledgments Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of I... more Acknowledgments Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity Chapter 1 Towards a Visual Discourse: Theories of the Origin of Language, Enargeia, Ekphrasis and Associationism Chapter 2 Diderot's Visual Prose: Gesture, Hieroglyph and the Visual Imagination Chapter 3 Baudelaire and the Salons: The Critic as Artist Chapter 4 Les Paradis Artificiels, Le Surnaturel and the Prose Poem : The Aesthetics of Psychological Flanerie Chapter 5 Ruskin and the Language of Images Chapter 6 Ruskin's Moving Images: The Politics and the Poetics of the Paragone Conclusion Diderot, Baudelaire, Ruskin: Envisioning Visionaries Bibliography
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009
Eighteenth-Century Life, 1999
... a drama of madness, depravity, and violence, was frequently used by Burke and others as a ref... more ... a drama of madness, depravity, and violence, was frequently used by Burke and others as a reference point for the ... the queen and her children through their luxurious clothes, coiffures, accoutrements, and regal bearing, Pellegrini's images portray Louis, Marie-Antoinette, their ...
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2008
Comparative Literature Studies, 1995
This book is the result of the enormous generosity and support of several institutions and innume... more This book is the result of the enormous generosity and support of several institutions and innumerable friends. initial research was begun on a fellowship at the Clark Art institute, where conversations with Tamar Garb, elizabeth hutchinson, michael Ann holly, mark ledbury, and the rest of the fellows and staff helped me bring the project into focus and start to wrestle with ways to deal with painting and literature in a single study. A subsequent residency at the national humanities Center as a Florence Gould Foundation Fellow allowed me to write the bulk of the text in the most glorious and supportive setting i could ever imagine. i extend my heartfelt gratitude and affection to the nhC administration and staff for their tireless help and constant good cheer:
Romanic Review
This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “... more This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “public writers” who were committed to diametrically opposing sociopolitical discourses, constructed aspects of their authorial identities and indeed the social import of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works. Reflecting on the dialogical generation of meaning, I trace the ways in which reading Balzac and Sand together reveals a...