Abstract:This article offers a close reading of Charles Baudelaire’s poem “La Chevelure” (Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857) through the lens of spatial enclosure. I contend that claustrophilia—a desire for confinement—finds expression in “La Chevelure” due to a constellation of structural, thematic, and phonetic elements, which subsequently forge a generative space for poetic creation. The operation of claustrophilia in this example reveals that, paradoxically, it is through captivity that escape becomes possible. This finding illuminates the spatial dimension of Baudelaire’s poetry, a compelling aspect that has been obscured by a scholarly preoccupation with time in his œuvre
摘要:本文通过空间圈闭的视角，对法国诗人波德莱尔的诗歌《La Chevelure》(Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857)进行细读。我认为，幽闭癖——一种对禁锢的渴望——在《La Chevelure》中得到了表达，这是由于一系列结构、主题和语音元素，这些元素随后为诗歌创作打造了一个生成空间。在这个例子中，幽闭癖的运作表明，矛盾的是，正是通过囚禁，逃脱才成为可能。这一发现阐明了波德莱尔诗歌的空间维度，这是一个引人注目的方面，被他œuvre中对时间的学术关注所掩盖
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Abstract:Drawing on a new archival discovery, this article revises the literary history of Marguerite Duras' Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964) to situate its origins as a television screenplay for American audiences. It offers the first comparative analysis of the American screenplay and the French novel, situates this comparison within the wider context of televisual technologies that emerged in France and the US in the postwar decades, and explores Duras' ambivalence about visual culture and new media. The essay concludes by theorizing the connection between the novel's central trope of loss and the screenplay's status as a lost text.
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In 1986, while addressing the legacy of the great Dante scholar Charles Southward Singleton, Giuseppe Mazzotta argued that the fairest way to confront the power of Singleton’s work was to avoid the veneration accorded to the master by his disciples and let oneself be guided by a different, more vital principle—perplexity. Veneration—Mazzotta argues—is indeed violent, because “it freezes the thinking of both the scholar and his epigones, it rigidifies it in fixed formulae and, in effect, destroys it.” Perplexity, on the other hand, “belongs to a different order of ideas and intentions.”1 Far from implying a sort of a priori skepticism, perplexity, from the Latin term per-plectere, means “to interlace,” “to mix together.” In this sense, perplexity is the best way to approach the production of a scholar like Singleton, as it forces us to actively face both our debt to and our distance from his work, while intertwining our perspective with his. For Mazzotta, in other words, to feel perplexities before Singleton’s work
{"title":"Asking How and Why to Read Literature: Singleton in Dante Studies Today","authors":"Francesco Brenna, A. Zuliani","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In 1986, while addressing the legacy of the great Dante scholar Charles Southward Singleton, Giuseppe Mazzotta argued that the fairest way to confront the power of Singleton’s work was to avoid the veneration accorded to the master by his disciples and let oneself be guided by a different, more vital principle—perplexity. Veneration—Mazzotta argues—is indeed violent, because “it freezes the thinking of both the scholar and his epigones, it rigidifies it in fixed formulae and, in effect, destroys it.” Perplexity, on the other hand, “belongs to a different order of ideas and intentions.”1 Far from implying a sort of a priori skepticism, perplexity, from the Latin term per-plectere, means “to interlace,” “to mix together.” In this sense, perplexity is the best way to approach the production of a scholar like Singleton, as it forces us to actively face both our debt to and our distance from his work, while intertwining our perspective with his. For Mazzotta, in other words, to feel perplexities before Singleton’s work","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84310577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images of Charles Singleton","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84430185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I want to lead you into the Divine Comedy and leave you there\": Charles Singleton's Approach to Literature","authors":"R. Proctor","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"209 1","pages":"160 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72786946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
il Salterio è il libro per eccellenza del Purgatorio dantesco. Quello che era il testo della Chiesa orante durante il cammino nella storia diventa, così, il soggetto del canto di coloro che sono in marcia verso la purificazione e la liberazione. È per questo [...] che il libro dei Salmi è una sorta di parabola spirituale “esodica” che guida le anime dalla schiavitù del peccato alla piena e luminosa libertà dei figli di Dio.2
{"title":"Esodo e speranza nel Purgatorio","authors":"F. Ciabattoni","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"il Salterio è il libro per eccellenza del Purgatorio dantesco. Quello che era il testo della Chiesa orante durante il cammino nella storia diventa, così, il soggetto del canto di coloro che sono in marcia verso la purificazione e la liberazione. È per questo [...] che il libro dei Salmi è una sorta di parabola spirituale “esodica” che guida le anime dalla schiavitù del peccato alla piena e luminosa libertà dei figli di Dio.2","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"25 1","pages":"44 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78230237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the most conspicuous features of the Commedia that shapes how the poem packages and delivers meaning also happens to be among the most significant keys to discerning how the text frames different degrees of epistemic authority in the poem’s narrative voices. I refer here to Dante Alighieri’s multifaceted subjectivity in the text. Numerous studies have dedicated attention to the first-person-singular speakers who, either intradiegetically or extradiegetically vis-à-vis the journey through the world beyond, answer to the identity “Dante.”2 To date, the three figures generally recognized in this respect are Dante the pilgrim, Dante the narrator, and Dante the author. Undeveloped by critical tradition, however, is a clear structural map distinguishing these three figures and articulating the epistemic function that these
{"title":"Everyman and the Threefold Dante Subject in the Diegetic Structure of the Commedia","authors":"C. Adoyo","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most conspicuous features of the Commedia that shapes how the poem packages and delivers meaning also happens to be among the most significant keys to discerning how the text frames different degrees of epistemic authority in the poem’s narrative voices. I refer here to Dante Alighieri’s multifaceted subjectivity in the text. Numerous studies have dedicated attention to the first-person-singular speakers who, either intradiegetically or extradiegetically vis-à-vis the journey through the world beyond, answer to the identity “Dante.”2 To date, the three figures generally recognized in this respect are Dante the pilgrim, Dante the narrator, and Dante the author. Undeveloped by critical tradition, however, is a clear structural map distinguishing these three figures and articulating the epistemic function that these","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"16 1","pages":"123 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87074998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singleton's Unpublished Edition of the Vita Nuova","authors":"Igor Candido","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"2 1","pages":"174 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79066487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1548, Michelangelo Buonarroti sent to Florence for safekeeping several contracts among which he included “a treasured letter” from Count Alessandro of Canossa in which the count had referred to him as “parente honorando.” Alessandro had indeed written to Michelangelo addressing him as a kinsman, even inviting him to Rome to see “la vostra casa,” but their family relation was a complete fabrication on the part of the count and both men were aware the claim was false.1 Presumably the count was keen to draw the increasingly prominent artist into his family tree, while for Michelangelo, who had spent his life tormented by his tenuous class status, tangible evidence acknowledging him as a member of a family descended from the celebrated Countess Matilde of Canossa was invaluable.2 He took advantage of the opportunity afforded him by the count to have his personal history rewritten accordingly, in the biography composed by Ascanio Condivi but heavily influenced by the artist himself:
{"title":"Journey to Matelda: Desire and Power in the Earthly Paradise","authors":"Danielle Callegari","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In 1548, Michelangelo Buonarroti sent to Florence for safekeeping several contracts among which he included “a treasured letter” from Count Alessandro of Canossa in which the count had referred to him as “parente honorando.” Alessandro had indeed written to Michelangelo addressing him as a kinsman, even inviting him to Rome to see “la vostra casa,” but their family relation was a complete fabrication on the part of the count and both men were aware the claim was false.1 Presumably the count was keen to draw the increasingly prominent artist into his family tree, while for Michelangelo, who had spent his life tormented by his tenuous class status, tangible evidence acknowledging him as a member of a family descended from the celebrated Countess Matilde of Canossa was invaluable.2 He took advantage of the opportunity afforded him by the count to have his personal history rewritten accordingly, in the biography composed by Ascanio Condivi but heavily influenced by the artist himself:","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"85 1","pages":"30 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85355957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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