Browsing Program in Cultures, Civilization and Ideas by Issue Date
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Eccentric New Orleans: a synergy of culture and geography
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Sightseeing in Paris with Baudelaire and Breton
(Purdue University Press, 2000)n his article "Sightseeing in Paris with Baudelaire and Breton," Benton Jay Komins discusses the tensions between Charles Baudelaire's acts of modern appropriation and André Breton's imaginative seizing of the démodé. While ... -
Godaffiliation: Lucy Snowe's Thwarted development in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
(Routledge, 2000)Charlotte Brontë's character Lucy Snowe, the protagonist of Villette (1853), ostensibly belongs to the canon of Bildungsroman heroes. She narrates her own saga of apprenticeship which includes the tests of poverty, alienation ... -
Comparative spaces and seeing seduction and horror in bataille
(Purdue University Press, 2000)In his article, "Comparative Spaces and Seeing Seduction and Horror in Bataille," Benton Jay Komins explores Bataille's preoccupation with "seeing": The eye holds a preeminently ambiguous position in Georges Bataille's ... -
The convoluted logic of creolization the New Orleans way
(University of North Carolina Press, 2000)1. In an earlier essay ("Succulent Tomatoes"), I discuss the derisive cultural, racial, and historical definitions of New Orleans' "original" settlers, from the political contests of the late nineteenth century to the ... -
Developing a humanities core curriculum program in Turkey
(Modern Language Association, 2000) -
Claroscuros: el Mestizaje Cromático, Telúrico, y Racial en " Chambacú: Corral de Negros "
(Vanderbilt University, 2001) -
Sanctifying the robe: punitive violence and the English press, 1650-1700
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Antigone in (post-modern) Palestine
(Hecate Press, 2003) -
Spinoza and the politics of the Matrix, on Matrix, machine philosophique
(Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2003) -
Thomas Tryon and the seventeeth-century dimensions of antislavery
(Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2004) -
Proust and cinema, or Luchino Visconti's search
(Post Script, Inc., 2004)Discusses the film adaptation of Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu". Brief history and overview of the novel; Luchino Visconti's Proust project; Cast for the film; Modes of adaptation; Role of aristocracy ... -
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
(University of Illinois, 2004) -
Sanctifying the robe: Punitive violence and the English press, 1650–1700
(Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2004)It has become almost commonplace to treat punishment as a self-contained sociological phenomenon to be interpreted in terms of sentences or patterns of prosecution. Unfortunately, this widespread approach tends to overlook ... -
Aristocracy and modernism: signs of aristocracy in Marcel Proust's-À la Recherche du temps perdu
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The Jester and the Sage: Twain and Nietzsche
(University of California Press, 2005)Though Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche were aware of each other, they never met and there is no evidence of influence in either direction. Yet the similarities in their thought are strikingly numerous and close. They ... -
Corinth
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Cameades
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Dissimulation and deception in Madeleine de Scudéry's promenade de versailles
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The history of the history of the salon
(University of Nebraska Press, 2007)The article traces the development of an historical and ideological understanding of the French salon in the nineteenth century, especially during the July Monarchy and the Second Empire. The salon, while continuing to be ...
