La présence nécessaire de personnages observateurs intermédiaires, entre le lecteur et le visible romanesque chez Zola, est la clé d’une dynamique descriptive qui mène tout objet de regard, animé ou non animé, vers une dissoluti
This article takes as its point of departure the historically controverted detail of the makeup that Napoleon III was said to have worn on the battlefieds of Sedan.
Two themes of Mallarmé’s later work – the expansion of poetic language and the changing public role of literature – converge in Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1895 poème critique [critical poem] "Bucolique." In her reading of the poem, Pie
This essay supplements existing readings of Baudelaire’s sonnet "À une dame créole" (1845) by apprehending it not as a univocal piece centered on colonialist ambiguity, but as a locus of semantic plurality where this ambiguity c
Contemporary critics of Charles Baudelaire’s 1863 prose poem "La Belle Dorothée" have interpreted the figure of the liberated female slave Dorothée as a slave of imitation of whiteness.
This article offers a new reading of an understudied poem from Les Contemplations (1856), "Le Rouet d’Omphale." By analysing the poem’s rich web of intra- and intertextual allusions, from Ovid and Catullus to Hugo’s "La Pente de
In the City of Light the hegemonic right to affix identities is everywhere encoded in the commemorative nomenclature exhibited by streets and squares, statutary and monuments.
