Marvelous Rome: Sorrentino’s "La grande bellezza" and the Rhetoric of Ovid and Vasari on Art, Spectacle, and the Sublime

The authenticity of Charcot's original descriptions of hysteria has been questioned in the popular media. None the less, it is still possible to encounter florid forms of hysteria in culturally deprived communities, and to answer Charcot's present day critics we present a selection of patients from Kentucky's Appalachian counties with hysterial neurological disease. Their case histories are contrasted with those Charcot himself described and thereby form a modern commentary on such conditions as la grande hyst?rie, hysteroepilepsy, hystero traumatic monoplegia, and hysterical hemianaesthesia. Introduction Hysteria is present when there is a disproportionate relation of symptoms to disability and a discrepancy between the manifesta? tions and the anatomical and physiological arrangements of the body.1 Caution must be exercised in accepting even the most florid presentations, and hysteria presenting with neurological symptoms may be especially misleading.2 Furthermore, the physician has the added duty to understand why the patient has taken to express himself or herself subconsciously in this manner. The un? expectedly high incidence of hysterical disorders among the underprivileged white community of Kentucky's Appalachian counties is a matter of surprise, matched only by the similarities of these disorders to the original descriptions of Charcot in his clinical lectures on diseases of the nervous system.3 Clinical presentations One of the most startling forms of hysteria that Charcot demonstrated at the Salp?tri?re was la grande hyst?rie, otherwise called hysteria major or hysteroepilepsy with distinctive crises. Freud described la grande hyst?rie as consisting of four phases4: the epileptoid; violent movements; attitudes passionnelles (the hallucinatory phase); and the concluding delirium. According to Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, Lancashire PR1 6PS E M R CRITCHLEY, dm, frcp, consultant neurologist Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, St Louis, Missouri 63104, USA H E CANTOR, md, paediatric neurologist Correspondence to: Dr E M R Critchley. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.129 on Sun, 26 Jun 2016 07:31:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

This article examines Giulia Caminito’s novel La grande A (2016) to show how descriptions of colonial subjects and spaces rely on stereotypes and exoticisations derived from colonial discourse. By analysing formal aspects and the intertextual relationship with Mario Tobino’s Il deserto della Libia (1952), the article underscores a continuity in terms of modes of representation between La grande A and its main sourcetext, suggesting a lack of interactions or connections with the transnational African/Italian authors who have confronted the legacy of Italy’s colonial past. In a mainly white European figurative framework, the novel marginalises and forecloses Black/African subjects while, at the same time, providing readers with orientalist descriptions of the former colonies. Although the novel addresses a frequently overlooked topic in Italian literature, namely colonialism and women’s experiences in the overseas territories, it also problematically reproduces stereotypes about Africa/Africans rather than effectively exposing and debunking them.

The training ground of the nation: Army doctors dealing with alcohol abuse and venereal disease in the Belgian army (circa 1850-1950)In the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, Belgian army doctors were very concerned about the high incidence of alcoholism and venereal disease in the army. They launched a vigorous campaign to combat these 'diseases'. The underlying motives for this campaign were many and various. In the first place, the army's medical staff wanted to improve the general health and physical fitness of the military. At the same time, they used their campaign to reverse the negative opinion of the army prevalent amongst the general public by trying to reform the moral standards in the barracks. Another important motive for their radical measures against alcoholism and venereal disease was to enhance military and national efficiency. Finally, towards the end of the nineteenth century, more and more army doctors considered alcoholism and venereal disease to be major causes of racial degeneration, and this further legitimised their continued action against these two evils. Ultimately, the army doctors expected the results of their drastic campaign to transcend the confines of the army and have a positive impact on the entire nation as well. In this way, the army would truly become 'la grande école nationale'.

Les traumatismes liés à l’équitation chez l’enfant, une étude épidémiologique rétrospective de 13 années

A study was carried out to characterize guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) eggs, evaluate the effect of egg weight on hatchability, keet hatch-weight and early growth performance in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. One hundred and seventy-four (174) guinea fowl eggs were collected from a farm in the West Region of Cameroon and characterized. Length, width and weight of eggs were recorded. Using egg weight and egg shape indices, eggs were grouped into small (40-45 g); medium (46-49 g) and large (>50 g) categories and incubated for 32 days. Keets were collected at hatch as from 28 days of incubation from each group and weighed to determine their baseline weight post-hatch. Fertile and infertile eggs were separated through candling and breaking of unhatched eggs to count dead in shell embryos. Keets resulting from each category of small (T1), medium (T2) and large (T3) were maintained, with each treatment having 15 keets. Keets received water and a commercial diet containing 2900Kcal/kg of ME and 22% CP for the first 3 weeks of age and 2800 kcal/kg of ME and 20% of CP for the next 10 weeks of study ad-libitum. For 13 weeks, early growth performance (weight evolution, weight gain, Feed intake and FCR) were evaluated. Results revealed that egg weight ranged from 40 g to 59 g. The overall mean weight of guinea fowl eggs obtained was 48.52 g with mean egg weight of 43.75 g, 47.66 g and 51.60 g for small, medium and large categories respectively. Eggs in all treatments showed significant difference (p<0.05) in fertility rates with eggs in the large category showing the highest fertility. Eggs in the large category had the highest hatchability though not significantly different (p>0.05) compared with the small category. Highest mean keet weight at hatch were obtained with the large category and were significantly (p<0.05) higher compared with those of the small category. Regression analysis revealed that an increase in egg weight resulted in a corresponding significant increase in keet hatch rate (r2=0.95) and that there exist a positive relationship between egg weight and keet hatch weight with a regression coefficient of r2=0.94. The mean weekly and daily feed intake per bird were higher in the large category than in the other groups. Similar observations were obtained with the weight gains. However, the medium category showed the lowest overall mean feed conversion ratio. In conclusion egg size had significant effects on hatchability of guinea fowl eggs and post hatch keet weight. Larger sized eggs had higher hatchability and better keet weight at hatch with keets from the large and medium sized eggs showing better growth performances than those from the small egg sized category. Therefore, guinea fowl egg weight ranging from 45 g to 60 g is most suitable for incubation as it yields better hatchability and keet weight post hatch as well as post hatch growth performance. Une étude a été réalisée pour caractériser les oeufs de pintade (Numida meleagris), évaluer l’effet du poids des oeufs sur l’éclosion, le poids d’éclosion des pintadeaux et les performances de croissance précoce dans les hauts plateaux de l’ouest Cameroun. Cent soixante-quatorze (174) oeufs de pintade ont été collectés dans une ferme de la région de l’Ouest du Cameroun et caractérisés. La longueur, la largeur et le poids des oeufs ont été enregistrés. À l’aide des indices de poids et de forme des oeufs, les oeufs ont été regroupés en petits (40 à 45 g); moyennes (46-49 g) et grandes (> 50 g) catégories et incubées pendant 32 jours. Les pintades ont été collectées à l’éclosion à partir de 28 jours dans chaque groupe et pesées pour déterminer leur poids à l’éclosion. Les oeufs fertiles et stériles ont été séparés par mirage et cassage des oeufs non éclos pour compter les embryons morts dans leur coquille. Les pintades issues de chaque catégorie de petite (T1), moyenne (T2) et grande (T3) ont été maintenues, chaque traitement comportant 15 pintadeaux. Les pintadeaux ont reçu de l’eau et un régime alimentaire commercial contenant 2 900 Kcal/kg de EM et 22 % de PB pendant les 3 premières semaines d’âge et 2 800 kcal/kg de EM et 20 % de PB pendant les 10 semaines de l’étude à satiété (ad-ibitum). Pendant 13 semaines, les performances de croissance précoce (évolution du poids, gain de poids, consommation alimentaire et indice de consommation) ont été évaluées. Les résultats ont révélé que le poids des oeufs variait entre 40 g et 59 g. Le poids moyen des oeufs de pintade obtenus était de 48,52 g avec un poids moyen des oeufs de 43,75 g, 47,66 g et 51,60 g pour les petites, moyennes et grandes respectivement. Les oeufs de tous les traitements ont montré une différence significative (p <0,05) dans les taux de fécondité, les oeufs de grande taille ayant la fertilité la plus élevée. La grande catégorie avait le taux d’éclosion le plus élevé, mais sans différence significative (p>0,05) par rapport à la petite catégorie. Les poids moyens les plus élevés à l’éclosion ont été obtenus avec la grande catégorie et étaient significativement (p < 0,05) plus élevés que ceux de la petite catégorie. L’analyse de régression a révélé qu’une augmentation du poids des oeufs entraînait une augmentation significative correspondante du taux d’éclosion des volailles (r2 = 0,95) et qu’il existe une relation positive entre le poids des oeufs et le poids d’éclosion des volailles avec un coefficient de régression de r2 = 0,94. La consommation alimentaire moyenne hebdomadaire et quotidienne par oiseau était plus élevée dans la catégorie des grands que dans les autres groupes. Des observations similaires ont été obtenues avec les gains de poids. Cependant, la catégorie moyenne a montré indice de consommation moyenne le plus basse. En conclusion, les fourchettes de taille des oeufs ont eu des effets significatifs sur l’éclosion des oeufs de pintade et sur le poids des pintades après l’éclosion. Les oeufs de plus grande taille présentaient une plus grande capacité d’éclosion et un meilleur poids à l’éclosion, les pintadeaux des oeufs de grande et moyenne taille présentant de meilleures performances de croissance que celles de la catégorie des oeufs de petite taille. Par conséquent, un poids d’oeufs de pintade allant de 45 g à 60 g est le plus approprié pour l’incubation car il donne une meilleure capacité d’éclosion et un meilleur poids de pintade après l’éclosion ainsi que de meilleures performances de croissance après l’éclosion.

While during the first wave of postdictatorial literature, from the 1980s to the early 1990s, Argentine fiction was marked by the question of how literature was to understand history, a few contemporary Argentine novels have revisited the dictatorship in ways that avoid allegorical, historical, or memorializing narratives (Sarlo, 471). In fact, one could devise a typology of the first generation of postdictatorial novels by establishing each author’s position on the dialectic of history and memory. That first wave was marked by struggles about the codification of the past and by clashes between the old Left and new Left, arrepentidos and nonarrepentidos, los que se fueron and los que se quedaron, avant-gardists and populists.1 At that moment, the role of literature—or better yet, the question of a role for literature—was still the object of heated argument, and novels played an important part in propelling that debate. Juan José Saer’s work was the pinnacle of an Argentine tradition characterized by delving into the workings of memory. His characters’ occasional intersecting with the collective—particularly in Nadie nada nunca (1980), El entenado (1983), Glosa (1986), and La grande (2005)—constitutes some of the most enduring reflection on subjective memory’s engagement with history. Furthermore, from Ricardo Piglia’s restitutive cyberpunk allegories in La ciudad ausente (1992) to Tununa Mercado’s psychoanalytic grappling with writing as a medium for mourning work in En estado de memoria (1990), the best Argentine fiction sided with those who sought aesthetic experiences able to counter the peril of postapocalyptic forgetting. In 2009, it is apparent that all that has changed.

This article focuses on the final novel, La grande (2005), of the Argentine writer Juan José Saer (1937–2005) and on his treatment of time in the light of the pressures posed by his impending death. It also analyses Saer's disparagement of reason in a world governed by the pervasive influence of incoherence and discontinuity, and his portraits of disability (both literal and metaphorical). Saer subordinates the intellect to the senses and literary rigour to freewheeling digressiveness. The conclusion considers the significance of the ‘lugar más grande’ that overshadows the ‘real’ world and ‘real’ time.

La centrale électrique est une forme essentielle du patrimoine architectural: ni simple bâtiment industriel, ni lieu anonyme d’une production, elle incarne de manière souvent spectaculaire l’énergie limpide qu’elle travaille. Faire l’histoire de cette cathédrale contemporaine, c’est donc constater la richesse esthétique et la force symbolique qui s’en dégagent, révéler la magie immatérielle de la «houille blanche». Les photographies recueillies dans cet ouvrage sont le fruit d’un travail de longue haleine alliant retenue, maîtrise et passion. La grande épopée électrique du 20e siècle défile devant nos yeux grâce à un grand tour architectural à travers les paysages de l’arc alpin, véritable creuset de techniques et de cultures. Avec un essai de Nicola Braghieri

Inspired by, and responding to, the volume Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France published in 2024, this article posits Fanny Ardant as a historically overlooked French export star whose appearances in non-francophone films over the past 25 years merit scholarly attention at a time when her filmic corpus continues to grow exponentially. Through analysis of her performances in three films – Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998), La grande bellezza/The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) and American Star (Gonzalo López-Gallego, 2024) – it is argued that Ardant’s ‘self-staging’ in international cinema has historically exemplified a resistance to postnationalism outside a French context, propagating a ‘timeless’ (if not anti-feminist) notion of French femininity as ‘sensual’, grounded in the notion of the Parisienne.

ABSTRACTThe article blends the philosophy of food with the study of food films, suggesting an interpretation of Marco Ferreri’s La grande abbuffata (1973). The movie is read through the lens of the conceptualizations of food advanced, respectively, by Plato, the Cynics, Epicurus and Lucretius, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Each thinker defined the symbolical and practical relevance of food in human existence while indicating a path toward balance, self-awareness, and wisdom, also in reference to sexuality, mortality, and art that are widely dealt with in Ferreri’s movie. I contend that the film’s action, dialogue and visual imagery represent a systematic transgression and subversion of such philosophical teachings. I further argue that this interpretation, while being more fine-grained, integrates rather than replacing the commonplace reading of La grande abbuffata as a social allegory.

translation’s contributions to the literary system. It is not, though, easy to read. Prone to abstract theoretical formulations, Anacleto does not always supply the needed illustrative example. More important, her book would have profited from an initial overview of the Spanish source texts and their translators. Familiarity with La Diana is a minimum requirement for navigating Anacleto’s allusive treatment of characters, plots, and conventions. Contextual information about the translations is scant and is offered piecemeal: we learn in a note, for example, that Chappuys also translated Ariosto and Castiglione (108). Given Anacleto’s emphasis on cultural transfer, moreover, one wishes for more information about the mentality the originals evoke. Her insightful reminder that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries installed translations within “la grande métaphore qu’était La Bibliothèque Française fixée par Sorel” (62) makes us long for a fuller account of what was transformed in the process. Dartmouth College (NH) Kathleen Wine BARROVECCHIO, ANNE-SOPHIE, et JEAN DAGEN, éd. Le rire ou le modèle? le dilemme du moraliste. Paris: Champion, 2010. ISBN 978-2-7453-2109-1. Pp. 712. 120 a. This collection of thirty-one essays on early modern “moralistes” is organized around two major concepts of moral philosophy: exemplarity and laughter. Each essay makes a solid contribution; what follows is a series of highlights from the volume’s seven subsections. In the first section, on exempla from Antiquity, Françoise Frazier shows how Plutarch presents detailed moments of biographies in a pedagogically vivid way. Marie-Dominique Couzinet opposes Machiavelli’s uses of ancient examples in contemporary political contexts to Guicciardini’s and Montaigne’s skepticism toward historical exemplarity. Hélène Merlin-Kajman locates in the memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz a complex mode of reference to Roman exemplarity, the result of which is a questioning of that very exemplarity in its invocation: a paradoxical heroism, perceptible in Corneille, holds the seeds of Revolution. In the chapter “Figures de Lucrèce,” Emmanuelle Hénin surveys visual representations of Lucretia from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. Marc Escola connects formal analysis of the unities in Du Ryer’s Lucrèce to the tragedy’s political significance, arguing that the play makes the transition from private drama to exemplary tragedy. Françoise Gevrey maintains that the story of Lucretia in Scudéry’s Clélie democratizes discourses of exemplarity. Julie Bloch reveals how Bayle mobilizes the story to articulate radical skepticism toward history and historians. The third section questions the notion of the exemplum. Although La Fontaine does not appear in the title, Michel Bouvier’s essay provides an intriguing account of the instability of example in the Fables. Claudine Poulouin examines a famous counter-example cited by Bayle, namely the unpopular stances taken by François II’s Chancellor Michel de L’Hospital, whose advocacy for religious tolerance alienated both parliament and court. Carole Dornier looks at how Crébillon’s Les heureux orphelins constitutes an in-depth libertine study of the darkest corners of the human soul. The collection’s second part, on laughter, begins with a chapter on “Le rire du moraliste chrétien.” Laurent Thirouin and Muriel Bourgeois each examine the role of laughter and ridicule in Pascal. Michel Bouvier studies laughter as a Reviews 1157 problematization of seventeenth-century doctrines of mind-body dualism. In a section on laughter in the theater, Pierre Cahné reads Corneille’s Le menteur as a comedic critique of Cartesian rationalism. Sophie Marchand elucidates debates surrounding Molière’s legacy during the eighteenth century: at stake was the moral status of theater during the emergence of Enlightenment drame. Chapter six, “Métamorphoses du rire,” begins with Dominique Bertrand’s study of La Bruyère, who saw in laughter both the potential to correct human faults and to enact the will to power. Carole Dornier identifies an aggressive turn in uses of laughter, from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, as dictionary definitions increasingly defined laughter in terms of aggressors and victims. Daniel Acke shows in the subsequent essay that the Prince de Ligne did not approve of this metamorphosis of laughter as honnêteté into mockery ad hominem. In Laurence...

Considérant la place significative des instruments psychométriques dans la pratique des conseillères et conseillers d’orientation (c.o.) québécois, la grande diversité de ces instruments et le souci à l’égard de leur utilisation adéquate, il apparait important d’accompagner les c.o. dans l’utilisation de ces instruments. Pour ce faire, il importe de connaitre les construits psychologiques évalués et les instruments psychométriques utilisés par ces derniers, lesquels demeurent peu documentés à ce jour. Ainsi, cet article présente les résultats d’une enquête en ligne portant notamment sur les principaux instruments psychométriques utilisés par des c.o. québécois (n = 302) travaillant dans divers secteurs au cours des dernières années. Les résultats montrent d’abord que les principaux construits évalués par les c.o. sont les intérêts professionnels, la personnalité, les valeurs et les aptitudes. Aussi, bien que les c.o. utilisent une grande diversité d’instruments psychométriques, les inventaires d’intérêts professionnels demeurent les principaux instruments utilisés. Le palmarès des dix principaux instruments utilisés par les c.o. montrent également qu’une certaine place est accordée aux inventaires de personnalité. Par ailleurs, des variations selon les milieux de travail sont observées. La discussion propose une mise en relation des résultats avec ceux d’une enquête comparable réalisée en 2010.

As Benoîte Groult noted, Elisabeth Badinter ‘a une place très prestigieuse dans notre paysage intellectuel’ and called her ‘la grande féministe de notre temps’.1 This is a view supported by the 2010 Marianne poll, which named her ‘l’intellectuelle la plus influente auprès des Français’2 making her one of the most high-profile women studied in this book. Dubbed ‘Beauvoir’s spiritual heir’3 by Catherine Rodgers, Elisabeth Badinter is known for her work on a range of subjects including studies on the age of enlightenment,4 maternity and motherhood,5 gender and the evolution of French feminism.6 She shares many of the core values of the protagonists in this book such as a commitment to women’s rights and the defence of Republican principles, themes which motivate her interventions in fiercely contested issues in the public domain. These achievements and the recognition she has gained as a result have seen her included in the 2002 edition of Julliard and Winock’s dictionary. While this is not necessarily the final arbiter, inclusion in the dictionary is nevertheless a public symbol of acceptance.

Après avoir envisagé les relations entre polythéisme et poésie épique dans un premier volume collectif et les enjeux de l’anthropomorphisme dans un deuxième, ce troisième temps de l’exploration des dieux d’Homère s’attache aux appellations divines. La grande versatilité des formes adoptées par les dieux se construit, en effet, et s’exprime également à travers les multiples stratégies de leur nomination : les noms, épithètes, qualifications, bref les attributs onomastiques qu’on leur prête, ainsi que leurs agencements, constituent l’une des formes principales de la représentation hellénique du divin, dans les poèmes homériques et au-delà. Les attributs onomastiques des dieux d’Homère renvoient à des qualités, des espaces, des modalités d’action, des domaines d’intervention ou encore des contextes rituels, et ils font l’objet d’une combinatoire qui explore, dans un jeu subtil de variations et de reprises, le tissu polythéiste du monde. Complexes et relationnels, les epōnymiai forment bien, comme le rappelle Hérodote par référence à Homère et Hésiode, un élément clé des systèmes polythéistes. L’examen du dossier homérique et de ses échos, proches et lointains, dans les textes comme dans les images, permet de questionner les noms des dieux comme un langage polysémique, susceptible d’évoluer au gré des contextes d’énonciation. Loin d’être un ornement ou une simple étiquette, les attributs onomastiques fabriquent les dieux dans la poésie archaïque et ne cessent de les reconfigurer en circulant d’un contexte à l’autre dans les traditions de la Grèce antique, en une sorte de pulsion de la mémoire culturelle.

Le Cimetière militaire roumain de Soultzmatt, inauguré en 1924 par le roi Ferdinand et la reine Marie de Roumanie, a représenté tout au long du siècle écoulé le théâtre d’un grand nombre de cérémonies, rencontres et visites officielles ou privées. Trois périodes sont à distinguer dans l’approche de ces événements, correspondant chronologiquement aux trois régimes politiques qu’a connus la Roumanie : royaume jusqu’en 1947, dictature communiste totalitaire de 1947 à 1989, régime démocratique depuis 1990. Pendant la première période évoquée, les autorités roumaines ont manifesté une attention particulière pour ce lieu de mémoire. À l’époque communiste, les autorités roumaines ont ignoré presque totalement la nécropole de Soultzmatt, tout comme les autres nécropoles roumaines situées en dehors des frontières du pays. Le flambeau a été repris par les autorités communales et par les différentes associations roumaines. Depuis 1990, des cérémonies religieuses, civiles et militaires ont lieu régulièrement. Les célébrations orthodoxes sont organisées par les paroisses de la région et présidées par Mgr Joseph Pop, Métropolite orthodoxe roumain de l’Europe occidentale et méridionale.