Claire Lyu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5947261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Lyu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyu |
| SIGNATURE | LYU C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unswathing the Mummy
Through a reading of Théophile Gautier's Le Roman de la momie, my paper explores nineteenth-century France's fascination with unwrapping mummies, performed as public spectacles at universal exhibitions, against the backdrop of previous centuries' practice of public dissections. Gautier's tale stages various types of openings (of the landscape, tomb, sarcophagus, mummy, and papyrus roll), in which a complex interplay of different models of opening…
The Poetics of the Penult
MLN - Volume 113, Number 3, April 1998 (German Issue)
"High" Poetics
From the very beginning of Le Poeme du hachisch1 in Les Paradis artificiels, Baudelaire is quite insistent in distinguishing his voice from the intoxicated voice, and his writing about intoxication from the lived experiences of intoxication themselves. It is indeed clearly stated at the end of the first section that his writing will be based on secondhand and not firsthand experiences and that it accounts for intoxicated moments lived by others b…
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"High" Poetics
From the very beginning of Le Poeme du hachisch1 in Les Paradis artificiels, Baudelaire is quite insistent in distinguishing his voice from the intoxicated voice, and his writing about intoxication from the lived experiences of intoxication themselves. It is indeed clearly stated at the end of the first section that his writing will be based on secondhand and not firsthand experiences and that it accounts for intoxicated moments lived by others b…
The Poetics of the Penult
MLN - Volume 113, Number 3, April 1998 (German Issue)
Unswathing the Mummy
Through a reading of Théophile Gautier's Le Roman de la momie, my paper explores nineteenth-century France's fascination with unwrapping mummies, performed as public spectacles at universal exhibitions, against the backdrop of previous centuries' practice of public dissections. Gautier's tale stages various types of openings (of the landscape, tomb, sarcophagus, mummy, and papyrus roll), in which a complex interplay of different models of opening…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetics (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · French Literature and Poetry (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Conscience (1 work) · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies (1 work) · Exhibition (1 work)