Claire Chi-ah Lyu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6408075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Chi-ah Lyu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire Chi-ah |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyu |
| SIGNATURE | LYU C C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| 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)
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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 (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Conscience (1 work) · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies (1 work) · Exhibition (1 work) · French Literature and Critical Theory (1 work)