Anita Traninger

Freie Universität Berlin | FUB · Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

That Gustave Flaubert found inspiration for his Tentation de saint Antoine in a painting ascribed to Breughel the younger, which he saw during his Italian travels in Genoa, has often been noted and commented on. Yet while the source has been named regularly, it has often been reduced to a mere thematic inspiration. This article seeks to show how th...

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, the major proponent of the Enlightenment in Spain, straddled two worlds and two traditions of intellectual discourse-the Enlightened public sphere and the traditional scholasticism of the university-and this had implications for how he addressed his opponents and ordered his thoughts. In this article, I will show that while...

Erasmus' famous elusiveness can be linked to a marked preference for media and genres that allowed for a persona, a mask, behind which the 'real' Erasmus could disappear at will. This article seeks to identify the literary, rhetorical and above all dialectical patterns Erasmus made use of in order to separate man and argument and to distance speake...

This article seeks to show how the republic of letters as an ideal of communication took shape between the early modern period and the early enlightenment by transforming the culture of debate within universities. While oral university disputations arbitrarily distributed the roles of respondent and opponent, thus intentionally dissociating the man...

When the royal privilege of hunting was abolished in the wake of the French Revolution, a host of manuals and introductory primers soon emerged that instructed the bourgeois novices, eager to make sense of the arcane practices and gnostic terminology behind the hunt, in the rules of the pursuit. Evidence of the complexity of this culture abounds in...

Les voitures à cheval sont omniprésentes dans Madame Bovary et servent de manière active le thème central de l'adultère. C'est cependant au Tilbury, quoique mentionné seulement quatre fois dans l'ensemble du texte et ne faisant jamais l'objet d'une description plus précise, que se rapporte, selon un mode tout à fait spécifique, l'univers fait d'asp...

In Raffaels Dama con liocorno zeigt sich uns eine Dame in gleichermaßen züchti-ger wie nonchalanter Haltung auf einem an Leonardos Mona Lisa geschulten Balkon mit Blick in die landschaftliche Weite. Ihre Hände sind beschäftigt, und zwar nicht mit einem Schoßtier oder einer erbaulichen Schrift, sondern mit einem Einhorn. Im qua Konvention realistisc...