Nerval definition of Nerval in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Stylistically, however, it probably has more in common with the phrase's literary source, a line by the eccentric nineteenth-century French poet Gerard de Nerval ("My sole star is dead--and my constellated lute/Bears the Black Sun of Melancholia").

Sue de Beer: Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria by Kastner, Jeffrey / Artforum International

It examined an array of nineteenth century French and British novelists, poets, politicians, philologists, historians, travelers, and imperial administrators: the voyages and travel narratives of nineteenth century French authors such as Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Nerval, and Flaubert; the Indian journalism of Karl Marx; the writings of the first modern Orientalist Sylvestre de Sacy and of the French nineteenth century philologist Ernest Renan; the adventure tales of Richard Burton and T.

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) by Rubin, Andrew N. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

In his chapter on Gerard de Nerval and Hubert Aquin, Chambers notes this crucial distinction: "Suicide as writing, writing as suicide, unlike the act of physically killing one-self, is not final: rather it is a prolongation" (153).

Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction by Ryan, Katy / African American Review

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