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Definition of Sarrasine

Sarrasine
Sarrasin Sar"ra*sin, Sarrasine Sar"ra*sine, n. [F. sarrasine, LL. saracina. See Saracen.] (Fort.) A portcullis, or herse. [Written also sarasin.]

Meaning of Sarrasine from wikipedia

- Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while...
- S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes' structural analysis of "Sarrasine", the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through...
- intention in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls...
- study of marriage), but by 1830 Balzac began to group his first novels (Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée ("Scenes from...
- his most prodigious work,[who?] the dense, critical reading of Balzac's Sarrasine entitled S/Z. Throughout the 1970s, Barthes continued to develop his literary...
- 1970 Roland Barthes published S/Z, a detailed analysis of Balzac's story Sarrasine and a key work in structuralist literary criticism. Carlos Fuentes, sometimes...
- "Vespasian's axiom" is also referred to in p****ing in the Balzac short story Sarrasine in connection with the mysterious origins of the wealth of a Parisian...
- Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role twice, for The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine) (which he co-wrote) and My Father's Angel, with three additional nominations...
- family. It was heated, originally with a Saracen fireplace (cheminée sarrasine), later with an open fireplace (cheminée à hotte). This room was generally...
- screenwriter. He is most noted for his 1992 film The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine), which received ten Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards...