...Bainard Cowan The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxv, 420 p., 108 ills. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS TRANSATLANTIC...

... . RILKE AND THE MACHINE OF CINEMA/143 KENNETH S. CALHOON The Eye of the Panther: Rilke and the Machine of Cinema HE ASSORTED OBJECTS described in Rilke’s Neue Gedichte make up a collec- Ttion whose variety and opulence are reminiscent of the Baroque...

... . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2008 . Print . E. S. BURT The Hands and Eyes of the Allegorist: The Crisis of Perception in Walter Benjamin With these words, soul, eye and hand are brought into connection. Inter­...

...Françoise Lionnet J.-M.G. Le Clézio and Amitav Ghosh are prolific award-winning writers who train their reader's eye on transversal and lateral exchanges in the Indian Ocean. This essay presents an approach to the study of their novels as littérature mondialisante rather than littérature-monde...

...CHRISTOPHER K. COFFMAN One would find it difficult to overstate the importance of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu to James Merrill's work. Although almost any of Merrill's works could be read with an eye to Proustian concerns and motifs, Merrill's final two collections of poems...

... condition of multi-historicity—that is, a simultaneity of multiple emplotment possibilities for the Russian state. In order to bring these possibilities to light, I read the novel with an eye on Dostoevsky's journalism from the early- to mid-sixties, a period characterized by an urgent recognition...

...Esther Whitfield Abstract Guantánamo as a site whose legal contortions and human rights abuses have global reach and urgency has long been the focus of the many scholars, lawyers, and activists who have fought to keep its detention centers in the public eye. And yet, alongside advocates who have...

...: Flammarion, 1966 . Collins, Christopher. The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1991 . Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. Brat'ia Karamazovy. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh. Vols. 14-15 . Ed. V.G...

... from an external object that reproduces an inverted image of said external object. Plato’s cave, according to Sontag’s analogy, was the most ancient (though imaginary) form of a camera obscura . Our eyes also function like a camera obscura : the light from an outer object reaches the retina...

... that seems to place the object before the eyes of the hearer, drawing him or her fully into the very action of the scene described. Drawing on the theories of enargeia available to Shakespeare in both classical and renaissance texts, I argue that the confusion of signifier and signified constitutive...

.... “The Universal Eye”: An Elliptical Refraction of National Literatures Although Fernando del Paso is likely the easiest choice for an investigation of Joyce’s presence in Mexican literature, critics of Del Paso’s work have tradition- ally fallen into three very different camps on this point. The first...

..., in a cave of trees Facing a sheer sky Everything moved: a bell hung ready to strike, Sun and reflection wheeled by. When the bare eyes were before me And the hissing hair,— Held up at a window, seen through a door, The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead Formed in the air...

... which he is exceedingly exact and never deviates from the realistic manner” (4: 137, my translation). COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 50 something tugging violently at an eyelash,” the narrator finds his diminutive dou- ble “tumbling” by his “left eye” (35). The double then tells “his master” (57...

... to manage with as few possessions as possible. (40–41) Sebald has testifi ed to his “fascination [with] . . . the astonishing places that were the scenes of [Wittgenstein’s] life,” and he has also claimed that the placing of the photograph of Wittgenstein’s eyes in his text was “consciously done” (“Up...

... their reports. It seems to be a tremendous experience” (qtd. in Heacox, 2). When she does finally start, she is astounded. In an October letter to Fry, Woolf declares it is “as if a miracle is being done before my eyes . . . One has to put the book down and gasp” (qtd. in Heacox, 2). Why did Woolf wait so...

.... The artist continually struggles unsuccessfully to find the right hues and textures with which to paint her—the shades of her skin, the tint of her eyes, and thus to represent the girl in her “realistic” dimensions. To make matters worse, far from a cooperative subject for his portrait, the girl...

... approach, Schad requires firmer argumentative ground on which to more rationally than randomly elabo- rate his authoritative knowledge of Victorian poetry and poststructuralist theory. Un- questionably, Schad possesses a vigilant critical eye that is always quick to identify complex textual...

... approach, Schad requires firmer argumentative ground on which to more rationally than randomly elabo- rate his authoritative knowledge of Victorian poetry and poststructuralist theory. Un- questionably, Schad possesses a vigilant critical eye that is always quick to identify complex textual...

... approach, Schad requires firmer argumentative ground on which to more rationally than randomly elabo- rate his authoritative knowledge of Victorian poetry and poststructuralist theory. Un- questionably, Schad possesses a vigilant critical eye that is always quick to identify complex textual...

... approach, Schad requires firmer argumentative ground on which to more rationally than randomly elabo- rate his authoritative knowledge of Victorian poetry and poststructuralist theory. Un- questionably, Schad possesses a vigilant critical eye that is always quick to identify complex textual...