...Hervé Picherit [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 demystification accommodation graduates I was deeply saddened in 2018 to learn of Hayden White’s death. 1 I had the privilege of meeting White my...

... different treatments of the same basic subject: the suicide of a young man and its aftermath. Loin d'eux has a three-part structure, each section of the novel corresponding to a different period in the characters' attempts to accommodate this family tragedy: the first part is devoted to the days following...

... of the Mitterrand years, as France began to accommodate itself to the ascendancy of US liberal orthodoxy, an orthodoxy in which equality came to be seen as a body of principles that can be interpreted by a court rather than what Ranciere's work had then begun to show it to be: a profoundly political problem...

... seule partie ou terme."l In contrast, the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIxe siecle accommodates a new category of solitude between the monomachie and the monome, an evolutionary pathology: Alienation mentale, dans laquelle Ie malade ne deraisonne que sur une idee ou sur une seule ciasse d'idees...

... of 2003, my husband, son, and I found ourselves in Sydney at the same time as Ross. We invited him for drinks at our apartment-­hotel near Sydney Harbor and then to dinner at Sailors Thai, a popu­lar restaurant. While he clearly disapproved of our accommodations, much too fancy for his taste he...

... accommodation [telling the story of one’s own condition in biographical context] becomes the central process through which rather ill persons, and those close to them, take action to retain and/or regain some degree of control over biographies rendered discontinuous by chronic illness” (251). 6. Hence...

... forms; the tyrant's iron fist is as productive of metaphor as any warbling nightingale. Ascoli argues that Ariosto's innovative use of this interlacing technique represents one such accommodation of poetry to power. By exploiting the semantic potential of the new contiguities created where one narrative...

... as the ability to practice decorum, defined in turn as the ability to accommodate the occasion, taking account of times, places, and persons: "This, indeed, is the form of wisdom that the orator must especially employ-to adapt himself to occasions and persons. In my opinion one must not speak in the same style...

... that it accommodates both "une tentation aristocratique" and the challenges posed by "une parole democratique qui s'emancipe des regles codifiant son usage."2 More specifically in relation to Proust, Ranciere reflects that what he terms the anarchic introduction of the elements of life gives the lie to the illusion...

... of ­women s professional possibilities and the introduction of divorce in 1884. Nicholas White s essay offers a close reading of a novel that reflects upon ­these shifts in the paradoxical way characteristic of a French realism that in Naomi Schor s words can neither accommodate the Otherness of w­ oman...

... an accommodation between the performative discourse of twelfth-century verse romance and the text-as-livre discourse of thirteenthcentury prose romance" (81). A study of the distribution of decorated initials highlighting instances of interlace in the manuscripts further narrows the difference between prose...

...” university architecture are not altered by the superficial changes of retrofitted accommodations. I make the case against retrofits on two levels of writing and teaching in French studies—in our treatment of the boundaries of the canon and how we handle (research and write about) our objects of inquiry...

... disruptive and less accommodating than Schröder’s reading would permit. Rather than seeing her indirect, equivocal rhetorical strategy as wholly or only acquiescing to gendered norms, it could also be taken on its own terms and seen as an argument in itself, as a discordant interruption into the rational two...

... is this space of preparation that becomes an inner space within which one could follow the law, which has the function of a house not yet in the world. From the historical time, this waiting to reach eternity creates the inner, as the space of accommodation between historical human time and the eternal divine...

..., namely what he perceives as its inclination to individualism and existentialism. The mentality offers him an ideal meeting-ground for the synthesis of realism and aestheticism, humanism and individualism, deftly accommodating his contradictory impulse to pose the question, "What is cinema while...

... to an existing discourse about inassimilable Jews, that category accommodated a wide range of possible imperial others-including colonized subalterns-whose national attachments and intolerances might, like those of anti-Semites, be understood to obstruct imperial harmony The Jewish particularism long considered...

... difference is celebrated in private but not in public.26 But in Esther the body politic of King Assuerus eventually accommodates ethnic Otherness by giving political authority to Esther's uncle Mardochee. Against a historical backdrop showing a distrust of men who have loved Oriental women, Titus is anxious...

... de l'etrange transmutation par laqueUe s'opere Ie passage de la terre a la mer, que l'intertexte terrestre ne semble pas a premiere vue accommoder. 11 est interessant de constater que Ie fonds 16. "Valery face a la mort de Mallarme", Ope cit., p. 73 : "Le grand retour de Valery a la poesie [ ] se...

..., it is because the French language can assimilate to Latin more easily than it can to any other language. French derives from Latin and has preserved its pomp and majesty, but the modern languages are so different that French poetry does not know how to accommodate them with any grace. The English, whose...

... in the Twentieth Century, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). 134 MICHAEL BELL national and regional histories are likely to have a complex situatedness that must be positively accommodated within the work. For that very reason, however, the essay remains invaluable as an analytic lens: where Borges...