..., in Perec it has no such power, standing instead as a marker of loss, trauma, and forgetting. If the madeleine is a kind of comfort food, Perec’s anti-madeleine is a site of discomfort, a surrogate for all the other losses Perec is trying to account for, and through his insistence on the absence of food, he...

...Suzanne Guerlac Suzanne Guerlac VALERY-MODERNIST MYTHS AND (ANTI) MODERNIST STATES OF MIND I n a short text entitled "Questions de Poesie," preface to the AnthoLogie des Poetes de La NRF and published in the review in 1935, Valery mocks those who waste their time on terms such as Classicism...

...Maurice Samuels Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Maurice Samuels FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL: THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY, SIMON DEUTZ, AND MODERN FRANCE S FIRST ANTI-­SEMITIC AFFAIR At 5:30 p.m. on November 6, 1832, police agents raided the ­house at No. 3, rue Haute-d­ u-C­...

... extravagance chez Descartes, qui semble viser Sorel. Mais construit au contact des romanciers qu’il fustige, le Discours de la méthode ne devient-il pas, à son tour, un anti-roman comme les autres ? [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York...

... best-selling 1886 anti-Semitic treatise La France juive, the passage also inevitably recalled a central argument of Drumont's polemic, one he had not invented but that he probably did more than anyone to propagate: namely, that the Franco-Prussian War had unleashed on France a hoard of German Jews bent...

... la liberte ont amenes que son epoux" (69). According to Leon Poliakov, the oedipal logic of anti-semitism decrees that if the male Jew threatens castration, the Jewish woman, deprived of the phallus, becomes not only innocuous, but "son innocence la rend meme specialement desirable" (175). While...

... severity. But there remains a philosophical curiosity about persons. Dreyfusard, anti-Dreyfusard, Salalst, anti-Salalst, are just about the only things worth knowing about an imbecile. (Proust SL 242) Homosexuality and the Dreyfus Affair, or rather someone's views on homosexuality and the Affair...

... Celine. In both Aragon's defense of the socialist realist novel and Celine's anti-Semitic pamphlets, the reference to the two hundred families serves a double purpose. On the one hand, it represents a politically populist gesture, aligning the author against the perceived masters of the French economy...

..., universalism, republicanism, secularism, and socialism that have long represented France's unique contribution to the fight against antisemitism. Bell, too, stresses ideological nuance rather than simple opposition: Anti-anti-Semitism created a new, roving category of imperial perception. While indebted...

... Rivière in 1919, he notes that he had felt Rivière overestimated the value of friendship in an essay, and then adds, Du reste Jeunes Filles en fleurs et les suivants sont imprégnés du même esprit anti-­amical. Or l intérêt que je ressens pour vous, me porterait maintenant à modifier ma manière de voir...

... to “the pedagogy of death” and “the arts of bad living” (98). While Fay makes a largely convincing argument for how some entries in this genre could be read as “anti-humanist ecologies [that] orient us to the ends of a consuming capitalist culture without the promise of renewal, redemption, or hope...

... to common words, via an impromptu exegesis of the enigmatic poem "Jabberwocky." Yet, the piece that Artaud produced, which was published in 1947 under the title L'Arve et al'Aume and with the provocative subtitle Tentative anti-grammaticale propos de Lewis Carroll et contre lui, is far from what might...

... to the Communist Party to deny, misrepresent or even justify the repressive nature of the totalitarian regimes of the Eastern bloc. This political attitude was in part a legacy of the anti-fascist struggle of the thirties and the war years. For Aragon and Triolet, the post-war years (the fifties and sixties) were...

... ________ “It is not that truth changes,” writes Buck-Morss, “we do” (x). “We” have. The “decolonizing” of French and Francophone studies is a change that comes less—or at least as much—from without (US anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, decolonial theory) as from within (and sprouting from) the field, and especially, pace...

... effet, Ie lien qu'etablit Elmarsafy entre la souverainete divine et celIe du monarque s'avere impossible car Ie concept de monarchie n'est pas un concept religieux mais au contraire seculaire et anti-clerical; par ailleurs, les defenseurs de la monarchie s'opposaient precisement a. un gouvernement...

... et le roule dans la campagne, qu’il l’arrache à la ville” (113). Yet, Drieu contends, it would be an additional mistake to read Lawrence’s gospel of the body as a rejection of man’s other capacities; we should not be tempted to see in him an avatar of anti-intellectualism or anti-rationalism. Instead...

..., and Arthur Cravan. According to these models, one could escape the vanity of art through complete "silence," realize one's anti-social stance by leaving society, and flee positivist reality in dreams, the unconscious, drugs, and death. In the cultural mythology of the French avant-garde, Rimbaud...

... in Verite "is so unrelenting as to figure as no more than the flipside of his adversaries' anti-Semitism" (246). Now it should be noted that there are moments in the novel when the author himself seems concerned to explore this impasse and its consequences; the untrustworthiness of political buzzwords...

... many have thought. While the Pyrrhonian modes are meant to rationalize suspended judgment—a refusal to decide between the skeptical hypotheses and the anti-skeptical appearances—only rarely does the narrator himself suspend judgment (see, e.g., 94). Rather, he tends to cycle through competing judgments...

... text), Simon embarked on a quest for pure textual productivity, self-reflexive and self-engendering. And yet, Simon himself recognized that Les Corps conducteurs failed to live up to its anti-mimetic project. For all of its language play, the novel was still summarizable according to a human subject...