... that Proust thinks he himself is “mad” for believing that art has the power to transfigure reality. This paper will explain why none of that is true. As is clear from his essays, his letters, and even his actions, Proust was not an “essayist,” in the Musil sense: not someone, that is, whose assessments were...

... the realm of metaphor, the "as if." In this essay I present a thesis about the notion of heresy in Certeau. To defend this thesis, it is necessary to reconstruct Certeau's theory on the act of belief. As I show below, to believe in something is to accept one's dependence on another. In other words, all...

..., in the chronological sense, or that the time is proximate, in the sense of always being at hand. Discerning exactly which interpretation of the word is correct would be of critical importance to the believer, since the meaning could influence the believer's chance of salvation, depending on whether kairos...

... and offers material proof of the Assumption. Here, doubt figures, on the one hand, as a refusal to believe and, on the other, as a momentary weakening of an otherwise exemplary faith. The Golden Legend authorizes the former account as authentic and casts doubt on the latter, thereby separating out...

..., the ports of Purmio and Monpox, and the valley of Olana, all in an attempt to arrive at Santa Marta. When he couldn't reach Santa Marta, he went to Maracaibo, through Coro, Valencia, Caracas, and La Guaira, where he hoped to embark for New Spain. Quadros believed there existed certain "privilegios...

...), but with the “great confusion” (44) that could arise from the genre’s mixture of truth and fabrication. The binocular mode of vision in medieval theater could also easily exacerbate the unstable dialectic of faith and doubt endemic to devotional culture. Audiences must provisionally believe (for fear of apostasy...

... by protesting that Auden must partly have been unconscious of his motives for thinking the way he 134 EDWARD MENDELSON I have been describing one specific instance, in Auden's career, of what I believe to be the general and recurring case that occurs in all writers. When Auden compiled these two anthologies, he...

... that if one took Spinoza's idea of God to heart, a dispassionate view of life might ensue: if one truly believes that a human being is an ephemeral modality of a couple of attributes that belong to an infinite being with an infinite number of attributes, it follows that our little trials and tribulations...

... control of Venice to the Austrians in the Treaty of Campoformio in 1797.2 The surprise and anger Italians felt after Campoformio stemmed from the misplaced hopes they had placed in Napoleon, who had led many to believe that he would be the great Italian liberator. Like much other contemporary Italian...

... claimed that we should approach Francophone Maghrebi authors only for the literary and linguistic aspects and avoid the issues of identity and politics, which she believes have no place in our discipline. Another presenter in the same conference made some startling derogatory remarks about the Algerian...

... ch’attende là per qui mi mena, / forse, Cui Guido vostro ebbe a disdegno” (vv. 62–63). While Lanza justifies his reading of “cui” as referring to God, thus the modern capitalization, whom contemporaries and near contemporaries believed a heretical Guido Cavalcanti held in disdain, Lanza the editor has taken...

... Bois, after believing that racial prejudice would disappear in a Jamesian way thanks to the progress of education, he recognized the relevance of Karl Marx’s emphasis on property and economic interests, and, turning to socialism, he supported the Third World’s fight for independence. Davis, however...

..., buried u­ nder administration to the point that he could not do any work. This in the mid-1970s, the Golden Age! My image of the university at the time was such that I could not r­eally believe, or did not want to believe, Ross s explanation. ­There must be something e­lse, more personal, in which I...

... the language of my parent, Tagalog, at home. Like many immigrants of their generation who moved to the States, my parents believed in the primary importance of learning English well and didn’t have the time to teach us Tagalog. The culture and values of their homeland were, they believed, things that could...

... s letter does not specify since the details he believed would manifest the essence of the scene for Rousseau lay, evidently, not in the mundane mechanics of holding his volume and eyeing its text, but rather in the intense emotional responses that the author s works subsequently triggered in him...

.... No one could read all those books. I remember peering into Michael Riffaterre's office; no one could read all those books stacked everywhere, dangerously, haphazardly. I remember being impressed, not believing my eyes. It fit perfectly into the dream sequence. I remember being impressed, not believing my...

... love; indeed, I have argued that love in Proust is ultimately depicted not as solipsistic but as directed at the partially knowable reality of another (Kubala). On the whole, I suspect Proust believes what his narrator says in the final volume: “The subjective element that I had observed to exist...

... Lope de Vega, believes the poem to predate La Circe's publication by at least four years, and generalizes about all of Lope's pro-Gongora poems: "todas las poesfas en que celebra a Gongora en Ii bros The Romanic Review Volume 92 Number 3 © The Trustees of Columbia University J.332 MARK MASCIA example...

... achievement. Thus if we want to know what Borges believed about the capability of language-not what he believed in this or that moment, and not even what he said he believed or thought he believed, but rather what he believed in his bones-then we should find our footing on the rough ground of his stories...

... believed to have consumed it (the accidental fire set by Julius Caesar in 47 BC and the orchestrated assault organized by Theophilus, the archbishop of Alexandria, in AD 391) to a third notional event, found only in European texts from 1650 on. The standard eighteenth-century version of the story...