...Peter Consenstein Alison James . Constraining Chance—Georges Perec and the Oulipo . Evanston, IL : Northwestern UP , 2009 . Pp. 312 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS question of temporality is most satisfactorily resolved in the epilogue...

...Ross Hamilton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Ross Hamilton PLAYING WITH CHANCE: ROUSSEAU'S ILLUMINATION Gambling obsessed all levels of French society during the Enlightenment. Louis XIV held appartements du roi given over to gambling three times a week...

.... Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 344. The past two decades have seen a number of books devoted to the role of chance in literature and culture. These include Thomas M. Kavanagh's studies of the culture of gambling in Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance (1993) and Dice, Cards, Wheels...

... if problematic and curiously conceived option for Un coup de des and other works, it clearly becomes a crucial factor amd a stumbling block in Mallarmt?s·conception of Le Livre. For here, the ultimate reckoning with fundamental conflicts of mind and body, word and deed, speech and writing, order and chance...

... spent much of his adult life in political exile in Montreal, and whose narrative dominates the second part of the novel. They have met by chance at Camp Krome, the Florida detention center where Caribbean refugees are held before being deported. This is a highly symbolic site in which to bring together...

... pas a se gener. Nous voudrions bien Ie voir! Eh ! bien, moi, je vais pouvoir Ie voir, je vais savoir a quoi m'en tenir. Convenez C'est une chance qui n'arrive pas a beaucoup. » J'avais mis ces articles sur mon bureau, pour les lire dans la journee, quand j'en aurais Ie loisir. J'avais rendez-vous...

..., l'ultime ainformateur, sincere ou non, reste coi, et jamais l'auteur demeurera inconnu. D'oll la fureur des autorites et d'une police impuissante qui expriment leur rage en termes d'autant plus violents qu'ils ont toute chance de n'etre pas suivis d'effete Froids auteurs de mechants couplets, aVrais...

... implicite" in an alphabet of quantities, his sense that "Ie seul langage fournissant l'alphabet pour une lecture intelligible du monde est celui de l'etendue nombree et mesuree."2 Calvino's own use of the word "alphabet" in the novel is rather mournful about the chances of a bodily semiology, but doesn't...

... and Dickens. I trust I surprise no one in remarking that he was not an easy man to work for. He would doubtless have been happy with the most feudal of systems, assuming he occupied the role of overlord. Dazzled as I was by the chance to work closely with him, I recognized even at the time the extent to which...

..., Pascal, Racine (Ziad Elmarsafy), 467-473 - - - , La Pensee du roman (Thomas Pavel), 482-486 Hamilton, Ross, "Playing with Chance: Rousseau's Illumination," 271-291 Inston, Kevin, "Michel Leiris and the Power of Art," 63-80 James, Alison, Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes (Jen Deppman, Daniel...

..., and more canonical works like Zola’s La Curée , the logic of chance encounters defines both the content and the mode of writing. Belenky deftly crosses the lines between intra- and extra-diegesis to trace a repertoire of recurring features in middlebrow tales of transit, including first-person narration...

... thaumast6n and the tragic emotions, which a poet must achieve through a logical dramatic structure and not through irrationality, which is better suited for epic, for even chance events arouse more wonder when they appear to happen for a purpose. Aristotle refers to the fall of the statue of Mitys...

..., are some of the strongest in the book. Ultimately this book offers valuable biographical information, original insights from Armande Ponge, and a chance to see Le Verre d'eau as it appeared in 1949. (HUGH HOCHMAN, Reed College) ...

... temporality, to its under­lying symbolic structure, and to the pol­iti­cal climate of its con­temporary reali­ty. Moatamri s and Vignest s essays complement each other well, as do t­hose of Boni and Arlette Chemain, but the proximity of t­ hese pairings in the collection is due to chance, as contributions...

... it was stasis. He chose to stand on the side of change, of adaptation, of contestation: the chance of each generation, and each individual, to break with what had become sclerotic or stifling in the practices and institutions they face, even if this was also something as rich and marvelous as French...

... (and others) were opposed to its being published because, as Denise would say, her mother did not have the chance to edit a final version. It was Miriam Anissimov who convinced Denise to publish the manuscript and to use the earlier rather than the revised version of Tempete en juin. Any analysis of Suite...

... stop to think about desire I’m usually walking. Creature of habit, I had my chance to put off continence until I found myself contained less because I tried to hold it in and more because the lack of hands can make even the most lubricated doorknob stick in its frame. I’m stuck...

..., and Denise Epstein (and others) were opposed to its being published because, as Denise would say, her mother did not have the chance to edit a final version. It was Miriam Anissimov who convinced Denise to publish the manuscript and to use the earlier rather than the revised version of Tempete en juin. Any...

..., at least not in the strict sense of the term, but I did get the chance to sit in on a seminar of his once, during my campus visit to Michigan more than twenty years ago. I d never seen anything like this before. For the entire time, Ross sat near the end of one of the long sides of the rectangular seminar...

... toujours mon petit niais ? Uour 12) The "petit niais," her son born with Down syndrome, is denied a chance to live a "normal" life, and the narrator's memory of the short life of her son has been repressed, denied an existence in her conscious, just as has been the book to be written about this important...