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...Jean Duffy Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jean Duffy SILENCE, TALK, AND VOICE IN THE RITUAL ENCOUNTER: FRAN~OIS BON'S L'ENTERREMENT AND LAURENT MAUVIGNIER'S LOIN D'EUX1 I n Loin d'eux and L'Enterrement, Laurent Mauvignier and Fran~ois Bon offer ostensibly quite...

...Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner TRAFFIC IN PARADISE: DRAMATIZING JEWISH-C­ HRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN THE JEU D ADAM Conscriptum est autem, sicut legi ab omnibus oporteret, etsi a paucis haec...

...Shirin A. Khanmohamadi Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters (eds). Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. 253 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 200 BOOK REVIEWS Karina F. Attar...

... monotheistic traditions, the desert is a traditional site of solitude but also of encounter between human and divine. In the stories of such encounters for a series of biblical prophets—Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, and John the Baptist—isolation and encounter entangle. This article focuses on that encounter...

...Luke Sunderland Abstract This essay offers an encounter with Bruno Latour’s account of ontological pluralism by way of a close reading of the Livre des propriétés des choses , Jean Corbechon’s fourteenth-century French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s encyclopedia. Engagement with Latour’s...

..., and social dimensions of modern love as they appear in the Cythera-like nature of the Méséglise way during the buildup to the Gilberte encounter, the author suggests that Marcel found in nature’s flamboyancy both a ground and a reflection of his own impulse toward unrestrained libido, aristocratic leisure...

...Andrew Holleran Abstract “The Invalid” is an autobiographical account of one American novelist’s reading Proust over the course of his life. After the initial impact of encountering Remembrance of Things Past as a young soldier in 1968 Germany, he is forced to wonder: Did Proust bring the novel...

... of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways...

... dynamic, reading Jerome through the mediation of four objects of art that Burrus encountered on the Clark campus in 2020–21. Three are contemporary sculptures—Kelly Akashi’s A Device to See the World Twice (2020), Thomas Schütte’s Crystal (2015), and Giuseppe Penone’s Le foglie delle radici ( The Leaves...

...Michelle M. Hamilton Abstract The tale of the City of Brass, best known today from the Arabian Nights , tells of the imagined encounter between humans and the occult properties of the material world, namely, the powers inherent in minerals. In the Middle Ages knowledge of such properties...

... of phrase and moments of heightened consciousness that portend but ultimately fail to deliver narrative progression and spiritual growth as the characters act out sterile parodies of Frenchness. In “After the Race,” we also encounter an allegorical political critique of naive faith in Franco-Irish...

... transporting, seduction, and an absorptive convergence of self and other in the first case; toward critical vigilance, suspicion, and distancing in the other. For Scott, novels stage the “dialectical” interaction of these two tendencies in encounters with otherness—that is, with fictional strangers—thus...

...Sharon Marquart Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Sharon Marquart SHIT HAPPENS On, on, one goes, despite every­thing, not knowing why or how. ­Hanif Kureishi, The Tale of the Turd The first time I encountered Ross Chambers...

... (not Toute Belle) as a palpable fuzziness22 or background noise occasionally disrupting Guillaume's supposedly pure lyric discourse. Initially, the woman disturbs the harmonious exchange simply by insisting on a real-life encounter (i.e., she wants to move from the ideal sphere to the everyday one-from...

... in its focus on pre-modern and early modern cross-cultural encounters, it is savvy and relevant in its linking of its theme to the pedagogical endeavors in contemporary American classrooms that, it turns out, enjoy a number of features that invite and reward the study of pre-modern and early modern cross...

... existence. Exile has enabled her to reformulate the idea of resistance, something that before leaving, she and the others had been unable to do. The fleeting movement into exile has made Brigitte more conscious of herself and of Haiti. Her encounter with Normand in the intermediary space of the detention...

...Murray Pratt Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Murray Pratt THE END OF DIALOGUE The first time I encountered Ross Chambers was through his work. Devour­ ing Story and Situation many years ago as an e­ ager young lecturer at the University...

... fantasies of exaltation associated with romantic love. As an adolescent, dreaming of the figure of Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo , he longs “to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.” He is certain this image will encounter him, and he anticipates...

... value. But as long as originals are made or encountered, and then subsequently set against a translation or series of translations, an implicit paradigm of equivalence is sure to structure one’s reading and analysis of those texts. 5 This isn’t lost on Emmerich, who admits that “translators...

... minutes fast, so actually that drink must often be consumed by 2:20 p.m., even if by that time many have forgotten to notice the difference. Ross Chambers was never a person one would encounter at last call. Even more uncomfortable in a crowd than I, he would show up at the parties of even his closest...