...Aubrey Gabel aag2188@columbia.edu Alison James , The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 In The Documentary...

...Daniel Just Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Daniel Just AESTHETICS OF BLANKNESS: POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN MARGUERITE DURAS'S HYBRID NARRATIVES II y aurait une ecriture du non-ecrit. Un jour ~a arrivera. Une ecriture breve, sans grammaire, une ecriture de mots seuIs...

...Michael A. Gomez Michael A. Gomez THE BROKEN MIRROR: REFLECTIONS OF NIETZSCHE IN UNAMUNIAN VIEWS OF ART AND THE IMAGINATION Along with Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche has long been reckoned among the most predominant of philosophical influences on the Spanish "Generation of 1898...

...Juliette Cherbuliez Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Juliette Cherbuliez ON LETTING SLEEPING BLONDS LIE: GENDER, LEISURE LITERATURE, AND THE IMAGINATION IN FONTENELLE On dit de M. de Fontenelle qu'a la place du creur, II a un second cerveau. Charlotte-Elisabeth Alsse...

...Laura Wittman Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Laura Wittman IMAGINED GEOGRAPHIES the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from...

...Tobias Foster Gittes Albert Russell Ascoli . A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance . New York : Fordham UP , 2011 . Pp. 384 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 580 BOOK REVIEWS 114). Recio's edition amends...

... challenges our understanding of Emma as a sterile dreamer, this essay seeks to reevaluate her faculty of imagination as a powerful creative force. The argument is developed in two parts. Since no assessment of Emma’s relation to “unreality” can legitimately bypass a careful analysis of her reveries...

... for understanding the relationship between the imagination, technological invention, and discovery of new knowledge, which necessarily entails questions of prestige and power. Alexander’s ingenuity, which manifests both as verbal trickery and in the invention of new machines, is shown to be fundamental...

... stricture against taking fictional characters as real beings—something other than writing on a page—is correct, it does not account for the way in which we imagine, make use of, and interact with the minds of literary characters. Yet Proust’s understanding of the fictional being cohabits with the inevitable...

... that both modern reader and medieval receiver might experience and invites a re-examination of the role of the imagination in the study of medieval literature. kel@berkeley.edu Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Marie de France Chèvrefeuille...

... described as being avatars of Genie, which often in Balzac seems far less specifically an aesthetic matter than jefferson's treatment suggests. Perhaps this curious realm of intellectual genius, the world of Cuvier rather than Tasso, is where the realist novel can most easily imagine itself. But Jefferson's...

... 2074, in which an imagined biographer recommends Borges's book on Spinoza to any reader interested in his philosophical inclinations.2 The book of course, does not exist, and he had no intention to write it when he wrote the stylized note. That being said, no other philosopher is mentioned...

.... Indeed, in a swift co-option of spirituality by fiction, Chateaubriand suggests that it constitutes an inexhaustible resource for the imagination: "Quiconque rejette les notions sublimes que la religion nous donne de la nature et de son auteur, se prive volontairement d'un moyen fecond d'images et de...

... the suburban RER network, not part of his childhood itineraries, is a non-lieu, for example). Point of view not only becomes evident as an element of the theory of supermodern spaces-it is how people feel in them (or how the theorist imagines they feel) that makes them such-but is visibly at work also...

... composed Le Rhin, his exercises in imagination, and sometimes in hallucination, in the face of nature foreshadow the methods of a Rimbaud. The poet's task is not only to see the world as a Baudelairean forest of symbols,4 like the seer who deciphers God's intentions in the book of the universe. He must...

..., the insight travels into the gated community as prison. Her most important stance is against identitarianism. If you cannot say yes to the enemy, you cannot practice freedom-this is imaginative activism. Thus in the beginning of Fantasia, she tries to gaze at her hometown as the conqueror had.6 You cannot...

..., Giorgio Agamben inflects this allegorical reading toward the more imaginative 6. Ibid., p. 87. 7. Ibid., p. 87. 8. Ibid., p. 85. 356 CLAIRE N OUVET pole of vision. According to Agamben, the pool is an "alh~gorie de la psychophysiologie decrite par Averroes,"9 a psycho-physiology of vision that he traces...

... to revisit it as a body of writing that not only breaks silences but also produces them. Daddy's Gone: Imagining Gynarchic Communitas Writing from the position of an educated, upwardly mobile Algerian woman leading a cosmopolitan existence between Europe and the United States, Djebar has consistently...

... the imagined details of her body to a mythologized vision of the city. Their poems create two corresponding imaginary topographies-a politicized "topography" of the female body of Catherine Des Roches and a feminized topography of the city of Poitiers. A consideration of the connection between landscape...

... for Life," makes use of a thought experiment which strikingly encompasses all the key elements of Borges's philosophical fantasy. Indeed, it is surely too close to the tale for comfort unless it is a Borgesian treble-bluff, a game in which the reader is to appreciate the directness of the steal: Imagine...