...Alison James Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Alison James FEAR OF FALLING: THE MYTH OF ICARUS IN LA VIE MODE D'EMPLOI ]'aime: les pares, les jardins, Ie papier quadrille [ ] les toits d'ardoise, La Chute d'Icare [ ]1 T he presence of "programmed" allusions...

...Alison James Peter Consenstein . Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo . Amsterdam – New York : Rodopi , 2002 . Pp. 252 . Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 474 BOOK REVIEWS and pursuits. Not least of the obstacles he would encounter...

...Alison James Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes . Edited by Jed Deppman , Daniel Ferrer , and Michael Groden . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2004 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 480 BOOK REVIEWS opened...

...Alison James Jan Baetens . Romans à contraintes . New York : Rodopi , 2005 . Pp. 190 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 4°3 Daumier's Monomanes. Why does culturally-engendered automatism, parodied by Daumier's impoverished Amateur de cafe...

...Alison James Ross Hamilton . Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2007 . Pp. 344 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 575 Ross Hamilton. Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History...

... death of real persons. As in Henry James, for instance, character may border on nothingness, on illusion—yet it appears an inevitable illusion, one that we need in order to make sense of our lives. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 fictional...

...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...

... sight of the possibility that beneath the surface of irony they might find a small but fairly systematic set of philosophical principles, the genealogy of which is worth looking into as well. In the case of pragmatism, especially the version dear to William James, this is all the more unfortunate...

...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...

... of flitting around I should stay in one place and “go down .” Down was where, I gathered, Proust had gone: down and through and out the other side. But I didn’t take his advice; I had just read Henry James. James was the first difficult writer I’d had to absorb—so difficult I remember yelling at my...

... writer who broke away from the figure of the hero who haunts the memory and particularly the memoirs of what sociology calls the class of transfuges those rare individuals who weren t born into a privileged and intellectual milieu, but who, like Violette Leduc, James Baldwin, and Peter Handke...

... on the development of the novel since Henry James. Already, she notes, "the years have mounted up [since James's last novels]. We may expect the novel to change and develop as it is explored by the most vigorous minds of a very complex age. What have we not, indeed, to expect from M. Proust alone?"l Four months...

...James T. Chiampi Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 James T. Chiampi THE EXEMPLARY CHAIM RUMKOWSKI IN PRIMO LEVI'S "LA ZONA GRIGIA" I n his essay "A Definition of the Esthetic Experience," Eliseo Vivas offers this description of the signifying effect of art...

...James T. Chiampi Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 James T. Chiampi TESTIFYING TO HIS TEXT: PRIMO LEVI AND THE CONCENTRATIONARY SUBLIME I n his Estetica, first published in 1902, Benedetto Croce offered a remarkably prescient definition of the atrocious sublime: Che...

... j’éliminais alors ces vociférations aiguës et discordantes que mon oreille avait réellement entendues, mais que mon intelligence savait que des roues ne produisaient pas” (2: 191–92). The grammar is so precise and mischievous that it gives the game away. James Grieve, a recent translator into English, quite...

...Anke Birkenmaier James J. Pancrazio , The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 2004 . Pp. 296 . Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 120 BOOK REVIE\vS prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarasco1'l...

... and more an Englishman than a Frenchman and yet felt that the U. S. A. up to a hundred years ago was a family extension. It is almost too difficult even for Henry James who for that matter wasn't an American at all, in that sense. » Herbert Read, « T. S. E.-A Memoir », in Allen Tate, ed., T. S. Eliot...

...James Petterson Carrie Noland . Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2009 . Pp. 264 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS 601 Carrie Noland. Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures...

... "Pierre Menard" indulges in similar whimsy, urging readers "to read the Odyssey as though it came after the Aeneid" and to attribute "the Imitatio Christi to Louis Ferdinand Celine or James Joyce" (95). The story "Pierre Menard" strikes an additional blow at conventional notions of literary history...

...James Fujitani Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Book Reviews Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact...