... of the Proustian sentimental orbit, doomed love, aligned chronologically and conceptually with the articulation in the 1890s of courtly love and made for dire consequences in a life lived along those lines. My wife, Ellen Handler Spitz, provides an emotionally corrective experience via the question, Was Swann...

... that the difference between them is by no means self-evident and would require a more careful and rigorous demonstration. (PATRICK DOVE, Indiana University) Edwin Wiliamson. Borges. A Life. New York: Viking, 2004, Pp. 574. As he states in the Preface, Edwin Williamson planned to dedicate some four and a half years...

...Anne E. McCall Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Anne E. McCall STILL LIFE AND FETAL EXPLOITS IN FLORA TRISTAN'S PEREGRINATIONS D'UNE PARrA Flora Tristan's 1838 Peregrinations d'une paria boasts a heavy para-textual framework promising personal revelations, social...

...Joanna Augustyn Marina Van Zuylen . Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2005 . Pp. 238 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS 4°1 Marina Van Zuylen. Monomania: The Flight from...

...Pierre Force Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Pierre Force REMARKS ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MICHAEL RIFFATERRE T he first thing to say is that Michael Riffaterre had the most brilliant career one could imagine. Ph.D. in 1955, full professor in 1964, appointed...

...Pierre Force Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Gita May: A Life Pierre Force Gita May: A Life Gita May, professor emerita of French at Columbia University, died at her home in Morningside Heights on January 29, 2016. She was 86 years old...

...Didier Coste Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Didier Coste LIFE AS ANECDOTE AND AS DIGRESSION (OR MAYBE IS IT LITE­ R­A­TURE?) It is always an irony to write about an admired friend ­after his demise. The only way this tribute can...

...Deborah N. Losse Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Deborah N. Losse A STORIED LIFE AND A LIVED STORY: WRITING ONESELF IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS W hen Montaigne recasts a story borrowed from antiquity or from medieval sources, he reshapes the anecdote to include many...

... as the production, distribution, and consumption of the material goods that sustain life and give pleasure. The novel makes palpable their desire to enjoy the consumer products that surround them—whether in the tea room, in nearby shops, or in the cinema across the street—pleasurable goods that remain beyond...

... from Richard Rolle’s self-authorizing singularity that unites the term’s meanings of both solitude and exceptionality, Kempe’s term is fitted to the circumstances of her own social, worldly life. She presents her achieved solitude not as a turning away from the world, but instead as the world’s...

...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...

...Kathleen Long Abstract The régime de santé , already by the end of the medieval era a well-developed genre that offered advice on diet and other health practices, found new life in the sixteenth century as the Galenic works on food and hygiene that informed it were translated into Latin and even...

... the practice of biblical exegesis, reprise refers to an open-ended process of meaning making opposed to the rigid certainties of fundamentalism. [REL] also contributes a concept of radical transformation through love (“conversion”). For Latour, two events from the Virgin Mary’s life—the Annunciation...

... not of deconstruction, and not simply of didacticism, but of self-understanding, formal modeling, and habit cultivation, all in the service of a better life. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Proust Musil essayism unreliable narrator the uses of literature...

... agency and interpersonal harmony. Throughout her maxims, she lays out explicit strategies for managing conflicts but is caught between an emphasis on gaining an advantage over one’s adversaries and, at the other extreme, finding a middle ground with them. But conflicts from her life suggest a different...

... nonpurposiveness, where stark pessimism about the ecological impacts of human life allows for the cultivation of hospitable ideas of a posthuman future. 1. For a more extensive review of the scholarship on Volodine’s politics, see Hollister 218–27. To cultivate what Haraway calls “response-ability...

...Virginia Burrus Abstract This essay explores the relationship of solitude to place in Jerome’s fourth-century Life of Saint Hilarion . It does so through the medium of Burrus’s own experience of solitude and place. In 2020, having planned to visit Hilarion’s mountaintop hermitage in Cyprus, she...

... the political, economic, and axiological frameworks that structured the Western world. By focusing on the May revolution as a pivotal moment in the writers’ friendship, intellectual life, and political commitments, the author traces the afterlife of May ’68 in their respective texts, concentrating specifically...

... between viewer, photographer, and referent. Guibert’s lover Vincent, as an object of Guibert’s photographic attention, comes to signify the vulnerability of youth in an era of untimely death. Guibert’s diaristic writing preserves, in turn, his attachment to a fragile form of life and testifies...