... 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...

...Deborah N. Losse 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 of the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary brief narrative...

...Donald A. Yates Edwin Wiliamson . Borges. A Life . New York : Viking , 2004 , Pp. 574 . Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 302 BOOK REVIEWS of translation is thus inseparable from the economic, cultural, geographical and political realities that define...

...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 © 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...

...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...

...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...

... several features typical of realism. The presence of details describing the natural and social environment is linked to how the “Promenade” centers his scientific attention to plant life on the island. That fact points to the deep epistemological connection between science and realism. Rousseau’s text...

...Larysa Smirnova Abstract What to make of Emma Bovary’s dreaming constitutes a fundamental problem in the study of Flaubert’s novel. The dominant reading of Emma’s dream life adopts a critical stance toward her unwillingness, or incapacity, to accept her everyday reality. Showing how Flaubert’s text...

...Liz Constable Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Liz Constable LIFELINES THROUGH GENRE: IN GRATITUDE In crafting the words for Ross s legacy of love in my own life, I asked myself what work I wanted this piece to do. Which genre, or genres...

... 19 82. 5. Alain Corbellari inscribes it within an intertextual structure that he refers to as un classique schéma initiatique de type dépossession-­reconquête (353). Christine Ferlampin-­Acher is more precise, listing alongside the Life of Saint Eustace, the Roman de Renart, Partonopeu de Blois...

... of the thinkers' respective aesthetic theories. First among concerns is the like manner in which Unamuno and Nietzsche charge art with a task of existential importance: that of promoting the eternal affirmation of life. Other coincidences studied are the shared view of the individual as his or her own artistic...

... to survive at a bare nlininlum and how these exanlples of the thousands of aspiring artists in Paris at the tillle lived day to day. This novel also contains a nUlnber of stereotypes and problenls that surround the life of the lllodern artist both in nineteenth-century Paris and today: how to lllaintain...

... . So to conclude abruptly: James joins Proust in exposing the dialectics of fiction and nothingness. They may both suggest to us that “character,” the fictional being to whom readers attribute life and emotion and moral choice, is (a) an illusion; and (b) an inevitable and an absolutely necessary...