...Jean-Jacques Thomas Jean-Jacques Thomas MICHAEL RIFFATERRE ET LA LECTURE HERMENEUTIQUE DE LA POESIE FRANAISE. Je tiens tout d'abord a remercier les organisateurs du colloque, Antoine Compagnon et Pierre Force, pour leur aimable invitation et leur diligent travail dans des conditions plus que...

...Jean-Michel Rabaté Jean-Michel Rabate MICHAEL RIFFATERRE AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF STRUCTURALISM H abermas read the first version of his essay "Modernity-an Unfinished Project" in September 1980. This was his official discourse of thanks when receiving the Adorno Prize in Frankfurt. Ironically...

...Antoine Compagnon Antoine Compagnon MICHAEL RIFFATERRE, POtTE-CRITIQUE I I y a un an environ, je me trouvais dans un jury de these a Paris, une bonne, une tres bonne these, qui portait sur Valery et T. S. Eliot, sur les affinites nombreuses, essentielles, qui existent entre ces deux eminents...

...Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani Gisele Mathieu-Castellani MICHAEL RIFFATERRE POUR LIRE LES POETES DU XVIE SIECLE L orsqu'il s'engageait decisivement en faveur d'une approche formelle de l'histoire litteraire et de la lecture des textes, Michael Riffaterre lan~ait un defi, en particulier, aux...

...Peter Consenstein Peter Consenstein I REMEMBER MICHAEL RIFFATERRE I remember a time. A time when. I remember a time when I did not know Michael Riffaterre. I remember when Columbia University was just a dream. A dream beyond my grasp. I remember when Columbia University was a dream beyond my grasp...

...Carol Howard Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Carol Howard REMEMBRANCE OF MICHAEL RIFFATERRE I n 1994, Professor Riffaterre published in the journal New Literary History the essay "Intertextuality vs. Hypertextuality." In this essay, he argued that, by virtue...

...Mary Ann Caws Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Ann Caws ON MICHAEL RIFFATERRE W hat many of us feared and loved about Michael Riffaterre coincided. His reactions could appear totally out of whack. When I was teaching at Barnard, I first asked, timidly, to be sure...

...Terese Lyons Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Terese Lyons EXEMPLARY MOMENTS: REMEMBERING MICHAEL RIFFATERRE N ew to the job and eager to learn all the scholarly ropes and prove my mettle to the still intimidating professor who had taken me on as his research...

...Elisabeth Ladenson Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 HOMAGES TO MICHAEL RIFFATERRE: 1924-2006 Elisabeth Ladenson IN MEMORIAM MICHAEL RIFFATERRE: AN INTRODUCTION M ichael Riffaterre, who taught at Columbia for almost fifty years and was editor of the Romanic Review...

...Inge Crosman Wimmers Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Inge Crosman Wimmers REMINISCENCES OF MICHAEL RIFFATERRE O ne of the first vivid memories that comes to mind when I remember Professor Riffaterre is a bright sunny day in the spring of 1968. I was crossing...

...Mary Shaw Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Shaw MOURNING SONG FOR MICHAEL (NOVEMBER) i couldn't come for i was sick on each official sender that in june this early fall but now it is november last time i came your eyes wouldn't stick emptiness in front...

...François Rigolot Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Franfais Riga/at ALA RECHERCHE DE MICHAEL RIFFATERRE. Longtemps je me suis couche de fort bonne humeu~ Ayant lu les travaux de ce grand professeur. A n'en pas douter, Marcel Proust aurait pu commencer ainsi son chef...

...Peter S. Rogers, S.J. Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Peter S. Rogers, S ADIEU, MICHAEL RIFFATERRE Professor Riffaterre? I first met him through reading Essais de stylistique structurale in the Jardin du Luxembourg on Sunday afternoons. Sometimes I would...

...Jean-Claude Chevalier Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jean-Claude Chevalier MICHAEL RIFFATERRE L'arrivee des Pleaides de Riffaterre, en fin des annees cinquante, c'etait comme Ie debarquement d'un ovni. Michael etait encore inconnu sur les bords de la Seine et La...

...Claudie Bernard Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Claudie Bernard MICHAEL RIFFATERRE "Eh bien, recommen~ons l'aventure!" Tels sont les derniers mots que Michael Riffaterre a echanges avec moi, lors d'une ceremonie en son honneur qui eut lieu a la Maison Fran~aise de...

...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...

...Colette V. Michael Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Colette V. Michael LES LETTRES DE DOLEANCES: UN GENRE DE CAHIER OU DES CAHIERS D'UN NOUVEAU GENRE L es documents publics rediges en 1788-1789 a la demande du gouvernement, en prevision de la reunion des Etats...

...Michael Wood Abstract Even as a schoolboy Marcel Proust specialized in thoughts of loss and doubt, and in À la recherche du temps perdu , he puts these thoughts to a very particular kind of philosophical work: the cultivation of epistemological (and other) errors that are certainly errors...

...Michael Bishop bishopm@dal.ca Emily McLaughlin , Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 That there have been in the last...

...J. Michael Dash ]. Michael Dash VITAL SIGNS IN THE BODY POLITIC: EROTICISM AND EXILE IN MARYSE CONDE AND DANY LAFERRIERE II n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de propheties aux Aubes inevitables, d'analyseurs, de donneurs de le...