... of Resistance," held on October 16, 2015, at Columbia Uni- "versity's Maison fran~aise. . The Romanic Review Volume 106 Numbers 1-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University ANDRE BENHAIM first night in her luxurious room, she rushes to the local museum where, in front of a Roman mosaic she had forgotten from her...

... museum, a fragmentary Roman mosaic based on an episode of The Odyssey: Ulysses's encounter with the Sirens.1 Both note that Djebar destabilizes the gender roles established in this archetypal story of war and its aftermath. If, in The Odyssey, men leave to fight and women wait for them to come home...

... reading of his 1991 novel Passages and of the various tropes of fragmentation presented in this work-the deracinated storyteller figure, the ambivalent political exile and flaneur, the imperfect Canadian cultural mosaic, the fractured time and space of exile, broken political dreams-I gather together...

... to contribute some new elements to a general theory of constraint (12). This theory, however, never comes into full view. BOOK REVIEWS Baetens's earlier book, L'Ethique de la contrainte, adopted a similar "mosaic" structure, but each chapter returned to a few central problems such as the areadability...

..., the mode of religion, and life in the Anthropocene. Works Cited Assmann Jan . “ The Mosaic Distinction: Israel, Egypt, and the Invention of Paganism .” Representations 56 ( 1996 ): 48 – 67 . Bale Anthony . Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews, and Images of Violence in the Middle...

... of the Jews who had been expelled from Spain in 1492 and had fled to Portugal, thinking there they would find the possibility of continuing to profess their Mosaic religion with greater freedom. Their descendants, probably the majority of them, were conversos or marranos, clandestine practicing Jews. 62...

...Christele Couleau Aude Déruelle . Balzac et la digression . Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire : Christian Pirot Editeur , 2004 . Pp. 242 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Baetens's earlier book, L'Ethique de la contrainte, adopted a similar "mosaic...

... by which the reader is relayed, retracked, switched among interrupted plots and episodic lives. 14 Not only does Sue not try to hide the mosaic effect; he brings it to our attention by metadiegetic commentary. When, for example, the narrator abruptly abandons Fleur-de-Marie to the clutches of kidnappers...

... Bronte, Wuthering Heights (London: Penguin Books, 1995) 19-20. Further references to this work will be to this edition and will appear in the text abbreviated WH. 18. Harold Bloom, Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (New York: Warner Books, 2002) 316. Further references to this work...

... understanding of Christ, Rice adds: "Christ is sapientiae auctor or, better still, Wisdom itself; but what one knows of Him is His law, which supplenlents the Mosaic law. And this law is crystallized in the actions of a human Christ. From a knowledge of Christ, wisdolll [i.e. hunlan wisdom] becomes an active...

... often expresses euphoria in the face of the decline in authority and the dying tyranny of the past against which Vallès fought all his life. The Tableau thus becomes a mosaic of ironic obituaries celebrating felicitous passings, like the following laconic statement, striking in its vernacular syntax...

... Adam: Une interprétation. Mosaic, vol. 8, no. 4, Summer 1975, pp. 7 16. 134 Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Ogden, Dunbar H. The Staging of Drama and the Medieval Church. U of Delaware P/Associated UP, 2002. Rose, E. M. The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Eu­rope...

... Apollo: Ebreo chooses to have Philo recount the god's origin from Jupiter's adulterous relationship with Latona to his birth on Delos, then gives an allegorical explanation, the Mosaic interpretation, and even a physiological explanation.28 Tyard, in a mere enumeration, presents Apollo as the head...

... of pilgrimage, see Julia Bolton Holloway, "The Vita nuova: Paradigms of Pilgrimage," Dante Studies 103 (1985), 103-124; (but I disagree with her view that the Veronica is not referred to in chapter 40; she places the emphasis on the Santo Volto in the apse mosaic of St John Lateran, p. 109); see also her...

... of Des Hommes illustres is one such occasion. As Joseph organises his neighbours for the fabrication of a mosaic made from dyed woodshavings the volunteers turn into artists whose hands bear the stigmata of their participation (HI, 89-90). However, his failure to clean the street in front of the shop...