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... Norman, I read d’Alembert’s article as replaying some of the themes of this querelle in a new context, with different stakes. 17. Viala considers the work in Galanterie (47). 18. Deborah Cameron recognizes that “there is seldom if ever a one-to-one mapping between linguistic form...

... phenomena, the relationship with which is heightened by the experience of fleeing one’s country. The writers and artists discussed include Victorina Durán, Mada Carreño, María Luisa Elío, Silvia Mistral, María Teresa de León, Concha Méndez, and Maruja Mallo. All of them went into exile in Spanish-speaking...

... and Francophone studies more specifically. However, we need to stop consenting to the now explicit and widespread framing of a liberal arts education as a fancier and much more expensive version of a vocational school. To do so is to have already lost, just as progressive politics is already losing the moment one...

... apart from their own undoing. This failure is due in no small part to the persistence with which they direct one’s focus elsewhere: instead of the familiar spectacle of a character’s full and frank confession (assuming such a thing were even possible), the disquieting theater of Koltès and Duras demands...

...Robert St. Clair Abstract Why does it matter that we try to think through, together , as entrammeled with one another, the act and work of reading and “the political”? What is at stake in the question of textuality in the current context of crises and turns-away (from theorization, from critique...

...Jelena Todorović Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth-century print circulation of Dante’s Vita Nova (1292–94) and especially on the response in print media to the tension between new critical approaches to text editing, on the one hand, and editors’ dependence on the text’s complex...

...Catriona Seth Abstract Right at the end of the eighteenth century, a famous poet, Ponce-Denis Écouchard Le Brun, denounced women writers and a literary dispute ensued. While it mobilized a number of authors, one poem stands out in accounts of the quarrel: Constance Pipelet’s “Épître aux femmes...

...Cary Howie Abstract This introductory essay gestures toward some of the ironies of solitude—and the places where those ironies become paradoxes, even promises—beginning with the grounding questions of this collection: What does it mean to speak of solitude together? How does one solitude speak...

... and the Assumption—illustrate reprise and conversion, both of which are necessary in coming to terms with monogeism, the knowledge that there is only one world. This essay examines Latour’s proposed relationship between reprise and conversion through a consideration of late medieval Marian devotion. Focusing...

...Noah D. Guynn Abstract This essay deploys Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence and Bert States’s Great Reckonings in Little Rooms to analyze the pyrotechnics used in mystery plays to symbolize supernatural truths. On the one hand, these effects cultivated aesthetic immersion...

... that inhabit it, as well as to the ways in which myths solicit representation in material form. In this instance, material form is a medieval manuscript, one that can be read, through a Latourian lens, as a set of category crossings that bring together points in space and time. Those points are not organized...

... pronouncements and a discussion of their implications, this essay argues that Antoine Volodine’s dark fiction offers tools for imagining why one might assert the validity—if not the productivity—of dark modes of thought. Specifically, it shows how Volodine’s darkness explores literary intransitivity and defiant...

... on one of Duras’s most understudied works, Les Mains négatives (1979). In this cine-poem, Duras pursues a dialogue begun with Blanchot during the general strike over the reconceptualization of communism as a form of communal experience antithetic to all power structures. Duras envisions this inoperative...

... acts, but rather through failed ones; a reflection, too, of the rapidly transforming social values of the play’s historical moment. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Molière Le Misanthrope Alceste speech acts John Austin Le...

... 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...

...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...

...Derval Conroy Abstract This article examines one of Marie de Gournay’s forays into religious controversy in her short text “Advis à quelques gens d’Église.” First published in L’Ombre de la damoiselle de Gournay (1626), the text is an indictment of the abuse of the sacrament of confession by both...

... 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...

... of princes, the régime de santé took a political turn, something that is also echoed in satirical literature. One clear example of the politics of the régime de santé is the banquet scene of L’Isle des hermaphrodites ( The Island of Hermaphrodites ), published in 1605 and circulated widely in Paris...

..., and most of all a disabled (deaf) woman of letters. Her work Arboleda de los enfermos represents a hybrid paradigm in which literature, religion, and medicine interact with one another in medieval Europe. Teresa’s use of embodied metaphors to describe her experience of isolation and loneliness helps...