...John Lytle Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 John Lytle THE HISTORIAN'S DILEMMA: THE QUEST FOR MASTER NARRATIVE IN PROSPER MERIMEE'S "LA VENUS D'ILLE" Prosper Merimee's tale "La Venus d'llle" (1837) leaves readers at an interpretative crossroads by suggesting both...

..." continuation by the pseudonymically designated Avellaneda, and before that, the Queste del Sainte Graal. From the very beginning, the Queste del Saint GraaP represented a radical departure-in content and significance-from the Arthurian chivalric narrative tradition. Unlike most of the tales of the Arthurian...

..., 2000. Pp. 315. Octavio Paz once called Surrealism an "order of chivalry" and viewed its quest to recover the lost provinces of imagination, to restore the dominion of the unconscious in artistic expression a modern-day"quete du Graal." Vincent Aurora's welcome new book takes up some of the themes...

... and Chretien's stories and the manuscript illuminations share a common dilemma: the juxtaposition of quest and obstacle in the development of the protagonist. In the Roman a series of obstacles threaten the dreamer's, and more particularly the lover's, progress toward the beloved, symbolized by the rose...

... such as the Grail quest knights. Sunderland borrows Jacques Derrida's notion of the supplement and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's figure of the rhizome, however, to describe how the very mechanisms of cyclical elaboration always undermine a text's completeness (9). Every end can, after all, serve as a point...

..., Creoles, AfricanAmerican women, and other repressed, marginalized groups.4 In her very first novel, Heremakhonon (1976), Conde was already "mistreating" the dominant narrative scheme of the quest for roots and the return to Africa; already baring the teeth of a gnashing irony that purports to debunk...

...Pascale De Souza Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Pascale De Souza CROSSING THE MANGROVE OF ORDER AND PREJUDICE T raversee de fa mangrove, Maryse Conde's fifth novel and her first set solely in Guadeloupe, is structured around intertwined quests that reflect...

... a dfI se passer quelque chose, evenement que nous pouvons seulement apprehender a partir du sentiment de l'imminence de cet evenement et de notre nostalgie " About the idea of secrecy, see Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1979) 1-47. On the quest...

...: in the first, Molloy's narrative begins with the quest he has just completed, to find or to replace his mother;5 in the second, the character Moran is in search of Molloy, beginning his story with the two sentences of the report he writes at the very end of 3. "Come per sostentar solaio 0 tetto, / per mensola...

... to physical pleasure, as she defiantly makes clear: "A mon avis, les negres, il serait grand temps qu'on leur foute la paix, qu'on les laisse danser, se saouler et faire l'amour. lIs l'ont bien merite" (150). Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self...

... in translation. Lost in the Wild Wild West. Lost in time and space. I am reminded of Perceval who, on his lonesome quest, beholds traces of blood in the snow. Reverie, melancholia, abandonment. I feel like Perceval. I completely forget what I had come looking for at the other end of the world. Why had I left...

... for poetic inspiration, and poetic inspiration for poet; this metonymy, however, may also be interpreted as a metaphor for the drive that impels the poet, "chercheur du gouffre obscur," or for the quest for the unknown, a knowledge beyond-Hugo's perennial quest. Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence...

... disloyalty and chivalric dishonor involved. Two representative passages from La Mort Ie Roi Artu, the concluding text of the cycle, show these views, the first coming at the beginning, when the narrator is explaining what has happened since the previous narrative of the quest of the grail: Mes comment que...

... of this notion and arriving at her own explanation of "preciosite" as a quest by women for a "glory" that is manifested by traits such as sensitivity, affectation, and an attitude of superiority and independence (44-50), Raynard identifies the conteuses as decidedly" precieuses." She also carefully reconstructs...

... and publishing this particular text can be interpreted as part of the female narrator's quest for a stronger sense of sexual subjectivity, and a desire to communicate her personal experience. I 4. Pierre Jourde, La Litterature sans estomac (Paris: L'Esprit des Peninsules, 2002) 20-21. 5. Josyane Savigneau, "Ni...

...] ugliness and dirtiness as associates of evil" (459). At the end of his quest, then, as at its beginning, Panurge has been viewed as a man who is "bad, sick, wicked, diabolical; a man who delights in the foul, the dirty, the ugly, the unclean" (460). Now, as most readers of Rabelais know, Panurge has...

... of a quest. Through magic compulsion, the truth about women's desires is spoken, and that truth is always of the same order. The organ that responds and the thing of which it tells hardly vary, as the revelation of feminine desire and pleasure becomes a narrative routine. Foucault does not begin to inquire...

.... The adventures of Tristan and Iseult are thus carefully incorporated within the Arthurian world at the time of the quest for the Holy Grail, to such an extent that “l’autore del Tristan sembra scrivere la sua opera tenendo aperto accanto a sé un libro del Lancelot en prose ” (Cigni, “Tristano” 72...

... of the poem, which recounts the voyage itself, is divided into three main quests. The companions land first on the island of Circe, where Odysseus pursues his "dream of Love." Next, they rediscover the land of Polyphemus, the Cyclops, where the hero attempts to recapture his "dream of Glory." Canto XXII...

... acknowledge, that his wishes and his insights are mirror images of her own self-deprecating quest for identity and community. Birame plays the part 18. Heremakhonon 47. 19. Since independence, it has been common practice for the French government to send professionals to work as "cooperants" or "collaborators...