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...Suzanne Jill Levine Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Suzanne Jill Levine BORGES: 'THE READER' IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY I gladly accepted Dominique Jullien's invitation last year to edit an homage to Borges on the twentieth anniversary of his death, June 14 1986. I...

...Kristin Ross Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Kristin Ross PHIL WATTS, READER OF RANCIERE The title given to my remarks in the program, which I've kept here, is a bit misleading, for I am not going to try to situate Phil Watts among the interpreters of jacques...

...Jerry C. Nash Jerry C. Nash FICTIONAL EVIL AND THE READER'S SEDUCTION: RABELAIS'S CREATIONS OF "L'ESPRIT MALING" A mong other readers of Fran~ois Rabelais, Robert Griffin and M. A. Screech have written convincingly on the subject of evil and the Devil, and especially on the moral and religious...

...Kathryn E. Levine Abstract The apparent ambiguity at the heart of Marie de France’s lai “Chèvrefeuille” has beguiled generations of readers. This short twelfth-century Old French verse text purports to tell a simple story of how the exiled Tristan manages to signal to Yseut as she passes through...

...” from which the liberating power of Joyce’s artistic operation sprouts. By modifying his source’s original shape, Joyce can produce an allusive conglomerate which an attentive reader could trace back to three or four different sources mixed together. In the memory machine of Ulysses nothing (however...

... (such as Pinocchio and Cuore) as a way to sweeten these often bitterly disquieting narratives for their young readers. This essay probes the potentials and limits of intertextuality and ultimately argues that several texts go beyond leveraging the image of capsized ships in the Mediterranean, an image that has...

... into question on account of the inclusion in the literary text of what readers and editors considered to be commentary. Even though in the second half of the nineteenth century the editors began recognizing the divisions’ rightful place within the libello ’s text, they continued—operating within the centuries...

... as a gendered strategy of modesty, this article shows instead that her equivocal and even parodic, burlesque way of intervening in the two quarrels is consistent with her skepticism and presents readers with a hermeneutical challenge that disrupts the rhetorical logic of a quarrel. Deshoulières’s interventions...

... art of ambiguity: through her involvement with the first readers of La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes and her relations with the nuns of Port-Royal, Sablé aims to preserve her own viewpoint and her friendships at the same time. These ambiguities lead to the hypothesis that she faced gendered limits...

... reorient readers’ understanding of the disability narrative. Suffering itself serves as an embodiment of consolation and as a medical and religious treatment that relieves her suffering. This article argues that to objectively examine her illness and disability, Teresa deploys intersectional knowledge...

..., investigates Southwell’s reading of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) while awaiting execution. The final section reverses the relationship outlined in the first, using the early modern annotation to explicate the medieval Apocalypse manuscript. Southwell’s verses celebrating inner tranquility challenge readers...

... that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works...

...Cary Hollinshead-Strick Abstract If the idea of cuisine invites readers to an elite place of appreciation, as Priscilla Ferguson has shown, comparing newspapers to leftovers and subsistence food is a move designed to generate suspicion. Nineteenth-century authors wary of press innovations compared...

.... Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I show that food and cooking provided object lessons imparting practical and scientific knowledge to enlighten the masses, and textbooks canonized regional specialties as part of a new national geographic consciousness. At the same time...

... narratives, this article argues that such texts draw their readers into the logic of the “animal clinic”: a conceptual space in which stakes of species difference and predation circulate alongside genuine medical knowledge, with the resulting instability calling into question everything from the nature...

... of decadence against experience and experiment. The essay concludes that although the Recherche records political, social, and historical events—from the Dreyfus affair and a morphing class structure to the onset of the war—none of these readers saw it as an announcement of disasters to come. Lewis places...

... entries organized in reverse chronological order (“à l’envers”)—leads the reader to see the past through the lens of the present. By infusing the past with a sense of imminent loss, the novella reinscribes moments of intimacy (signified by the diaristic fragments that make up the text) as moments...

... to its laws while adopting varying solutions for communicating ontological contentions to readers. If BnF fr. 216 suggested human mastery over ontology through referential knowledge (grids, circles, and teaching scenes), the two-volume version of the Livre spread across BnF fr. 135 and 136 (made...

... to the extent that it resists change. It proposes Joyce’s Gerty MacDowell as a version of what Carter calls the “beautiful clown,” someone who has disappeared behind her perfect, airbrushed image. Finally, it suggests that for Joyce, reading that does not result in any change or transformation in the reader...

... as sites of reception and constructing instead a direct relation with their readers. This relation is dramatized in geometrical and mathematical language. Comically, these symbols, which should communicate universal, essential, eternal truths, are marked by cartoonish, uncertain visual rhymes that include...