...Lucas Hollister Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Lucas Hollister ON THE USES AND ABUSES OF "RETURN": REFLECTIONS ON JEAN ROUAUD'S L'IMITATION DU BONHEUR AND ITS "HISTOIRE CRITIQUE DE LA FICTION" Rien de plus militaire qu'un [critique] plaidant pour ['ineffable...

... and L’Insurgé . I examine the ways in which Vallès’s reading of the Paris of the early 1880s and excavation of the multilayered city’s past and cultural representations help foster the return of repressed voices and collective memories. Using the trope of the city as palimpsest, I argue that the critical power...

...Amy Hollywood Abstract Against the background of the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, this essay returns to Charles Dickens and Great Expectations , especially his infamous recluse Miss Havisham, and asks what relationship we might discover between Miss Havisham’s solitude, that of many medieval holy...

... to it both formally and historically keeps you from fetishizing the preconceptions and rituals that define it, which is always a salutary state of affairs. Nevertheless, in my intervention in a conference titled "The Return to History and the Future of Romance Studies," I would like to argue that, precisely...

..., the rhapsodist who (that is what rhapsoidein means) sews songs together. Songs, or voices, stories, memories. It is part of this art I wish to recall, with stories and memories of a peculiar kind, all of which revolve around odd visits and strange returns. It could begin with this scene. A woman, a foreigner...

... 106 Numbers 1-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 2 MADELEINE DOBIE In Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, the 1980 story collection that marked her return to writing after a 10-year hiatus, Djebar explains that far from speaking "pour" or "sur" Algerian women, she tried to speak pres de...

... and unexplained absence. Crying out into the void, she warns that he may just return too late, only to find that her body has succumbed to the agony that he has caused. The components of the construct are not new, but their combination in the feminized context of these works stands out as a provocative...

... not necessarily represent the French language, nor is the French language precisely (or exclusively) what is disappearing in Djebar's Algeria. La Disparition begins with Berkane, a budding author, preparing to return to Algeria for the first time after over twenty years as a self-described "exile" in Paris. His...

.... These were never dull. Besides being such an excellent reader of literature, Professor Riffaterre also proved to be the teacher who inspired us to return to the text under study. When he directed my thesis, he would frequently tell me to return to passages I thought I'd analyzed fully and in detail. In doing...

... little three-year-old Natasha learned French at a nursery school that seemed to her a small penal colony. Soon the family returned to Russia and settled in Saint Petersburg. In a remarkable photo taken in 1909, the well-dressed couple sits on a small bench: Kolya, sure of himself, legs crossed, wears...

... be complete in this circumstance. Exiled speech is voiceless; Moses is correspondingly “voice that needs the word” (68, 70). Despite Moses’s own best efforts, he has not successfully enabled the word’s return: “All the days that Moses was in Egypt and wanted to take out the word from exile, the word, which...

.... The survival of trauma is characterized by the repeated and literal reliving of the experience, which returns to haunt the survivor in the form of flashbacks, nightmares, and sensations similar to those felt at the time of the event. The scene of the trauma imposes itself in recurrent photograph-like flashes...

... half of the seventeenth century, when the Holy Inquisition of New Spain had returned to its "floxedad antigua" (old laziness) once the embers of the autos-da-fe that were the culmination of the persecution of practicing Jews during the "Complicidad Grande" (Great Complicity) had died (Inquisicion).l...

... been informed that my services there were not requested, I was curious. The return address had all the printed information about Columbia, and someone had penned the letters "M.R." on top. I opened the letter. It was, of course, from Michael Riffaterre. He wrote in French to tell me that he liked...

... of her work. 3. Thus, a novel such as Traversee de la mangrove refutes the Cesairean return to an identity ineluctably rooted in the Caribbean space and an essentialized blackness; and Les derniers Rois mages spoofs the urge to recreate a noble, even royal origin rooted in a mythical African past...

... feast day as the exact time of the birds' spring return) and place ("Baghirmi" and "Bornu and not merely "south" as the destination of the migrations). The concreteness of this information or knowledge of the speaker contrasts with the evocative, impressionistic description of the appearance...

.... The stories that Conde tells are tied up with such a haunting: "whether spiritual or material it matters not." The vestigial remnants of bodies return to confound the legal categories of persons and property. Her refutation of transcendence, her emphasis on the materiality that attaches itself to spirit...

... about the omnipresence of just such commonplaces, about the eternal return of good, new-fashioned rhetoric: a quintessential classificatory and descriptive system of Language itself, that most potent of all human discourses, hierarchically speaking. In his wake, how can anyone, therefore, read a text...

... nuit." 218 MARTIN MUNRO necessity as choice, however, as it is Amedee's death which forces her into the position of the conteuse. Similarly, the temporary dislocations of exile bring about a limited degree of agency, in that she chooses to return to Haiti, to eschew what she sees as the great illusion...

... misogino" [clerk at the Cassa di Risparmio and mysoginist philosopher], appears to have played a fairly important role in introducing the young poet to the intellectual and social life of the city where he had come to reside upon his family's return to Italy from his native Egypt. In exchange for tales...