...Theresa Ann Sears Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 Theresa Ann Sears SQUARING THE ROUND TABLE: TIME, HIERARCHY, AND THE FALL OF CAMELOT R omance is, by its nature, a protean narrative form, one that can undergo significant changes and still remain true to itself...

... grandpa’s party? That’s the question, cookie bright with M&Ms clutched in his rounded fingers. I say no, I just live near here, and he responds angelically: I’m a little sad right now. My cousins left a while ago. There had, I stop to realize, been more kids around when I arrived. He...

... to, God’s work. If writing is infused with ontological contentions, then the images also realize a potential inherent in the text. The circles, round and complete, represent ideal thought phenomena that would achieve coherency and fullness, and they work as part of an aesthetics of knowledge that seeks...

... used "like" as a substantive in The Unnamable to translate "semblable": Each new character will "be a like for me," "un semblable, un congenere" (The Unnamable 378; L'Innommable, 152). The final word underscores that "likes" belong to the same species, sharing a similar reproductive origin. The round...

... by a carefully annotated transcription and a list of variants. An ample bibliography and index round out the study. The organization and composition of the 140 poems (most of which were written during the poet's exile in Ferrara and his return to the French court by way of Venice) speak volumes about the poet...

... ­but in the manner of cherished imprints, the third one, matthew s: more material, round and smooth, still enough to hold on. ­these ­faces are with me everywhere. and ­there is also that unstable presence of another ­olivier ­who always meets me on the threshold ­welcoming. no won­der i m not desperate...

... and an index round out the volume. The book is obviously aimed at English-language readers with no previous knowledge of Montaigne, but I found it to be an agreeable and profitable use of my time. The whole thing is written in a congenial and unpretentious style that makes it quite readable and even worthy...

...): Nautical Deixis in Dante's Commedia," 67-84 Schreier, Lise, Voyager en France au temps du romantisme. Poetique, esthetique, ideologie. (Alain Guyot and Chantal Massol, Eds), 122-4 Sears, Theresa Ann, "Squaring the Round Table: Time, Hierarchy, and the Fall of Camelot," 3-18 Silver, Susan K., "The Combative...

... in the Eleventh Congress of Literary Translators6 (which included 5. King Cophetua (N.Y.: Turtle Point Press, 2003); The Narrow Waters (N.Y.: Turtle Point Press, 2004). 6. Actes des Onziemes Assises de La Traduction Litteraire (Aries 1994). Actes Sud, Essais, documents, novembre 1995. 222 INGEBORG KOHN a Round...

... claimed to have done-and then, as the question-andanswer session began he would, to appearances, rouse himself. He would then raise his hand and ask the most piercing question he could muster, having, in fact, carefully followed the speaker's argument all along. Why should he sit through a round...

.... There are no thickets beneath the dark yet uncrowded canopy; bare rocks, rounded like armor and resembling the sandstone formations of the little valleys of the Vosges Mountains, rise in tiers between the tree trunks. Not a single blade of grass pokes through the brown layer of pine needles and dried twigs that covers...

... novel, to the more dispersed, open, and generic consciousnesses of modernist fiction: The milestones of modernism . . . dealt a death blow to character—that is to say, the creation of well-rounded figures, kitted out with extended families, parlors, mustaches, and hats, who marched through the endless...

.... Aragon's notion of "Ie peupie", Gavronsky suggests, connects him to Michelet and invites us to reexamine the Stalin portrait affair in the light of this "French" version of art engage. A major debate, in the form of a round table bringing together specialists of different fields (history, art history...

...Sara Whym Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 our little life is rounded —Shakespeare 1 what a horrid dream i had last night. went to do some business at columbia. the secretary told me in an off-hand way: they couldn’t give...

... not at all disturbed by the fact that the same appearances could be saved by two or more quite different hypotheses, such as an eccentric or an epicycle, or, particularly in the case of Venus and Mercury, by supposed revolution round the earth or supposed revolution round the sun. All that mattered...

..., purposefully inappropriate for texts that are fragmentary, casually incomplete, riddled with hiatus and hardly delivering the well-rounded summary or "document" their title announces. Nowhere in this list of "histories" by Borges do we find a history of literature or, for that matter, of anyone literature...

... and nonproductive leisure—also works to make the class divide palpable in material, bodily, and sensorial terms. As in Tea Rooms , with its recurrent image of the spinning ceiling fans, the circular imagery (the round cookies, the wheels and rollers of machines, the dance-floor design, and the whirling dancers...

... the productive textual work that undergirds censorship regimes, especially if 1 My thinking on censorship and literary history owes a massive debt to Robert Darnton s luminous work on censorship and the literary underg­ round in Old Regime France, as well as his most recent contributions on censorship, its...

...-­Ursin was particularly clear on this point. Everything about women, he writes, must be feminine (1804, xxvii). For example, Male proportions, a muscled leg, an unconstrained way of walking are as incongruous for a woman as a hairless chin, a rosy complexion, and rounded forms would be in a man...

... of the fourth book of the Franciade unsettle any fixed ideas about the nature of the epic. Thirty-eight salient illustrations and an index round out the study. These two studies-one a critical edition, the other a work of genetic criticism-attest to the wealth and pleasure obtained from study of the material...