...Cary Howie Cary Howie WAIT AND SEE: THE IGNORANT FAIRIES OF MARIE DE FRANCE AND FERZAN OZPETEK This essay is about things that are hard to see. It is, moreover, concerned with what it might mean to wait for them, to take time to see them; what it might mean, conversely, to take time to appear...

... for a certain model of knowledge-acquisition that sees natural truths as hidden and in need of tools to be extracted. This ingenuity is shown, also, to be closely connected to the inventions of writers of romance, and the article suggests the specific importance of the Alexander material in the history...

...: a reading in which the students are able to see themselves in the characters of the novel and a more difficult classroom-based reading that seeks to instill in the students, through conventional pedagogical exercises such as the explication de texte , an appreciation for the literary art and importance...

.... Reflecting on the dialogical generation of meaning, I trace the ways in which reading Balzac and Sand together reveals a complex and continuing conversation between the two authors about similarity, difference, and the dialectical nature of identity. This ongoing intertextual exchange, I argue, helps us see...

... asked spectators to suspend disbelief in the name of conversion even as they maintained skepticism about sacred simulacra. Latour’s metaphysics allows us to see how mystery plays deployed multiple modes of existence, each of which mediated the others but could not reduce or explain them. States’s...

... two crystals where the garden is reflected, as in a mirror. The crystalline mirror of the Romance of the Rose substitutes for the reflecting surface that the silvery water provided in Ovid's text. It becomes the speculum mundi where the Lover sees the entire garden reflected. But since the Lover has...

... omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. (0 all ye that pass by the way, attend and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow). -Lamentations 1.12 mourning, which is at once the mother of the allegories and their content -Walter Benjamin! Pilgrimage as Allegory...

... is nothing but a detour in which reality might ultimately reassert itself? Does "reality" or "life" simply lie outside the fictional representation? Derrida has addressed the notion of the border of the work in various texts (see 1978; 1980). In what way does Cocteau's film 1. For a comparison between...

... of Ranciere whom Phil chose to include in the volume he coedited with Gabriel Rockhill in 2009. Instead, I'd like to do something different and try to see what effect reading Ranciere had on Phil's trajectory. I want to see what Phil's encounter with jacques Ranciere enabled him to do differently, if anything...

..., especially debates between essentialism and constructivism, see Halperin. CHRISTINE DE PIZAN'S QUEER CRITIQUE OF MISOGYNY 255 politics5 and especially about her commitment to feminism,6 which itself is a term caught up in the problem of anachronism.7 These questions of course can bear tremendous intellectual...

...: it also refers to a plaint, or plaintive song, sound or note that might be made to lull children to sleep, or by an animal or an instrument (Lewis and Short s.v. “querela”; see Viala 11). It thus suggests a tone of voice rather than clearly articulated argument or speech; 27 it also offers a more...

... the conclusion of Zola's La Curee, through the eyes of its female protagonist, the reader sees ghosts. Most of them are actually alive, shimmering figures from Renee's past life parading through the present in the Bois de Boulogne. As the finale to this "defile triomphal,"2 the aging emperor is especially...

... of the poet's claim to power; see "Celebrating Love, Desire, and Melancholia: The Sonnets of Louise Labe," Women's Studies 33 (2004): 307-34. Clive Scott also underscores the preserving power of writing; see "Engendering the Sonnet, Loving to WritelWriting to Love: Louise aLabe's 'Tout aussi tot que je commence...

... medievalists, who read and responded to an early draft. 1. Gaston Paris was the first to discuss courtly love, exemplified for him in Chretien's Lancelot. For a few among many further and more recent discussions of courtly love and Lancelot, see Lazar (esp. 233-43); E. Talbot Donaldson; John Benton; In Pursuit...

...; and "Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar" and "Early Modern French Seminar," both at the University of Cambridge). 1. For a statement of this view that is grounded in the particular context of literary imitation, see Greene. The Romanic Review Volume 103 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University 210 NEIL...

... and practice of self-representation. Daniel Heller-Roazen's "poetics of contingency" (28) and "referential duplicity" (34) reinforce this image of an unstable, self-deconstructive subject at the heart of the dualauthored Roman. Suzanne Conklin Akbari's Seeing through the Veil similarly finds in Guillaume's...

... that Labe occupied as a published woman poet suggests other reasons for erotic encomia by her contemporaries. For a meticulous and convincing refutation of Huchon's arguments, see Daniel Martin, "Louise Labe est-elle une 'creature de papier Reforme, Humanisme, Renaissance 63 (December 2006): 7-37. 3...