..., fetishism, and seclusion, manifest in the domains of artistic expression and writing. Among Djebar's and Varda's many references to The Odyssey, the passage on Odysseus and the Sirens stands out as a key episode that gives insight into 2. All translations are mine, except where otherwise indicated. UNDOING...

... Caesarea, the only women to be immortalized in stone in the region. But her younger friend corrects her: these bird-women are both locals and strangers-the mosaic was discovered in the 1930s, on the farm of a poor settler, "un petit colon," and its title is revealing: "Ulysse et les sirenes, un episode...

... museum, a fragmentary Roman mosaic based on an episode of The Odyssey: Ulysses's encounter with the Sirens.1 Both note that Djebar destabilizes the gender roles established in this archetypal story of war and its aftermath. If, in The Odyssey, men leave to fight and women wait for them to come home...

... apparent, until one recalls her final self-description in the Autobiography, just before Defoe and Crusoe are invoked: 37. Maurice Blanchot, The Sirens' Song: Selected Essays by Maurice Blanchot. Ed. Gabriel Josipovici (Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1982) 61. 38. Blanchot, Sirens' Song 61 39. Franz Kafka...

... (210) and in Mal/arme: La PoLitique de La sirene (90). MALLARME'S SOCRATIC MONOLOGUES 3 21 of ideas. Such a dialogue could be qualified as simply a disguised monologue. The Mardistes, however, felt that even as Mallarme gave forth without their interrupting him, an active intellectual relationship...

...," the narrator claims he first met Ligeia "first and most frequently in some old, decaying city near the Rhine" [Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry and Tales (New York: The Library of America, 1984), p. 262 The name of his love, the Lady Ligeia, is indeed the name of a siren in Virgil's Georgics. Since Plato, the Sirens...

... of the cave elaborated by Plato: Ungaretti's image aptly catches the vision of shadows, which is the only one granted to humankind in chains. 51. Plato, Cratilus, 439c, in The Collected Dialogues, p.473. 544 ERNESTO LIVORNI The Affinity of Spirit: "L'isola" and "Sirene" Such association finds important...

... succumb to the sirens of scientistic poaching, and literary scholars averse to neuro-talk will find heartwarming defenses of close reading and passing nods to psychoanalysis and deconstruction throughout. Scott holds firmly to the epistemic value of literary theory and hermeneutics, arguing that we view...

... to distinguish the sirens of the diegesis in 1942 fronl the noise in his head in the narrative present of 1944. Furthernlore, this happens precisely as the narrator decides to take refuge in the nuitro-a highly significant space for Celine who ternled his affective aesthetic a "nletro enlotif". He writes: Avec...

...-finding Circe, the Cyclops, the Sirens and Calypso, recapture his youth and rediscover himself. The image of the sea as an idealized point of origin and of visionary capability; the progressive and inevitable loss of that capability through time, represented spatially as travel inland away from the sea...

.... Failles dramatizes the poet's attempt to provoke the unconscious from its lair, or, to switch metaphors, to hear the dangerous siren-song echoing from the substrata of the mind-what in the poem "Chansons" Leiris calls "la chanson des crateres. " Tracking the rapid switch of metaphors in Failles...

... poetics is Jacques Ranciere's Mallarme, la politique de la sirene (Paris: Hachette, 1996). 6. Mallarme, (Euvres completes (1945), p.649. 448 MARY SHAW The highly ceremonious yet absurd Oxford and Cambridge readings executed by Mallarme of his own very obscure La Musique et les Lettres--absurd because...

... lifetime, and we must read her opinions with the understanding that they are always conditioned by the specific genre and audience of each 27. Also, with a kind of intertextual joke, Christine may be likening misogynists to the "Sirens" of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae. At the beginning...

... Mac Orlan, Petit manuel du parfait aventurier (Paris: Ed. de la Sirene, 1920). Roland Barthes, "Mythologies," in CEuvres completes I (Paris: Seuil, 2002 [1957 693. 42. Andre Gide, "Detresse de notre Afrique-equitoriale," Revue de Paris, 15 octobre 1927. 43. When, for instance, the Geneva-organization...

... loquacity in the second act as well as with her ability in the first act to answer questions about Parsifal's unknown identity. In general, women in Wagner are like Homeric sirens, receptacles of past knowledge, narrative wisdom, and supernatural power displayed time and time again by characters...

... to be the opposite of Heremakhonon's Veronica in her timidity and self-denial. As she stands before the raging sea, Leocadie is terrified by the siren call to sexual adventure and perilous crossing. Je ne savais pas nager. Aussi, je me tenais loin de la mer qui me helait de sa voix de femme folIe: -Approche-toi tout...

... fuite. Along the way to his final epiphany resulting in the realization that he is now ready to start writing his book, the hero contends not only with the Sirens of love and the Lotus-E­ aters of friendship, but also the Laestrygonians of mondanité. Although each of t­hese dangerous distractions...

..., dans "Le Chant des Sirenes" du Livre avenir, dans l'exegese de tel ou tel auteur de Faux pas ou de La Part du feu: 1. Gallimard, 1949. 2. L'in£luence de Mallarme sur Blanchot y est evidente. Plus d'une fois, celui-ci effectue ades "improvisations" partir de la citation de Mallarme "Je dis: une £leur...

.... Cesaire's description of a putrid Martinican stasis, mired in the mythical world of colonial dependency, is a shocking cure for its reader, hypnotized by the siren song of French assimilation. Critique, for Conde and Cesaire alike, is a psychological shock-therapy for the dependent: "Nommer son mal est un...

... entrepris d'editer quand il etait en charge des editions La Sirene. Blaise Cendrars assigne un but moins noble - bien que legitime - a ses voyages: Ie besoin d'argent. Le texte nous informe regulierement et precisement des sommes gagnees, depensees et perdues par Ie narrateur. Comme Ie lecteur s'en aper~oit...