...James T. Chiampi Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 James T. Chiampi TESTIFYING TO HIS TEXT: PRIMO LEVI AND THE CONCENTRATIONARY SUBLIME I n his Estetica, first published in 1902, Benedetto Croce offered a remarkably prescient definition of the atrocious sublime: Che...

... of the manuscript. To interpret a text critically is to acknowledge and to examine also how a manuscript or print edition orients textual interpretation. The editorial history of the Vita nova teaches us about the cultural processes and discourses of literary culture and about Italian literary history. Copyright...

... the nature of notebooks themselves, keeping an eye out for how Gellius might have materially kept his notes, recollections, and observations. Those who know the Noctes know the strange pleasure of its texts, read not as familiar passages of brilliance but as rediscoveries of cultural recollectio . Early...

... of the soil haunt the supposed calm of marronniers . 12 If arlequin s enacted theatrical citation, marronnier s insisted on the perpetual and the cyclical. Like the cuisine mediated by praxis and text in Accounting for Taste , the news denigrated as arlequin s or as marronnier s in the mid...

...Susan K. Silver Susan K. Silver THE COMBATIVE TEXT: RONSARD'S POETICS OF DISSENT (1562-1563) I n his introduction to Ronsard's political poetry of 1562-63, Paul Laumonier asks why France's most prominent court poet turned from pacificism to military propaganda at that point in his writing career...

...Mary Bryden Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Mary Bryden THE ODOROUS TEXT: A DELEUZIAN APPROACH TO HUYSMANS "You are longitude and latitude~ a set of speeds and slownesses between unformed particles~ a set of nonsubjectified affects."1 I n a lengthy, key chapter...

...David F. Hult Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 David R Hult TEXT EDITING: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A s I've been thinking about Romanic Review's 100th anniversary, I was tempted, as I gather many participants on the program were, to dip into some of the first issues...

...Suzy Cater Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Suzy Cater DON'T TRUST THE AUTHOR: SUSPECT TEXTS IN EDOUARD GLISSANT'S TOUT-MONDE ~ Edouard Glissant's Tout-monde is a text that challenges traditional conceptions of the novelistic genre. Glissant freely admitted...

...Jane Gallop Abstract The author traces her reading of Barthes’s 1973 book, Le Plaisir du texte , over the last five decades. Examining her published writings on the book, she traces how it meshes with her critical attachments to psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory. Claiming it as a text...

...Gita May Book Reviews Le Dix-huitieme siecle fran~ais au quotidien: Textes tires des memoires, des journaux, et des correspondances de l'epoque. Roland Mortier, ed. Brussels: Editions Complexe, 2002. Pp.710. Ever since he published his landmark book, Diderot en Allemagne (1954), Roland Mortier...

...Michael Riffaterre Michael Riffaterre AVANT-TEXTE ET LITTERARITE L a teleologie donne mauvaise conscience aux geneticiens, et pourtant ils ne peuvent se refuser a l'evidence: les paradigmes de variantes qui vont des brouillons au texte acheve, sont bien des vecteurs orientes par une cause finale...

...Anne Mairesse Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Anne Mairesse HORS TEXTE, LA POESIE SE DESSINE C'est a un ouvrage intitule Les Dessins de Paul Valery que nous devons ce travail sur la poesie de I'image. Ce recueil a tirage limite compose d'un choix de 36 planches de...

...Alison James Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes . Edited by Jed Deppman , Daniel Ferrer , and Michael Groden . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2004 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 480 BOOK REVIEWS opened...

... is not uniquely confined to Valery's early poetry but it is strongly reflective of the later years as well. In fact, the Cahiers make repeated reference to this selfcontained and autonomous realm for the writing self, as in this text from May 1929 that typifies the relationship between the mind, the eye...

...Jelena Todorović Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth-century print circulation of Dante’s Vita Nova (1292–94) and especially on the response in print media to the tension between new critical approaches to text editing, on the one hand, and editors’ dependence on the text’s complex...

...: 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...

...Derval Conroy Abstract This article examines one of Marie de Gournay’s forays into religious controversy in her short text “Advis à quelques gens d’Église.” First published in L’Ombre de la damoiselle de Gournay (1626), the text is an indictment of the abuse of the sacrament of confession by both...

...Carlo Meghini; Mirko Tavoni; Michelangelo Zaccarello Abstract With digital repositories and databases available since the 1990s, Dante scholarship has always been at the forefront of the digital humanities and the digitization of medieval texts and manuscripts. However, the amount of information...

...H. Wayne Storey Abstract With the advent of studies in the area of mise-en-page and the increased interest in the relationships among text, image, and material structures in medieval manuscripts, the inherent problems of interpretation and “intentionality” have often been concentrated in critics...