...Jennifer Tsien Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Jennifer Tsien HAIRSTYLES FOR MEN The Romanic Review Volume 108 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University ...

...Victor Brombert Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Victor Brombert A MASTER PERFORMER M ichael Riffaterre was to my mind above all a remarkable reader of texts, a true artist at interpretation-playful, imaginative, often surprising and unsettling, but always close...

...Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Rodica Diaconescu Blumenfeld RIFFATERRE " If you like power so much, why didn't you go into the army?" I asked Professor Riffaterre one day when I was working on my thesis. He replied that he had fought...

...Mary Shaw Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Shaw MOURNING SONG FOR MICHAEL (NOVEMBER) i couldn't come for i was sick on each official sender that in june this early fall but now it is november last time i came your eyes wouldn't stick emptiness in front...

...Lawrence D. Kritzman Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Lawrence D. Kritzman RIFFATERRE AT A COCKTAIL PARTY I arrived at a dinner party in New York after having read a negative assessment by a retrograde scholar of an article I had written from a theoretical perspective...

... by some mountainside. Charles Baudelaire Translated by Grover Amen1 1. "Giantess" from Collection Vol. 1, Poems, Short Fiction and Translations of Grover Amen. Copyright © 2002 Elizabeth Albrecht and John Amen. The Romanic Review Volume 101 Number 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University Copyright ©...

... Amen. The Romanic Review Volume 101 Number 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 ...

...Pierre Zoberman Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Pierre Zoberman A TOAST, IN HOMAGE When the idea of a memorial volume was broached to me, I said, not entirely in jest, that personal anecdotes might be offered more appropriately with a glass rather than a volume...

...Nathaniel Wing Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Nathaniel Wing BEING WITH ROSS These few remarks are from a long retired, occasional colleague of Ross Chambers. I first met Ross in 1973 when I gave a paper on Baudelaire at the Kentucky...

...Claudie Bernard Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Need Header Claudie Bernard Gita May, a Belated Tribute As is often the case when life separates the living, it is upon their death that one realizes how important the departed have been...

... will always admire, would interrupt the student's errant commentary to tell him or her that s/he was simply rationalizing the effect of another great poem. The University of Wisconsin-Madison The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University Copyright © 2010 The Trustees...

...Mary Ann Caws Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Ann Caws ON MICHAEL RIFFATERRE W hat many of us feared and loved about Michael Riffaterre coincided. His reactions could appear totally out of whack. When I was teaching at Barnard, I first asked, timidly, to be sure...

...Claudie Bernard Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Claudie Bernard MICHAEL RIFFATERRE "Eh bien, recommen~ons l'aventure!" Tels sont les derniers mots que Michael Riffaterre a echanges avec moi, lors d'une ceremonie en son honneur qui eut lieu a la Maison Fran~aise de...

...Grover Amen Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Grover Amen A CARCASS : A TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE S UNE CHAROGNE Grover Amen was a poet and painter who lived and worked in Brooklyn ­until his death in 1997. Amen s poems, fiction...

...Edward Mendelson Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Edward Mendelson RESPONSE TO ANTOINE COMPAGNON I will be brief, partly because Professor Compagnon is so thoroughly in command of his subject that there is nothing I can usefully add, partly because, at the end...

...Elisabeth Ladenson Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Elisabeth Ladenson PROUST REREAD: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION M arcel Proust and Columbia University have a long history together. Columbia was the first university in the world where his works were taught-during...

...Elisabeth Ladenson Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Elisabeth Ladenson A BRIEF NOTE OF APPRECIATION Inever knew Ross Chambers well, and for a long time I knew him only by reputation. His reputation was such that I ended up imagining him...

...," 201-16 The Romanic Review Volume 93 Number 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 484 INDEX "Le Temoignage litteraire," 217-35 Avant-texte et litterarite," 237-58 Ryan, Paul, "Penser 'cette chambre' ou penser 'univers': Valery and the Uni- verse of the Room," 307-21 Sasson, Sarah Juliette, "Du...

... Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Michael Bell is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies as well as the current Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at University of Warwick. His many books...

... The Trustees of Columbia University 302 PETER CONSENSTEIN I remember Michael Riffaterre tearing poems apart. Active poems. I remember Michael Riffaterre tearing poems apart, active poems, and then comprehension. I remember when Surrealism became less magical. And then decipherable. I remember when Surrealism...