Recently added articles from Symposium:
Events on the road to immortality: an evening of Mandelstam at Moscow State University, 1965.
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: For Osip Mandelstam, as for many Soviet-era artists, literary survival encompassed more than appreciation by critics; the physical survival of his texts has traced a tenuous path. This article explores the Russian fascination with the biography, and particularly the death, of the ...
L'ecriture des choses a, l'epreuve du soleil: propos du Soleil place en abime de Francis Ponge.
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: This article examines how the French poet Francis Ponge, in writing a series of texts devoted to the sun (1948-54), inaugurates an ars poetica called "l'objeu." The sun represents a real threat--both empirical and philosophical--to the author's earthbound and stony sensitivity ....
Reparation to the ghostly mother in Carme Riera's La mitad del alma.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Carme Riera's La mitad del alma (2003), whose protagonist recollects images of her dead mother, is part of the current movement in Spanish literature to reactivate memories of the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Postwar women authors in Spain symbolically ...
Le pari de Pascal et ses ambiguites.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author rereads Pascal's Wager in all of its complexities and contradictions, rejecting Manichean readings as being far too schematic. Pascal, through pragmatic argument, attempts to demonstrate the rationality of belief. In thinking that he can direct his (imaginary) ...
Artistic reflexivity and interartistic contamination in Polish modernism: the graphic and literary works of Bruno Schulz.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The article explores two examples of reflexive interartistic contamination in the works of the Polish Modernist artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). First, it argues that Schulz's early cycle of engravings, The Idolatrous Booke (Xiega batwochwalcza 1920), draws on the notion of ...
Irene Nemirovsky's David Golder and the myth of the Jew.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The extent to which Irene Nemirovsky's David Golder incorporates specific and, in some instances, centuries-old Jewish stereotypes has not been acknowledged. Although the title character is, at times, more realistically depicted than the rapacious money-man of myth, his ...
Antonio Gomez Lopez-Quinones. La guerra persistente: Memoria, violencia y utopia: Representaciones contemporaneas de la Guerra Civil espanola.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ANTONIO GOMEZ LOPEZ-QUINONES. La guerra persistente: Memoria, violencia y utopia: Representaciones contemporaneas de la Guerra Civil espanola. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2006. 306 pp. ISAAC ROSA BEGINS HIS LATEST NOVEL--appropriately titled !Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra ...
Philippe De Commynes. Memoires.
Sep 22, 2008; ... PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES. Memoires. Ed. Joel Blanchard. 2 vols. Geneva: Droz, 2007. 736 and 754 pp. THE MEMOIRES OF PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES (1445-1511) have been continuously edited, reedited, and translated since the early sixteenth century. There were no fewer than 120 editions of ...
Brian Nelson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola.
Sep 22, 2008; ... BRIAN NELSON, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 246 pp. THIS COMPILATION OF ESSAYS edited by Brian Nelson illuminates Emile Zola's (1840-1902) monumental work and long career as an engaged writer. It offers analyses of Zola's original ...
Money and commodities in Virgilio Pinera's La carne de Rene.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Cuban writer Virgilio Pinera published his first novel, a bizarre coming-of-age tale, in 1953. Critics have considered La carne de Rene an absurdist text, a commentary about homosociality and alienation. The author, however, argues that the abstract structures of capitalism, ...
Histoire de rue: Les Nuits revolutionnaires de Retif de la Bretonne.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: As part of his enormous literary production, eighteenth-century French writer Retif de la Bretonne wrote a sprawling, sixteen-volume work called Les Nuits de Paris, a picturesque and moralistic description of life among the Parisian lower classes. Covering the years 1789-93, the ...
Michel Butor's Mobile: modernism, postmodernism, and American art.(Mobile: Etude pour une representation des Etats-Unis )(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author examines Michel Butor's Mobile (1962) in relation to the visual arts, beginning with a discussion of connections to modernist visual models found in the works of Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, and Marcel Duchamp. In comparing the text with Boomerang and with the ...
Reading endlessly: the case of Enrique Vila-Matas's Paris no se acaba nunca.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Paris no se acaba nunca (2003) is a prismatic text, the product of an artistic impulse on the part of its author, Enrique Vila-Matas, to connect himself and his novel to other authors, works, literary characters, and visual artists through the city of Paris. It is a ...
Evert Van Der Starre. Curiosites de Raymond Queneau: De l' "Encyclopedie des sciences inexactes" aux jeux de la creation romanesque.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... EVERT VAN DER STARRE. Curiosites de Raymond Queneau: De l' "Encyclopedie des sciences inexactes" aux jeux de la creation romanesque. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 158 pp. IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that the work of Raymond Queneau, whose career began with an attempt to translate ...
Alan E. Smith. Galdos y la imaginacion mitologica.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ALAN E. SMITH. Galdos y la imaginacion mitologica. Madrid: Catedra, 2005. 231 pp. THIS BOOK IS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL RESEARCHED, thought out, and presented. The stated aim is to show that mythology was an important aspect of Galdos's artistry throughout his long career, as his ...
Rachel Mesch. The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... RACHEL MESCH. The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2006. 280 pp. RACHEL MESCH'S THE HYSTERIC'S REVENGE points out the many ways female French writers challenged the patriarchal and medical discourse that was meant to ...