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Volume 3 | Spring 2005
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Flying
Through Spaces:
Robert Sabatier's Les Feuilles Volantes
Chantal
Carleton
This
poem, Robert Sabatier's Les feuilles volantes, is a good example
of that 'endless play of language' because it is so rich with
allusive echoes and reverberations of alternate meanings...
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Mind's
Eye Narrative in Nabokov's The Eye and Robbe-Grillet's
Jealousy
Maksim Hanukai
The
two short novels that will be discussed in this essay are excellent
examples of an author's experimentation with the first-person
narrative form. Told through the eyes of jealous, psychologically
obsessive narrators, both novels abandon traditional representations
of the "I" in favor of a distanced point of view...
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Hybridity,
Dialogism and Identity in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Condition
Nidesh
Lawtoo
The
goal of this paper is to investigate a theory of hybridity that
I find implicit in these two novels. I will argue that what is
at stake is a critique of epistemologies of identity that are
grounded upon dichotomic ways of thinking...
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Folly
or Fantasy?
A Look at Polyphony in Francophone Literature
Elisabeth
Lore
This
essay focuses on the second law of exclusion, that of reason versus
folly, in which Foucault explains that if a person's speech is
incomprehensible by the dominant discourse, the person's words
are considered null and void. In short, the person carries the
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A
New Translation of Qiu Jin's Crimson Flooding into the River
Michael
A. Mikita III
The following is a translation from Chinese of the feminist poem
Man jiang hong by Qiu Jin with an explication of the poem and
a comparison of the new translation with an earlier one...
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Flâneurs
and Flâneuses:
Walking through Christa Wolf's 'Unter den
Linden' and Paul Auster's Oracle Night
Giovanna
Montenegro
The
two narrators of the works that I will discuss in this paper both
continue the tradition of Baudelaire's flâneur and yet, while
their stories are told using Romantic motifs, at the same time
these flâneur function as narrative devices that mirror the
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'Unspoken
Ghosts':
Selected Translations from Two Italian Poets
Benjamin
Morris and Ari Messer
Italo
Testa's poems sampled here are brief, lyric, and devastating,
rarely making use of more than one image per line, but wringing
as much emotional and heuristic effect from each moment as possible...
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Selling
Nana and Lily:
The Basic Economics of Beauty
Wendy
Salters
In
Nana by Emile Zola and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, each
of the two female protagonists is enmeshed in an economic system
which renders her the object of commerce; a system in which her
beauty establishes her value. Just as the workers hands are inseparable
from the machine, Nana and Lily become "just a screw or a cog
in the great machine[...]called life"...
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Translation
of Two Poems by Bosnian Poet Amir Brka:
'What Do I Write?' and 'Antichrist in Language'
Laurel
Seely
Amir
Brka is a respected young Bosnian writer who has not yet been
translated for American readers. These poems are excerpted from
Brka's Antichrist in Language, a collection published in 1999...
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The
Memory of Colombine:
Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero
and Chaplin's Limelight
Olga
Zilberbourg
In
the last scene of Chaplin's Limelight we see his character, a
tramp comedian Calvero, dying back-stage, and then the camera
pans to show us Calvero's protégée, a young ballerina
dancing on the stage. Most critics agree that this scene unequivocally
mirrors that first subtitle, but in reaching such conclusion they
disregard the significance of the themes introduced into the picture
through the ballet "Death of Colombine," performed on stage within
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