MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0057
C. Cash
{"title":"Modernism and Identity: The Subject of Madame Bovary","authors":"C. Cash","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reads Flaubert's Madame Bovary as a work of 'modernist pedagogy': whereas recent readers, such as Rancière, and Vallury in MLN 134:4, understand Flaubert as an author of disidentification and impersonality, I read his work in terms of a dynamic of disidentification and reidentification, drawing on contemporary theories of 'practical identity' (Korsgaard, Hägglund). Flaubert's modernist pedagogy disidentifies the reader's immersion in the fictional world so as to promote reflection on the self-defeating ways in which his characters define themselves, and solicits this reader's cultivation of a reflexive attitude towards identity as a revisable and social activity, beyond the failings of identity Madame Bovary depicts.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"19 1","pages":"827 - 853"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82586695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0071
Cecilia Benaglia
{"title":"Dire la bataille: expérience individuelle et sujet collectif dans les récits de la Première Guerre mondiale","authors":"Cecilia Benaglia","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on Jacques Neefs’ work in the field of sociocriticism and on the topic of literary representation of war, this article analyzes two accounts of the Great War by French soldiers-writers Henri Barbusse and Blaise Cendrars. Our analysis highlights the different ways in which these authors tackle the relationship between individuality and collectivity in the experience of the conflict, discussing the emotional and affective role played by the group in the soldiers’ identities.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"69 1","pages":"S-120 - S-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76366572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0065
Kathryn A. Haklin, Abigail RayAlexander
{"title":"Introduction: The Poetry of Life, the Life of Poetry: Essays in Honor of Jacques Neefs","authors":"Kathryn A. Haklin, Abigail RayAlexander","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Introduction: The Poetry of Life, the Life of Poetry: Essays in Honor of Jacques Neefs</p>","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"74 1","pages":"S-1 - S-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74678526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0061
É. Achille, Oana Panaïté
{"title":"Le sens du détail : Tropisme colonial et dysfonctionnement textuel dans Au revoir là-haut de Pierre Lemaitre","authors":"É. Achille, Oana Panaïté","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0061","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé:Cet article s'intéresse au roman de Pierre Lemaitre Au revoir là-haut, prix Goncourt 2013, afin d'interroger les modalités esthétiques et les enjeux éthiques du recours narratif aux références coloniales dans le cas d'un texte où les questions raciales et coloniales sont à la fois indispensables à l'intrigue et reléguées au second plan du point de vue thématique et discursif. À travers l'analyse du \"détail colonial,\" il s'agira de montrer que Lemaitre, à l'instar de nombreux autres écrivains bénéficiant d'une certaine visibilité dans le champ littéraire contemporain, mobilise au service de son esthétique réaliste un cadre imaginaire colonial tout en faisant preuve d'une inattention significative du point de vue textuel et représentationnel à l'égard de sa complexité et de ses ramifications.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"243 1","pages":"939 - 956"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75889686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0072
Oana Panaïté
{"title":"Relating the Universal, Universalizing the Relation: The Glissant-Derrida Ch(i)asm(us)","authors":"Oana Panaïté","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The first epigraph of Jacques Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other is excerpted from Édouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse, a symbolic choice that foregrounds the latter’s call to a critique of the French language and his call for a revisionist “anti-humanism” to dismantle “French linguistic hegemony.’” Yet Derrida concludes his autobiographical reflection on identity, dispossession, and hospitality with an extensive definition of colonization generalized to all cultural interaction. In this article, guided by Jacques Neefs’ model of restorative interpretation, I examine the conceptual chiasmus through which Derrida moves from acknowledging the critical singularity of the colonial condition to a universalizing stance that brackets its specific difference.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"15 1","pages":"S-134 - S-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84375181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0058
Zakir Paul
{"title":"Before the Verb: On Blanchot's Use of Se","authors":"Zakir Paul","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines the uses and possible significance of the third-person reflexive se. The occurrence of this form allows us to analyze philosophical concerns in Blanchot's narrative and critical writings: the relation of activity to passivity, the representation of liminal states of consciousness, and the ability of writing to capture the event of dying and death. The article concludes by turning to Blanchot's last text published as a récit, Le Dernier Homme. By tracking se, it shows how this minor syntactic structure conceals a nexus of questions concerning the ability of language to convey the limits of thinking.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"66 1","pages":"854 - 885"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85783002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0066
Jena Whitaker
{"title":"Michel Deguy, Translation, and the Primary Chiasmus","authors":"Jena Whitaker","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay studies Michel Deguy’s theorization of the primary chiasmus as a gift-like exchange between language and being with a particular focus on how the primary chiasmus reveals the profound interconnectedness of poetry and translation. Additionally, this essay reevaluates Deguy’s skeptical and manifestly pessimistic critique of the ubiquitous and inescapable control of “le culturel” or mass-media culture, specifically with concern to technology and its effects on language, or logos.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"77 1","pages":"S-13 - S-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73640389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0056
John D'amico
{"title":"Flaubert's \"Travail Psychologique\": The Value of Distraction","authors":"John D'amico","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A notorious fetishist of labor, Flaubert highlighted the value of literature in a paradoxical fashion: his metaphors for concentration and work in the correspondence, namely, weaving and boot-making, become in Madame Bovary pretexts to represent vagabond attention. The author's meditation on creative difficulty took the shape of his sustained meditations on ennui, an affective stance that simultaneously manifested and obliquely critiqued contemporary configurations of value-creation. Drawing psychological insight from what happens when the mind wanders in life, Flaubert fills moments of inattention in art with meticulous renderings of sensory experience, establishing distraction as a cornerstone of his novelistic craft.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"20 1","pages":"805 - 826"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85714881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0070
Abigail RayAlexander
{"title":"“Une sorte de lien...”: Madame Bovary alongside Notre-Dame de Paris","authors":"Abigail RayAlexander","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores references to Hugo and his works, particularly Notre-Dame de Paris, within Madame Bovary. Flaubert’s novel offers myriad allusions to both Hugo’s works and literary historical events that established Hugo as an epic figure overshadowing nineteenth-century France. While modernizing Hugo’s medieval monsters, Madame Bovary also presents an incisive critique of how mediocrity responds to greatness.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"30 1","pages":"S-119 - S-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73277083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MLN bulletinPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1353/mln.2021.0068
Nicolas Valazza
{"title":"Le dess(e)in au croisement des arts et des lettres : de la théorie au style","authors":"Nicolas Valazza","doi":"10.1353/mln.2021.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2021.0068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Le propos de cet article est de montrer comment la réception de la peinture d’Ingres, fondée sur un « culte du dessin » issu de la Renaissance italienne, par des poètes critiques tels que Baudelaire et Théophile Gautier, a contribué à forger la conception moderne du style en tant qu’expression de la singularité de l’artiste. Baudelaire observe en particulier la « bizarrerie » du dessin d’Ingres et ses écarts par rapports aux normes classiques. Or la ligne qui s’écarte de la norme allait devenir l’un des paradigmes stylistiques de la modernité littéraire.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"49 1","pages":"S-54 - S-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74066709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}