Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-
2. Remmler, Karen.

Description

1. xiii, 294 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Bespaloff, Rachel
2. Mount Holyoke College > History > 20th century
3. Décades de Pontigny
4. Scholars > Europe > History > 20th century
5. Scholars > United States > History > 20th century
6. Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
7. Art, Modern > 20th century
8. World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements
9. Europe > Intellectual life > 20th century
10. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century

Contents

1. Pontigny-en-Amérique / Laurent Jeanpierre -- The vision of Helen Patch / Elissa Gelfand -- The OSS pays a visit / Leah D. Hewitt -- The philosophical model of a counter-institution / Jacques Derrida -- Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke / Stanley Cavell -- Thoughts on Wallace Stevens's contribution at Pontigny-en-Amérique : response to Cavell / Jeffrey Mehlman -- Postscript : response to Mehlman / Stanley Cavell -- Henry Church and the literary magazine mesures : "the American resource" / Claire Paulhan -- Romantic reverberations / Jed Perl -- Robert Motherwell and the modern painter's world / Mary Anne Caws -- The critical moment : Lionello Venturi in America / Romy Golan -- Medievalism and Pontigny / Nadia Margolis --
2. Gustave Cohen at Pont-Holyoke : the drama of belonging to France / Helen Solterer -- The tiger leaps : Louis Aragon, Gustave Cohen, and the poetry of resistance / Jeffrey Mehlman -- Poetry and reality : Roman O. Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss / Andrew Lass -- Jacques Hadamard and creativity in the sciences / Donal O'Shea -- A tale of two Iliads / Christopher Benfey -- Hannah Arendt on action and violence with reference to Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff on Homer's Iliad : a conversation / Jerome Kohn and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Concerning the label emigrant : Brecht's Conversations in exile and the century of refugees / Holger Teschke -- Rachel Bespaloff and the nostalgia for the instant / Olivier Salazar-Ferrer -- Rediscovering Rachel Bespaloff / Monique Jutrin -- Searching for Rachel Bespaloff / Alyssa Danigelis -- Blend and belong / Renee Scialom Cary -- Memories of Rachel Bespaloff / Barbara Levin Amster -- Pauvre Rachel / Naomi Bespaloff Levinson -- Conclusion : encounters of hope / Karen Remmler.

Call number

1. JFE 06-10369

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Artists, intellectuals, and World War II : the Pontigny encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 / edited by Christopher Benfey and Karen Remmler.

Imprint

1. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2006.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-
2. Remmler, Karen.

LCCN

1. 2006003039

Other standard identifier

1. 9781558495319

ISBN

1. 1558495312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2. 1558495304 (library cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 06-10369