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Artists, intellectuals, and World War II : the Pontigny encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 /

Sixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. During the summers of 1942-1944, leading European figures in the arts and sciences met at the college with their American counterparts for urgent conver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-, Remmler, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
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  • 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
  • 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.