Richard Macksey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Macksey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Macksey |
| SIGNATURE | MACKSEY R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incipitque Semper
Incipitque Semper Richard Macksey This issue of MLN appears in a somewhat unusual format of two volumes. The first contains the current harvest of essays and reviews in comparative literature, while the second is a Festschrift dedicated to John Freccero—scholar, teacher, and friend of several generations of scholars. This volume had its origin in a "homecoming" symposium celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Freccero's doctoral degree…
Brief Notices
Incipitque Semper
Incipitque Semper Richard Macksey This Comparative Literature issue has been seen to press thanks to the combined efforts of two gifted and dedicated Editorial Assistants. Scott Gottbreht generously agreed to continue working with projects he had begun last year, while Ben DeForest joined the crew and ably saw the number through production. His attention to detail and critical tact were invaluable in working with authors on final revisions of the…
The Structuralist Controversy
Brief Notices
Brief Notices Reviewed by Richard Macksey Carol Jacobs. Skirting the Ethical. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. xxiii + 223 pages. The author of this challenging book is Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her earlier books include The Dissimulating Harmony (1978), Uncontainable Romanticism (1989), Telling Time (1993), and In the Language of Walter Ben…
Incipitque Semper
Incipitque Semper Richard Macksey It is a pleasure to welcome Scott Gottbreht, who joined us in September as the Editorial Assistant for this issue. His energy, fund of ideas, and sustaining good humor have been much appreciated. We are also indebted to our (perforce anonymous) external referees for their generous guidance in assessing contributions. As ever, Myrta Byrum of the Johns Hopkins Press has played a vital role in seeing this issue thro…
Brief Notices
Brief Notices Reviewed by Richard Macksey Appearance among these brief descriptions of recent publications that have arrived too late to find an appropriate reviewer in this issue does not preclude more detailed review in a later issue of MLN. Susan Bernofsky. Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2006. xii + 239 pages. After a brief but informed look at the history of translation in Germany over two cen…
Gide par lui-même
Gide par lui-même:1947 Richard Macksey Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent. —André Gide, Ainsi soit-il. [cited by Claude Martin] The year 1947 marked for André Gide a certain closure to his literary career and, after refusals or denials of honors at home, the culmination of his international canonization. In the preceding year he had finally published his last récit, the conclusion of his mythic Theban cycle, Thésé…
Incipitque Semper
Incipitque Semper Richard Macksey Thanks are due to John Duda, who joins us as the very able Editorial Assistant for this issue of MLN. His good sense and good humor have been sustaining. He has been assisted at critical points in the production by two former Editorial Assistants to whom warm thanks are also due: Kate Khatib and Tom Dechand. Once again, we are also indebted to Myrta Byrum at the Johns Hopkins University Press for seeing this issu…
Brief Notices
Note: Appearance among these brief descriptions of recent publications that have arrived too late to find an appropriate reviewer in this issue does not preclude more detailed review in a later issue of M L N. Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. xxvii + 873 pages. Michael McKeon has recently published three large volumes with the Johns Hopkins Univer…
Readers and Friends
[H]e who can interpret what he has seen is a greater prophet than he who has simply seen it. –Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram Academic rites of passage take many forms, from the liturgic to the orgiastic, but they almost always involve some braiding of nostalgia and celebration. Such was certainly the case with the tribute mounted last April for Neil Hertz on the occasion of his formal retirement. (Not by nature a formal or "retiring" soul, Neil…
Incipitque Semper
Brief Notices
Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2. Translated by Jan Plug et al. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xi + 303 pages. As the lead translator, Jan Plug, remarks in his Foreword, Eyes of the University renders the second and third parts of Derrida's massive volume entitled Du droit à l'Université (1990), the first part of which was previously published (in the same Stanford series) as Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (…
In Memoriam
Ce livre est un livre d'adieu. Un salut, plus d'un salut. Chaque fois unique. . . . JD, Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde [2003] With the death of Jacques Derrida on October 8, 2004, the editors of this journal mourn the loss of a long-time contributor, former colleague, and constant friend. His ties to the Johns Hopkins reach back to the planning of the "structuralist symposium" now almost forty years ago. The mark that his work, example, and …
Incipitque Semper
With this issue we are happy to welcome Kate Khatib as the vital Editorial Assistant. We are also grateful to her predecessor, Thomas Dechand, for his continuing assistance in planning this issue and to Oleg Gelikman for his editorial suggestions and fidelity in preparing copy. Once again, we are also indebted to Myrta Byrum at the Johns Hopkins University Press for helping to guide this issue through production with care, patience, and unfailing…
In Memoriam
In Memoriam:Bianca Theisen (April 26, 1960–November 16, 2004) Richard Macksey As this issue goes to press, we mourn the loss of our colleague and fellow editor Bianca Theisen, who died on November 16th after a gallant battle with cancer. She had joined the Hopkins faculty in 1992 and the editorial board of this journal the following year. After study at Bonn and Berlin in her native country, Bianca completed her doctoral work at Stanford in Germa…
Brief Notices
Note: Appearance among these brief descriptions of recent publications that have arrived too late to find an appropriate reviewer in this issue does not preclude more detailed review in a later issue of M L N
Toast a l'Anniversaire de Rene Girard
On December 25, 2003, René Noel Girard will celebrate his eightieth birthday. His intellectual itinerary, which began in Avignon, where his father was the archivist of the Musée des Papes, through his early training at the École des Chartes and an American degree in history, to his early fame as a literary critic with a strong theory of the novel, clearly suggests his willingness to cross well patrolled academic borders. As his work has evolved o…
Sur le bord de la tombe
In La Chambre verte (1978), François Truffaut's tenebrous hommage to Henry James, the director-author of the film makes a forceful point about a presiding concern of the older writer. La Chambre verte is adapted, according to the credits, "from themes of Henry James." Most obviously the source for the film is "The Altar of the Dead" (1895), but Truffaut also borrows freely from other late Jamesean stories that trace related obsessions—"The Friend…
Incipitque Semper
For his acuity, dedication, and always helpful interventions, our compounded thanks are due Thomas Dechand, the Editorial Assistant for this issue; his patience and perseverance made this issue possible. We are also grateful for the generous assistance and advice of Oleg Gelikman, Nils Schott, and Stefanos Geroulanos
Brief Notices
Note: Appearance among these brief mentions of recent publications that arrived too late for inclusion or failed to find an appropriate reviewer in this issue does not preclude more detailed review in a later issue of M L N
The Kenner Era
In a culture where academic fashions change with the rapidity of hem-lines, the birthday of an elderly critic is seldom cause for extensive public notice let alone international celebration. But then Hugh Kenner, who was born eighty years ago this January in Peterborough, Canada, is hardly a representative specimen of "the academic critic." The ways in which he departs from the norm are almost as various as the range and intellectual longevity of…
The History of Ideas at 80
This occasional section of MLN serves as an archive for critical documents—retrospective surveys, papers from symposia, rites of passage, and celebrations. In this issue we celebrate two 80th birthdays of more than casual critical interest
Incipitque Semper
We are happy to welcome Stephanos Geroulanos who joined MLN in October as the Editorial Assistant for the Comparative Literature issue. His energy, acumen, and judgment have been invaluable. We would also like to thank Bill Scott and Chris Powers, whose generous offers of assistance during a period of interregnum have been deeply appreciated
Brief Notices
Note: Appearance among these brief mentions of recent publications that arrived to late for inclusion or failed to find an appropriate reviewer in this issue does not preclude more detailed review in a later issue of M L N
The Artist in the Labyrinth
The growing point of the as a stubbornly polymorphic energy can be seen only as the recurrent antithesis of earlier postures and postulates. Out of a rejection of existing plot-conventions have come new forms of narrative, and out of the destruction of presuppositions about the unity or stability of character have grown new methods of investigating character. In fact, the end of the novel so often announced in gleeful or lugubrious tones, is almo…
Negative Metaphor' and Proust's Rhetoric of Absence
The Structuralist Controversy
Negative Capability
Uses of Literature
From Symbolism to Structuralism
L'attitude eternellement fuyante
Creation et Destinee II
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Gildersleeve on the Pleasures and Perils of Translation
Introduction
Head of a Translator
Language Structure and Translation
Introduction
The Semantics of Metaphor
Mozart & Beethoven
The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
The Habit of Being
Conclusions" et "Incitations
Supremely among modern novelists, all of the fugitive works, all of the indecisions and passions of a tardy career contribute in the case of Marcel Proust to a single palimpsest that can only be deciphered in the fullness of time-that grimoire complique et fleuri, the manuscript of A la recherche du temps perdu in which he sought to read his life. His six-year apprenticeship to John Ruskin-as disciple, pilgrim, critic, and translator-thus becomes…
Correspondance
Alas, Poor Yorick
I hope that the rubric for this collection of essays, and Narration, licenses me to begin with an anecdote of the Master abroad.1 Although there had been some antecedent correspondence, my first encounter with Jacques Lacan was in a hotel lobby as he arrived for the Baltimore structuralist symposium of October 1966. He had come down from a prelusory reconnaissance of New York with his then translator and disciple Anthony Wilden. No time was waste…
Sur un terrain en friche
Jacques Lacan was one of the great mythographers of our time. Through design and accident he also managed to become one of our major contemporary myths. Like any mythic hero, he came to define the intricate braids of Parisian cultural politics, the dramatic splits and sutures of the psychoanalytic movement, both by his presence and by his absence. He fought under the banners of classical reason and uncompromising orthodoxy, yet once entered on th…
Introduction
A richly composite craft, film is arguably the most comparative of art forms, drawing its artisans and inspiration from across political and linguistic boundaries. Born mute, it early had to learn what was supposed to be a universal syntax of visual narration. A frankly machine art, it early discovered how to adapt the devices of a congeries of technical skills and traditional modes of popular entertainment to the will of a director, who sought t…
The Reading of Proust
Paul de Man
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