List of Materials
Dissertation Prospectus: "Language, Social Action, and the State: Georges Sorel as Reader of the Third Republic"
Modern European Intellectual History (Malachi Hacohen)
- A research paper entitled "Sustaining Inconsistency in the fin-de-siécle: Georges Sorel as descriptive social scientist." (Fall 2006, redrafted, submitted towards MA, Fall 2007)
- One short book review, of Philippe Riviale's 2003 Mythe et violence autour de Georges Sorel. (Fall 2006)
- A speculative methodological essay entitled "'Le miroir de flamme': Towards a Sartrean Historiography." (Spring 2006)
- A review essay on two recent works in French intellectual history, entitled "Moyn, Kleinberg, and the Specificity of Intellectual History" (Fall 2007)
- Reading List
Literary Criticism: Between Formalism and Historicism (Alice Y. Kaplan)
- A reading, "Historicity of Critic and Text: Clive Bell's Forgotten Reading of Marcel Proust" (Spring 2007 – revised Spring 2008)
- An annotated syllabus for an upper-division/graduate class "History and Literature: Critical Approaches and Rapprochements" (Spring 2008)
- A research paper, entitled "'Barthes s'inquiète du temps': Roland Barthes and the Annales historical model, 1950-60." (Fall 2005, Revised Spring 2006)
- A review of Antoine Compagnon's Connaissez-vous
Brunetière ?, entitled,
"Personality and Cultural Politics" (Spring 2008)
- Reading List
The Caribbean and Francophone Atlantic (Laurent Dubois)
- A synthetic/historiographical essay entitled, "Time and Space in the Historiography of the Caribbean" (Spring 2008)
- A review of Thomas Holt's The Problem of Freedom, entitled, "The Problem of Freedom: Gender and Idealism" (Spring 2008)
- Reading List
