Short notices

Chagnollaud, D., ed., Etat politique de la France (Quai Voltaire, 1992), 223pp., 100F., ISBN 2 87653 126 7

Roy, C., Le Rivage des jours, 1990–1991 (Gallimard, 1992), 311pp., 110F., ISBN 2 07 072646 0     

Socialists: The end of the line?

Melchior, E., Le PS, du projet au pouvoir (Editions de l'Atelier/Editions Ouvrières, 1993), 358pp., 135F., ISBN 2 7082 30522

Chevènement, J.‐P., Le Temps des citoyens (Editions du Rocher, 1993), 447pp., 39F., ISBN 2 268 01557 2     

Chasing shadows: lives of ancient Greek statues as lived by writers1

This paper is both an essay and a critique. It questions whether the ancient Greeks responded to heroic or devotional sculpture in any significantly different way than people in later ages, including our own, do. Questioned, too, is whether ancient sculpture or sculpture at any time as to its coming into being can be explained by linguistics, such as, in this case, by Roman Jakobson's notion that all linguistic models are based on one of two models: either on similarity (metaphoric) or on contiguity (metonymic: the name of one thing used in place of another associated with or suggested by it).     

BABYLONIAN WISDOM LITERATURE AND THE MARDUK CYCLE:PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS

This paper, first prepared and delivered for a workshop on teaching Biblical Wisdom Literature in China, provides me with the opportunity, so to speak, to kill two birds with one stone. Not only will I comment on the main theme of the