Vincent Aurora
Lecturer in French
Director of the Summer Session

vsa1@columbia.edu
515 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-3715

Vicent Aurora received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1998.  His study of the functioning of Surrealist metaphor, Michel Leiris' Failles: immobile in mobili, was published in 2000 and was followed by articles examining particular aspects of Surrealism's especially extreme form of metaphor with "Mixed Metaphors" (2000), "Metaphoric repression and metonymic perturbation in the Surrealist Jeu de l'un dans l'autre" (2001) and "The Unconscious and the sea" (2001). His translation of Prince Michael of Greece's L'Impératrice des adieux also came out in 2001, and each year he writes for the Encyclopedia Britannica on the state and trends of contemporary French literature.  He is currently working on the unexpected combination of quantum mechanics and Comte's positivism in Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires.

Selected Bibliography
Books:

Michel Leiris’ Failles: Immobile in mobili (Peter Lang Publishers; New York: 2000).

Articles:

Encyclopedia Britannica (articles for nine yearbooks: from “French literary trends of 1996” through “French literary trends of 2004”)

“Mixed Metaphors: Paradigm and the One behind the Many” (Romanic Review, volume 90, number 4, November 1999)

Book review of Aimée Boutin’s Maternal Echoes (RomanicReview, volume 92, number 3, Mai 2001)

“Metaphoric repression and mimetic perturbation in the Surrealist Jeu de l’un dans l’autre” (Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 55, Summer, 2001)

“Freudian metaphor and Surrealist metalanguage in Michel Leiris: The Unconscious and the Sea” (LittéRéalité, Vol. XIII, n o 1, printemps/été 2001)

“La Mesure de l’homme: Auguste Comte et la mécanique quantique dans Les Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq” (Versants, n o 43, Université de Lausanne, juin 2003)

Book review of Carole Rogolot’s “Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse’s Conversations with Culture” (RomanicReview, Columbia University, vol. 95, n o 3, mai 2004)

Book review of Peter Read’s “Guillaume Apollinaire and Cubism” (Romanic Review, Columbia University, vol. 95, n o 3, mai 2004)

“La Méthode des Passages Parallèles et ses implications théoriques”: (Romanic Review , Columbia University, vol. 96, n o 2, March 2005).