Artists, intellectuals, and World War II : the Pontigny encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 / edited by Christopher Benfey and Karen Remmler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.