The Romanic Review articles from January 1994

The Romanic Review archives from January 1994

Reading the 'Rose:' literacy and the presentation of the 'Roman de la Rose' in medieval manuscripts.
January 1, 1994... In The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Brian Stock grapples with the thorny problem of defining literacy.(1) Although most of us think of it as the ability to read...

Translation, theft, and 'Li Jeus de Saint Nicolai.' (by Jehan Bodel)
January 1, 1994... Jehan Bodel's radically secular play, Li Jeus de Saint Nicolai, opens with a 114-line prologue recited by a Preacher.(1) The predominantly spiritual ideology that informs this prologue is in no way remarkable: all but a handful of its lines...

'Volupte': recit d'un crime.
January 1, 1994... L'essai suivant est ne d'une disproportion, voire d'une contradiction. Disproportion entre l'inconsequence relative d'un crime avoue, la volupte, et le remords immodere qui en resulte. Contradiction puisque Sainte-Beuve se hate de dire lui-meme...

The anthropological turn in poetry from Rimbaud to Leiris. (Arthur Rimbaud, Michel Leiris)
January 1, 1994... The argument of this paper is threefold. First, to the extent that Western poetry since the pre-Socratics discourses on human affairs, this discourse combines philosophical insights with perceptions of an everyday world in terms of primary...

The law of the mother: Proust and Madame de Sevigne. (Marcel Proust)
January 1, 1994... We learn through other examples which psychoanalysis has brought to light that the pressing desire in the unconscious for some irreplaceable thing often resolves itself into an endless series in actuality--endless for the very reason that the...

Zazie in wonderland: Queneau's reply to the realist novel. (Raymond Queneau)
January 1, 1994... The modern novel may never have had any greater enemy than the concept of reference. After a century dominated by the realist tradition--Stendhal's "roman: c'est un miroir qu'on promene le long d'un chemin"(1)--naturalism had became a...

Interpreting 'La Peste.' (by Albert Camus, 1947)
January 1, 1994... Tout va etre sens dessus dessous. (La Peste, p. 1285)(1) I In the introduction to a collection of articles devoted to La Peste published in 1977, Brian Fitch described the novel as "le texte romanesque de Camus qui a le moins retenu...

Ellipse et reduplication: l'obsession du vide chez Patrick Modiano.
January 1, 1994... Oscillant entre une modernite difficile a cerner et un classicisme teinte de nostalgie, entre le reperable etl'onirique, l'art romanesque de Patrick Modiano, celui des premieres annees surtout, entame, afin de les conjurer, un dialogue avec les...

Du palais au jardin: L'architecture des odes de Ronsard.
January 1, 1994... Dupalais aujardin, l'architecture des odes de Ronsard. By Doranne Fenoaltea. Geneva: Droz, 1990. 170 pages + ix plates and table of contents. Through this Swiss press has come an intricate study of the architectonics of Ronsard's first four...

Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime.
January 1, 1994... Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime. By Erica Harth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 267 pp. If I said that texts about philosophy can sometimes be heavy going, I would fear to bring down...

Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Regime France.
January 1, 1994... Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Regime France. By Julia V. Douthwaite. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. 211 pp. Julia Douthwaite's book comes out of recent work on colonialism and the...

Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France.
January 1, 1994... Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France. By Emily Apter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 273pp. Feminizing the Fetish takes the reader on a riotous romp through the parlors, boudoirs...