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The Romanic Review articles from January 1995
A quarterly journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures. Articles cover all periods of French, Italian, and Spanish-language literature. Published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University.
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The Romanic Review archives from January 1995
Inintelligibles pour une femme honnete: sexuality, textuality and knowledge in Diderot's 'La Religieuse' and Gautier's 'Mademoiselle de Maupin.'
January 1, 1995... 1. Smokescreens and Similarities
The theme of female homosexuality in French literature has vast historical, ideological, and narratological implications. Some texts which include lesbian plots or sub-plots, such as Diderot's La...
Half-title or 'Julie' beheaded.
January 1, 1995... "Julie ou": head and frail articulation, separated from their body by a certain kind of critical terror. Imagine a book on Richardson that referred throughout to Virtue Rewarded and The History of a Young Lady without ever mentioning Pamela or...
Sade's ethical economies.
January 1, 1995... Recent criticism has underscored the difficulty of coming to terms with the ethical consequences of literary interpretation. On the one hand, criticism seems unable to avoid ethical judgments. Tobin Siebers, recalling the etymological senses of...
Denying authorship: Sade and the censor.
January 1, 1995... It is hardly disputable that some forms of censorship exist even in countries where freedom of speech is a constitutional right. As Jacques Derrida reminds us, "censorship does not consist . . . in reducing one to absolute silence. It is enough...
Senancour's 'Oberman': experiments in the ascetic Sublime.
January 1, 1995... In the world everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen: in it no value exists--and if it did, it would have no value.
If there is any value that does have value, it must lie outside the whole sphere of what happens and...
"Beaucoup de bruit pour rien": Mallarme's 'ptyx' and the Symbolist "bric-a-brac."
January 1, 1995... Les autres symbolistes renferment et agitent un certain bric-a-brac concret de sensations et d'objets aimes par leur epoque . . . Antonin Artaud, 1923(1)
Bibelots d'emplois incertains, Fleurs mortes aux seins des almees, Cheveux, dons de...
Textuality and (homo-)sexuality in Turnier's 'Les Meteores.'
January 1, 1995... The relations between homosexuality and textuality have been variously analysed. Critics have found no definitive theories of the undeniably intimate bond between sexuality and signification. The sexual relations involved in textual production...
Don Quixote rides again!
January 1, 1995... In a recent article, "Once Is Not Enough?", I argued that a book word-for-word identical with Cervantes' Quixote wouldn't be a new Quixote, numerically distinct from Cervantes', if it were produced in the manner described in gorges' short...