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The Romanic Review articles from January 2000
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 2000
Les lettres de doleances: un genre de cahier ou des cahiers d'un nouveau genre.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Les documents publics rediges en 1788-1789 a la demande du gouvernement, en prevision de la reunion des Etats Generaux sont, en general, connus sous le nom de Cahiers (au pluriel). Pourtant nombre deces "cahiers" sont differemment intitules;...
Les "Hugoglyphes" Des Miserables.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Depuis la remarquable etude que Jean Gaudon consacrait en 1968 aux digressions dans Les Miserables,la perspective critique sur le sujet s'est radicalement transformee. Si les digressions furent un temps considerees comme de facheuses...
Le moule et l'empreinte: l'infrastructure ternaire dans Madame Bovary.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Dans la precision des assemblages, la rarete des elements, le poli de la surface, l'harmonie de l'ensemble, n'y a-t-il pas une espece de force divine, quelque chose d'eternel comme un principe? (Je parle en platonicien). Ainsi pourquoi y a-t-il...
Critique du positivisme et fictions d'un gai savoir dans Bouvard et Pecuchet.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Au chapitre III de Bouvard et Pecuchet, et plus precisement dans le passage consacre a la geologie, les deux protagonistes, situes sous une falaise, pourraient faire face a des risques d'eboulement. C'est alors qu'on voit Pecuchet inquieter...
Taking the words right out of his mouth: from ventriloquism to symbol-reading in J.-K. Huysmans.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Since Laurence Porter took critics to task in 1987 for "ignoring the pre-oedipal level" (52) of Huysmans' A Rebours, it is at their peril that readers now disregard the implications of the hero's infantilism. Invited to associate des...
Rachilde, Maurice Barres, and the preface to Monsieur Venus.
January 1, 2000... One of the minor literary scandals of the Parisian New Year in 1889 was the appearance of a new edition of Rachilde's novel of androgyny, Monsieur Venus, prefaced by Maurice Barres. (1) It was not the re-edition of the novel that shocked....
D'une parole a l'etat naissant: Proust et Merleau-Ponty.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... On peut dire (1) que, de Descartes a Bergson, en passant par Maine de Biran, la philosophie francaise a toujours ete sensible au probleme du corps, mais elle ne s'etait pas jusque-la interessee au statut ontologique du corps, son pouvoir...
Poetique de l'espace dans L'homme foudroye de Blaise Cendrars.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Comme le rappelle Blaise Cendrars dans la preface du roman adressee a Edouard Peisson, la redaction de L'Homme foudroye mit fin a une periode de silence volontaire. Par une belle nuit d'ete de 1943 et alors qu'il etait fermement decide a ne...
Robinson Crusoe a venir: Gertrude Stein and Roland Barthes.(Critical Essay)
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(Arthur Rimbaud)
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is a novel that has been rediscovered and reinterpreted through successive generations and periods; a variety of artists including Michel Tournier, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Franz...
Mirabile visu: the `wonderful' world of Calderon.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Aristotle's discussion of thaumaston in the Poetics had a great impact on Renaissance, baroque, and neoclassical theoreticians and preceptists, and it continues to inspire modern critics who find in that concept the essence of baroque art. In...
Straight to the source: using Phaedrus and La Fontaine to retranslate fable V, 25, of Felix Maria Samaniego.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Salvaging Literary Models in Translation
Andre Lefevere describes the translation of rhymed, metrical poetry into target-language rhyme and meter as a "double bondage," and dismisses the enterprise as "doomed to failure from the start" in...
La ausencia de interlocutor de Mosen Millan.(text in Spanish)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Se cuentan en Requiem por un campesino espanol los sucesos ocurridos en un pueblo a comienzos de la guerra civil, reconstruyendose tambien el pasado desde 1911 hasta 1936. Son los anos que marcan el nacimiento y la muerte de Paco, uno de los...
Michel Leiris' Failles. Immobile in mobili.
January 1, 2000... By Vincent Aurora. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. 315.
Octavio Paz once called Surrealism an "order of chivalry" and viewed its quest to recover the lost provinces of imagination, to restore the dominion of the unconscious in artistic...
Ecrire la danse.
January 1, 2000... Edited by Alain Montandon (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 1999) Pp. 288.
In the famous passage in "Ballets" devoted to the metaphorical value of the dancer, a "poeme degage de tout appareil du scribe," symbolist...