The Romanic Review articles from January 2002

The Romanic Review archives from January 2002

In October 2001, the Maison Francaise hosted a conference entitled Stylistics, Poetics, Semiotics: The Contribution of Michael Riffaterre.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... In October 2001, the Maison Francaise hosted a conference entitled Stylistics, Poetics, Semiotics: The Contribution of Michael Riffaterre. The work of Michael Riffaterre has been crucial in the growth and change of the literary studies....

Michael Riffaterre, poete-critique.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Ily a un an environ, je me trouvais dans un jury de these a Paris, une bonne, une tres bonne these, qui portait sur Valery et T. S. Eliot, sur les affinites nombreuses, essentielles, qui existent entre ces deux eminents poetes-critiques, depuis...

"Nous deux" or a (hi)story of intertextuality.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Allow me a confession: I love your country. If I were to die tomorrow, I think I could say today that I have lived the best moments of my personal and professional life here, on the American continent. I love its immensity, this landscape,...

Michael Riffaterre et la lecture hermeneutique de la poesie francaise.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Je tiens tout d'abord a remercier les organisateurs du colloque, Antoine Compagnon et Pierre Force, pour leur aimable invitation et leur diligent travail dans des conditions plus que dramatiques. Je salue Michael Riffaterre a qui ce...

Michael Riffaterre and the unfinished project of structuralism.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Habermas read the first version of his essay "Modernity--an Unfinished Project in September 1980. This was his official discourse of thanks when receiving the Adorno Prize in Frankfurt. Ironically, Derrida received the same prize recently, in...

La significativite litteraire.
January 1, 2002... Les propos que je vais ici presenter se situent dans la proximite de Michael Riffaterre: donc, tout pres des siens. Ils supposent des theses, assumees comme explicitement hypothetiques. Il s'agit bien sur davantage d'une problematique, qui,...

Riffaterre, ou le peu de realite.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... L'existence dument constatee a l'avance de ce bouquet que je vais respirer ou de ce catalogue que je feuillette devrait me suffire: eh bien non. Il faut que je m'assure de sa realite, comme on dit, que je prenne contact avec elle. Andre...

Rupture and the limits of reading.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Explication of texts is really a machine for taming a work --Michael Riffaterre, Textual Production Roland Barthes famously remarked that 1848 is a site of rupture not only in French history, but also in the French novel. After the...

Variation et mimesis.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... La meilleure facon de rendre hommage a l'oeuvre toujours inspirante de Michael Riffaterre, c'est, me semble-t-il, de questionner ce qui a ete l'un des dogmes de sa poetique (en particulier dans Semiotique de la poesie (1)) : l'opposition entre...

The imperial superreader, or: semiotics of indecency.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... One of the many ironies in the history of literary theory is that Michael Riffaterre remains known for an idea which he abandoned relatively early in his career. Although his name continues to be associated with the concept of the archilecteur...

Michael Riffaterre pour lire les poetes du XVIe siecle.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Lorsqu'il s'engageait decisivement en faveur d'une approche formelle de l'histoire litteraire et de la lecture des textes, Michael Riffaterre lancait un defi, en particulier, aux "seiziemistes" francais: il secouait vigoureusement la doxa...

Ce qu'on dit au critique a propos de fleurs.
January 1, 2002... Michael Riffaterre aborde aussi bien les premiers poemes de Rimbaud que les derniers, les poemes en vers que les poemes en prose ; il explique Venus Anadyomene, Le Coeur vole, Promontoire, Enfance II ou Barbare (1). Le temps pour lui ne se...

Semiosis and hunger: Riffaterre on Mallarme.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Hope is a subtle Glutton-- He feeds upon the Fair-- And yet--inspected closely What Abstinence is there-- His is the Halcyon Table-- That never seats but One-- And whatsoever is consumed The same amount...

Assimiler le mouton: Valery face a l'intertexte mallarmeen.(text in French)
January 1, 2002... De la contribution magistrale de Michael Riffaterre a la critique litteraire de notre epoquee je ne retiendrai ici qu'un seul aspect qui semblerait au premier regard d'ordre peripherique. C'est l'interface tres suggestive qu'il a su degager...

Reflexions sur la "critique d'art" surrealiste.(text in French)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Donner a voir de Paul Eluard Cette reflexion s'inspire d'un travail pionnier de Michael Riffaterre (1991) qui examine les modalites textuelles au gre desquelles Andre Breton transforme la critique d'art en exercice de surrealite. A partir...

Victor Hugo's poetics.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... As any poetics must be, Hugo's is inseparable from a certain theory of inspiration, since the nature of his inspiration affects a writer's techniques. (1) The poet finds inspiration in what surrounds him. His concern is with the "mysteries...

Victor Hugo on the universe within the poet.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Montrez-moi le ciel charge de nuages Repetant le monde enfoui sous mes paupieres Eluard The soul, the mind, moral entities, mental functions, have always, in literature as well as in the arts and folklore, been personified in human or...

Hugo's Orientales revisited.(Victor Hugo)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Ever since Sainte-Beuve praised the eclat eblouissant, the dazzling vividness of their colors, the poems of Les Orientales have been regarded as a masterpiece of colorful pittoresque, a poetry of light, a perfect example of how poetic imagery...

Fear of theory.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The fear that literary theory inspires needs to be explained. One cannot deny that this fear is very real, since most current discussions of literary theory echo doubts about its usefulness, or question whether a separate theory is needed for...

Ekphrasis lyrique.
January 1, 2002... Les ecrits d' Andre Breton sur la peinture occupent dans l'oeuvre du poete une place a part. Certains ont l'ampleur, le ton a la fois prophetique et polemique des Manifestes; d'autres, nes de l'occasion, semblent n'etre que des notules...

Le temoignage litteraire.
January 1, 2002... La notion de temoignage litteraire peut sembler contradictoire en raison de la predominance de la fiction et du style figuratif en litterature. Mais la contradiction se resout d'elle-meme si on distingue le temoignage de sa representation. Le...

Avant-texte et litterarite.(text in French )
January 1, 2002... La teleologie donne mauvaise conscience aux geneticiens, et pourtant ils ne peuvent se refuser a l'evidence: les paradigmes de variantes qui vont des brouillons au texte acheve, sont bien des vecteurs orientes par une cause finale. (1) En...