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The Romanic Review articles from January 2005
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 2005
Squaring the round table: time, hierarchy, and the fall of Camelot.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Romance is, by its nature, a protean narrative form, one that can undergo significant changes and still remain true to itself. It has survived a shift from poetry to prose, it can support allegory (as in the Roman de la Rose), politics (Faerie...
A Cadaver in clothes: autobiography and the Dandy in Baudelaire.(Charles Baudelaire)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... "Le Dandy... doit vivre et dormir devant un miroir." Baudelaire
Baudelaire's work is far from self-evidently autobiographical. Les Fleurs du mal, for instance, cannot be easily compared to a self-declared poetic autobiography like Hugo's...
Pasolini si Rilegge *.
January 1, 2005... Tristans, ges no-n auretz de me, /qu'eu m'en vau, chaitius, no sai on. De chantar me gic e-m recre, / e de joie d'amor m'escon. Bernart De Ventadorn, Can vei la lauzeta mover
Tristano, nulla avrete da me,/perche me ne vado infelice, non so...
"Or da Poggia, or da orza" (Purg. 32): nautical deixis in Dante's Commedia.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... In Canto 32 of Purgatorio Dante, after waking from a deep sleep of great peace, is witness to an allegorical pageant, or so we interpret it, seven tableaux depicting the vicissitudes of the Church from its founding to 1300. First, the chariot...
Thinking melancholy: allegory and the 'Vita nuova'.
January 1, 2005... Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! facta est quasi vidua domina gentium.
(How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! How is the mistress of the Gentiles become a widow!)--Lamentations 1.1
O vos otaries qui transitis...
Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 230.
In her first book, Virginia Krause of Brown University has analyzed a concept intrinsic to Renaissance...
Martine Reid. Signer Sand. L'AEuvre et le nom.
January 1, 2005... Martine Reid. Signer Sand. L'AEuvre et le nom. Paris: Belin, 2003. Pp. 237.
2004 marque le bicentenaire de George Sand comme celui du Code Civil qui prevoyait une coquette amende pour "quiconque, sans droit et en vue de s'attribuer une...
Zola a l'AEeuvre. Hommage a Auguste Dezalay. Actes du colloque Zola-Genetique et poetique du roman (9 et 10 decembre 2002). Textes reunis par Gisele Seginger.
January 1, 2005... Zola a l'AEeuvre. Hommage a Auguste Dezalay. Actes du colloque Zola-Genetique et poetique du roman (9 et 10 decembre 2002). Textes reunis par Gisele Seginger. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2003. Pp. 246.
Fans of genetic...
Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage aux confins de l'utopie litteraire classique (1657-1802).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage aux confins de l'utopie litteraire classique (1657-1802). Jean-Michel Racault. Collection Imago Mundi, ed. Francois Moureau. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. Pp. 473.
As its title...
Robert S. Thornberry. Les Ecrits de Paul Nizan (1905-1940): portrait d'une epoque.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Robert S. Thornberry. Les Ecrits de Paul Nizan (1905-1940): portrait d'une epoque. Bibliographie commentee suivie de textes retrouves. Paris: Honore Champion, 2001. Pp. 752.
This volume was conceived as a parallel to Les Ecrits de Sartre...
Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 375.
In this richly detailed book, Ardis Butterfield challenges us to rethink not only the...
Voyager en France au temps du romantisme. Poetique, esthetique, ideologie.
January 1, 2005... Voyager en France au temps du romantisme. Poetique, esthetique, ideologie. Edited by Alain Guyot and Chantal Massol, Grenoble: ELLUG, 2003. Pp. 399.
Cette serie d'articles se propose d'explorer les particularites des textes de voyage en...
Anamorpboses decadentes: L'Art de la defiguration 1880-1914, Etudes offertes a Jean de Palacio. Sous la direction d'Isabelle Krzywkowski et Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau.
January 1, 2005... Anamorpboses decadentes: L'Art de la defiguration 1880-1914, Etudes offertes a Jean de Palacio. Sous la direction d'Isabelle Krzywkowski et Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau. Paris: Presses de l'universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Collection "Recherches...