The Romanic Review articles from January 2006

The Romanic Review archives from January 2006

Novel upbringings: education and gender in Choisy and La Fayette.(Francois-Timoleon, abbe de Choisy, Marie-Madeline de La Fayette)
January 1, 2006... Reflecting on the various developments in novelistic convention and vraisemblance that had taken place in the half-century between the publication of d'Urfe's pastoral romance L'Astree and La Fayette's masterpiece La Princesse de Cleves, critic...

Tempest in another time: Shakespeare, Greenaway, Celine.(William Shakespeare, Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
January 1, 2006... It is well known that Louis-Ferdinand Celine read Shakespeare and that he admired his works greatly--indeed, Celine's own works are rife with allusions to Shakespearean characters and scenarios. According to Nicholas Hewitt, Celine's favorite...

The essay according to Sollers: a personal and parabolic genre.(Philippe Sollers)
January 1, 2006... Best-sellers lists written in English, and indeed publishing in general, divide literary writing into the categories of fiction and non-fiction. Because French bas not yet widely adopted the term non-fiction, lists of French bestsellers, as in...

Questioning the territory of modernism: ultraismo and the aesthetic of the first Spanish avant-garde.
January 1, 2006... The problem of situating the subject in time and space is perhaps a commonplace in what has come to be known generally as "modernism." When we think of the existential concerns raised in the first quarter of the twentieth century by...

L'ecriture ambivalente du labyrinthe dans "Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent" (Borges, 1941).(Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths/Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent )
January 1, 2006... > est la derniere nouvelle du recueil de Borges (1), Fiations, publie en 1941. Le recit raconte les dernieres heures d'un espion allemand en Angleterre, le docteur Yu Tsun. Poursuivi par un agent anglais, Yu Tsun decide d'accomplir sa mission....

Kashiwagi Takao, Balzac, romancier du regard.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Kashiwagi Takao, Balzac, romancier du regard. Saint-Genouph : Nizet, 2002. Pp. 166. Balzac, romancier du regard est un recueil d'analyses thematiques sur les modalites du voir, et du savoir, chez les personnages et chez le createur de La...

Michel Lacroix, De la Beaute comme violence. L'esthetique du fascisme francais (1919-1939).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Michel Lacroix, De la Beaute comme violence. L'esthetique du fascisme francais (1919-1939). Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, Collection Socius, 2004. Pp. 394. Even nowadays we still tend to think of fascism in mainly political or...

Wolfgang Babilas, Etudes sur Louis Aragon.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Wolfgang Babilas, Etudes sur Louis Aragon. Munster : Nodus Publikationen, >, Band 20, 2002. Pp. 980 (two volumes). Universitaire, chercheur, simple lecteur, j'ai consacre une partie importante de ma vie au commerce intellectuel avec Louis...

Mary Lathers, Bodies in Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Mary Lathers, Bodies in Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. 294. Mary Lathers' work on the model in nineteenth-century Paris has been influenced by research done on the...

Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. Trans. Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn. Introduction by Maurice Samuels. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv + 392. Henri Murger's The Bohemians of the Latin...

Jean-Claude Mathieu, Philippe Jaccottet. L'Evidence du simple et l'eclat de l'obscur.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Jean-Claude Mathieu, Philippe Jaccottet. L'Evidence du simple et l'eclat de l'obscur (Paris: Jose Corti, 2003). Pp. 551. In the ninth of his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke (whose poetry Philippe Jaccottet has adroitly translated and...

Philippe Sellier, Essais sur l'imaginaire classique.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Philippe Sellier, Essais sur l'imaginaire classique. Paris: Honore Champion, 2003, Pp. 394. This collection of essays offers a thematic analysis of the imaginative universe of seventeenth-century literature. Philippe Sellier combines four...

William J. Kennedy, The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... William J. Kennedy, The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv + 383. William Kennedy n'en est pas a son coup d'essai a...

Geraldi Leroy, Batailles d'ecrivains: Litterature et politique, 1870-1914.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Geraldi Leroy, Batailles d'ecrivains. Litterature et politique, 1870-1914. Paris, Armand Colin, 2003. Pp. 346. Ainsi que l'indique l'auteur des la preface, cette etude etait necessaire en ce que, hormis le J'accuse de Zola, les relations...

James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. Pp. 296. This book offers a new theoretical perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important...

Alain Montandon, Ed, Le Livre de l'hospitalite. Accueil de l'etranger dans l'histoire et les cultures.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Alain Montandon, Ed, Le Livre de l'hospitalite. Accueil de l'etranger dans l'histoire et les cultures. Paris : Bayard, 2004. Pp. 2036. This enormous collection of articles on hospitality continues another ambitious project directed by...