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The Romanic Review articles from March 1993
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 March 1993
The pit or the pedestal? The dichotomization of the lady in troubadour lyric.
March 1, 1993... For many medieval scholars, the problem inherent in courtly literature has been located in the dichotomization of the lady into either an inaccessible ideal or an imperfect and all too-feeling woman:
The contrast between the poetic ideal...
"Fantastiquant mille monstres bossus": poetic incongruities, poetic epiphanies, and the writerly semiosis of Pierre De Ronsard.
March 1, 1993... In his latest study on an intriguing subject that was for him both "exhilarating" and "exasperating," Murray Krieger defines ekphrasis in these terms: "the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary." The kind of ekphrasis that...
The birth of the subject in Camus' 'L'Etranger.'
March 1, 1993... The source of Meursault's transformation
Although, as I have argued elsewhere, Meursault does not undergo a fundamental change in mentality while awaiting the guillotine nor experience a revelation that drastically alters his relation to...
The Geist in the machine: Nazism in Tournier's 'Le Roi des aulnes.' (Michel Tournier)
March 1, 1993... Le Roides aulnes is the second and most controversial of Michel Tournier's novels. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for it in 1970, a decisive moment in the career of an author who, if one is to judge by the ever increasing numbers of...
Problematizing the autobiographical act: observations on the frame in Ramon J. Sender's 'Cronica del alba.'
March 1, 1993... Ramon J. Sender's characterization of his semi-autobiographical series of nine novels, Cronica del alba (1942-1966),(1) as "una vision de los primeros cuarenta anos de la vida espanola de este siglo" (Penuelas 149), while heuristically valid,...
Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law.
March 1, 1993... Recent critical focus on bodies, and representations and constructions of bodies, have led theorists of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to formulate strategies for the examination and interpretation of bodies.(2) But, as gender-oriented...
La Fontaine et quelques autres.
March 1, 1993... Ces quatre etudes sur La Fontaine ne manquent pas de parler des Contes, mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree la majeure partie des analyses. La premiere question que pose David Lee Rubin est celle du genre: qu'est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant...
La Fabrique des Fables: Essai sur la poetique de La Fontaine.
March 1, 1993... Ces quatre etudes sur La Fontaine ne manquent pas de parler des Contes, mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree la majeure partie des analyses. La premiere question que pose David Lee Rubin est celle du genre: qu'est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant...
A Pact with Silence: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
March 1, 1993... Ces quatre etudes sur La Fontaine ne manquent pas de parler des Contes, mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree la majeure partie des analyses. La premiere question que pose David Lee Rubin est celle du genre: qu'est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant...
Figures of the Text: Reading and Writing in La Fontaine.
March 1, 1993... Ces quatre etudes sur La Fontaine ne manquent pas de parler des Contes, mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree la majeure partie des analyses. La premiere question que pose David Lee Rubin est celle du genre: qu'est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant...