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The Romanic Review articles from March 1996
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 1996
"Femme de corps et femme par sens": Christine de Pizan's saintly women.
March 1, 1996... Hagiography is propaganda. According to Jacques de Vitry "the aim of the saints' life is to strengthen the faith of the weak, instruct the unlettered, incite the indolent, provoke the devout to imitation and confute the rebellious and the...
Pour une approche dynamique de la magnanimite chez Corneille. (Pierre Corneille)(text is in French)
March 1, 1996... La magnanimite est un noble effort de l'orgueil par lequel il rend l'homme maitre de lui-meme pour le rendre maitre de toutes choses(1).
La Rochefoucauld refond ici une definition de la magnanimite formulee par l'auteur qui a le plus fait...
Le pouvoir absolu de la haine, la passion du politique dans 'Les Fables' de La Fontaine. (Jean de La Fontaine)(text is in French)
March 1, 1996... "L'inattendu fuse on ne sait d'ou. Les profonds dessous de la vie
sont redoutables. Il n'y a point de haine petite. La haine est toujours
enorme. Elle conserve sa stature dans le plus petit etre, et reste
monstre. Une haine...
"Language inconnu": Montesquieu, Graffigny and the writing of exile.(Francoise de Graffigny)
March 1, 1996... Over the last fifteen years, Francoise de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne, the novel about a cultural outsider who exposes the vicissitudes of ancien regime society, notably the constraints it imposes on women, has gradually been...
La "sagesse des temps": le tresor d'Atala.(text is in French)
March 1, 1996... Le sous-titre allechant d'Atala--"les amours de deux Sauvages dans le desert" (247)--passe sous silence le tresor precieux a decouvrir au fin fond du desert americain. Quelle surprise donc quand le jeune sauvage Chactas, tout emerveille,...
Mud into gold: Baudelaire and the alchemy of public hygiene.
March 1, 1996... "Tu m'as donne ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or." The last lines of one of Baudelaire's unfinished projects for an epilogue to the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du Mal suggest that Baudelaire considers poetic production to be both ornamentation,...
Loss of self and coming to voice in 'Les Noces d'Herodiade.'(poems of Stephane Mallarme)
March 1, 1996... Les Noces d'Herodiade: Mystere is Mallarme's aggressively plurivocal account of an erotic triangle of characters--Herodiade, her Nurse, and the head of John the Baptist--who by turns encourage, question, and resist the movement of Herodiade...
Une lecture "Hugo-centrique" de 'La Fortune des Rougon.' (by Emile Zola)(text is in French)
March 1, 1996... L'imperialisme exerce par Hugo sur le monde des lettres francaises du dixneuvieme siecle a souvent ete note et deplore par Zola. A propos de celui qu'il appelait "le geant dont les pieds posent au seuil du siecle"(1) Zola, en 1878, ecrivait:...
Spoonerism as literary device in Desnos, Leiris, and Robaud.(Robert Desnos, Michel Leiris, Jacques Robaud)
March 1, 1996... While it is usually considered a trivial slip of the tongue, the lowly spoonerism nonetheless has its place in contemporary dictionaries of rhetorical devices.(1) Indeed, the spoonerism, as well as similar playful practices,(2) has had...