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The Romanic Review articles from March 1997
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 1997
The subject of America: history and alterity in Montaigne's "Des Coches."
March 1, 1997... I. Ancient Tales, Modern Fragments: Narrative and the Essay
Near the center of "Des Coches," the sixth chapter of the third book of the
Essays, Montaigne pauses to consider the limits of human knowledge. Human
reason, he says, is...
L'histoire prostituee: Voltaire contre Larcher, et contre lui-meme.
March 1, 1997... L'histoire ancienne, de l'avis de Voltaire, etait tissue de fables et
d'erreurs. Il voulait la lire en philosophe, et que nous la lisions de
mime, en nous mefiant des recits des historiens. "Un esprit juste,"
ecrit-il a ce propos, "en...
Naive and devious: 'La Religieuse.' (Diderot)
March 1, 1997... As Jean Catrysse defines it, "La Religieuse est l'aboutissement romanesque
d'une mystification dont l'intrigue a ete posterieurement incorporee au recit
sous forme de Preface-annexe" (Catrysse, 73). The admirably perverse logic of...
Surface structure and symmetry in Maupassant: an alternative view of 'Deux amis.'
March 1, 1997... Maupassant's story about the two friends who, when Paris is besieged during
the Franco-Prussian war, ignore the blockade and go fishing, has become
important not only because of its own excellence but because it is the subject
of a...
Japonisme and decadence: painting the prose of 'A rebours.' (J.-K. Huysmans)
March 1, 1997... Japonisme represents a cultural phenomenon explored primarily within the
context of the visual arts, portrayed customarily in critical studies as an
important creative influence on French Impressionist painters of the second
half of...
Reader-investigators in the post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec. (Jean Lahougue, Benoit Peeters, Georges Perec)
March 1, 1997... It is not impossible to imagine... a novel whose fiction would be
exciting enough so that the reader intensely felt the desire to know
its last word which precisely, at the last minute, would be denied
to him, the text...