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The Romanic Review articles from March 2006
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 2006
The love that dares not speak its name: displacing and silencing the shame of adultery in le Chevalier de la Charrete.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... For some, Lancelot, the hero of Chretien de Troy's Chevalier de la Charrete, is a noble lover, a fin amant performing deeds of valor inspired by his amour courtois, (1) but for many other readers, including some of the earliest, Lancelot is an...
"Ni l'un ni l'autre et tous les deux a la fois": le paradoxe menippeen inverse dans le tiers livre de rabelais.(parodoxes in "Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais)(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... Le paradoxe, en tant que genre ou technique incorporee a d'autres genres, est l'une des strategies d'ecriture les pius populaires du XVIe siecle (1). L'exemple le pius connu en est sans doute L'Eloge de la Folie d'Erasme (1511), ouvrage...
Metaphors of modernity: prostitutes, bankers, and other Jews in Balzac's Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes.
March 1, 2006... Why are the brothels of modern French literature filled with Jewish prostitutes? From Vanda in Huysmans's A Rebours, "qui remplissait chez Madame Laure l'indispensable role de la belle Juive" (119), to Rachel in Maupassant's "Mademoiselle...
The open secret: hiding and revealing sexuality in the roman de moeurs (1880-1905).
March 1, 2006... Michel Foucault distinguished famously in the first volume of his History of Sexuality between ars erotica as an initiatory art of pleasure, and scientia sexualis as an order of knowledge that makes of sexuality an underlying universal truth....
Annie Ernaux: a la serpe, a l'aiguille et au couteau.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... "Je percerai le coeur que je n'ai pu toucher." Racine, Andromaque, IV.III
L'Ecriture comme un couteau, paru en 2003, reproduit la correspondance d'Annie Ernaux avec un autre ecrivain, Frederic-Yves Jeannet, qui l'avait invitee a reflechir...
Theorizing the Haitian fragment and fragmenting Caribbeanist theory in emile Ollivier's passages.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... In a critical domain that privileges and promotes hybridity, metissage, and creolization as favored models of contemporary identity, the Caribbean subject finds itself thrown center stage, paraded before the world as the ideal postmodern being....
Strangely familiar: the uncanny poetics of Giovanni Pascoli.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... "Siamo sette" Vidi una cara contadinella, ch'aveva ott'anni, come mi disse bionda, ricciuta, bella, assai bella con le due grandi pupille tisse.
Presso il cancello stava. Ed io; "Figlia, quanti tra bimbi, siete, e bimbette?" chiesi. Con...
Daniel Menager, La Renaissance et la nuit.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Daniel Menager, La Renaissance et la nuit. Geneve: Droz, 2005. Pp. 271.
Pendant longtemps, les etudes sur la Renaissance ont ete dominees par la perspective neoplatonicienne. Il semblait inimaginable que quelqu'un puisse echapper a...
Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (Eds.), The Camhridge Companion to the Italian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, Pp. 266.
After the Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff, and the one on Italian...