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The Romanic Review articles from May 1994
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 May 1994
Changing places: Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhard and the question of perspective.
May 1, 1994... I. Readings of Porete: Past and Present
Marguerite Porete's critics, ecclesiastical and legal authorities in the main, adamantly misread her work. They took passages out of context, fracturing the unity of her work and distorting her...
Sensationist aesthetics in Francoise de Graffigny's 'Lettres D'Une Peruvienne.'
May 1, 1994... Francoise de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne, a remarkably complex work, contains several transitions, all of which stem, I believe, from a sensationist aesthetics and which give it a multi-colored texture not unlike that of the Peruvian...
Sartre's last chance or what is unfinished literature?
May 1, 1994... My title contains a slightly less obvious play on words than the one which is immediately apparent, since the words "Last Chance" could also be underlined or italicized. La Derniere Chance had been announced as the title of the fourth and final...
Claude Simon's 'L'Invitation': a formalist reading.
May 1, 1994... In October 1986, a year after winning the Nobel Prize, Claude Simon visited the USSR on the invitation of the Kirghiz writer Chinghis Aitmatov to take part in an international forum whose purpose was "to bring together people of kindred spirit...
From poetic to prosaic animal portraits: Arreola's "El Elefante." (Mexican writer Juan Jose Arreola)
May 1, 1994... Although the present topic is somewhat limited by its close reading of a single short work, it relates to a stylistic phenomenon that is, in fact, much more pervasive in, and important to, modern Western literature than is often realized. For...
The Ladder of High Designs: Structure and Interpretation of the French Lyric Sequence.
May 1, 1994... In the preface to this volume of essays Doranne Fenoaltea bemoans the lack of attention paid to the complex and subtle interplay between poems and the collection(s) in which they appear. By analyzing the effect of context and arrangement on...
Voltaire dans ses lettres de jeunesse (1711-1733): La Formation d'un epistolier au XVIII siecle.
May 1, 1994... Voltaire was, among other singular achievements, the most prolific letter-writer of the eighteenth century, as the 135 volumes of his correspondence in the Besterman edition (12 volumes so far to the Pleiade edition), totaling more than 15,000...
Vues sur Mallarme.
May 1, 1994... Robert Greer Cohn's ingenious and provocative works on Mallarme span nearly fifty years: Mallarme's Un coup de des (1949), L'Oeuvre de Mallarme: Un coup de des (1951), Toward the Poems of Mallarme (1965, 1980), Mallarme's Masterwork: New findings...