The Romanic Review articles from May 1997

The Romanic Review archives from May 1997

Deadly letters: "Deus amanz," Marie's "prologue" to the 'Lais' and the dangerous nature of the gloss. (Marie de France)
May 1, 1997... The famous "Prologue" (henceforth Pro) to Marie de France's Lais' opens with the traditional Christian admonition that one should not hide ("celer" (3)) one's talents. This admonition derives principally from patristic and medieval readings...

Clement Marot, redemption, and the 'Temple de Cupido.'
May 1, 1997... The Temple de Cupido, composed between 1515 and 1520, presents the humanist birth of a cult of Cupid through the construction of a sanctuary of devotion to the profane god. Marot's poetic rendition is the work of a humanist poet whose...

Excising the text: narrative ablation in Guilleragues' 'Lettres portugaises.'
May 1, 1997... De tous les instants de ma vie, mon ami, je souffre, je vous aime, je vous attends. --Julie de Lespinasse (Lettre XXVI)(1) Tout episode de langage qui met en scene l'absence de l'objet aime--queues qu'en soient la cause et la duree . .... .

"Le dernier coup de pinceau": perception and generality in 'Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu.' (Balzac)
May 1, 1997... In what amounts to a primer of holistic studies, Gregory Bateson asserts, "Science probes, it does not prove".(1) Science can only enhance certain hypotheses and discard others. The changing paradigm of what constitutes scientific knowledge is...

Purging Venice of desire and Proust's other two ways.
May 1, 1997... The 1986 discovery of Proust's revised version of Albertine disparue has opened a continuing debate on this redaction's role in the composition of A la recherche du temps perdu. The new typewritten text corrected by the author shortly before...

"Mener un discours de maniere qu'il s'acheve": enjeux et pratique de l'ecriture dans les derniers cahiers de Paul Valery.
May 1, 1997... >, > entreprise desormais hasardeuse, que de reorienter le regard dans une dimension diachronique, tent la notion de l' > est entree dans les prealables principiels qui sous-tendent certaines conceptions de la critique genetique. Jean...

Marcel Duchamp: l'art et ses echecs vers la quatrieme dimension poetique.
May 1, 1997... Marcel Duchamp abandonne la peinture malgre la vente des trots tableaux qu'il avait presentes a l'exposition de l'Armory de New York en 1913. Parmi ceux-ci se trouvait le Nu descendant l'escalier, une toile qui fut refusee a l'exposition des...

Tournier feministe? Histoires d'Eve. (Michel Tournier)
May 1, 1997... La litterature romanesque, pour avancer, doit reculer jusqu'aux origines. (Chawaf 109) La morale ou le pouvoir ont tonjours cherche a chatrer [notre] ambivalence, notre nature conflictuelle, animalo-humaine, notre sexe ...

Flocons, floconner, floculer. (les valeurs dans un texte d'Yves Bonnefoy, 'Debut et fin de la neige')
May 1, 1997... Dens les pages qui suivent, a partir de quelques reflexions sur la notion de valeur, et a propos d'un texte recent d'Yves Bonnefoy (Debut et fin de la neige(1)) qui pour le moins met en scene telle notion, je m'efforce de montrer ce que la poesie...

The nostalgia for the subject: French intellectual thought of the 1980s.
May 1, 1997... What has come to be characterized as the nostalgia for the subject in French intellectual life in the 1980s centers around a revisionist hermeneutic debate concerning the interpretation of the events surrounding May 1968 in France. A variety...

Dictionnaire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
May 1, 1997... Ed. Raymond Trousson and Frederic S. Eigeldinger. Paris: Honore Champion, 1996. Pp. 968. Few writers, philosophers, and political thinkers are as famous, influential, and controversial as Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Studies devoted to every...

Conversations with Maryse Conde.
May 1, 1997... Francoise Pfaff. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London, 1996. "I never got the top award because I was considered obnoxious, sarcastic, and ill-tempered. I was always being punished and kept in on Thursdays and Saturdays. I had a...