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The Romanic Review articles from May 2004
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 2004
Seductive topographies: the languages of landscape in La Puce de Madame des-Roches.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... Two of the most interesting discourses to in the sixteenth century were topographical description and the anatomical blason. These traditions appear to have little in common: one accompanied the development of cartographical techniques, the...
Playing with chance: Rousseau's illumination.
May 1, 2004... Gambling obsessed all levels of French society during the Enlightenment. Louis XIV held appartements du roi given over to gambling three times a week at Versailles, the queen hosted a nightly game, and courtiers scheduled additional occasions...
La serie epistolaire : figure de repression ou de participation pour les femmes ecrivains du XVIIIe siecle?
May 1, 2004... Sou l'Ancien Regime, de nombreux critiques consideraient la lettre privee feminine comme l'une des formes d ecriture non seulement les plus libres, mais aussi les plus accomplies dans leur liberte. Ainsi, dans un recueil intitule OEuvres...
Dressing and undressing the princess of Cadignan: female drapery/narrative striptease.(Honore de Balzac: 'Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan')(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... That storytelling is a time-honored means of inciting passion is clear if one considers only Ovid's advice in Ars Amatoria, Dante's Paolo and Francesca episode in The Divine Comedy, and the effect of hearsay and interpolation in The Princess of...
"?Que he de hacer?": the comedia as casuistry.
May 1, 2004... The Spanish Golden Age comedia as a genre has proven notoriously difficult to explain fully. Since Lope de Vega first published in the early seventeenth century his Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, scholars and critics have been...
Li Livres dou Tresor.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Li Livres dou Tresor. By Brunetto Latini. Edition and study by Spurgeon Baldwin and Paul Barrette. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. Pp. 392.
The Italian notary, statesman, and author Brunetto Latini (ca....
The Anonymous Marie de France.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. Howard Bloch. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 367.
Karl Warnke began his groundbreaking 1925 critical edition of Marie de France's Lais with a brief, one-sentence...
Roman et Religion en France (1713-1866).(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Roman et Religion en France (1713-1866). Textes reunis, presentes et edites par Jacques Wagner Colloques, congres et conferences sur le dix-huitieme siecle, no. 6. Paris : Honore Champion, 2002. Pp. 286.
Cet ouvrage publie les actes d'un...
Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, the Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism; Artists Bookworks; East Sussex, England, 2002, Pp. 304.
The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read is divided into...
Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture, Carol Rigolot; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Number 271; University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2001. Pp. 264.
"L'existence...