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The Romanic Review articles from November 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 November 1994
Sex, lies, and Fabliaux: gender, scribal practice, and old/new philology in "Du Cheualier qui fist les cons parler."
November 1, 1994... The study of Old French literature has recently been animated by intense discussion of the relative merits of both an "old" and a "new" philology. In this debate between late twentieth-century antiqui and moderni, one of the oft-quoted...
"The Boy who was a Girl": reading gender in the 'Roman de Silence.'
November 1, 1994... Medieval romances contain few obvious narrative challenges to the status of the body as the origin of gender: in fiction, as in other cultural discourses, gender identity and social roles are defined by sexual characteristics inscribed on the...
Pierre Corneille's Medea-Machine.
November 1, 1994... The repertoire of conceptual structures by means of which scholars have read the French seventeenth-century machine play has gained a pertinent and powerful addition with the fluency in the baroque aesthetic which has gradually established itself...
Between genders, between genres: Celimene's letter to Alceste in Moliere's 'Le Misanthrope.'
November 1, 1994... To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely...
The delusory denouement and other strategies in Maupassant's fantastic tales. (Guy de Maupassant)
November 1, 1994... Tzvetan Todorov's seminal work, Introduction a la litterature fantastique, establishes the fantastic as a genre, defining it as a hesitation between the supernatural and the uncanny. The supernatural, like fantasy, deals with an "unreal" world, a...
Something from nothing: regenerated narrative in Mirbeau's 'Le Jardin des supplices.' (Octave Mirbeau)
November 1, 1994... Facetiously dubbed by friend Georges Rodenbach "le don Juan de l'ideal,"(1) fin de siecle novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau devoted much of
his tumultuous literary career to polemical campaigns against his perceived political enemies....
Mallarme and the madness of obscurity. (Stephane Mallarme)
November 1, 1994... Brevis esse laboro, obscuro fio.
Horace, De arte poetica(2)
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence...
Poe, "Eleonora"(3)
Obscurity is often thought of in terms...
Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France.
November 1, 1994... "Lord Stavordale, not yet one-and-twenty, lost eleven thousand last [T]uesday, but recovered it by one great hand at hazard: he swore a great oath - 'Now, if I had been playing deep, I might have won millions.'"(1) Eighteenth-century society's...
Sade et l'ecriture de l'orgie. Pouvoir et parodie dans l'"Histoire de Juliette."
November 1, 1994... This volume, like the works of Sade himself, is an exploration of the relationship between language, power, and sexuality. For Lucienne Frappier-Mazur this relationship is epitomized in the Sadeian orgy, because the orgy is a site of inclusion...
Logomachia. The Conflict of Faculties.
November 1, 1994... "Un texte n'est pas une etoile. [...] il n'est jamais visible, jamais present." C'est pourtant depuis son impossible eclipse que l'obscur Der Streit der Fakultaten (1798) de Kant "eclaire" sur le mode mineur (mais qui decide de telles choses?)...