The Romanic Review articles from November 1995

The Romanic Review archives from November 1995

Un schema dramatique: la liste des personnages: un acte d'enumeration.
November 1, 1995... Sous sa forme complete, qui est encore fermement representee dans l'ecriture theatrale, la Liste des personnages ou Dramatis personnae est un texte didascalique (1) structure essentiellement par le biais d'un acte d'enumeration. Elle contient,...

Not a love story: sexual aggression, law and order in Decameron X 4 *.
November 1, 1995... In the fourth novella of the Tenth Day of the Decameron, Boccaccio reworks a tale which had originally formed part of the thirteenth "Question of Love" in his Filocolo. (1) This essay focuses on Boccaccio's reformulation of the socio-ethical...

Marriage and investment in El celoso extremeno.
November 1, 1995... Cervantes's El celoso extremeno, the version of his experiments with the decrepit-husband-takes-young-wife plot that he published as an exemplary tale, or novela ejemplar, is one of the most widely studied narratives of his collection. Rich in...

Sade ou l'ecriture de la destruction: a propos de la structure stylistique des Cent Vingt Journees de Sodome.
November 1, 1995... L'oeuvrede Sade est celle d'un homme obsede par une idee fixe la destruction. "La destruction etant une des premieres lois de la nature, rien de ce qui detruit ne saurait etre un crime" (La Philosophie dans le boudoir, 107-108). Les objets de...

'La litterature de martial': plagiarism as figure in Sade, Lautreamont, Ouologuem, and Sony Labou Tansi.
November 1, 1995... Le mal rongeur s'etend sur toute la figure... (1) Plagiarism is an intertextual literary practice with an abundance of intertexts to its name, not all of them literary. It has a history in legal discourse and its etymologies reveal a...

Dreamwork in Rimbaud's illuminations: the scene of the other in bottom.
November 1, 1995... I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream... The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath hot seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive,...

Le boucher-ephebe de la prisonniere et du temps retrouve.
November 1, 1995... Une lecture sequentielle (1) de la Recherche permet d'oeuvrer dans un ensemble de schemas propres a la pensee du heros proustien. La demarche d'une telle lecture poursuit l'ouverture d'espaces fictifs ou s'achemine la serie des metamorphoses...

L'Acacia de Claude Simon: la voie du sensible.
November 1, 1995... La "voie du sensible destgne pour nous le mode d approche qu'il convient d'adopter face aux multiples problemes de lecture que pose l'oeuvre magistrale de Claude Simon, L'Acacia. Il s'agit plus precisement d'affronter l'obstacle que represente...

After()birth: Michel Tournier's philosophoria.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 1995... Michel Tournier's Le Vent Paraclet is subtitled "essai" on the cover of the Gallimard edition, but translated into English as The Wind Spirit: An Autobiography. Besides obscuring the Trinitarian reference of the French title, the translation...

Toussaint's small world.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 1995... We designate things as "small" capriciously and according to different registers of perception. We may focus upon a thing's physical size; or upon its duration, intensity or range; upon its import, its significance; upon the quantity of the...

Langer, Ullrich. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance, Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy.(Book Review)
November 1, 1995... Langer, Ullrich. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance, Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 215 pages. In light of the preponderance of neo-Platonism in Renaissance...