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The Romanic Review articles from November 2000
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 2000
An allegorical mirror: the pool of Narcissus in Guillaume de Lorris' Romance of the Rose.
November 1, 2000... Borrowing from the allegorical tradition of dream narratives the figure of the cheminement, the Romance of the Rose stages an "I" who from the very beginning of the dream walks. This walk is no aimless wandering. The "I" in the dream (a persona...
`Qui a pais n'a que faire de patrie': Joachim Du Bellay's resistance to a French identity.
November 1, 2000... The poet Joachim Du Bellay is commonly recognized as one of the most famous figures of sixteenth-century French literature who gave voice to pro-French sentiment. A prominent member of the Pleiade, he was also the author of its famous...
Racine: ce que la tragedie n'est pas. (1).(Jean Racine; text in French)
November 1, 2000... Il n'est pas de tache plus delicate que la recherche de l'originalite d'un ecrivain qui ne pretend pas en avoir.
(E. Vinaver)
En posant que "Berenice n'est donc pas une tragedie du sacrifice mais l'histoire d'une repudiation que Titus...
"O homines ad servitutem paratos!": Bajazet and the scandal of slave rule (1).(Jean Racine's play "Bajazet")
November 1, 2000... Of all Racine's plays, Bajazet is, according to the ARTFL database, the one where the word "esclave" occurs most frequently. (2) More than a fashionable addition to the series of successful syntheses of classical dramaturgy and galant...
Subjectivity in the fictional ruin: the caprice genre.
November 1, 2000... "What a clever chap that architect is, though; how he takes his client's measure!" Edith Wharton (1)
After Roland Mortier's La Poetique des ruines en France the study of the motif of the ruin in poetry and prose was extended to many...
From theory to practice: a musical reading of Valery's "Profusion du soir".(Paul Valery)
November 1, 2000... Un poeme est pour moi un etat d'une suite d'elaborations. Ceux que j'ai publies sont a mes yeux de productions arretees par des circonstances etrangeres. Et gardes, je les eusse transformes indefiniment. (1)
Written over a period of more...
Military discipline and revolutionary exaltation: the dismantling of "l'illusion lyrique" in Malraux's L'espoir and Bataille's Le Bleu du ciel.(Andre Malraux)
November 1, 2000... In 1933, Bataille contributed a review of Andre Malraux's novel La Condition humaine to the ultra left-wing journal La Critique sociale. (1) In this article, Bataille questions the place that revolution occupies in the larger and more general...
Fear of falling: the myth of Icarus in La Vie mode d'emploi.(Georges Perec)
November 1, 2000... J'aime: les parcs, les jardins, le papier quadrille [...] les toits d'ardoise, La Chute d'Icare [...] (1)
The presence of "programmed" allusions and quotations in La Vie mode d emploi, which form part of the larger system of constraints...