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The Romanic Review articles from November 2001
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 2001
"I do, I do": medieval models of marriage and choice of partners in Marie de France's "Le Fraisne".(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... That Marie de France would choose to write a story about love and marriage with a happy ending is rather a surprise to readers mindful of the historical reality of the Middle Ages. The prospect of a woman having a happy, loving marriage in...
Clothing "Dame helisenne": the staging of female authorship and the production of the 1538 Angoysses Douloureuses qqui procedent d'amours.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... In Les Angoysses Douloureuses qui procedent d'amours (Paris, 1538), the protagonist Dame Helisenne owns a white cloak of which she is particularly fond: "J'estois fort curieuse en habillemens, c'estoit la chose ou je prenoye singulier plaisir,"...
George Sand and Cristina di Belgiojoso's literary dialogue.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... Did the relationship between two nineteenth-century writers, George Sand and Italian Princess Cristina di Belgiojoso, (1) inspire a literary dialogue? (2) Sand's extensive corpus is, of course, well known, while Belgiojoso's writings--most of...
The anxiety of Senecan influence in Racine, or Phedre in the labyrinth.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... For those who would make sense of Jean Racine's career, Phedre will always present a paradox: at once a summit and an impasse. In this paper I propose not so much a resolution of this paradox as a new mapping of the play's contradictions, both...
"Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris": realite burlesque ou caricature effrayante?(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... Le XIXe, siecle excellence de l'avenement du bourgeois, s'est egalement avere celui du moteur de la caricature. La caricature, procede qui signifie l'appartenance d'une personne a un groupe en la reduisant a une somme exageree de traits...
Du chemin poetique au theatre de la menace.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... Les chemins sont des traces visibles des voies qui appellent le poete. Dans Les Ruines de Paris (1) de Jacques Reda, "cette ligne au tracepoetiqu" (p. 96) indique le chemin qui peut mener partout ; la voie, petite ou grande, de commencement,...
Tradition, ritual and identity in Jean Rouaud's loire-inferieure cycle.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2001... The publication, between 1990 and 1999, of the rive volumes of Jean Rouaud's fictionalised autobiography (1) coincided not only with considerable creative and critical activity, in France and elsewhere, in the rich domain of autofiction, but...
"Je suis comme une truie qui broute": une lecture pomologique de truismes de Marie Darrieussecq.
November 1, 2001... [Mais] Ne machons pas nos mots, ce qui nous ensorcelle, nous, le porc, le chien ou la chevre caveurs de truffes et qui tient pour beaucoup de son mystere, c'est la testosterase, substance presque identique a la testosterone, hormone que l'on...
Testifying to his text: primo Levi and the concentrationary sublime.
November 1, 2001... In his Estetica, first published in 1902, Benedetto Croce offered a remarkably prescient definition of the atrocious sublime:
Che cos'e il sublime? L'affermarsi improvviso dj una forza morale
ultrapossente: eccone una definizione....
Le Dix-huitieme siecle francais au quotidien: Textes tires des memoires, des journaux, et des correspondances de l'epoque.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... Roland Mortier, ed. Brussels: Editions Complexe, 2002. Pp.710.
Ever since he published his landmark book, Diderot en Allemagne (1954), Roland Mortier, eminent professor emeritus of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, has produced a...
Beauty Raises the Dead. Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siecle.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... By Robert Ziegler. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. Pp. 189.
Nineteenth-century Decadent writing offers fertile terrain for the psychoanalytically-inspired reader. Dip into Huysmans, Rodenbach or Rachilde, and there are...
Le Mirage russe en France.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... Textes reunis et publies par Serguei Karp et Larry Wolff. Centre International d'etude du XVIIIe siecle, Ferney-Voltaire, 2001. Pp. 264.
"Mirage--phenomene optique, du a la refraction des rayons lumineux dans les couches d'air inegalement...