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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 367–380.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Jeremy D. Popkin Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Jeremy D. Popkin THE AUTHOR AS COLONIAL EXILE: "MON ODYSSEE" T he revolution in France's colony of Saint-Domingue that began in 1791 led to the first complete abolition of slavery in 1793-1794 and to the creation...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 409–426.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Dorothea von Mücke Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Dorothea von Mucke PRIVATE WRITER AND PUBLIC AUTHOR: AUTHORSHIP AND AUDIENCES IN ROUSSEAU'S CONFESSIONS Jean-Jacques Rousseau was very critical of his publics, especially when it came to the power play, networking...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 397–398.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Pierre Force Michael Call . The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print . West Lafayette : Purdue UP , 2015 . Pp. 294 . Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Book Reviews Michael Call. The Would-Be Author: Moliere and the Comedy of Print. West...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 361–380.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Suzy Cater Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Suzy Cater DON'T TRUST THE AUTHOR: SUSPECT TEXTS IN EDOUARD GLISSANT'S TOUT-MONDE ~ Edouard Glissant's Tout-monde is a text that challenges traditional conceptions of the novelistic genre. Glissant freely admitted...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... The characters suggest that the novel had had the time to become a literary sensation; that its author was widely known. 10. The Gros Monsieur complains about this enumerative structure: “Mon Dieu, l’horrible idée! développer, creuser, analyser, l’une après l’autre et sans en passer une seule , toutes...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 553–577.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Nicholas Cronk Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Nicholas Cronk THE SELFLESS AUTHOR: VOLTAIRE'S APOCRYPHA La condition d'un homme de lettres ressemble acelle de l'ane du public, achacun Ie charge sa volante, et il (aut que Ie pauvre animal porte tout. Lancez la fleche...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Daniel Brewer Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Daniel Brewer AUTHORS PRESENT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST Since the so-called cultural turn in literary studies in the United States, the exploration of the "literary field" in the wake of the sociologist Pierre...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... history on the other. At the center of this discussion is one of the thorniest aspects of the Vita Nova ’s text: the divisions (technical prose of a scholastic nature in which Dante explains the formal structure of his poems). Over the centuries, Dante’s authority over his own text was brought...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 311–319.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Thomas Pavel Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Thomas Pavel CROSS-B ORDER AUTHORITY AND LOCAL POWER: THE CASE OF THE NINETEENTH- CENTURY ROMAN CATHOLIC INDEX One of the most thought-p rovoking aspects of the rise of democ ratic ideals...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... himself mentally in a time period where he will not feel so alienated. It is in this spirit that Petrarch writes his letters to Cicero and other classical authors, expressing his longing to live in the time of these kindred spirits. For Friedrich Nietzsche, it is precisely because someone like Petrarch...
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Published: 01 May 2023
figure 1. Patty Keller, “Alone at the T-burg Laundromat” (2013). Photograph. Courtesy of the author.
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 222–240.
Published: 01 September 2022
... “La Beauté détrônée par l’amour”—that “la beauté n’est que la promesse du bonheur” (40). Nevertheless, Nietzsche’s misquotation of Stendhal and his subsequent interpretation of the French author’s aesthetics have held sway in later philosophy, such that Stendhal is regularly recruited to endorse views...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 May 2023
... women, and the author’s own. Reading the novel as largely to do with class and money, patriarchal capitalism, and the affective ruptures generated by social, economic, and cultural mobility, the Middle Ages seem far from its concerns. Yet solitude, loneliness, and death haunt the texts by and about all...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
...James C. Staples Abstract Margery Kempe establishes the authority of her body and pleasures on the grounds of her “singularity,” leading her to defend a stance on universal salvation from an expansive conception of Heaven that is surprising in its acceptance of sexual gratifications. Drawn in part...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 441–454.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jane Gallop Abstract The author traces her reading of Barthes’s 1973 book, Le Plaisir du texte , over the last five decades. Examining her published writings on the book, she traces how it meshes with her critical attachments to psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory. Claiming it as a text...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 408–416.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Thomas Pavel Abstract This essay begins as a reminiscence of its author’s early readings, including the first volume of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past . It then reflects on Proust’s depiction of his family, his love of art, and his pessimistic views on love. Copyright © 2020...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to an end? Could there be an American equivalent to his novel? And why among writers is there a saying, “If you want to write like Proust, don’t write like Proust”? Searching for the key to Proust’s achievement, the author realizes that over the years he has possibly read more about Proust than he has...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 423–436.
Published: 01 December 2021
... penitents and confessors, and points to a rigorist stance on the part of the author nearly twenty years before it became the dominant position of the church once again. Tackling a range of thorny questions such as the aim of confession, deferred absolution, and the nature of sin, Gournay examines confession...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Catriona Seth Abstract Right at the end of the eighteenth century, a famous poet, Ponce-Denis Écouchard Le Brun, denounced women writers and a literary dispute ensued. While it mobilized a number of authors, one poem stands out in accounts of the quarrel: Constance Pipelet’s “Épître aux femmes...
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