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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 309–317.
Published: 01 May 2003
...J. Michael Dash ]. Michael Dash VITAL SIGNS IN THE BODY POLITIC: EROTICISM AND EXILE IN MARYSE CONDE AND DANY LAFERRIERE II n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de propheties aux Aubes inevitables, d'analyseurs, de donneurs de le...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 373–387.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Siobhán McIlvanney Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Siobhdn McIlvanney 'LES MO(R)TS NE NOUS LAcHENT PAS': DEATH AND THE PATERNAL/AMOROUS BODY IN LINDA LE'S LETTRE MORTE T his article examines the developmental paradigms exhibited by the narrator of Lettre morte...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 170–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Nicholas Paige Erec R. Koch The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France . Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press , 2008 . Pp. 390 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 17° BOOK REVIEWS Erec R. Koch...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 83–104.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Robert St. Clair Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Robert St. Clair LAUGHING MATTER(S): POLITICS AND POETICS OF THE (UTOPIAN) BODY IN RIMBAUD'S LES EFFARES1 Man corps, cette forme pensive . .. Valery Le fait du corps "C'est epatant comme ~a a du chien," writes Rimbaud...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Joanna Augustyn Mary Lathers , Bodies in Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist’s Model . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2001 . Pp. 294 . Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 BO()KREVIEWS 99 de 1'1lnperiale, Aureliell, La Se111aine sainte...
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Published: 01 May 2020
figure 5. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 135, fol. 91. The action of the elements on the body.
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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 (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Julie Singer Abstract Sociological research on chronic illness, and especially on the autobiographical writings of modern patients, has yielded insights into how chronic conditions alter fundamental relationships between notions of self, body, and time. The chronic part of “chronic illness” can...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and affirmed in the context of the saint’s public ordeal. Second, Foucault’s reading of the body as the surface of inscription of such discursive conflicts sheds light on the ways in which the saint’s discourse rewrites the bodies of the two protagonists, Apollo and Chelinde, and frames them within the lines...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 September 2021
... pattern that comes to characterize not only food but also bodies, clothing, décor, narrative form, and modes of attention and belief. I argue that the aesthetics of patchwork and collage extend as well to Sue’s self-fashioning as a political and moral opportunist. 1. Most notably, Accounting...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2004
... concentrated on the relations of body and mind with respect to sexuality rather than to literature. In her book, which can be roughly translates as "bodily decadence" or "decadence personified," Wanda G. Klee consolidates these issues and fills an unaddressed gap. Taking her cue from Max Nordau, Klee ties...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 249–269.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... La Puce de Madame des-Roches presents the activities of a provincial salon at an important moment in Poitiers's history. It celebrates Catherine's body as a site of exploration and the city as a political and literary center.3 Many of the poems in the collection bear witness to the context of its...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 429–436.
Published: 01 May 2003
... that self that makes a human a person? He concluded that sameness of person is indifferent to sameness of body. It did not matter, he argued, what the frontispiece was, the shape or structure, for person is a forensic term, and its continuity over time lies in consciousness. Edward Stillingfleet...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 601–603.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on reification, however, Noland's analysis is guided by what she calls the human body's social "inscription"; a conspicuous gesture to underscore that the work of Marcel Mauss and Andre Leroi-Gourhan anticipates the later development, specifically within the Frankfurt School, of the notion of social control...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
...figure 5. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 135, fol. 91. The action of the elements on the body. ...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 823–838.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... What might it mean, critically and poetically, to wait and see? What might such waiting look like?1 This is a question of critical poetics, but it is also, I wager, a question of critical erotics, of how we might take and give time for the libidinal pull of those bodies into whose orbits we are drawn...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 293–317.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a tempting, if somewhat artificial, boundary between "androgyny" and "hermaphrodism," often differentiating between an idealized androgyne and a monstrous or anatomical hermaphrodite. For Tracy Hargreaves, "the visibility, the material fact of the body," is what is most at stake in the distinction between...
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Undoing Odysseus’s Pact: Marginal Faces and Voices in the Narratives of Assia Djebar and Agnès Varda
Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2015
... and image-a visual representation, or an abstraction of women's body-in the way that Djebar describes in her critique of Delacroix's painting Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, "Regard interdit, son coupe" (262) (forbidden gaze/severed sound). Djebar concludes her Femmes d'Alger by casting light...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 381–396.
Published: 01 May 2014
... by a sexually related trauma, and by her daughter's decision to become a prostitute on a night they had no food. Her daughter's body is a kind of family legacy because she has inherited her mother's chest, "the well-known chest of the Fanon girls" (103). Bodies in this sense are not so much discrete objects...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 29–45.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... Upright, the standing mourner Nfissa had not imagined that the body would be thrown in a ditch, without being 5. Assia Djebar, Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War, trans. Marjolijn de Jager (New York: Feminist, 2005) 1. 6. The motif of the death of the newborn returns in The Nai"ve...
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