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Communities in Conflict: Sand’s Human Comedy

David A. Powell
Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 443–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-96.3-4.443
Published: 01 May 2005
...David A. Powell David A. Powell COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT: SAND'S HUMAN COMEDY Sociologists define a community as any group of people that perceives itself as distinct from other groups, and which is perceived by the outside world as distinct. Groups establish community solidarity in opposition...
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The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print

Pierre Force
Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 397–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-105.3-4.397
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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Proust against the Monde: Social Comedy in the Recherche

Caroline Weber
Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 417–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8819605
Published: 01 December 2020
...Caroline Weber Abstract This essay examines the role of comedy in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu . This bit is funny for starters because it shows that in M. de Guermantes’s pantheon of favorite authors, the man who writes obituaries for Paris’s leading society daily, Le Gaulois...
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Essai de datation intratextuelle de la Comédie des proverbes

Michael Kramer
Romanic Review (2001) 92 (3): 235–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-92.3.235
Published: 01 May 2001
...Michael Kramer Michael Kramer ESSAI DE DATATION INTRATEXTUELLE DE LA COMEDIE DES PROVERBES Collection phraseologique burlesque du premier XVIIe siecle, presentee sous forme de piece de theatre, la Comedie des proverbes est un document precieux pour l'histoire de la langue, de la litterature et du...
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Hard Labor and Sweet Delights: Luisa Carnés’s Tea Rooms and Luis Marquina’s El bailarín y el trabajador

Juli Highfill
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10604226
Published: 01 September 2023
... their means. In the musical comedy El bailarín y el trabajador (1936), a ruined señorito , formerly a ballroom dancer, finds himself relegated to working in a cookie factory. As he redirects his bodily exertion from nonproductive to productive labor, he sings of the working life as “dulce y sabrosa” (sweet...
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Laughter and the Tree of Knowledge

Thomas Harrison
Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-97.3-4.501
Published: 01 May 2006
... meditation on the Satanic implications of jocularity occurs in Charles Baudelaire's essay "De l'Essence du rire" (1855). Following a long scholastic tradition culminating in the bishop jacques Benigne Bossuet's Maximes et re-flexions sur la comedie (1694) and made the brunt of fiction in Umberto Eco's II...
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Signifying Difference: Reading Balzac and Sand / Writing Balzac and Sand

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer
Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-9091109
Published: 01 September 2021
... how their literary, social, and political positions as “public writers” were to some extent dependent on constructions of each other. Works Cited Balzac Honoré de . La Comédie humaine . 12 vols. Paris : Gallimard , 1976 – 81 . Balzac Honoré de . Correspondance Edited...
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Mapping the Knowledge of Dante Commentaries in the Digital Context: A Web Ontology Approach

Carlo Meghini, Mirko Tavoni, Michelangelo Zaccarello
Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8901843
Published: 01 May 2021
... and endowed with morphological annotation and, in the case of the Comedy , the Convivio , and the Rime , also with syntactic annotation. The first prototype of this resource was created in the early 2000s at the University of Pisa, under the direction of Mirko Tavoni, as part of the national research...
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In Praise of Mistranslation: The Melancholy Cosmopolitanism of Jorge Luis Borges

Dominique Jullien
Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 205–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-98.2-3.205
Published: 01 May 2007
... not necessarily take Borges at his word when he claims that he has "read and reread The Divine Comedy in more than a dozen different editions [and also] Ariosto, Tasso, Croce, and Gentile," but that he is "quite unable to speak Italian or to follow an Italian play or film" Jorge Luis Borges, "An Autobiographical...
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Illusion lyrique d’un témoin: Interrogation de Drieu la Rochelle

Marc Dambre
Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 9–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-105.1-2.9
Published: 01 January 2014
... Journal 1939-1945 en 1992 n'ont pas empeche l'accession a la Bibliotheque de la Pleiade vingt ans apres. Y figure La Comedie de Charleroi, la fiction majeure qu'il a consacree en 1934 a la guerre de 1914-1918. Sur ce sujet, elle avait ete precedee par la toute premiere publication de l'auteur...
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Le Réemploi stratégique du roman noir après la révolution de Juillet

Dominique Laporte
Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 513–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-100.4.513
Published: 01 November 2009
... des jeunes dramaturges romantiques, Duval composa Le vieux chateau ou La Rencontre: Comedie en un acte et en prose, melee de chants (1798) qui, dans ses CEuvres completes, accompagne Montoni, ou LE ROMAN NOIR APRES LA REVOLUTION DE JUILLET 5I 5 Ie Chateau d'Udolphe, drame en cinq actes et en prose...
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Elmire and the Erotics of the Ménage à Trois in Molière’s Tartuffe

Julia Prest
Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 129–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-102.1-2.129
Published: 01 January 2011
... value to the character of Elmire, a shock value that has become lost over the centuries, overshadowed in particular by the even greater shock value of the provocative religious dimension to the play. Yet it is surely no coincidence that the anonymous author of the Lettre sur fa comedie de L'!mposteur...
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A Quintilian for the 21 st Century: On Fictional Truth

Teodolinda Barolini
Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 239–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-101.1-2.239
Published: 01 January 2010
... errors," a paradoxical phrase much like "fictional truth." So, struck by the similarity of Riffaterre's title to Dante's own metapoetic language, I picked up Riffaterre's Fictional Truth and found it to be a wonderful tool for someone intent on showing that the Divine Comedy is, after all, an artifact...
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Dire, Médire, Dédire : Speech Acts in Le Misanthrope

Stephen H. Fleck
Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 249–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8503468
Published: 01 September 2020
... Misanthrope is unlikely ever to be dethroned from its place atop Molière’s grandes comédies morales , but surely remains among the most difficult to interpret. The depth, richness, and ambiguity of its protagonists are matched by its innovative structure, in which laughter itself is staged and problematized...
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Fictional Evil and the Reader’s Seduction: Rabelais’s Creations of “l’esprit maling”

Jerry C. Nash
Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 369–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-93.4.369
Published: 01 November 2002
... that sets the stage for Rabelais's comedy of evil and incongruity. Rabelais shows us this principle, and makes us laugh at it, in his narrative portrayal of established human roles or social patterns which be- 4. Simone Weil, "Morale et litterature," Cahiers du Sud, 263(1941), 40-41. 5. Quotations are from...
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“Il y a du goth . . . dedans”: Aim and Author of Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné

Timothy Raser
Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 241–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-9812504
Published: 01 September 2022
... in the “Comédie à propos d’une tragédie” express the horror decapitation provokes, 8 while there is only one statement of the novel’s abolitionist aim; all agree, though, that Han is a bad novel. Recently, Ève Morisi has argued that Hugo adopts a rhetoric in Le Dernier Jour —the use of paragraphe-images...
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Une Poétique de l’énigme. Le Récit herméneutique balzacien

Sarah Juliette Sasson
Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 544–546.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-98.4.544
Published: 01 November 2007
... l'enigme. Le Recit hermeneutique balzacien. Geneve : Droz, 2006. Pp. 402. Le tres savant et non moins dense ouvrage de Chantal Massol se propose d'etudier la signification de l'enigme et du recit hermeneutique en general dans La Comedie humaine. Loin d'etre uniquement un jeu « d'occultation/ devoilement...
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Balzac ou comment ne pas raconter une histoire

Éric Bordas
Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 569–571.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-100.4.569
Published: 01 November 2009
... des annees 1980, toute une serie d'etudes, inspirees par la sociocritique de Claude Duchet ou la narratologie de Gerard Genette, se multiplierent, repensant La Comedie humaine comme un « tout en morceaux » (L. Dallenbach), anaIysant Ie metadiscours recteur (F. Van Rossum-Guyon), et envisageant, ainsi...
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Just, Good, Friends: The Sexless Utopia of Balzac’s L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine

Andrew J. Counter
Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 131–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-110.1-4.131
Published: 01 January 2019
... significantly from the final book version; and L Initi which Balzac began in 1847, completed in January of the following year, and which appeared in print in August 1848. (The title L Envers de l histoire contemporaine was applied by Balzac to the first part for the Furne edition of La Comédie humaine in 1846...
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Fear of Theory

Michael Riffaterre
Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 185–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-93.1-2.185
Published: 01 January 2002
... aristocratic mother), and reduces the sexual comedy to the function of directing readers towards Balzac's political utopia of a landed aristocracy, and toward a symbolic relationship between potency and class power (163). Jameson's demonstration of the psychological motivations is entirely convincing, although...
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