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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 235–260.
Published: 01 September 2021
... drawn carriages for hire, the fiacres , the fin de siècle taxi cabs. Training her eye on and lending her ear to Belle Époque Paris, Marni registers the conversations of Parisians as they move about the city. In these feminocentric, and by turns humorous or ironic texts, Marni hones an “urban comic...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... sanitatem nominant!” (This is what the shitting Salernitans call health!); “discursores alienis fecibus imbuti” (vagrants steeped in other dreck)—tap into carnivalesque modes where excrement is organic, filthy, vituperative, and comic, in contrast to the sterility of the treatises’ technical, Scholastic...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... The gravity of Baudelaire's sense of the comic is indebted instead to French institutions of mockery and satire, overseen by the tutelary spirits of Moliere and Voltaire. By the nineteenth century these traditions of comedy had become so mordant as to solicit moral misgivings. French comedy seemed almost...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 369–386.
Published: 01 November 2002
... as the epic hero of Rabelais's narratives (cf. especially pp. 63-84). In his re-evaluation of the character and role of Panurge in the Tiers Livre, Lance K. Donaldson-Evans argues that both "master [Pantagruel] and servant [Panurge] are caught in the same comic impasse" (87), that is, Panurge is no more...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 83–104.
Published: 01 January 2013
... voir assise. Ne remuez pas les bottes ! C'est mon principe" (Poesies completes 63). Resistance to the ideological machinery of nationalism, the kind capable of mobilizing bodies and eventually getting them killed, takes a number of forms and articulations in Rimbaud's letter: comically distorted...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 185–199.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of the novel a story of disillusionment as the genre requires, but above all, a comical story. We are still faced with one problem quite pertinent to literary art. Why does Balzac maintain an enormous descriptive apparatus, and waste such riches of delicate social observation, such a vast array...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 69–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
... ethical and aesthetic. Those who criticized this aspect of the film maintained that it is ethically reprehensible to go against historical facts in representing the Holocaust. The other, related theoretical issue concerned humor: Was humor, and the comic in general, an acceptable mode for treating...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 405–420.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in the ironical use of cliches, and here Conde echoes literary humorists and comic writers of the Queneau and San Antonio family: "seule dans Ie triste chemin de la vie" 16 or "Sous Ie soleil de Celanire, les enfants rayonnaient de sante"17 ("lone on the desolate path of life", or "Under Celanire's sun...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 297–315.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... During his or her performance, the narrator was also given licence to subtly embellish the story and sometimes borrowed from the comical language of flag bearers.2 Suitable to socially and culturally diverse audience, II Cunto gathered material from ancient and contemporary traditions, becoming one...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and experience are showcased in pieces that ask us to reimagine the city. Cheryl Morgan’s article, “Voices Carry: Jeanne Marni’s Urban Comic,” takes readers into the vibrant cityscape of the female urban journalist and satirist Marni (Jeanne Marnière), as she makes her way into the decidedly masculine...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 187–202.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Beckett "is not clear whether he is a comic writer or simply a bitter one" (35): "the Cartesian clown is dormant in Proust" (42). But Proust can be seen rather as a crucial "way out" (The Complete Short Prose 137) of the impasse represented by the juncture of the Irish "two ways," Yeats's line and Joyce's...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 590–593.
Published: 01 May 2012
... meaningful points of overlap-and indeed there are many. The outcome is a collection of chapters that covers a tremendous range of visible writing-from ancient Greece to post-9/11 New York City, from comics to posters to Chinese characters-and provides original analyses through both traditional modes of text...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 23–35.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., these parrots provide the main lines of communication in both stories, and are the essential vehicles without which their plots could not advance. Putting a parrot-as opposed to, say, a nightingale-in the driving seat is both comic and unsettling.4 The parrot's well-known capacity for mimicry turns a spotlight...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 275–284.
Published: 01 May 2006
... their inner circles in the loges, it is nonetheless certain that listening every day for five or so hours to the so-called lyrics of most Italian operas is, in the long term, a sure way to undermine the intellectual abilities of a nation. As long as Casti was producing comic operas and Metastasio was adapting...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 249–259.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with L’École des femmes , the Misanthrope brought the grande comédie morale to its summit—but also to its limit as a genre. How comic, finally, is this work? The best evidence of the original production’s nature remains Donneau de Visé’s Lettre écrite sur la comédie du Misanthrope (Molière 1:635–44...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 147–159.
Published: 01 January 2009
... genre: the thriller. One of them is in diary form; all of them, once they get started, are narrated in the first person. No science fiction, no romance, no fantasy, except perhaps in the last "novel," where the narrator is able literally to banish the material world. There are plenty of comic mishaps...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Michael Call Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Michael Call ALCESTE AT THE PRINT SHOP: PUBLICATION AND AUTHORSHIP IN MOLIERE'S LE MISANTHROPE I n the stormy first scene of Le Misanthrope, Alceste announces in comically grandiose fashion his intention to "rompre en...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 217–234.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-than-life regimental clown, providing comic relief and dark humor amid the despair of the Russian retreat. Picart goes to comic lengths in his search for food and shelter: reminiscing about a bawdy old sausage vendor; impersonating a colonel to commandeer a warm shelter; and posing as the grandson...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 465–481.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the chateau is spelled variously as Belesbat, Belebat, Belesbat, Belebat, and Bellebat. THOMAS WYNN the authors of the recent scholarly edition of the work touch on the question of collaboration,47 and Russell Goulbourne focuses on Voltaire's assimilation of popular comic traditions.48 Although Jacques...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., Faulkner and Freud. The Parcae also appear in the contemporary poetry of Jude Stefan, and the comic strip Clotho by Jacques Bonodot and Gerard Dewamme. Hanging by a Thread in Gracq's Tapestry Besides this brief allusion to the Parcae, Un Beau Tenebreux presents an unusual number of images that evoke...
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