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Toward a Literary Psychoanalysis of Postcolonial Haiti: Desire, Violence, and the Mimetic Crisis in Marie Chauvet’s Amour
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Doris L. Garraway Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Doris L. Garraway TOWARD A LITERARY PSYCHOANALYSIS OF POSTCOLONIAL HAITI: DESIRE, VIOLENCE, AND THE MIMETIC CRISIS IN MARIE CHAUVET'S AMOUR Critics of Haitian writer Marie Chauvet's controversial novel, Amour...
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Synguler: Margery Kempe’s Irregular Desires for a Queerer Present
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
... experiences of loneliness and isolation” (178). 4. The mixed life, as it is put forth by Walter Hilton’s Epistle on the Mixed Life , is a form of living offered to the laity who may not have the conveniences of fully withdrawing from the world in eremitic or monastic contemplation yet still desire...
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Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory!: Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 190–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
... communism as a manifestation of “desire” conceived as an impersonal force that establishes an ethical relation with the foreign, the inassimilable, the other. More specifically, this essay ponders the aesthetic, ethical, and political implications of the cine-poem’s construal of the negative hands of upper...
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Fugitive Figures: On the Modes of Existence of Medieval Automata
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 66–84.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to inspire our desire for technological fictions. The girls those automata guarded are perfectly lovely creatures who fulfill the soldiers’ every desire: Alixandres regarde desous une cepee d’un vermel cherubin qui ot la fuelle lee et iert a oisiaus d’or menüement ouvree. Une pucele vit, bele et...
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Hard Labor and Sweet Delights: Luisa Carnés’s Tea Rooms and Luis Marquina’s El bailarín y el trabajador
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... as the production, distribution, and consumption of the material goods that sustain life and give pleasure. The novel makes palpable their desire to enjoy the consumer products that surround them—whether in the tea room, in nearby shops, or in the cinema across the street—pleasurable goods that remain beyond...
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Proust before Fascism
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 303–321.
Published: 01 September 2024
... classes. The second part of the essay turns to Benjamin, Bataille, and Blanchot, for whom his novel altered conventional notions of justice, desire, figural language, and the structure of time through the experience of writing. Across the political spectrum, readings of Proust pit the rhetoric...
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Subjective Realities: Misrepresentations of the Village and the City in Giovanni Verga’s I Malavoglia
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 557–576.
Published: 01 December 2024
...’ perspectives and as a window into their feelings, desires, or interests. The stress is not so much on the influence of the milieu on the characters’ psyche as on how their psyche molds the world around them. Through an analysis of the many ways in which the village and its polar opposite, the modern city...
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Scenes of Misrecognition (Koltès, Duras)
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 577–594.
Published: 01 December 2024
... fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. As performative utterances, these abortive confessions ultimately perform little...
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Béroalde de Verville, médecin conteur, et la seconde vie de la Querelle de l’Abstinente (1612)
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 20–36.
Published: 01 May 2022
... « pour le plaisir des Doctes et le bien de ceux qui desirent toujours savoir » ; et 3) la nouvelle dimension que prend alors l’ancienne querelle d’école. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 curiositas controverses médicales...
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Four Solitudes
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 96–102.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Cary Howie Abstract These four lyrics give voice to different intersections of solitude and community, this world and whatever lies beyond or within it. They are propelled and animated, they are done and undone, by desire. Solitude, here, is above all an erotic question. I guess if angels took...
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Lyric Dispossession as Solitary Presence
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of poems written in Arabic or Hebrew in the Romance dialect of Andalusia) and a Galician-Portuguese cantiga d’amigo (songs in which a young girl laments the absence of her lover). Lyric dispossession can affirm female desire despite its dominance as a male solitary presence in the courtly tradition...
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The Physician’s Species: Knowledge and Power in the Animal Clinic
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the cure to the desire of the sovereign. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Although the term employed for the deception invoked in the final line, vanitez , could refer to deliberate frauds or scams in Old...
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“La destruction est notre manière de bâtir”: Kevin Lambert’s Apocalyptic World-Building and Prophetic Textuality
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the figure of the innocent child, the standard-bearer of heterosexuality in its reproductive futurity, is, through the prophetic rage of the narrator, a child named Faldistoire, turned back upon the respectable adults who stamp out not only the lives of children but their nonnormative desires and impulses...
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Reading Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’Amore : Pontus de Tyard, Louise Labé, and Olivier de Magny
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 215–233.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Dorothea Heitsch Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Dorothea Heitsch READING LEONE EBREO'S DIALOGHI D'AMORE: PONTUS DE TYARD, LOUISE LABE, AND OLIVIER DE MAGNY Avec raison donq non seulement l'inferieur ayme et desire de se unir avec Ie superieur, mais encor Ie...
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Women Subdued: The Abjectification and Purification of Female Characters in Perrault’s Tales
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 01 May 2008
... much like that of Griselidis. Although she appears innocent at the beginning of the tale, she nevertheless possesses "certains tendres appas" (Contes lOO) that fuel her father's incestuous desire. Perrault intimates here that feminine beauty feeds male desire, which ends up disculpating the male...
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Figures of Scandal in the Later Narratives of Marguerite Duras
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., and displays behaviour that is as seductive in its appearance as it is destructive in its effects. But beyond the depiction of such uncanny characters, Duras' narrative is organised around the single, scandalous principle that is the desire to know the source of destruction. The narrative of scandal pursues...
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Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 467–473.
Published: 01 November 2004
... autorite et desir, comme on Ie voit dans les nombreux arrangements matrimoniaux qui forment I'intrigue de ses pieces tout comme dans I'obsession des personnages pour l'amour de la couronne et du roi. Pour Pascal, s'il existe une passion qui vaille la peine d'etre vecue, il ne peut s'agir que de l'amour de...
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Waging Loving War: Lucretius and the Poetry of Remy Belleau
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 275–292.
Published: 01 May 2013
... themes: poetry, desire, and politics.1 In this essay I look at the adoption of that tradition in the work of one of the lesser known but most innovative members of the group, Remy Belleau. The other Pleiade poets acknowledged Belleau as the most learned among them.2 He wrote across traditions and took...
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“The Flames Will Have Consumed Me”: Abandonment, Death and Self-Expression in Christine de Pizan and Louise Labé
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 431–451.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of an age-old story. In the dominant literary models which generally tell their tales from the masculine perspective, the woman who is left behind essentially ceases to exist. When the man sails away to epic conquest or spurs his steed on toward chivalric adventure or simply loses interest once his desire...
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Orgasme : Pour une érotique de l’or dans Facino Cane de Balzac
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 201–216.
Published: 01 January 2011
... resonance italaienne, Facino Cane. Fidele cet axiome de sa philosophie qui dit que: « La vie decroit en raison directe de la puissance des desirs ou de la dissipation des idees », Balzac pouvait deployer en quelques pages denses toute son acuite narrative, melant allegrement realisme des descriptions et...
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