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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 427–444.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Roland A. Champagne Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Roland A. Champagne THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: BAUDELAIRE'S CAT AS THE DAIMON OF EROTIC MYSTICISM IN LES FLEURS DU MAL T he cat is for Charles Baudelaire, the poet of Les Fleurs du mal, both a sign and a symbol...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 369–386.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of evil and the Devil, and especially on the moral and religious meaning of evil, as it helps to shed light on the enigmatic yet totally fascinating character Panurge. 1 For Griffin, the reader's first encounter with Panurge, in all his "misfortunes and his puzzling appearance" (in Pantagruel 9...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 191–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
... it, and enlightened man, his mind turned belly and his art turned black magic, wreaks worse havoc than the devil himself. Such, in any case, is the hypothesis I seek to prove. As readers will have gleaned, it is largely thematic in character; yet thematic content here relates crucially to form. In literary...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that the performative succeeds only insofar as it is simulated by an actor within a play, and only because Le Rustault and the citizens of Tours have, like the devil himself, resorted to theatrical “tours” in order to compel Martin’s vocation. This point is given emphasis by the saint’s subsequent demonic...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 483–484.
Published: 01 November 2002
... de realite," 51-6 Bloom, Sam, Zola.Vol.III. L'Honneur. (Henri Mitterand), 472-4 Champagne, Roland, A., "The Devil's Advocate: Baudelaire's Cat as the Daimon of Erotic Mysticism in Les Fleurs du mal," 427-444 Compagnon, Antoine, "Michael Riffaterre, poete-critique," 1-5 Creamer, Paul, "Woman-Hating...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 293–299.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by his faithless wife, who tells him to hang his ass over the bedside—“‘Par là s’en peult vostre ame aller’ (‘Your soul can take its leave that way’; 443)” (116; line numbers are keyed to Tissier 4:167–243). As his soul leaves his body, an expectant devil hiding under the bed receives it in the form...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... contributor approached this task in her or his own way, and with a research agenda dictated by the materials at hand, we collectively came to a number of conclusions regarding the value of the metaphysical turn for medieval studies. Confronted by a devil whose wiles threaten to annihilate us, Latour...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 413–433.
Published: 01 November 2007
... and metaphors used to create this uncontrolled space retain their own ambiguity. In the case of Gide, as we will see, the figure of the Devil, to which he so often has recourse, may be interpreted in many ways, both positive and negative-the doubt surrounding his very existence being one of the central themes...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
... experiences, proposing that Kempe herself is authorized by God to grasp the spiritual truths contained in her visions and to determine whether they are God-inspired or deceptions from the devil. Julian instructs Kempe to “fulfyllyn wyth al hir mygthys what-euyr he [God] put in hir sowle, yf it [the vision...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 405–420.
Published: 01 May 2003
... out), may well be the unforgettable cut-throat girl of his earlier police work years. Dorlis, as a former friend of Dr. Pinceau (sentenced and now defunct in the Amazon as we have seen), has vowed to unmask the she-devil. As Amarante, his wife, concludes her solo in Johannes Brahms's Rhapsodie pour...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 81–110.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., como la adliltera Erodias contra el gran Bautista, quisiera beberle la sangre" (73). As venomous snake, incarnation of the devil, Polanquilaco echoes the earlier description of the huaca-demon that Friar Diego had just extirpated. The biblical analogy to Herodias, second wife to Herod and mother...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Gerbert induces his master’s daughter to help him steal it; he then escapes, evading pursuit thanks to a pact with the devil. The learning that Gerbert acquires in Spain includes magic, astrology, and divination as well as the “licitis artibus” (“permitted arts”; 280–81) of arithmetic, music, astronomy...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 439–464.
Published: 01 May 2012
... devil motif advances an entirely different view by which poverty, as a "title of virtue," affirms moral qualities such as disinterest and tireless commitment. Far from delegitimizing a writer's grandiose ambitions as these confront a world indifferent to them, poverty justifies the author, guaranteeing...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 443–454.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., "intended families" as Isabelle Naginski so eloquently reformulates Dostoyevski's term. In both examples, 17. The chaplain is highly anxious when Consuelo asks him the meaning of the phrase, which he says means: "may the devil be with you." He explains that in Lollard beliefs, Satan was the protector...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (albeit not in the Wormsley Apocalypse, although its iconography is keyed to this gloss). According to this hermeneutical tradition, Revelation reveals how we are perpetually beset by snares of the devil, the pulls of lust, and the willful misdirection of hypocrites, particularly corrupt preachers. 19...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2004
... the disappearance of her husband, a transformation that comes from the devil himself. In their respective texts, both Gracq and Hugo portray the spinners as the instrument of destiny, a time bomb that cannot be stopped. This is greatly their fundamental value in literature, one that, with time, evolves. In Un Beau...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 11–47.
Published: 01 January 2012
... it all: it had not rained in a long time and the drought was beginning to cause a panic, so he promised rain from God if the heretics were exiled. Such a crazy proposition seemed convincing. The "Arnaldists" left Leon, but, instead of rain, there was a raging fire that seemed the work of the devil...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Moreover, seeing that it is the Serpent who is at the source of this alternative story, the American humorist was probably himself jesting with the association of Satan with the spirit of jest, which arose almost at the very birth of Christianity and assimilated the devil to the trickster, an irreverent...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... marginal illustration of a horned devil in the Hamilton 90-the only extant holograph of the Decameron (912). Other examples of the similarly rigorous philological footwork that informs many of the translations are found throughout the endnotes. BOOK REVIEWS 211 Whereas Rebhorn's unusually detailed notes...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
... points to humanity’s “grado de parentesco con el Diablo” ( Ventana 93). Similarly, the theory Cano proposes in his novel to make sense of human cruelty is that God designed humanity as an inherently violent species in order to keep the devil busy; hence, he titles this novel La felicidad del malvado...
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