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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 189–193.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Christine Chism Simon Gaunt . Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde . Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity . Series: Gallica , v. 31 . Cambridge, UK : D.S. Brewer , 2013 . Pp. 212 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Book Reviews Simon Gaunt...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 203–213.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... Far from truly killing time as they await the completion of the bridge that will permit their return to civilization, the devisants pursue a structured regime of repetition, carrying out an identical string of scheduled activities day after selfsame day. In the morning, the devisants strive to read...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
... on them and to mislead them (Suard), and with the capacity to devise astonishing feats of engineering and marvelous machines. He is not just hardi but also enginus , forging pillars of iron, sealed with bitumen, behind which he imprisons the monstrous peoples of Gog and Magog, who, as the book...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 427–437.
Published: 01 May 2012
... est significatif que cette devise intervienne en note, dans Ie contexte d'une discussion sur l'incomprehension du vrai caractere de l'auteur. La celebre devise semble aproprement parler n'appartenir qu'au hors texte : elle sera ainsi reprise dans les Lettres de la montagne pour remplacer Ie vide...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 323–341.
Published: 01 November 2007
... but also that it violates a rule the devisants had established in the Prologue, and to which she explicitly refers, namely not to recount old stories, especially those from written sources: "pour ce que n'est pas de nostre temps; et nous avons jure de ne riens mectre icy qui ayt este escript" (477).1 Since...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 267–268.
Published: 01 January 2010
... crossreferenced 3x5 file card system he had devised to organize his ever-expanding store of collocations and quotes, Professor Riffaterre, usually so dismissive of extra-textual and biographical reference, proudly, even gleefully, shared with me an archival treasure: a carefully preserved newspaper page from 1885...
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Rire et satire à l’aube des guerres civiles: l’exemple des Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale
Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 655–671.
Published: 01 November 2010
... /'invention poetique dans les coq-aane de Clement Marot, Fribourg, Suisse, Editions universitaires, 2000 ; Florian Preisig, Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de I'auteur a /'aube de la Renaissance, Geneve, Droz, 2004, p. 114-26 ; Bernd Renner, « "Clement devise dedans Venise" : Marot's Satirical Poetry...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 588–590.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., the author explains, was the Longinian concept of the sublime, influentially reinterpreted in the seventeenth century by Boileau, as an elusive, indefinable force within poetic language that ravished the reader. The sublime allowed the Ancients to devise alternatives to the key tenets of the Moderns...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 193–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
... to more complex explorations of Marco Polo and other travel texts. It combines philological and codicological acumen with theoretical flair as it advocates for more scholarly attention to the complex, self-interrogating, and unsettling ways that the Devisement invites audiences to relate...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 590–593.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the Ancients to devise alternatives to the key tenets of the Moderns' "geometric" approach. Whereas the Moderns prescribed transparency of meaning, the Ancients favored richness of form. Instead of the harmonious order and rational signification promoted by their rivals, the Ancients prized formal neglect...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 237–248.
Published: 01 May 2007
... suicide, his former business associate Aaron Loewenthal. Again, in her role as author she devises a literary plot in which she is the protagonist, requiring her to translate words into action, in the same way the Irish rebels in "Tema del traidor y del heroe" turn Shakespeare into real life. And just...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 419–423.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Philippe. Tentation autobiographique de I'Antiquite ala Renaissance. Paris: Seuil, 2013. Gaunt, Simon. Marco Polo's Le devisement du monde: Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. BOOKS RECEIVED 4 21 Gingras, Francis. Miroir du franfais: Elements pour une histoire culturelle...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 596–600.
Published: 01 May 2012
... with history by literary means, as do the proponents of the nouveau roman, but he implicates himself within that context by writing himself through history and vice versa. In La Vie mode d'emploi, the protagonist Bartlebooth devises a precise plan for living, which is his "user's manual." In her chapter titled...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 153–168.
Published: 01 March 2006
... veoir un festu en l'reil d'aultruy, ne void une grosse souche laquelle luy poche les deux reilz'" (TL XXV, 428-29). 14. Voir E. Duval, The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre, 112-28. 158 BERND RENNER debut des consultations. Toutes ces phrases ne font en verite que renforcer la fameuse devise de Theleme...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
...”; 40). La Sale himself experienced the connections across time of visitors to the mountain. In addition to transcribing graffiti, he added his own signature: Et semblablement je escrips mon mot et ma devise, mais a tresgrant peine, tant est le rocher dur. Si pourront dire les autres que je, Anthoine...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 91–96.
Published: 01 January 2014
... l'histoire et Ie roman," Le Debat 144.2 (2007): 25-44. See also Pierre Nora, "Histoire et roman: ou passent les frontieres?" Le Debat 165.3 (2011): 6-12. INTERVIEW WITH HENRY Rousso 95 unlike a writer like Patrick Modiano, who has always worked in a register other than that of history and who devised his own...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 455–478.
Published: 01 November 2001
... made her a much-consulted authority on intercession, while her pious poems and comptines have passed into local folklore (CH, 70). After her death, the family discovers that not only has she taken the practice of intercessional prayer to rather extreme lengths, but she has also devised her own highly...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 303–316.
Published: 01 May 2012
... place. Signes, cette fois, de dependance. Resumant cela en un symbole frappant, Ie contre-sceau donne a l'Academie porte la devise A l'immortalite, mais ce ne sont pas les ecrivains devenus academiciens qui accedent a celle-ci : ceux qu'il s'agit de rendre immortels, ce sont les grands hommes de l'Etat...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 September 2023
... a future moment when their works could be screened and consulted, archivists also traverse temporalities. Inhabiting the present, they are charged with protecting the material traces of the past by designing policies equipped to combat irrevocable material and visual loss while also devising strategies...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2013
... recounts the horrors of civil wars and sets up the action that will ensue; Madame de Nemours, the duke's mother, foresees her son's demise in act two; the king and his counselors devise a plan to assassinate the duke in act three. In this act, Henri is radically demonized, along with his right-hand man...
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