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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Lucas Hollister Abstract This essay engages with the inclination of recent ecocritical thought to disqualify postapocalyptic fiction and, often by extension, dystopian fiction from the ranks of those responses to the Anthropocene deemed helpful or appropriate. After a survey of recent antidystopian...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 353–369.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996). MARINETTI'S LE ROJ BOMBANCE 355 The fairy-like quality of the play and its suggestive force, for example, does not seem to have been stressed enough by scholars. The plot, after all, also tells the story...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 287–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Spirit (2002), and Apocalypse bébé (2010), has shown a sustained interest in bad fathers and paternal failure. Despentes’s Apocalypse bébé , which at the end of its investigation of the bleak landscape of contemporary France abruptly veers off into the genre of dystopian speculative fiction, likewise...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 125–143.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of the interactions between settlers and Native Americans mark it as a rich and comparatively untapped resource in the study of French imaginaires, or representations, of the New World. Of course, Beauchene's emphasis on alterity is not radical per se, sharing a kindred spirit with other "orientalist" fiction...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 465–484.
Published: 01 May 2011
... color work of his fiction writing. While we must remain attentive to those intermedial differences and to what Peter Dayan in his introduction to Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art terms the" incalculable" relationship between artistic media, it is also possible and, arguably, productive...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 277–292.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and sometimes circumnavigate the Hexagon. These peripatetic narratives include works of fiction and nonfiction alike. But they also count those of a more indeterminate variety, texts that display varying gradients of referentiality, authenticity, and documentation that effectively blur the boundary between t...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 347–365.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of colonial authorship not only because the authorial identity is part of the fiction but also because the question of authorship is actually explored in each case through the fictional narrative. I want to show how the considerations of literary production are intertwined in both narratives with those...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the narrator tours as he observes the customs of the local inhabitants. Thus, the novel offers a satirical glimpse at the lifestyle of French courtiers in the form of a dystopian travel journal. The elaborate architecture and furnishings of a supposedly foreign court, expensive and exotic clothing, oddly...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of generating “plausible fictions.” My own theoretical proposal is that Verdi’s expression can be understood not in the sense of offering an inaccurate yet reasonable representation but in the sense of effectively transforming reality by expressing it in a certain way, in the way that only a God can do...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 May 2023
... hadn’t yet been laid to rest.” The cycle of violence depicted in the film—violence as normalcy, historical violence that seeps into the fabric of everyday life—is undeniably connected to unmitigated loneliness. Ali and Emmi join hands because of their shared loneliness, but in Fassbinder’s fictional...
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