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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 389–393.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Aurelie Renaud Andrea Goulet . Optiques. The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2006 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Book Reviews Andrea Goulet. Optiques...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 357–369.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Peter Brooks Abstract This essay revisits the question of the fictional person, largely by way of Proust’s claim that the novel offers us nonexistent persons the better to espouse vision through other eyes: knowledge of the world as experienced by another consciousness. If the New Critical...
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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 (2000) 91 (3): 289–311.
Published: 01 May 2000
... with a vivid evocation of visual perception: the drawing of an eye accompanied by the description of images sliding onto the retinal membrane. In a sense, the image seems to identify perceptual immediacy as the horizon toward which the Simonian text leans.2 But this particular representation of the organ...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 353–374.
Published: 01 November 2000
... image of the lady's eyes; for others, they figure the lover's eyes, or the reflection of his own eyes in those of the lady. 2 Pursuing this line of investigation, more recent interpretations have read the crystals as an allegory for the speculum that the eye is supposed to be. According to medieval...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that in the year 1348, on the vigil and the day of the Assumption of the glorious Virgin I was saying a private mass, and because of this fact I saw myself unfit to perform: because my eyes were worsened and impeded, from that day until the day I recovered my sight I abstained from the celebration of mass...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 459–479.
Published: 01 November 2000
... contemplateur," they do not reach beyond him. Rather, the image of the contemplative eye creates a natural pause in the line. "L'reil contemplateur" visually complements the opening "Soleil," prompting the reader to associate the greater eye of the universe with the eye of one who contemplates it. Valery also...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 314–317.
Published: 01 September 2022
... readership. It is hard to imagine a VSI volume on Ovid that could be better executed in terms of the balance it achieves between its breadth of vision, on the one hand, and its eye for particularity, on the other: a major strength of this book is that at no point in his coverage of Ovid’s individual works...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2016
... with her penetrating but tender, dreamy eyes. The writer Leyb Faynberg8 sits and listens, and so does the scholar and Yiddish literary critic Moyshe Shtarkm an.9 And so do other Yiddish cultural activists and teachers. Is this possible? Did this very miracle happen to me? I see everything as if through...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 253–275.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of children from a summer camp comes into view. At the edge of the beach a child stands aloof, silent. He becomes the focus of the woman s attention. The sublimity of the seascape has brought tears to his eyes. He says that there is no point in explaining why he is crying, that no adult would understand...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 761.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Charles Baudelaire; Grover Amen EXOTIC PERFUME My eyes are closed; it is a warm evening of autumn. Silently I breathe the perfume of your breasts. Glistening shores stretch out before me, their sands burn like fire under an eternal sun. Fruit trees and palms are upon the island, and all day long...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 5–9.
Published: 01 January 2017
... ettle for the winter, not wander at the return of spring. from inside this place my-opic eyes see a store h ouse of beauty, no longer something that i have to touch. enough to contemplate what might have been. perhaps that s why i had to grow old first? add some farsighted beams: a wrinkling writer...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Hundred Eyes. As in the Greek myth, his Argus kept a close watch on others not out of s elf-interest but for something or someone bigger than himself in La Mésangère s case, le juste milieu and le bon goût. But La Mésangère went one giant step further than Argus in the way of s elf-protection. Beyond...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 301–304.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Riffaterre's office; no one could read all those books stacked everywhere, dangerously, haphazardly. I remember being impressed, not believing my eyes. It fit perfectly into the dream sequence. I remember being impressed, not believing my eyes, it fit perfectly into the dream, Michael Riffaterre's office. I...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 May 2002
... nevertheless cannot escape a certain blindness underlined by the fixed gaze of the mirror. In Le Testament d'Orphee Oedipus, who has undeniably seen truth, walks blindly, crossing the path of the Poet. The Poet himself has painted eyes on his face in the place of his own eyes. He walks with this fixed gaze...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 May 2004
... victim of circumstances, emerging "virgin and martyr"to use her words-in his eyes.3 Finally, at a dinner for d'Arthez concocted by the duplicitous Mme d'Espard and attended by several of the Princess's embittered former lovers, d'Arthez argues against their defamatory attacks and his love proves...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 325–342.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of national communism for a more international version. Lacking normal interaction with the party, he and Elsa began to lean more and more toward national communism, drawing on specifically French cultural heritage for their material. Subversion of the occupier, in Aragon's eyes, meant French cultural...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 171–181.
Published: 01 January 2004
... novel, seems to represent the very embodiment of racism. In her eyes the world is strictly divided along color lines, between a superior white race and an inferior black one. The child of an interracial marriage, Cajou inevitably turns this vision of the world upon herself, convinced she is doomed...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 37–39.
Published: 01 January 2017
... in the United States from his native Australia. When I first laid eyes on him, he was dressed in his trademark Akubra hat, faded jeans, and scuffed leather jacket. Ross never saw himself as a trendsetter, but in fact his well-w orn look predated the outback style that would be popularized in the United...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 96–102.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., the big wings, the long fine hair—or, fine, this is a new millennium, at least a kind of gravity within an ordinary face; instead, I get the half-homeless eye-roller asking for a buck again; the fat kid loitering outside the pizza place for whom I’m an easy mark, a slice and a Coke...
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