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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (1-2): 93–114.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Wes Williams Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Wes Williams D'UN AMI L'AUTRE: LA FIGURE DU COMPAGNON CHEZ LES PELERINS DE JERUSALEM Prologue En guise d'introduction, deux scenes contrastees. La premiere se deroule pres de l'ile de Candie en 1532, la deuxieme aJerusalem...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 293–313.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Renaud Redien-Collot Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Renaud Redien-Collot LA SERlE EPISTOLAIRE : FIGURE DE REPRESSION OU DE PARTICIPATION POUR LES FEMMES ECRIVAINS DU XVllleSIECLE ? Sous l'Ancien Regime, de nombreux critiques consideraient la lettre privee feminine...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Peter Poiana Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Peter Poiana FIGURES OF SCANDAL IN THE LATER NARRATIVES OF MARGUERITE DURAS I f Duras' writing has always addressed key existential questions, it has also shown a noticeable trend over the decades away from its earlier...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 5–30.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Jean-Baptiste Amadieu Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Columbia University 2018 Jean-B aptiste Amadieu ÉCHAPPE-T -ON À LA CENSURE GRÂCE AUX FIGURES RHÉTORIQUES ? « intelligitur enim quod non dicitur1 » Quintilien Insulté par Voltaire dans Le Café ou l Écossaise (1760) sous le sobriquet de...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 66–84.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as those of twelfth-century writers—not smiths or illusionists or engineers, but writers. Free of the obligation to draw up plans and forge parts and figure out why they fail to function properly, untroubled by the ravages that might be wrought upon a machine by use or accident or excess of humidity...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 470–485.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Lhéritier participe, une appropriation originale des figures de la transmission. Sa position apparaît non seulement dans les généalogies et scénographies féminines que ses péritextes construisent, mais aussi, de manière spéculaire, dans les « historiettes » des Œuvres meslées , où il est question...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Giulia Boitani Abstract The initial section of the thirteenth-century Tristan en prose has been the subject of multiple critical investigations, mostly devoted to identifying its teleological purpose or figurative function in relation to the rest of the romance. This article proposes to reframe...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 235–260.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” that merges two nineteenth-century figures: the “invisible” flâneuse and the “inaudible” rieuse , or funny woman. Focusing on the intersection of the representation of urban experience and the humorous in Fiacres , this article situates Marni’s sound bites within a genealogy of women writers and the city...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... with illnesses and their treatments; the Roman de Renart, for its part, finds Doctor Fox using his aura of medical authority to torture his fellow animals as part of a cruel and prolonged “cure.” Through an extended analysis of the figure of the doctor, who stands at the center of many of these medical...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
... tradition of Alexander the Great in medieval Europe, and in particular in relation to the literary tradition that starts with Pseudo-Callisthenes’s Greek Romance of Alexander . The aim is to show how Alexander was used not simply as an icon of secular or military power but also as an important figure...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 227–248.
Published: 01 September 2020
... possible : une situation où toute expression culturelle hégémonique avait avant tout une visée politique, celle de glorifier le monarque absolu. En tant que figure qui présente l’irreprésentable, le sublime permet l’impossible dans la représentation du roi : le présenter comme absolu. Il s’agit là d’un...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 353–374.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Claire Nouvet Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Claire N ouvet AN ALLEGORICAL MIRROR: THE POOL OF NARCISSUS IN GUILLAUME DE LORRIS' ROMANCE OF THE ROSE Borrowing from the allegorical tradition of dream narratives the figure of the cheminement, the Romance of the Rose...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 19–39.
Published: 01 January 2005
... preference for impersonal writing poses for an autobiographical reading, and more especially for identification. The discussion will center on the Dandy figure, because it is with that figure that Baudelaire has usually been identified.13 Running along with 10. Michel Leiris, "Introduction" in Jean-Paul...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... They will become more explicit with the commandments of Love and the more animated negative figures such as Dangier and Malebouche. 5. Paul Verhuyck's interesting reading proposes a "multiplication des cadres" wherein love is an "infinite and incommunicable mirage." While he sees no possibility of overcoming...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... poetic figures to highlight similarities between invisible and visible things. In a seemingly inverse movement, the structure of the Livre then uses an Aristotelian version of the ladder of being, moving down from God. The first book, on God, uses linguistics and physics to express its ontological...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 81–90.
Published: 01 January 2002
... in Riffaterre's work. My focus in this paper is twofold: first, to examine the idea of the archilecteur in the context of Riffaterrean theory in an attempt to understand why this figure was at once so compelling as to achieve a permanent place in the annals of literary analysis, and yet unsatisfactory enough...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 741–759.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Ie symbole du caducee entoure de l'expression latine « CONCORDIAE FRUCTUS » - Ie fruit de la concorde. Ce symbole etant inscrit sur la premiere page du principal recueil de poesie de Baudelaire, la poesie du poete paralt alors litteralement se placer sous la figure du caducee. On remarquera que cette...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 November 2001
... are devices serving a modern critical need to organize texts around an authorial identity, however fictive that identity might be.4 Nevertheless, because so little is known about the book's writer, the Angoysses Douloureuses offer a convenient text to think about the construction of the author figure...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by medieval theologians and preachers. These include the literal and/or historical senses, the allegorical sense, the tropological (moral) sense, and the anagogic (spiritual or eschatological) sense. Any given bestiary chapter engages some of these figural senses on the basis of a description of the creature...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 505–522.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., son chien en laisse, ses moutons disperses tout autour de lui, leve les yeux vers Ie cie1.9 In chapter 48, the postcard that Madame Albin shows to Jane Sutton also resembles a figure in the Bruegel painting: it represents "un paysan grec avec une espece de grand beret, une chemise rouge et un gilet...
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