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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Christopher L. Miller Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Christopher L. Miller HISTORY, HORROR, AND PLEASURE IN HAITI AND AFRICA Europeens qui ne connaissez pas cet affreux systeme [de l'esclavageJ, qui ne pouvez meme pas en concevoir l'idee, hommes sensibles, ne...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to be known as overdetermination. This mechanism, just as capable of producing horror as it is of producing outrage, guides the novel itself, but also corrupts the prefaces, making them more emphatic than persuasive. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 404–424.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of doom. Haenel’s hero finds in solitude the critical distance from that culture needed to formulate an alternative vision of the world and exorcise the horror just enough to find hope. In Houellebecq’s novel, that distance is impossible, as his hero, a self-proclaimed “telemancer,” remains obsessed...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 183–187.
Published: 01 May 2013
... that are established among various colonial and postcolonial situations. Miller connects Haiti and Rwanda with regard to the representation of horror. Spivak connects the Congo not only to Martinique but also to Senegal, Chandernagor (one of the former French enclaves in India), and her own natal region of West Bengal...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 237–248.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of pathological. It would seem that Emma feels horror in the presence of men-excluding her father-and had, from childhood until her nineteenth year. This sentence, fraught with ambiguity, is extremely important because it marks Emma as virtually abnormal because she regards men as dangerous beings to be feared...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 547–560.
Published: 01 May 2010
... descargas absorbian el total de la potencia electrica de la ciudad, conociamos la hora exacta del experimento mortal porque nos quedabamos un instante en las tinieblas con el aliento tronchado de horror no una vez sino muchas veces, pues la mayoria de las victimas se quedaban colgadas de las correas de la...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 288–291.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of the tiny frogs that lived in the fountain and frequently got pulled up in the pail heavy with water. The family screamed with laughter when she announced with horror what had happened. She never forgave us. The Creuse is not for city slickers. You have to be, or act like you are, rough and tough-even...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 183–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to the death penalty runs deeper than the respective works' apparent preoccupations, that is, deeper than feelings of horror or sympathy or ideas about educational policy. Myriam Roman's assessment of the message of Claude Gueux is applicable to Le Dernier Jour as well: "Les propositions concretes de Hugo sont...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 May 2006
... observation on visualizing the horrors of the lager. He explains poi nel film gli orrori non si vedono, perche l'orrore pill 10 si immagina e peggio e: come insegna Edgar Allan Poe, mai spiare I'orrore dal buco della serratura. Bastano degli accenni per far sentire che nell'aria c'e un orco, come nei racconti...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 May 2002
... aggression. The sexual demand becomes a demand to be put to death: "Elle dit qu'elle voudrait mourir" (33). This sparks off an avalanche of cries, insults, horror and blood-letting that culminates in the destruction of her face, now turned into "chose morte" (35). Nothing is spared by the violence...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
... language, he had a horror of philosophical language. That jargon gives you a sense of superiority over everybody. And philosophical pride is the worst that exists, it’s very contagious. (Cioran, “E. M. Cioran”) He continues to insist on the dangers of this kind of philosophical thought, because...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 187–202.
Published: 01 January 2009
... greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation," Swift's Protestant persona states, with the exclusive "we," like Yeats's "we old men." The lower classes were characteristically "the numerous classes." The Anglo-Irish horror pleni...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Disparition , Perec raises his voice in protest against the horrors of the Holocaust in a virtually silent way. Using the lipogram in “e,” he evokes the loss of the victims of the Holocaust by making absence a central theme of the book. Yet food, too, is lacking here. The hunger of numerous characters...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 115–122.
Published: 01 January 2010
... how the traumatic paradigm has become a kind of cliche that casts the modern subject as a passive victim, her notion of "the violence of modernity" leaves a fundamental assumption of the paradigm untouched: that the nineteenth-century city perpetrated unprecedented horror on its residents. I think...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., written and spoken into being by the men who rule. If one were to describe Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué , one might be tempted to call it horror meets magical realism, wherein the author zeroes in on the postindustrial town of Chicoutimi, his hometown, to obliterate the image it seeks to project...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 89–91.
Published: 01 January 2017
... to the obscene relay the demand for vigilance. In Untimely Interventions, Ross discusses the terror of the wakeup call in AIDS narratives, as well as the horrors of Primo Levi s awakenings to the sound of the bell in Auschwitz. Testimonial writing tells of disaster, a word borrowed from Maurice Blanchot (275...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 457–464.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of this diasporic paranoia is no less real for being recognized as such. But what I am attempting to articulate through this description/remembering of the courthouse's transaction ledgers is that I also felt totally responsible, as a human being, for the humanly wrought horrors of the past, and that it was through...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 290–292.
Published: 01 January 2011
... aspects of the cinematic experience constitutes a nostalgic reminiscence of the way cinema, and going to see films, once was. The horrors of World War II-which Simon experienced firsthand, as any reader of La Route des Flandres knows well-constitute a traumatic loss of innocence that strips the "magic...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 2009
... », « Monomaniaque », « Monomanie », « Monomaque », tome XI premiere partie, Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIxe siecle, Paris, Administration du Grand Dictionnaire universel, 1874,463. 402 BOOK REVIEWS Pierre Janet's female patients express a horror vacui identical to that of Guy de Maupassant's...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 161–171.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of human wickedness, like the Egout de Rome in Les Chatiments. The dripping ceiling is the detail that adds verisimilitude, and the repugnant hideousness of the scene takes on a convincing horror. That horror in turn serves as symbol of the chains that trammel the spirit. Sometimes it is the muddiness...
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