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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 345–358.
Published: 01 May 2009
... son petit cousin, j'en veux pour preuve cette phrase qu'on pouvait lire dans Le Monde du 13 juillet 1981 : « Le soup~on demeure que les revelations de ce dernier-L'Homme que !'on croyait-soient encore l'reuvre, masquee, de Romain Gary ». Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University a30. L'ouvrage de...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as the forma specifica of the noble man, and conceives the lady as the divine intelligence that reduces to act his potentiality. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 medieval Italian literature medieval medicine Guido...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 23–35.
Published: 01 January 2010
... have been transcribed, as though they were prose, twenty-seven lines of Chretien's Cliges and around forty-two lines of the Papagay; I shall call this manuscript F.10 Chansonniers Rand] contain the longest versions. Both begin in the same way: the narrator overhears a parrot in a garden wooing a lady...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 239–256.
Published: 01 May 2008
... translated in the 1690s, usually within a year or so of their French publication. History ofAdolphus~ prince of Russia, the translation of d'Aulnoy's first novel, L'Histoire d'Hypolite~ comte de Duglas (1690), appeared the year after its French original: 1691. The Ingenious and Diverting Letters ofa Lady's...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 323–341.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of dilemmas between various contracts of trust, loyalty, and secrecy by which the four characters, i.e. the Duke and the Duchess, and the young knight and his lady of Vergi, are bound to each other. Aside from some narrative changes, Marguerite leaves the basic development of their bonds therefore virtually...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... escheitevee / et maint prison nos a randu" ["rescued the queen and many other captive ladies / and returned many prisoners to us"] (5317-19; trans. Staines 235).3 Many of us have long accepted that Lancelot is King Arthur's best knight or, in the 1995 movie's terms the "first knight" (although in the medieval...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
... ), like the comparative adjectives of William, creates solitary presence as hyperbolic plenitude—a too-muchness to fill in the absence of lyric dispossession. Words cannot express the singular and extreme state of desire that he has for his lady. In terms of dispossession, Bernart creates a space...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 823–838.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the wealth the fairy leaves at his disposal. Arthur's wife Guinivere attempts to seduce him in turn, and Lanval's rebuke incurs her accusation that he, in fact, is interested not in women but in "vaslez bien afaitiez" (283), handsome young men.8 He responds that he does, in fact, have a lady and that she far...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 January 2005
... "alcuna lamentanza," evoking and quoting Lamentations in an apostrophe to pilgrims severed from a knowledge of events only explicable allegorically. The prose makes the poem memorialise a woman who has left the city, implicitly widowing it. She is not Beatrice, but a "screen lady," so he appears...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 363–379.
Published: 01 November 2001
... her depiction of love in the Lais seeks marriage as its ultimate goal: "In the poems attributed to Marie de France, ideal love is that which leads to marriage" ( The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest 224). Marie's notion of love as a constant presence creates among the poems a reciprocal harmony...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 91–108.
Published: 01 January 2011
... ARMSTRONG [Now let's compose a trinity And a loving union, That Love, and I, and my lady Might exist as one body and one soul.] (vv. 312-19) Soon other dramatis personae from the mythos are included; in his second letter, he invokes another entity that sanctions the perfection of their love: Se ce ne fust...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 215–233.
Published: 01 May 2009
...) in a futile defense against the power of the lady's image. 13 1980, chapters 1-4). Yet there is room to analyze this connection in more detail, as I. McFarlane, in the appendix to the 1966 edition of the Dilie, discusses Speroni rather than Ebreo, and G. Defaux, in his introduction to the 2004 edition...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 May 2023
... sight, and perhaps always for Pip, an object among objects, discernable as human, but just barely. Entering a room, much of whose contents he doesn’t yet understand, he sees a cloth covered table with a gilded mirror above it that, he writes, he “made out at first sight to be a fine lady’s dressing...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... Was this image meant to reassure readers that he could be entrusted with ladies dental hygiene? Was it intended to make their hearts beat faster? In any case, the caption underneath identifies him as the author, but with a slight difference in spelling: Le Maire Dental Surgeon, which was how the new title...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 253–274.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., Christine becomes duped into believing that women are monstrous, and, in opposition to this way of thinking, Lady Reason appears and begins to describe to Christine how misogynistic convictions themselves are in fact quite abnormal. To inoculate Christine against misogyny, Reason intimates that chauvinism...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 417–429.
Published: 01 December 2020
... structures Proust’s novel as a whole, it is the lords and ladies of high society, rather than their presumed inferiors, who invite our bemused contempt (272–80). One might even say that they evince all the traits Saint-Simon imperiously ascribes to the lower-ranked Maulévrier: humeur , ignorance...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 259–274.
Published: 01 May 2002
... this female character dubious from the outset. As Bruckner (258) points out, the lady-whose husband is "beals" (handsome)-is by contrast described as merely possessing the appearance of being beautiful.10 This distinction is essential: we are being offered the observation very early in the text that the baron...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 431–451.
Published: 01 November 2009
... or unattainableness of the beloved are the most fundamental of literary precepts-lyric voices have been pining in such terms for as long as poets have been writing about love. Medieval love lyric is characterized by the masculine speaker lamenting the cold silence of his lady in an egocentric expression of static...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 193–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., but also present in works on the Trinity (three in one), the stratified body politic, and the "two-faced" courtly lady. The book's introduction situates the analysis it precedes within ars nova scholarship. It also justifies its focus on monsters, which are characterized, in Zayaruznaya's reading...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 175–190.
Published: 01 January 2012
... remarks, "Laide cose est a dame de chevaucier parmi forest a pau de compagnie" (La Fille 7; It is an unpleasant thing for a lady to ride through the forest with scarcely any company). Yet despite this realization, he and the Fille enter the woods alone. Given his physical frailty and the fact...