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Narrating the Gender Riddle: The Case of Maupassant’s Yvette , “M. Jocaste,” and “L’Ermite”
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 225–244.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Philip G. Hadlock Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Philip G. Hadlock NARRATING THE GENDER RIDDLE: THE CASE OF MAUPASSANT'S YVETTE, "M. JOCASTE," AND "L'ERMITE" Literary theory in general, and the various idioms of feminist theory in particular, have frequently...
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The Philosophy Class
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 430–439.
Published: 01 December 2020
... but are in some sense not entirely wrong. A noise is misinterpreted, attributed to an incorrect source, but Proust’s narrator, while scrupulously revising the perception, allows his first take a sort of magical afterlife. This effect is subtly developed in the last volume of the novel, where the narrator...
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Why Proust Isn’t an “Essayist,” and Why It Matters
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2020
... instruments. So why have some critics thought otherwise? Perhaps, in part, it’s because they have assumed the narrator always speaks for Proust. If so, their foundational assumption isn’t just mistaken; it’s also likely to prevent the novel from doing some of its most important work on us, a work...
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“La destruction est notre manière de bâtir”: Kevin Lambert’s Apocalyptic World-Building and Prophetic Textuality
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the figure of the innocent child, the standard-bearer of heterosexuality in its reproductive futurity, is, through the prophetic rage of the narrator, a child named Faldistoire, turned back upon the respectable adults who stamp out not only the lives of children but their nonnormative desires and impulses...
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“Un prophète discret”: The Decadent Apocalypses of Drieu la Rochelle
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ideological and literary trajectory in the interwar years, Drieu defined the true prophet as a writer of decadence, one compelled to narrate and embody the decline of the nation. By assuming this burden, the writer-prophet in turn becomes doomed to be misunderstood or ignored by his decadent contemporaries...
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‘Les mo(r)ts ne nous lâchent pas’: Death and the Paternal/Amorous Body in Linda Lê’s Lettre morte
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 373–387.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Siobhán McIlvanney Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Siobhdn McIlvanney 'LES MO(R)TS NE NOUS LAcHENT PAS': DEATH AND THE PATERNAL/AMOROUS BODY IN LINDA LE'S LETTRE MORTE T his article examines the developmental paradigms exhibited by the narrator of Lettre morte...
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The Play of Repetition and Resemblance in The Romance of the Rose
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 49–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to subvert straightforward interpretations of its allegorical meaning. To date, the workings of opposition and difference have received much more scholarly attention than those of repetition and resemblance. This is not surprising considering the Narrator's explicit endorsement of difference as productive...
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The Historian’s Dilemma: The Quest for Master Narrative in Prosper Mérimée’s “La Venus d’Ille”
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 169–182.
Published: 01 January 2011
... a specific historical context. I seek here, precisely, to explore how "fantastic hesitation" in Merimee's text might disguise a conflictual encounter between tradition-bound views of temporality and the empirical aims of romantic historicism. Narrating the tale is a Parisian archaeologist recounting a visit...
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Mundane Interruptions: The Insignificance of Hélène Cixous’s Le Jour où je n’étais pas là
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 329–344.
Published: 01 May 2009
... n'etais pas lao This semi-autobiographical novel published in 2003 portrays a narrator who remembers, as she attempts to express through writing, the life of her firstborn child, who was born with Down syndrome and a heart condition, and died within his first year. While the narrator questions her brother...
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Present and Poison: Gift Exchange in Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Narrated by an unnamed French scholar, who travels through Andalusia in 1830 to research the location of Julius Caesar's victory on the battlefield of Munda in 45 BCE, the story centers on the tragic love affair between don Jose, the bandit, and Carmen, the Gypsy cigarrera. This narrative makes up...
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Investigating a Disappearance: Multilingualism and Language Erasure in Assia Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 93–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
... provocatively announces the disappearance of the French language. Its content, which details the unsolved disappearance of its protagonist, offers readers a deceptively simple parallel between two disappearances. Berkane, the hero of the story and one of its narrators, disappears from a roadside in Kabylia...
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Proust against the Monde: Social Comedy in the Recherche
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 417–429.
Published: 01 December 2020
... , occupies a much higher position than d’Annunzio or Ibsen. At the same time, the duc’s esteem for this “monsieur . . . parfaitement convenable” betrays, by those very terms, much the same condescension as that with which the princesse de Luxembourg greeted the narrator and his grandmother on the beach...
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Love, Subjectivity, and Truth: Existential Themes in Proust
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 223–226.
Published: 01 May 2024
... is that, despite the narrator’s many expressions of skepticism, Proust’s Recherche ultimately endorses the view that love—understood not as erotic love alone but broadly as a person’s entire affective orientation of cares and concerns—is, or at least can be, a way of knowing, indeed “a prerequisite of veridical...
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Feminism in the “Father Book”: Complicating the Emancipation Narrative in Assia Djebar’s Nowhere in My Father’s House
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 71–92.
Published: 01 January 2015
... these final reflections about her origins, her father, and her literary career. If these reflections appear to follow the autobiographical pact more closely than do Djebar's other works, it is important to keep in mind that Nowhere is first and foremost a novel. The narrator indeed explicitly disavows...
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La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. : A Case of Personal Truth or Creative Dare?
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 483–496.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and publishing this particular text can be interpreted as part of the female narrator's quest for a stronger sense of sexual subjectivity, and a desire to communicate her personal experience. I 4. Pierre Jourde, La Litterature sans estomac (Paris: L'Esprit des Peninsules, 2002) 20-21. 5. Josyane Savigneau, "Ni...
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The “Debris of Experience”: The Cinema of Marcel Proust and Raoul Ruiz
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 467–482.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to be a very unlikely source of inspiration for a major motion picture. In almost every possible way it resists an adaptation into another artistic medium, particularly since it narrates the discovery of a literary vocation. Le Temps retrouve, more than any other volume, presupposes a familiarity...
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Literature and the Death of Folklore: In and around Nerval’s Sylvie
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 235–255.
Published: 01 January 2011
... is unique in that his pervasive interest in folklore takes so many forms, from a plea for environmental conservation cast as a folktale to reflections on professional storytellers in the Orient. Sylvie-the tale of a Parisian narrator's love for three different women who sometimes overlap in his mind...
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Figures of Scandal in the Later Narratives of Marguerite Duras
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 May 2002
... dans Ie couloir, sex is emptied of its social and emotional content and its object, the female body, placed crudely on centre stage where the lascivious and extremely mobile narrator can observe it at leisure. The law of lust that drives the narrative creates a setting that is timeless and a discourse...
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On Letting Sleeping Blonds Lie: Gender, Leisure Literature, and the Imagination in Fontenelle
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 145–168.
Published: 01 January 2011
... is not unlike relationships between men and women elsewhere in Fontenelle's writing, and its ambiguity is no better captured than in the Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes habites. A series of flirtatious, didactic evening conversations between the Narrator and the Marquise at her country estate...
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Djebar’s Odyssey
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 13–28.
Published: 01 January 2015
... fameux de L'Odyssee" (117). This revelation lies at the core, in the exact center3 of La Femme sans sepulture, one of Djebar's last novels. It tells the story of a female narrator, whose resemblance to the author is striking; like her, she has returned again to her hometown of Caesarea/Cherchell after...
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