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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 (2001) 92 (3): 355–361.
Published: 01 May 2001
... pages of Maternal Echoes. (VINCENT AURORA, Columbia University) Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.Cruz, Anne J. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 297. The study sets out to "explain the failure of social reform as proposed...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Joseph Harris Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 joseplJ Harris NOVEL UPBRINGINGS: EDUCATION AND GENDER IN CHOISY AND LA FAYETTE Reflecting on the various developnlents in novelistic convention and vraisenlblance that had taken place in the half-century between...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 256–260.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Andrea Malaguti Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 , Pp. 266 . Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 256 BOOK REVIEWS de trois grands « reveurs...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 389–392.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Kathrina A. Laporta Nicholas D. Paige Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . Pp. 304 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Nicholas D. Paige. Before Fiction: The Ancien...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 331–335.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Anne Marcoline Manon Mathias . Vision in the Novels of George Sand . Oxford UP , 2016 . ix + 169 pp., ill. Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Book Reviews 331 (p. 73) dramatic work by Foscolo. Indeed, thanks to the eighteenth...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 369–390.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Nicholas White Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Nicholas White THE LOST HEROINE OF ZOLA'S OCTAVE MOURET NOVELS Critics rarely read Pot-Bouille at all. -Marcus, Apartment Stories 169 Heteros0 ciality In Naomi Schor's already classic account of George Sand and the roman...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Joshua Landy Abstract Proust’s most famous critic claims that he didn’t have “even a vague or confused idea” of how his novel was going to hang together. Others tell us that every statement in the novel is a “transient hypothesis,” that Proust has “made up his mind about nothing,” or even...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Andrew Holleran Abstract “The Invalid” is an autobiographical account of one American novelist’s reading Proust over the course of his life. After the initial impact of encountering Remembrance of Things Past as a young soldier in 1968 Germany, he is forced to wonder: Did Proust bring the novel...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Geoffrey Turnovsky Abstract Régis Sauder’s touching 2011 documentary, Nous, Princesses de Clèves , which follows a group of Marseille high school students over the course of a year as they read La Fayette’s novel while preparing for the Baccalauréat exams, juxtaposes two distinct types of reading...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... This novel seems at first glance to be a fairly straightforward satire of the excesses of the court of Henri III of France (r. 1574–1589). Yet the banquet scene evokes the flexibility of diet and of other aspects of the Galenic regimen in the profusion and variety of food presented. In linking the practices...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Zakir Paul Abstract Widely considered the first French-language photo narrative, the use of images in Bruges-la-Morte (1892) tends to occlude as much as it reveals. Drawing on archives and contemporary debates about the image, this article contends that photography structures the novel on a formal...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Janet Beizer Abstract This article explores the concept of the arlequin , the plate of used food collected piecemeal from the tables of the rich to sell to the poor, as it was popularized by Eugène Sue in 1842 in his blockbuster novel Les Mystères de Paris . I show how this alimentary genre...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 473–491.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Larysa Smirnova Abstract What to make of Emma Bovary’s dreaming constitutes a fundamental problem in the study of Flaubert’s novel. The dominant reading of Emma’s dream life adopts a critical stance toward her unwillingness, or incapacity, to accept her everyday reality. Showing how Flaubert’s text...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 260–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Raisa Rexer Abstract This essay explores the sudden popularity and redefinition of the word pornographie in France in the 1880s. Following the publication of Émile Zola’s novel Nana and the rise of a genre of cheap, bawdy newspapers in 1880, the French daily press knowingly “invented” the word...
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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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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 336–356.
Published: 01 December 2020
...R. Howard Bloch; Ellen Handler Spitz Abstract This article turns around the role that Proust’s novel played—for better or worse—in my formation as a medievalist and as a full human being. In the curé’s obsession with genealogy and etymology, I recognized in the 1970s a deep medieval mental...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 199–221.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Promenade” of the Rêveries , this article argues that, on the contrary, it is an early enactment of the literary realism of the nineteenth-century novel that faces outward by describing both society and nature. The article shows how society and the state are included within its narrative, which employs...
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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. 7. “Un plaidoyer, direct ou indirect, comme on voudra, pour l’abolition de la peine de...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways...
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