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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (3): 355–361.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Tina Kuhlisch Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain . Cruz , Anne J. Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1999 . Pp. 297 . Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS 355 may have been able to assert...
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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 (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
... Ciccarelli (Eds The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, Pp. 266. After the Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff, and the one on Italian culture, edited by Zygmunt Baranski and Rebecca West, the series has issued another volume on Italian...
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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 (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Juli Highfill Abstract Luisa Carnés’s novel Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras (1934) recounts the corporeal and sensory experience of workers in a pastelería , capturing their hunger and fatigue amid the smells of freshly baked pastries. These working women are thus inserted into economic space, defined...
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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 (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 (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran, Cano’s novel La felicidad del Malvado (2023) offers a pessimistic outlook regarding the future of humankind. Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote provides another backdrop for this transatlantic novel, situated between the United States and Madrid, allowing Cervantine humor...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Annabel L. Kim Abstract This article examines Quebecois author Kevin Lambert’s debut novel, Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué , a disquieting story of slaughtered children who come back to the Canadian town of Chicoutimi to live normal lives in it before destroying it. The apocalyptic dimension...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 404–424.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Sérotonine (2019) and Haenel’s Tiens ferme ta couronne (2017) are both stories whose protagonists isolate in their apartments, and—from that remove—proceed to, ostensibly, see the world for what it really is. Looming in both novels is a twenty-four-hour-news-cycle culture that serves as the ultimate prophet...
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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 (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 (2024) 115 (3): 557–576.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Carlo Arrigoni Abstract In Giovanni Verga’s I Malavoglia ( The House by the Medlar Tree , 1881), the most important novel of verismo (Italian naturalism), the natural and social environment is not described in detail but appears in glimpses and fragments, filtered through the characters...
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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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