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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 49–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Joanna Luft Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Joanna Luft THE PLAY OF REPETITION AND RESEMBLANCE IN THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE The play of repetition and resemblance in The Romance of the Rose is a pervasive dynamic that contributes to the poem's general tendency...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 271–291.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Ross Hamilton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Ross Hamilton PLAYING WITH CHANCE: ROUSSEAU'S ILLUMINATION Gambling obsessed all levels of French society during the Enlightenment. Louis XIV held appartements du roi given over to gambling three times a week...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 199–213.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Michael Lucey Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Playing with Variables: Leduc au village Michael Lucey Playing with Variables: Leduc au village Violette Leduc is known for books, fictional and autobiographical to varying degrees (Ravages...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Noah D. Guynn Abstract This essay deploys Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence and Bert States’s Great Reckonings in Little Rooms to analyze the pyrotechnics used in mystery plays to symbolize supernatural truths. On the one hand, these effects cultivated aesthetic immersion...
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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 (2021) 112 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Isabella Magni Abstract The textual and cultural interpretations related to the material construction of the first manuscript copies of Dante’s Commedia play a crucial role in shaping its transmission and inevitably also the text that we read today. The processes of preparation and the material...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 249–259.
Published: 01 September 2020
... acts, but rather through failed ones; a reflection, too, of the rapidly transforming social values of the play’s historical moment. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Molière Le Misanthrope Alceste speech acts John Austin Le...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... It is an implicitly dramatic form: a devotional text such as Sawles Warde has the potential to become a closet drama if read aloud, and it is possible that such devotional texts influenced the otherwise obscure early history of the psychomachic morality play. Psychomachic drama such as The Castle of Perseverance...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2023
... American popular music. Solitude, they show, is a richly mixed terrain, where we may get lost in our self-atomizing pride or, just as easily, open ourselves to the world’s (and the divine’s) endlessly unpredictable self-disclosure. To cultivate solitude is something like a game we play with the present...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and flavorful). Based on a play by Jacinto Benavente (1925), and repurposed in the era of the Popular Front, the film attempts to ease class conflict by celebrating the working life and asserting interclass harmony, thereby appealing to viewers on both the left and right. But despite its bourgeois perspective...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Ages . London : Reaktion , 2010 . Caxton William , trans. Legenda Aurea Sanctorum, sive, Lombardica Historia . Caxton William , 1483 . Early English Books Online STC . 2nd ed., 24874. Davidson Clifford . “ The York Corpus Christi Plays: Introduction. ” TEAMS Middle...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 115–134.
Published: 01 January 2017
... exchanges: these are fleeting images that emerge as traffic collides with trafficking in the twelfth-century Ordo representaciones Ade, an astounding Play of Adam that trades in religion openly and undercover. When polemical contestation between Old Law and New leads to figurative encounters between...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2013
... not only fueled violence and revenge between all echelons of society, but also inspired polemicists to use the pen and graphic images as weapons to fight against one another. One representative example is Le Guysien by the vallegeois Leaguer and schoolteacher Simon Belyard (dates unknown).2 This play...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 47–56.
Published: 01 January 2016
... University 48 Ronald W. Tobin moins connue (l.135), and Albine refers to the chemins écartés (l.1725) by which Junie reaches the doors of the palace (345).2 As we shall see, the world of this play is severely restricted, limited to the palace and just beyond, which makes this historical tragedy radically...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2013
... visiere a tout Ie Genre Humain" (1: 651).1 The play must indeed lend itself to themes of rupture, since prominent critics have cited it as a crucial turning point in Moliere's dramaturgy, the crossing of a comedic Rubicon. In his classic study, Jacques Guicharnaud made it the final play of a central...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 283–286.
Published: 01 January 2011
... meconnaissance chez la plupart des historiens du theatre d'expression franc;aise. Le corpus anglais est certes d'une ampleur tres differente -les trois Macro plays du xve siecle et les trois morality plays du XVle siecle ici etudiees forment l'essentiel des moralites anglaises, alors que cent-vingt pieces de la...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 129–144.
Published: 01 January 2011
... as is often stated, her function within the play is in many ways a disruptive one; she is a catalyst to the disintegration of the argon household and in practice contributes little toward the resolution of a plot that teeters on the brink of a tragic outcome. Here, I would like to restore some of the shock...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 674–687.
Published: 01 November 2010
...-200. Unless noted otherwise, all references to Corneille's works are to this edition, abbreviated as OC. All references to the play are given in the main body of the text. 2. Fran~ois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, L'!ngenu, ed. Richard A. Francis, Complete Works of Voltaire, vol. 63c (Oxford: Voltaire...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 417–432.
Published: 01 November 2001
... mapping of the play's contradictions, both internal and external, with the help of Racine's own topological metaphor: the labyrinth. Adhering closely to tradition and to Racine's stated concerns, we will take two well-lit entrances into this literary monument: aesthetics and ethics, plaire et instruire...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 353–369.
Published: 01 May 2006
... notes 'Tra il1894 e il1912 F.T. Marinetti si volle e fu scrittore francese', in Scritti francesi (Milan: Mondadori, 1983), p. 7. The Italian translation by Decio Cinti, Re Baldoria, appeared in 1909. The editions of the play used here are: Le Roi Bombance (Paris: Societe du Mercure de France, 1905...
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