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Marie de Gournay’s “Advis à quelques gens d’Église” and the Early Modern Rigorist Debate
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 423–436.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Derval Conroy Abstract This article examines one of Marie de Gournay’s forays into religious controversy in her short text “Advis à quelques gens d’Église.” First published in L’Ombre de la damoiselle de Gournay (1626), the text is an indictment of the abuse of the sacrament of confession by both...
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The Faces of Judith: Nationhood and Patronage in La Judit of Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 235–247.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of the religious and political controversies of the sixteenth century: Jeanne was an outspoken and at times militant Protestant, and Marguerite, whose marriage to Jeanne's son Henri had set the scene for the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, was firmly Catholic. Furthermore, whereas Jeanne d'Albret often found...
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“Brune in Brume”: Joyce, Bruno, and Rome
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 9–22.
Published: 01 May 2025
... Dante and Bruno, their relationship is quite obvious and self-evident, especially in the light of their controversial relation to the Church and their being both exiles. Joyce makes the connection clear in the essay he commissioned to Beckett, published in 1929, where Bruno and Dante are joined by Vico...
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1966: Morning in Baltimore
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 167–180.
Published: 01 January 2010
... launching raids on the academic countryside."9 In 1986, the public image of theory was cool, intriguing and a little intimidating; the following year, the public was treated to the De Man affair, which made theory controversial, and ten years later, to the Sokal affair, which made it look ridiculous...
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“Vivre avec les vivants”: Madame de Sablé, Conflict, and the Art of Ambiguity
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 December 2021
... articulated a theory of conflict in her “Maximes” and was involved with several high-profile controversies through her friendships with François de La Rochefoucauld and the nuns of Port-Royal de Paris. In her theory and practice of conflict, Sablé develops an art of ambiguity that strives for both individual...
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The Solitudes of Robert Southwell: Conscience, Confinement, and the Medieval Anglo-Norman Metrical Apocalypse
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the Renaissance poem, proposing that the eschatological setting changes the seemingly anodyne “Content and Rich” into a charged justification for the controversial defense strategy known as equivocation. The second part, inspired by the Wormsley manuscript’s evidence of early modern engagement with medieval books...
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On Adultery and Virginity
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2025
... for himself than for the authenticity of his bloodline. Later in the century Flaubert will refocus the source of the problem; he portrays adulteration (and the betrayal that attends it) as paradoxically generated by the religious and social insistence on female purity. Religion, morality, and romantic novels...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 522–536.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in this volume amply demonstrate the panoply of risks that early modern women took when they trespassed on the territory of controversy. The role of women in the institutions of sociability and letters was important but narrowly defined. Within society they were to be figures of mediation whose function...
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Heresies and Colonial Geopolitics
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 65–80.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Irene Silverblatt Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Irene Silverblatt HERESIES AND COLONIAL GEOPOLITICS "The heretical" was much more than a dimension of religious doctrine: it played a critical role in the making of the modern world. In the seventeenth century...
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Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 541–544.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Minna von Barnhelm to a critical reading, Schlipphacke concludes that despite Lessing's call to religious tolerance in Nathan der Weise, he ultimately reveals in his work a prejudiced notion of the French and France as superficial, decadent, and ridiculous. The essay by Sarah Juliette Sasson...
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L’Année pornographique : The French Press and the Invention of Pornography
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 260–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
... was attacked for his translation and use of the word to define a genre of obscene religious painting. See Braun 689, Letronne 753–72, and Raoul-Rochette, Choix de peintures de Pompéi 5, 46n4). 4. The variant pornographe appears in reference to Bretonne over one hundred times between 1840 and 1880...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 363–371.
Published: 01 December 2021
... often discouraged from direct engagement in polemic. Polite, moderate, and agreeable discourse was coded as feminine: women were not meant to quarrel. The philosopher Pierre Bayle regretted that Marie de Gournay had forayed into the controversial pamphlet war surrounding the Jesuits in the wake...
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Une peinture morale: Intertextuality in Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 255–272.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., Clouzot's film evokes other literary works, one of which is suggested by the film's title and prologue, another more proximate to the film itself. Finally, I discuss how one of these literary intertexts, in turn, points to Clouzot's earlier, and very controversial, film Le Corbeau. However, the purpose...
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Beyond Social Injunctions and Computerized Communication
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in debate among faculty and in the general public. A part—I just wrote a part —of the 2020 controversy about “Islamo-leftism” in French universities revolved around the ideal of political neutrality in academe.) Works Cited Benveniste Émile . Problèmes de linguistique générale . Vol. 1...
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The Truth is in the Making: Borges and Pragmatism
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 135–151.
Published: 01 May 2007
..." as a tendency "to evaluate religious or philosophical ideas on the basis of their aesthetic worth and even for what is singular and marvelous about them" (Other Inquisitions 189)? Such an evaluation in terms of aesthetic worth would seem to preclude interrogations of a strictly theoretical kind, as if the sheer...
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Of Nightmares and Whale Oil: Rabelais’s Quart Livre and the Lure of Disenchantment
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 191–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
... cognation, to such an array of "-isms." When, in a Satanic parody of transubstantiation, Duval's anti-Caritas converts Last Words into Final Solutions, it transcends the religious wars that roiled Rabelais's age and invests the defining trauma of our own. Duval does not, for all that, fall prey...
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Synguler: Margery Kempe’s Irregular Desires for a Queerer Present
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
...” (Rolle 190n4). Deanesly proposes two traditions of the Incendium : a longer version, which “must have been Rolle’s original text,” and a shorter version, “an abridgment,” made by an unknown scribe (Rolle 83). 23. For an overview of this controversy regarding Rolle, see Sargent, “Contemporary...
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This Quarrel That Is Not One: Women’s Interventions in an Eighteenth-Century French Quarrel about Boys’ Education
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 486–504.
Published: 01 December 2021
... controversial novel Émile, ou de l’éducation (1762), a great polemic about education emerged. This quarrel was specifically about how to reform literary teaching practices in the collèges , the schools for boys from about eight to eighteen years old, and it was almost exclusively constituted of male actors...
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Solomon, His Jinn, and Molten Copper: The City of Brass in Medieval Spanish Fiction
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
... at the limits of the Islamic world, and sometimes away from it. The tale shows how Mūsā’s journey depends on the understanding and cooperation of not only the peoples and beings he encounters but the very material realm through which he transits. In addition to the geographical, historical, and religious...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 325–342.
Published: 01 May 2010
... AND THE SUBVERSIVE MEDIEVAL Louis Aragon was one of France's most prolific, prominent, and controversial modern poets, causing strong reactions even among those he supported. As a novelist, a poet, an art critic, a member of the surrealist movement and the French Resistance, and an active member of the PCF, he...
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