...Jonathan Morton Abstract The main texts under consideration in this article are two French-language Alexander romances written in the second half of the twelfth century, discussed in relation to the Latin historical, romance, and naturalist traditions that form the backbone of the medieval...

...Claire Nouvet Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Claire N ouvet AN ALLEGORICAL MIRROR: THE POOL OF NARCISSUS IN GUILLAUME DE LORRIS' ROMANCE OF THE ROSE Borrowing from the allegorical tradition of dream narratives the figure of the cheminement, the Romance of the Rose...

...Richard Trachsler Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Richard Trachsler FORMULAS, ORALITY AND ARTHURIAN ROMANCE: A SHORT NOTE ON A LONG STORY I n the field of medieval French studies, before Orality, there was the Formula, and before that, there was nothing, just texts...

...Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jesus Rodrfguez-Velasco ROMANIA CONTINUA, ROMANIA SUBMERSA, AND THE FIELD OF ROMANCE STUDIES U nderstanding the future of Romance studies would be an act of prophecy, rather than a forecasting. Since I am...

...Richard Trachsler Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Richard Trachsler FROM THE CRADLE THE RISE OF ROMANCE PHILOLOGY IN AMERICAN ACADEMIA (1900-1970) Romance philology in American academia started out very much as the enterprise of a handful of individuals and a series...

...Massimiliano Gaggero Thomas Hinton . The Conte du Graal Cycle: Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance , Gallica 23. Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 2012 . Pp. 277 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Sandrine Heriche-Pradeau Nigel Bryant , trans. The Medieval Romance of Alexander: Jehan Wauquelin’s The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great . Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer , 2012 . Pp. 306 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University...

...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...

...Jerry Root Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Jerry Root MARVELOUS CRYSTALS, PERILOUS MIRRORS: LE ROMAN DE LA ROSE AND THE DISCONTINUITY OF THE ROMANCE SUBJECT Critics have, for some time now, highlighted the discontinuity of Guillaume de Lorris' version of the Roman de...

..., the article explores how the larger adventure series, which makes up the core of the romance, is persistently engaging with some of the knottiest issues in both medieval and modern thinking on sexual consent, such as its relation to equality, silence, volition, and the active/passive binary. Finally...

...Giulia Boitani Abstract The initial section of the thirteenth-century Tristan en prose has been the subject of multiple critical investigations, mostly devoted to identifying its teleological purpose or figurative function in relation to the rest of the romance. This article proposes to reframe...

...Mary Franklin-Brown Abstract Through a study of early French romances, especially the Conte de Floire et Blancheflor and Alexandre de Paris’s Roman d’Alexandre , this essay offers a new approach to the automaton in medieval literature. Bruno Latour’s plural ontology, which elaborates on the earlier...

... of poems written in Arabic or Hebrew in the Romance dialect of Andalusia) and a Galician-Portuguese cantiga d’amigo (songs in which a young girl laments the absence of her lover). Lyric dispossession can affirm female desire despite its dominance as a male solitary presence in the courtly tradition...

... than Spanish: a pidgin romance variation that belongs to no normative language that it is closely related to (Spanish, Galician, or Portuguese) but traverses them all. Phonetic aspects, like accent and phonemes (the “gheada”), resist incorporation to any standardized, state-sponsored language...

...Stephen G. Nichols Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Stephen G. Nichols PHILOLOGY AS BLOOD SPORT: THE ROMANIC REVIEWS FIRST DECADE I t is not exactly fashionable today to call our field Romance philology. Describing a colleague as a "philologist" in fact might well...

...-c­ entury verse romance,1 Guillaume de Palerne is a text that, although long known to scholars, has only recently begun to affirm its importance in the domain of literary studies.2 At first glance, this exclusion from widespread critical attention may seem relatively logical. Guillaume de Palerne has...

... on Chretien's most famous romance, but is it a valid issue? Should we concern ourselves with a value judgment of Lancelot and of his love, and is it inherent in the text itself? Not surprisingly, given the variety of opinions on this romance, on even the This essay is a revision of "Displacing Shame...

... allegory (as in the Roman de la Rose), politics (Faerie Queene), sentimentalization (Amadis de Gaula), and burlesque or parody (Don Quixote). It can end in rejoicing or tragedy. The only strategy that defies romance's essential adaptability is the total rejection of its idealistic ethos based on chivalry...

... of the summer session, on August 19, 1923, it raved enthusiastically, "Columbia elated by Summer School/Session Just Ended Declared Largest and Most Successful in University's History / Foreign Teachers Lauded / Professors of Romance Languages Brought From Europe Give Highest Satisfaction." Nearly 13,000...

...Carlos J. Alonso Carlos ]. Alonso THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Looking back recently at my professional career, I was struck by the fact that, excepting my season as a graduate student and my current appointment at Columbia, I have always been in departments of Romance languages or Romance studies...