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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 655–671.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Bernd Renner Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Bernd Renner RIRE ET SATIRE AL'AUBE DES GUERRES CIVILES: L'EXEMPLE DES SATYRES CHRESTIENNES DE LA CUISINE PAPALE Les Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale, publiees en 1560, sont sans doute Ie premier grand texte...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into vernacular languages. The precepts of this genre entered into the literary culture of early modern France primarily through the avenue of satire, in which characters were defined by the food they ate and by other aspects of the Galenic regimen. Because of its association with treatises on the education...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 452–469.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to be one of the targets of Boileau’s Satire X (“au mauvais goût public la belle y fait la guerre” [74]), and Voltaire wrote, “C’est dommage qu’elle soit l’auteur du mauvais sonnet contre l’admirable Phèdre de Racine. . . . Une femme satirique ressemble à Méduse et à Scylla, deux beautés changées en...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to the world is also Moliere's authorial farewell to an erudite tradition of humanist (and moralist) satire (184,290-91). However, if Guicharnaud and Defaux had paid attention to the publication history of Moliere's theater, they might have added a further rupture to the list: in 1666, the year of Le...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 153–168.
Published: 01 March 2006
... creur du probleme menippeen, c'est-a-dire de mieux cerner I'impact de cette attitude-ear, pareillement au cas de la satire en general, il s'agit plutot d'une attitude que d'une "simple" technique-sur l'hermeneutique du texte. Si donc Ie role fondamental du paradoxe menippeen n'est plus a prouver, ce...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 522–536.
Published: 01 December 2021
... & dédaigne la satire, qui n’est jamais que le langage de l’envie. Les auteurs qui veulent apprendre à penser aux autres hommes, doivent leur donner des exemples de politesse, comme d’éloquence, & joindre les bienséances de la société à celles du style. Faut il que ceux qui cherchent la gloire, courent...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 147–161.
Published: 01 January 2013
...., 76-77,114. A TRIBUTE TO WINTHROP H. RICE 149 When it came time for Winthrop Rice to pursue his doctorate, he elected to become a medievalist and enrolled at Columbia University. The title of his published dissertation, The European Ancestry ofVillon's Satirical Testaments,10 betrays an interest...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 857–859.
Published: 01 November 2010
... satirical stance toward the world. In particular, she is interested in satirical attacks on the excesses of the church and monastic orders, both established ones and the new mendicants. Then she shifts gears, looking at more direct influences of clerical culture, such as borrowings from sermons, artes...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 235–260.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and Marni’s colleague at both Le Journal and Marguerite Durand’s La Fronde , published astute critical pieces on Marni’s work, highlighting her keen grasp of the city and her satirical powers. In an 1896 article on “la littérature féminine” in Le Journal , Séverine hailed her new colleague, along with Gyp...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 01 May 2008
... des femmes (1694), at face value, neglecting to situate his Apologie and statements about women within the larger quarrel that erupted with the publication of Nicolas Boileau's misogynous "Satire X," or within Perrault's own corpus.1 Moreover, critics have yet to take into account the importance...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2021
... only talkative and not quarrelsome as well—they’re so stubborn in their fights to the death about things like goat’s wool, 18 and they generally lose sight of the truth in the heat of the argument. ( Praise of Folly 125) Women are simply the tools here of Erasmus’s satire: as the epitome...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 149–164.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the one and only crystal clear truth: rhetorical devices such as irony, sarcasm, puns, double entendre or ambiguities and the genre of satire w­ ere deeply abhorred by the Roman censors, as they ­were capable of veiling, obstructing or ridiculing this veritas they sought to defend. As Gustavo Costa put...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 260–282.
Published: 01 September 2024
[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2024 Charles Baudelaire pamphlétaire satire La Belgique déshabillée Édouard Drumont Apocalypse Comment avertir les gens, les nations—? —Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes , tome I...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 2007
... all the clues; in the morning, "with a firm and careful calligraphy" he confidently writes: "Aristu (Aristotle) calls panegyrics by the name of tragedy, and satires and anathemas he calls comedies. The Koran abounds in remarkable tragedies and comedies 24 The failure in this story is double: first...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Long interrogates the presence and meaning of the banquet scene in The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605), a text which is usually read as a satire of the excesses at the court of Henry III of France. Various aspects in this scene such as the emphasis on moderation and the maintenance of health...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 439–464.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-established poete crotte tradition that conceived the poverty of the writer to be the manifestation of a certain cultural order. Pursuing a renown and reward that was far beyond his capacities to achieve, the pauvre diable, like his forebears in the seventeenth-century satires of Mathurin Regnier and Antoine...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 353–369.
Published: 01 May 2006
... with Le Rai Bambance in recent times.4 Although from different methodological perspectives, all of these essays invariably discuss Marinetti's work by observing its satirical, socio-political message delivered through the culinary allegory and by underlining in particular the intertextual relationship...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... The gravity of Baudelaire's sense of the comic is indebted instead to French institutions of mockery and satire, overseen by the tutelary spirits of Moliere and Voltaire. By the nineteenth century these traditions of comedy had become so mordant as to solicit moral misgivings. French comedy seemed almost...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 505–525.
Published: 01 May 2012
... circonscrite. La rapide evocation d'un monde encore peu explore OU ces tensions s'exasperent illustrera Ie propos. L'univers de fa satire versifiee Toute communication verrouillee appelle ses echappatoires. L'Ancien Regime entend garder la haute main sur ce que l'on n'appelle pas encore l'information. Mais il...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 553–577.
Published: 01 May 2012
... meant to persuade or sound even plausible. The Adieux de M. de Voltaire aux Muses (1739), a poem by Piron, is quite clearly a satire against Voltaire (indeed "M. de Voltaire" is named in the footnotes). Similarly, the poem Ma Confession: Par M. de V* * * ("A Geneve, chez les Freres Cramer, 1760...