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Published: 01 May 2020
figure 2. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 216, fol. 151. Teaching scene with astrolabe.
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 577–594.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marie-Chantal Killeen Abstract What is it about confession scenes that makes them such a productive heuristic device in late twentieth-century French theater, given that so many playwrights only tease audiences with the tantalizing prospect of confession’s truth-telling potential, all the better...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 273–275.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Kerry Gluckmann Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Kerry Gluckmann BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE ROMANIC REVIEW M y first real-world job was as the graduate student secretary in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia. After the first year, the staff's job...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of princes, the régime de santé took a political turn, something that is also echoed in satirical literature. One clear example of the politics of the régime de santé is the banquet scene of L’Isle des hermaphrodites ( The Island of Hermaphrodites ), published in 1605 and circulated widely in Paris...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the text. This essay explores the tensions between these two literacies, which become manifest in the film, especially in scenes where the students, who so easily relate to the novel’s characters, struggle with the more formal analysis. In a second part, inspired by the writings of Priscilla Ferguson...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 409–422.
Published: 01 December 2021
... scène, son texte est emblématique des stratégies apologétiques au sein des querelles sur le théâtre. Il se singularise cependant par l’éloge fait à Isabella Andreini, qui relève autant de la provocation sur le comédien idolâtre que de la promotion d’une actrice politique. La querelle du théâtre ainsi...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 260–281.
Published: 01 September 2022
... be challenged by the perceived need to shield children from traumatizing scenes. This essay examines four recent children’s books published in Italy that dramatize immigration from Africa. Authors Maria Attanasio, Erminia Dell’Oro, Dino Ticli, and Francesco D’Adamo allude to canonical Western literature...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 356–371.
Published: 01 December 2022
... trouve changée et concerne désormais aussi le monde bourgeois, capitaliste et colonialiste qui a mis en scène ce procès, tandis que la Ville Lumière, Paris, apparaît pleine de boue. Ce mouvement de retournement contre ses accusateurs sera plus tard repris par Aimé Césaire dans le Cahier du retour au pays...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 329–343.
Published: 01 December 2022
... érotique s’exprime par une dynamique poétique qui crée un vaste espace de références littéraires et picturales évoquant des scènes érotiques ( Les Bijoux indiscrets de Diderot, le Cantique des Cantiques , l’odalisque peinte par Delacroix, Antiope peinte par Le Corrège) tout en ayant pour but de créer un...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
... processes.” Distancing himself from castizo evocations of El Escorial as “piedra lírica” (Ortega y Gasset) and “líneas puras” (Unamuno), Bestué guides us through the building’s secluded sewers, the granite quarries that nourished its construction, and its many scenes of fire and dereliction to dismantle...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 501–532.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marion Uhlig Résumé L’article interroge la présence et les fonctions de la métalepse dans la littérature médiévale en français de tradition épique et historiographique par l’étude de deux exemples mettant en scène le meurtre de l’auteur par les personnages de l’histoire qui lui est attribuée. La...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of a certain number of literary and cultural studies scholars in the field of nineteenth-century French and Francophone studies to a recent (or perhaps an ongoing ) event in the United States and its relation to the mise-en-scène of a revolutionary event in Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale , arguing...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., the striking shots of the machinery, with the masa (dough) emerging from the cylinders—flattened, stamped, and cut into cookies—clearly suggest the masses in the process of organizing and coming to consciousness. And juxtaposed with these factory scenes are segments showing the glamorous, “sweet” life...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 47–56.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Ronald W. Tobin Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Britannicus or the Secrets of Space Ronald W. Tobin Britannicus or the Secrets of Space Il faut que, lorsque le mouvement cesse sur la scène, il continue derrière. Diderot, De la poésie...
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Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 187–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
... at their disposal with the same registers, and do they have the same sense of which register they should appropriately be using when speaking to each other? Here is how the linguistic anthropologist, Michael Silverstein, characterizes the gen eral problem Balzac is illustrating in the scene in question...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 147–160.
Published: 01 May 2014
... d'anagnorisis ou de decouverte erudite: dans la polyphonie si caracteristique de l'ecriture de Proust, la ligne mineure, sourde et parfois a peine audible de la voix allusive contribue parfois de fa~on decisive a l'interpretation d'un passage. Relisons dans Du cote de chez Swann la scene fameuse dite de l'adieu...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 289–311.
Published: 01 May 2000
... plaquer, glisser, l'une prenant la place de l'autre." Arriving at the end of a novel consisting entirely of a continuous series of present-tense scenes that slip into each other like the "images du monde," these final words cross back from anatomical reference (how a retina works) to textual self...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 201–212.
Published: 01 March 2006
... de cet ecrivain. Le present article se pro- pose de reflechir acette figure, en se penchant d'abord sur les episodes de l'reuvre ou Ie couteau fut bel et bien brandi, puis en montrant comment ceux-ci constituent la scene primitive d'une ecriture dressee contre une double agression2 Une Metaphore...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 2014
... by un film gai, by an aesthetic form that Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Camus, called a work of art "consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction." 5 Typical of Camus's early work is the scene from "L'Ete a Alger," written in 1937 and published as part of Noces, in which Camus...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 765–779.
Published: 01 November 2010
... emerged on both sides, with Flaubert's concern with Ie mot juste paralleled by the censors' pointillist scrutiny of details. Although negotiations between writer and censors could be one-sided, the relationship could also result in significant innovations of the kind that Flaubert made for the scene du...
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