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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 260–281.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (such as Pinocchio and Cuore ) as a way to sweeten these often bitterly disquieting narratives for their young readers. This essay probes the potentials and limits of intertextuality and ultimately argues that several texts go beyond leveraging the image of capsized ships in the Mediterranean, an image that has...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 67–84.
Published: 01 January 2005
... at the sight of the underwater shadow of the first ship in Paradiso (33.96).2 This may be called preferential Dantean imagery in the sense that the poet is often cast as a mariner and the poem as a ship, of varying proportions and fortunes. 3 Here, Dante's simile seems to anticipate the words of Peter, since...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 231–254.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., while Ithaca prospers. Despite the peace and security of home and family, the hero feels himself essentially displaced. Pascoli creatively links the inaugural act of the poemthe planting of the ship's oar in the earth-with the hero himself, emphasizing his fundamental "out of placeness" within his own...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 781–801.
Published: 01 November 2010
... restores peace by contriving to send Pierre off to sea as a ship's doctor. Pierre's autoscopic examination of his own jealousy marks, after the novels of Bourget, one of the first entrances into French letters of the theory of the unconSCIOUS: II se mit a reflechir profondement a ce probleme physiologique...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., "the intertwinement of myth, power, and labor" (25). Just like Odysseus, who promises his crew to steer the ship to safety, the Enlightenment carries the promise of progress and mastery over the objective world, predicated on an agreement between worker and master.' The workers exert themselves in labor and become...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 409–424.
Published: 01 May 2010
... more than one hundred and fifty years of Martinican history, from 1788 to 1946, through the retelling of the story of the Longoue and the Beluse families, who are descended from two Africans, one a maroon, the other a plantation slave, both of whom arrived in Martinique on the same ship in 1788...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 505–522.
Published: 01 November 2000
... and the author's own (auto)biography. These examples are unusual in their fidelity to Bruegel; in general, the image alluded to undergoes various types of fragmentation and transformation. Thus the few scattered ships of the Bruegel painting, when they appear on the wallpaper in chapter 4, have been multiplied...
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Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 149–167.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., Michelet glosses, is rooted in individual bonds of friend­ ship; and ­these are not only contracted within the nation, but also underwrite what he calls la grande amitia kind of supra-­friendship, whereby L ami devient tout un peuple. By this logic: 1 See Michelet, in Histoire de France, on the usage...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in the interior of the island? Was he ever tempted to jump on a ship again and see where it would take him? Was he ever tempted to find a mountaintop even higher, a path even more difficult, if only his aging body would carry him? Jerome tells us that the people in the surrounding villages kept watch, fearing...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., and the United States; railway stock in Switzerland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Argentina, Brazil, and Tunisia; gold, nickel, and diamond mines-including those exploited by De Beers; oil and shipping companies from around the world (including the Port of Rosario, Argentina); and random securities, such as shares...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 89–91.
Published: 01 January 2017
... on Robert Antelme s L Espèce humaine and testi­ monies of re­sis­tance in the concentration camps, also returning to Antelme s strugg­ le in vario­ us passages. Indeed, in what Ross might call a threshold experience and Blanchot a limit-­experience, Antelme s writing and friend­ ship also haunt Blanchot...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 367–380.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the ship on which he, his mother, his sister, and two other young women sailed from Bordeaux to Saint-Domingue in July 1791 (MO 1:27). The passenger list of the ship, the Bouillant, which is conserved in the Archives nationales, does indeed include such a group, giving their names as "dame Chabert de...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2007
... on a ship whose leaking hull resembles a drowning uterus (78). References to Tristan's physical gestations, births, and death-like experiences are as convoluted as they are frequent; throughout these processes of aborted success and quasi-annihilation, the writer describes herself as possessing the innocent...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 590–600.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and patron of the arts. A keen Francophile, she had parts of the internal decor directly shipped from France. Mary’s husband, industrialist and philanthropist Henry Dexter Sharpe, was for twenty years chancellor of Brown University. The mansion served as the Sharpe family home for decades, before being...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 459–479.
Published: 01 November 2000
... images" nor on the ship's sails; rather his eyes leap, as does his voice, from the ship - "Hatez-vous, hatezvous " to the night - "La nuit presse! " - to the ship's immanent destruction - "TantaleNa perir," - and to the skies - "Et la joie ephemere des cieux." The viewer does not sustain this fevered...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... and the uncontrollable power of language-but rather listens to the Sirens and allows his ship to go off course. Reflecting on the dynamics of the returns narrated in Djebar's novels, Kamal observes that the result is never reunion with an object of memory. Return is, rather, always partial and provisional, a moment...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 249–263.
Published: 01 May 2009
... into French society, possibly echoing allegations that France had "stolen" Lorraine in 1738.8 Zilia's very first verbal interaction with her French captor offers a striking illustration of the allegorical dimension of Graffigny's novel. On the ship that takes him back 6. Graffigny's desire to stay anonymous...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 709–725.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... The portrait turns out to be a rough sketch of his private parts. However, Therbusch's real intent is not so much to seduce the philosophe as to steal from him a collection of valuable paintings that he is about to ship to Catherine of Russia. Diderot uncovers the scheme and exposes the charming impostor...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 January 2007
... paria. Thus, just as Tristan began her story with the depart of Le Mexicain, Gauguin begins with the arrival of his ship in the harbor of Papeete. By opening with the image of the narrator at sea, each author lays claim to a position in the liminal space of in-between, an intermediary between France...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 March 2006
... "uprooting," as if, in terms of history, the Haitian has never truly left the desert, the slave ship, or now, the airport. It is essentially this lack of a place, this incessant uncertain movement in Haitian history and Haitian writing that prevents any positive recuperation of cultural and historical...