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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 300–309.
Published: 01 September 2022
... University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Ann Jefferson’s biography of Nathalie Sarraute is a beautiful present to lovers of literature. It tells us the life story of a great writer, the obstacles she faced, her courage, her...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 415–426.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Deborah N. Losse Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Deborah N. Losse A STORIED LIFE AND A LIVED STORY: WRITING ONESELF IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS W hen Montaigne recasts a story borrowed from antiquity or from medieval sources, he reshapes the anecdote to include many...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 7–13.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Julia Kristeva Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Julia Kristeva "NOUS DEUX" OR A (HI)STORY OF INTERTEXTUALITY A llow me a confession: I love your country. If I were to die tomorrow, I think I could say today that I have lived the best moments of my personal...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 415–429.
Published: 01 November 2009
...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...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 235–260.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Cheryl A. Morgan Abstract This article examines the urban fiction of Jeanne Marni’s 1898 Fiacres , a collection of twenty-five stories that first appeared in the daily newspaper Le Temps . The stories are presented in the form of dialogues transcribed by an invisible spectator from within the horse...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 426–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Kathryn E. Levine Abstract The apparent ambiguity at the heart of Marie de France’s lai “Chèvrefeuille” has beguiled generations of readers. This short twelfth-century Old French verse text purports to tell a simple story of how the exiled Tristan manages to signal to Yseut as she passes through...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
... rejecting her, and specifically her eccentricities. Her life story proposes that the more singular she is, the more people will resist her; and the more that people resist her, the more surely her singular life is confirmed as God-inspired. Her singularity thus brings about the will of God, and her singular...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 125–140.
Published: 01 May 2023
... monotheistic traditions, the desert is a traditional site of solitude but also of encounter between human and divine. In the stories of such encounters for a series of biblical prophets—Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, and John the Baptist—isolation and encounter entangle. This article focuses on that encounter...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Joseph R. Johnson Abstract What is the physician’s species? In the vernacular beast fables and so-called beast epics that suddenly flourished in the twelfth century, medical (mal)practice forms a central concern. Nearly a tenth of the stories in Marie de France’s Aesopian fable collection deal...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Annabel L. Kim Abstract This article examines Quebecois author Kevin Lambert’s debut novel, Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué , a disquieting story of slaughtered children who come back to the Canadian town of Chicoutimi to live normal lives in it before destroying it. The apocalyptic dimension...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 404–424.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Sérotonine (2019) and Haenel’s Tiens ferme ta couronne (2017) are both stories whose protagonists isolate in their apartments, and—from that remove—proceed to, ostensibly, see the world for what it really is. Looming in both novels is a twenty-four-hour-news-cycle culture that serves as the ultimate prophet...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 297–315.
Published: 01 May 2008
... minutes" that concluded the action can be viewed as an absurd, even humorous ritual. If this prevented both reader and listener from identifying themselves with the story, it allowed them to adapt and enrich it through their experiences and desires. These tales describe the body and the blood, tears, shit...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 May 2004
... with which the nineteenthcentury French story actually depicts the narrative encounter as the occasion of confrontation between the sexes inspires a sense of the coincidence of gender and genre, of a necessary relationship between the two.1 In Balzac's "Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan" the author's...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 323–341.
Published: 01 November 2007
... forced to spend their days narrating stories while they wait for the floodwaters in the Pyrenees to subside, hesitates embarking upon the 70th story, it is because she realizes that the story she had in mind is not only too long to be considered an orally transmitted novella ("pour sa grande longueur...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Nirmala Singh-Brinkman Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Nirmala Singh-Brinkman PRESENT AND POISON: GIFT EXCHANGE IN PROSPER MERIMEE'S CARMEN Prosper Merimee's Carmen (1845-1846) tells the story of a fiery, wayward, seductive, yet unattainable Gypsy cigarrera...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 203–213.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the Bible for exactly one hour before heading off to ten o'clock mass. In the afternoon, they tell stories from exactly noon to four p.m., voicing dissatisfaction when vespers are not begun predictably on time.1 During the Reformation, praying on a repetitious basis and at particular times stood...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 237–248.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Alfred MacAdam Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Alfred MacAdam "EMMA ZUNZ" REVISITED Every critic who writes about "Emma Zunz"l points out that Emma is one of Borges's rare female protagonists; that hers is a detective story but lacks a detective, and that, despite...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 175–189.
Published: 01 May 2008
... did his homework before he began his version of this painful story. He ascertained that Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 ?-1375) had composed it as the hundredth, and final, story of his Decameron (1353), and he learned that Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) had subsequently translated it into Latin, although...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., fidelities, inventions are in place” ( Inquiry 315). 12. The stage directions state, “Hic tangat credentes cum palma et sanati sunt” (“Here he touches the believers with the palm, and they are healed”; note 44). 11. In another version of this story included in the same entry on the Assumption...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 249–264.
Published: 01 May 2007
...E. Joseph Sharkey Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 E. Joseph Sharkey LINGUISTIC FINITUDE AS CAPABILITY IN BORGES AND WITTGENSTEIN Epistemological fantasies were dear to Borges. In a moment characteristic of his short stories, the protagonist and narrator of "La...
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