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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 336–356.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the Proustian sentimental orbit, doomed love, aligned chronologically and conceptually with the articulation in the 1890s of courtly love and made for dire consequences in a life lived along those lines. My wife, Ellen Handler Spitz, provides an emotionally corrective experience via the question, Was Swann...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Charlie Samuelson Abstract Chrétien de Troyes’s Erec et Enide is about a husband’s appalling and disturbing mistreatment of his wife. Yet, this article contends, it can also be understood as a (perhaps surprisingly) critical reflection on sexual consent, which overlaps with key concerns of both...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (3): 259–274.
Published: 01 May 2002
... universe Marie creates in the text. The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate how the poet, in progressive and incremental ways, builds the wife into a contemptible traitor, a loathsome violator of the insti- 1. My thanks to Margaret Jewett Burland, who read earlier versions of this article...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 23–43.
Published: 01 January 2013
... consensus surrounding the culpability of the lai's notorious wife. After badgering her husband into revealing that he is a werewolf, she adulterously conspires with a hapless admirer to prevent the creature from ever regaining its human form, thereby committing, Suard contends, "un veritable meurtre" (274...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 3–25.
Published: 01 January 2011
... for a year in wolfish form when his jealous wife convinces him to reveal the secret of his weekly disappearances and then steals the clothes without which he cannot regain his human shape. Meeting his king hunting in the forest, the werewolf reveals his rationality by performing the ceremony of feudal homage...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 175–190.
Published: 01 January 2012
... has previously pointed out the extent to which Tiebaus's success depends on the Fille. He "realizes the fondest dream of chivalric youthacquiring a great feudal honor-not through his own skill-at-arms but by consenting to take back the wife who had previously tried to kill him" (Kinoshita 192...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 01 May 2008
... that relegates women to subservient, domestic roles in the family and society. Wifely Obedience As a story used to "defend" women, the very choice of "Griselidis" is telling. Originally published as "Griselda" in Boccaccio's Decameron, Francesco Petrarca produced a Latin version of the tale entitled "Griseldis...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 377–385.
Published: 01 May 2005
... the husband decides to move away to allow his wife to live with her suitor, but when he realizes that she is pregnant commits suicide in what appears to be a mountain accident. In Valvedre the husband is abandoned by his wife whose passion he cannot satisfy, and, who feeling neglected, runs away with her...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 57–76.
Published: 01 January 2016
...-je pas mille fois mieux une obscure impunité, qu une correction éclatante? (138). It follows that his marked preference for his youngest wife, Roxane, is based not on her relative youth or beauty but rather on his belief in her exceptional virtue, defined as a principled resistance to having sex...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 129–144.
Published: 01 January 2011
... obvious sense, neither is she the sensible bourgeois wife or the henpecking domineering wife, still less a shrew. Nor is Elmire a femme savante or a precieuse (indeed she explicitly rejects the precieux ethic). Rather, she is a mondaine who enjoys an unusual degree of latitude from her husband thanks...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 175–189.
Published: 01 May 2008
... wife's obedience with increasingly pitiless trials. In Perrault's version the prince tore their daughter from his wife's breast and removed her to a convent, rudely asserting that a peasant-born mother couldn't adequately rear a noble daughter. Fifteen years later he cast Griselidis off, and she-asking...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 March 2005
... lung condition. Mauvignier's Apprendre a{inir and Lenoir's Le Repit offer rather differ- ent perspectives on illness. These texts focus not on the patient, but on the anext-of-kin. In Apprendre {inir it is the patient's wife and "carer" who is the narrator and the focus of the narrative, whereas Le...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in the City of New York 2020 symbolism analogy photography Georges Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte Novels are rarely accused of killing cities. Yet Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte (1892) conflated the Flemish town with Hugues Viane, its homicidal protagonist, his dead wife, and his murdered...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 98–99.
Published: 01 January 2006
... scholarly life to hilll, as well as to the new Internet bilingual website «Louis Aragon Online», he and his wife Lydia, who is also Aragon's Gernlan translator, enjoyed a close personal acquaintanceship with the author during the last twelve years of his life. Etudes sur Louis Aragon is a two-volullle...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 405–420.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., yet his frailty and his secret (not to us) dependence on his beloved wife protect him from readerly laughter. Likewise in Desirada the narrative voice abstains from bantering to treat a doubly painful topic: protoincestuous sexual abuse and the failure of the mother. Conde agrees that this is a "sad...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 472–474.
Published: 01 November 2002
... anxieties, but also the aftermath of his repatriation and of the Rennes Trial. While having to remain incognito, several times changing residences in London and its countryside, he was wracked by worries pertaining to the safety of his wife, his children, and their mother, Jeanne Rozerot...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 293–299.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the cunning slave in ancient Roman comedy, the farce wife is at once a stereotype and a transcript for the subaltern resistance that usually operates “below the threshold of social and historical visibility,” except when punished or given a public platform in complex forms of transvestism. I think Guynn’s...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 323–341.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to her husband the Duke that the young man made indecent proposals to her. In a first confrontation between the Duke and the young knight, bound to each other by feudal vows, the latter at first convinces his master that his wife's rendering of events is not true. The Duchess forces the situation...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 369–390.
Published: 01 May 2011
... wife, Caroline, I argue, is an apparently backgrounded figure often overlooked by Zola scholars but who in fact fashions the path between Octave's two novels. She resists the initial advances of her young employee, but then as a widow-like Madeleine Forestier-Iooks to him as the second husband who...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 169–182.
Published: 01 January 2011
... voila donc, coquine! (Le terme catalan etait plus energique.) Te voila, disait-il. C'est donc toi qui as casse la jambe a Jean ColI! Si tu etais a moi, je te casserais Ie cou" (95). The Venus is deeply unpopular in the village, and even M. de Peyrehorade's wife urges its 2. It is interesting, given his...
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