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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 409–426.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Dorothea von Mücke Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Dorothea von Mucke PRIVATE WRITER AND PUBLIC AUTHOR: AUTHORSHIP AND AUDIENCES IN ROUSSEAU'S CONFESSIONS Jean-Jacques Rousseau was very critical of his publics, especially when it came to the power play, networking...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2023
...María Rosón; Ana Pol Abstract This article examines the relationships that developed in exile between women writers and artists and things following the Spanish Civil War. Our analysis is based on self-writing and visual art. Using a New Materialist theoretical framework, the article shows how...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 163–175.
Published: 01 January 2001
...David A. Griffiths Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 David A. Griffiths LES DEUX DISCOURS INEDITS D'ARAGON AU 3EME CONGRES DE LA "LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WRITERS", LE 2 JUIN 1939 A ragon intervient trois fois, au moins, a ce congres: une fois a la soiree de Carnegie Hall...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jason Earle Abstract This article analyzes how the French fascist and collaborationist author Pierre Drieu la Rochelle thought critically about the forms and the functions of the modern writer-prophet. In essays dedicated to the cases of D. H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as to his own...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Alexandra K. Wettlaufer Abstract This essay considers the ways in which Honoré de Balzac and George Sand, an influential pair of “public writers” who were committed to diametrically opposing sociopolitical discourses, constructed aspects of their authorial identities and indeed the social import...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 305–320.
Published: 01 September 2021
... periodicals to arlequins and marronniers —or the bouillie de marrons sometimes made from chestnuts. Associating newspapers with such cheap foods implies that the composition of these publications has been expedient. July Monarchy writers who were concerned about the forty-franc press’s tendency...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Heike Scharm Abstract This essay places the narrative of the Spanish writer José A. Cano (b. 1954 in Madrid) within the context of contemporary Spanish ecofiction. Concerned with the state of global humanity, Cano reflects a growing postnational perspective among Spanish writers whose works...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 190–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Francois-Nicolas Vozel Abstract Maurice Blanchot and Marguerite Duras experienced May ’68 as a miraculous event, a radical interruption of the order of things. Throughout the 1970s, both writers explored whether it is possible to account for, while remaining faithful to, a movement that interrupted...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to an end? Could there be an American equivalent to his novel? And why among writers is there a saying, “If you want to write like Proust, don’t write like Proust”? Searching for the key to Proust’s achievement, the author realizes that over the years he has possibly read more about Proust than he has...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Catriona Seth Abstract Right at the end of the eighteenth century, a famous poet, Ponce-Denis Écouchard Le Brun, denounced women writers and a literary dispute ensued. While it mobilized a number of authors, one poem stands out in accounts of the quarrel: Constance Pipelet’s “Épître aux femmes...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into the heart of the work. Both writers demonstrate acute metaliterary sensibility, and respectable training in classical and medieval theories of rhetoric and poetry. Gilles defends his choice to write in verse through a constellation of metaphors pitting the synthetic clarity of both urine and poetry against...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Yonsoo Kim Abstract Physical illness may lead women to grow spiritually, reflect on their lives, and learn how to write about their unique experiences. A fifteenth-century Castilian writer, Teresa de Cartagena distinguishes herself for being a nun, a conversa , a member of a powerful Jewish family...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... than when alone. Because the wise man reads books and perhaps corresponds with other writers of his day, he feels himself to be in the company of those whose works he is studying. In the Renaissance, however, the humanist feels alienated from the time period in which he is living, and he reads to place...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 235–260.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” that merges two nineteenth-century figures: the “invisible” flâneuse and the “inaudible” rieuse , or funny woman. Focusing on the intersection of the representation of urban experience and the humorous in Fiacres , this article situates Marni’s sound bites within a genealogy of women writers and the city...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in opening up Paz’s Spanish-language poetry to new translators in the United States. While this article examines an understudied but crucial facet of Rukeyser’s career as a writer and translator, it also sheds light on the complicated set of expectations and realities involved when one poet translates...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
... for a certain model of knowledge-acquisition that sees natural truths as hidden and in need of tools to be extracted. This ingenuity is shown, also, to be closely connected to the inventions of writers of romance, and the article suggests the specific importance of the Alexander material in the history...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 91–96.
Published: 01 January 2014
... they did not always constitute a literary "genre," as was the case in the 1970s with the mode retro, and doubtlessly again in the past few years. This period inspired most of the important postwar French writers, from Marcel Ayme to Romain Gary, not to mention emblematic authors like Patrick Modiano...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 413–418.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the Belle BOOK REVIEWS Epoque, suggests, the current North American debates about women's need to find balance between their professional and personal lives have a long history.1 This book is an illuminating study of a community of women readers and writers in France in 1901-11. Scholars who study women...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 439–464.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the Tableau de Paris for "bitterly mocking, in Le Pauvre diable, indigent writers," Louis-Sebastien Mercier articulates a stark shift in eighteenthcentury representations of authorial poverty.! The pitiless images in Voltaire's 1760 lampoon of a hapless litterateur chasing fame and fortune drew on a well...
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