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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 316–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Hanan Elsayed Abstract This essay focuses on Kamel Daoud’s “response” to Albert Camus’s L’Étranger by highlighting the differences in and implications of their writing styles and narrative voices. Daoud’s narrative refigures the concept of the absurd and his linkage of Camus’s silences...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of works and commentaries by the physicians Archimattheus, Gilles of Corbeil, and Gentile da Foligno. In captationes benevolentiae styled after Ciceronian precepts, these authors attack their rivals before presenting their own superior science. Their scurrilous invectives—“Hoc salernitani cacantes...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 253–275.
Published: 01 January 2017
... eight years exclusively devoted to cinematographic experimentations, Marguerite Duras comes back to lite­ ra­ t­ure with the publication of L Homme assis dans le couloir, a short story begun in 1962, and L Été 80. In the latter work Duras deploys a new writing style that she ­will ­later call écriture...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 579–580.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in France-first, Durkheim's role in the development of modern sociology, and second Freud's visit to Paris and the birth of psychoanalysis. All of these are mentioned by Bernard, whose writing style is admirably open and allusive in its compass. Indeed, it would be fascinating to learn how Bernard's...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 1–2.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to the attention of readers, including a nonacademic audience. Gita s writing style in this monograph her last ­book-­length study is, as in everything she wrote, lucid and compelling. She wrote with equal ease in French and English, and her elegant, highly readable prose, however out of fashion at certain periods...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 580–582.
Published: 01 May 2010
... sociology, and second Freud's visit to Paris and the birth of psychoanalysis. All of these are mentioned by Bernard, whose writing style is admirably open and allusive in its compass. Indeed, it would be fascinating to learn how Bernard's paradigms might fit post-romantic literary culture. Flaubert...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 596–600.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Fiction has dedicated two editions to his reuvre (vol. 13, no. 1 [1993]; vol. 29, no. 1 [2009 In Constraining Chance Alison James brings to light why Perec's writing attracts so much attention. His experimental style of writing raises philological questions pertinent to literary constraints, literary...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 57–67.
Published: 01 January 2002
... not only in French history, but also in the French novel. After the events of that year, he argues, it is no longer possible to assume an a priori style when writing fiction. Balzac, according to this logic, had no stylistic dilemmas when he sat down to write. The style was there already, and the choice...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 547–560.
Published: 01 May 2010
... del diablo y sus 17 satelites porque hemos perdido una hora mas de las veinticuatro que sin remedio vamos a perder completas" (338). In this phase of his stylistic GARCIA MARQUEZ'S JOURNALISM 559 experimentation, the young author attempts to link his grammatical writing style to the content of his...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 553–577.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a proliferation of other works attributed to Voltaire: fakes, forgeries, hoaxes, what I am here calling his apocrypha.2 What are we to make of this vast body of writing? And has it anything to tell us about Voltaire and the remarkably innovative style of authorship that he fostered?3 Defining the Corpus...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 303–321.
Published: 01 September 2024
... classes. The second part of the essay turns to Benjamin, Bataille, and Blanchot, for whom his novel altered conventional notions of justice, desire, figural language, and the structure of time through the experience of writing. Across the political spectrum, readings of Proust pit the rhetoric...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 103–126.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and practical knowledge of state stewardship ­were constantly connected with practices of reading and writing, as well as his specific concerns about the cultural legitimacy of a censorship program and how it might adversely affect the reputation of the Empire. In a note to Metternich, Sedlnitzky, for example...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 149–164.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Elisabeth-Marie Richter Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Columbia University 2018 Elisabeth-­Marie Richter . . . Q UELLE COSÌ DETTE GRAZIE DI STILE : THE IMPLICATIONS OF STYLE ON THE VERDICTS OF ROMAN BOOK CENSORSHIP ON EN­GLISH LITE­ R­AT­ URE [. . . ] U­ nder Paul IV an Index librorum...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 359–376.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the way novels construct sentences, she argued-"a cause de phrases"-that she tried to destroy all conventional grammar and create a narrative that would be as free of style as possible ("Destruction" 45). This new anti-novelistic mode of writing that offered a more succinct and less stylistically...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 590–593.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Lauren Walsh Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings . Edited by Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers UP , 2011 . Pp. 356 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 59° BOOK REVIEWS responded by asserting poetry's autonomy from...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 333–352.
Published: 01 May 2013
... University 334 JASON EARLE Figure 1. January 21,1936, tract for Contre-Attaque this invitation-the only one produced in the context of Contre-Attaqueought to be understood as a visual corollary to Bataille's writings on crowds from the 1930s (314). In essays like "La Structure psychologique du fascisme...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 287–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... monograph, Rootedness (2016), her scholarship has been characterized by a close attention to tropes—particularly, though not exclusively, metaphors. Like rootedness, degeneration is a powerful concept, capable of guiding aesthetic practices and critical writing, and illustrative of what Wampole elsewhere...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 15–32.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and writes: The handful of characters are practically indistinguishable one fronl another, the action can be reduced to an ahnost uninterrupted clilnbing up and down of stairs with nluch screalning of insults, the style is so repetitive that whole pages appear to be lnore or less interchangeable...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... type, behavior, character traits, dress, and even prose style, especially if they were not, like Caron, just any male writer, but a representative of the male medical establishment. As ­Saint-U­ rsin writes: One sex must dominate through force, the other through the graces (1804, xlvii). A real man...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 415–429.
Published: 01 November 2009
... admired for its noble and patriotic content, remained somewhat reluctant when it came to judging its style. Speaking of the evolution of the chanson de geste, Gautier can only state that it suffers from the same shortcomings as Homeric poetry: the "Homeric epithet," the nucleus of what today we would...