Recently added articles from The Romanic Review:
La Nouvelle Revue Francaise in the age of modernism.(literary magazine)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The significance of La Nouvelle Revue Francaise in twentieth-century French literary publishing has long been recognized and has given rise to an increasing number of studies. The turn to sociological approaches to literature, and particularly Pierre Bourdieu's influence in French literary ...
Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue francaise: modernist editor, modernist review?(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Nouvelle Revue francaise: a Modernist Review? Jason Harding, in the opening pages of his book on T.S. Eliot's The Criterion, the review created by the poet in 1922, writes: "in common with Nouvelle Revue francaise, whom it resembled in appearance, experimental modernism was ...
Valery--modernist myths and (anti) modernist states of mind.(poet Paul Valery)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In a short text entitled "Questions de Poesie," preface to the Anthologie des Poetes de la NRF and published in the review in 1935, Valery mocks those who waste their time on terms such as Classicism, Romanticism, and Symbolism. These are terms "faits pour ... donner pretexte a des ...
Proust, Woolf, and modern fiction.(Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Virginia Woolf began reading Marcel Proust in 1922. In an essay "On reading Novels," published in the Times Literary Supplement on July 20, 1922, she comments on the development of the novel since Henry James. Already, she notes, "the years have mounted up [since James's last novels]. We ...
The colonial metropolis and its artistic adventure: Conrad, Congo, and the Nouvelle Revue Francaise.(Joseph Conrad's Congo)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... To Denis de Rougemont, critic, at the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, interwar Paris was nothing less than the geometric locus of the modern adventure." (1) The adventure he had in mind was of course an artistic one. He lists the works of cubism, surrealism, and "l'ecole de Paris"; the ballets ...
Gide's polymorphous perversity, or French modernism's arrested development.(Andre Gide)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... For a long time, it would seem, Gide's name, when considered from the perspective of America, provoked a sort of jolt of unexpected recognition and a subsequent realisation of how much the structure and principal players in the field of French and European literature had changed since the ...
Maaike Koffeman. Entre classicisme et modernite: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise dans le champ litteraire de la Belle Epoque.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Maaike Koffeman. Entre classicisme et modernite: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise dans le champ litteraire de la Belle Epoque. Amsterdam, New York : Rodopi, 2003, collection << Faux titre : 229 >>, Pp. 291. Maaike Koffeman se propose de << soumettre [un] mythe a un examen critique ...
Les Arriere-gardes au XXe siecle : L'autre face de la modernite esthetique.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Les Arriere-gardes au XXe siecle : L'autre face de la modernite esthetique. Edited by William Marx. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. Pp. 248. The 2003 Literature Nobel prize-winner J.M.Coetzee gave a lecture in 1991 entitled 'What Is a Classic?' (published in ...
Bibliography.(Bibliography)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Collective Works Issues 12 and 13 of the Revue des revues, "Valery Larbaud et les revues litteraires" Un Siecle NRF, iconographie choisie et commentee par Francois Nourissier, Paris: Gallimard, album pour la Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 2000. Angles, ...
Dialogue, space, and selfhood in La Chastelaine de Vergi and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron 70.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... When in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron Oisille, the oldest and wisest of the group of travelers 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 ...
Sade ou l'eglise defroquee: la puissance du sacrilege: une Lecture de Sade entre litterature et theologie.(theological themes in the works of the Marquis de Sade)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Lorsque des etudes litteraires traitent du rapport entre litterature et religion dans le XVIIIe siecle francais, li est rare que Sade y soit mentionne. (1) Le manque d'interet pour Sade dans une reflexion de cette portee ne concerne pas seulement la critique litteraire. La theologie, ...
Present and poison: gift exchange in Prosper Merimee's Carmen.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Prosper Merimee's Carmen (1845-1846) tells the story of a fiery, wayward, seductive, yet unattainable Gypsy cigarrera, or female cigar-maker, who goes about Andalusia as she pleases, using men along the way and breaking her lover's heart. Readings of the novella have produced contradictory ...
Un coeur simple: variations sur un paysage normand.('A Simple Heart' by Gustave Flaubert and variations on the Normandy countryside)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Distances La description acquiert ses titres de noblesse des les premiers poemes homeriques et se constitue en mode d'expression privilegie pour tout ecrivain desireux de deployer les virtuosites de son talent et l'autorite de son savoirfaire. Or, il se trouve que, dans le ...
Territoriality disputes, pollution and abjection in Nathalie Sarraute and Helene Lenoir.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Despite the number of surveys of contemporary French fiction that have appeared in the last decade or so, (1) the emergence of journal series such as Ecritures contemporaines (2) and the publication of journal special numbers devoted to contemporary fiction, (3) the question of Nathalie ...
X: identity, reflexivity and potential space in Perec's W ou le Souvenir d'enfance and Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs.(George Perec, Andre Gide)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ca choisit a la hate la lettre retorse/--est-elle ilot, cloitre, tresor ? / Reconnaitre ce recit nonchalant, / l'instinct, l'oreille en coin, / ce certain chant a l'instant arrete/ou chacun sait que s'instaure / la cloture : entre la contrainte etroite / (cette restriction a la lettre, cet ...
Gongora in Arcadia: Sannazaro and the pastoral mode of the Soledades.(Luis de Gongora, Jacopo Sannazaro)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Soledades stands as one of the most revolutionary and innovative poems of the Spanish Golden Age. Gongora created a sophisticated verbal world in which he showed more interest in intellectual beauty and aesthetic pleasure than a moral or didactic message, subverting the classical ...
Analisis comparativo de "la cancion del mariquita" y los poemas de Camborio de Garcia Lorca.(comparison of 'la cancion del mariqita' and the poems of Federico Garcia Lorca)(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Son bien escasas las representaciones de la disidencia sexual en la obra de Garcia Lorca si excluimos la supuesta defensa del homoerotismo que contiene la "Oda a Walt Whitman" y El publico, obra esta ultima que circulo entre los amigos mas intimos del poeta en La Habana y en Madrid poco ...
Alberto Girri: traduccion y cambio de modelos literarios.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... traduzir = trovar H. de Campos El proposito de este trabajo es destacar la zona traductora de poesia anglo-norteamericana de Girri, porque subraya una actitud poetica dialogante y sostenida con un modelo de la modernidad diferente del modelo frances, que fue el mas ...
Opposites reconciled: Ramiro, conde de Lucena (1823) and the liberal Trienio.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; ... It often requires some adjustment for the modern reader of historical novels to grasp what motivated authors of past examples of that genre. The first three historical novels in Spanish literature spring from motives that clearly distinguish each work by something more significant than ...
Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact that the nouvelle was a popular and widely-practiced genre in the ...