The Romanic Review back issues from November 2004:
Li Livres dou Tresor.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Li Livres dou Tresor. By Brunetto Latini. Edition and study by Spurgeon Baldwin and Paul Barrette. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. Pp. 392. The Italian notary, statesman, and author Brunetto Latini (ca. 1220-1294) was the son of a prominent ...
The Anonymous Marie de France.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. Howard Bloch. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 367. Karl Warnke began his groundbreaking 1925 critical edition of Marie de France's Lais with a brief, one-sentence paragraph: "Marie de France is the first poetess ...
Roman et Religion en France (1713-1866).(collected papers from symposium on novel and religion in 18th century France)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Roman et Religion en France (1713-1866). Textes reunis, presentes et edites par Jacques Wagner. Colloques, congres et conferences sur le dix-huitieme siecle, no. 6. Paris : Honore Champion, 2002. Pp. 286. Cet ouvrage publie les actes d'un colloque tenu a Clermont-Ferrand dans le ...
Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism; Artists Bookworks; East Sussex, England, 2002, Pp. 304. The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read is divided into two parts, first a new translation of the ...
Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture, Carol Rigolot; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Number 271; University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2001. Pp. 264. <Pre>"L'existence litteraire est a demi faite de ...
La Modification des metaphores visuelles dans la poesie de Valery.(metaphors in the poetry of Paul Valery)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Tout enseignant de la litterature a du affronter un jour ou l'autre, dans ne salle de classe, le probleme de l'obscurite en poesie. Meme si l'enseignant a pu surmonter le probleme pour lui-meme, apres avoir elabore au cours des ans une methode d'interpretation qui dissipe les brumes ...
Hors texte, la poesie se dessine.
Nov 01, 2004; ... C'est a un ouvrage intitule Les Dessins de Paul Valery que nous devons ce travail sur la poesie de l'image. Ce recueil a tirage limite compose d'un choix de 36 planches de croquis et de gravures sur des sujets varies fut publie en 1948, soit, trois ans apres la mort du poete. Il y a tout ...
"L'oeil a sa comprehension propre": l'imaginaire valeryen selon De Man et Hartman.
Nov 01, 2004; ... La peinture ne peut, sans quelque danger, pretendre a nous feindre le reve. --Paul Valery, OEuvres, tome II, p. 1318. Des 1894, Valery a expose de facon tres claire une perspective novatrice quant a l'approche de l'image picturale: <Pre>[J]e crois [ ...] ...
Helene Julien, Le Roman de Karin et Paul.(Figures de Valery)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Helene Julien, Le Roman de Karin et Paul. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. Anne Mairesse, Figures de Valery. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000. Both these books illuminate the ways in which several of Paul Valery's works engage in half-hidden dialogues with his contemporaries. Whereas Anne ...
Paul Valery a tous les points de vue. Hommage a Judith Robinson-Valery.
Nov 01, 2004; ... Paul Valery a tous les points de vue. Hommage a Judith Robinson-Valery. Paul Gifford, Robert Pickering et Jurgen Schmidt-Radefeldt, eds. Paris: L'Harmattan, coll. Critiques litteraires, 2003. Pp. 216. Ce recueil en hommage a Judith Robinson-Valery est, a l'image de son ...
Paul Valery's Cahiers/Notebooks.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Paul Valery's Cahiers/Notebooks. Volume I. Editor in chief Brian Stimpson, Assoc. ed. Paul Gifford, Robert Pickering. Transl. by Paul Gifford ... from the French Cahiers ed. by Judith Robinson-Valery. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp.654. ISBN: 3-631-34881-9 Paul Valery's ...
William Marx. Naissance de la critique moderne: La litterature selon Eliot et Valery.(book title in English: William Marx. Birth of the modern critic: Literature according to Eliot and Valery)(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... William Marx. Naissance de la critique moderne: La litterature selon Eliot et Valery. Arras: Artois Presses Universite, 2002. Pp. 411. Fort d'un argument amplement soutenu par la recherche universitaire, ce livre ouvre de nouvelles voies sur l'histoire comparatiste de la ...
Quinze ans de recherches valeryennes bibliographie 1989-2004.(15 years of research on Paul Valery, bibliography)(Bibliography)
Nov 01, 2004; ... 1. Editions --. Ouvrez vos ailes [Textes poetiques de Jose Maria de Heredia, Henri Savournin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Valery, et al.]. Paris: Tana, 2000. Coffret, pp. 96. Bibesco, Marthe (dite Princesse). Le Confesseur et les poetes, avec des lettres inedites de ...
Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism. Corneille, Pascal, Racine. By Ziad Elmarsafy. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2003. Pp. 193. Cum domino pax ista venit (la paix vient avec la dictature). C'est par cette citation provocante et paradoxale, tiree de La Pharsale de Lucain, que ...
Leibhaftige Dekadenz.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Leibhaftige Dekadenz. By Wanda Klee. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 337. Ever since the first volume of Foucault's History of Sexuality appeared in 1976, much has been written about the role of sexuality in fin-de-siecle literature. Many critics have focused ...
French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race. Edited by Tyler Stovall and Georges Van Den Abbeele. Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. 383. French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race is a valuable contribution to the ongoing effort ...
Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... Genetic Criticism. Texts and Avant-Textes. Edited by Jed Deppman, Daniel Ferrer, and Michael Groden. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 272. This collection of essays aims to introduce English speakers to one of the most important critical trends in France ...
La Pensee du roman.(Book Review)
Nov 01, 2004; ... La Pensee du roman. Thomas Pavel. Paris: Gallimard, 2003. Pp. 416. L'idee selon laquelle les romans "premodernes" (tels que Les Ethiopiques, Amadis de Gaule ou L'Astree) pratiquent l'idealisation d'une maniere qui les rend mensongers au regard des romans "modernes" exaltant ...
Books received.
Nov 01, 2004 ... Arnauld, Jean-Claude and Gerard Milhe Poutingon, Eds. Actes du colloque de Rouen organise par le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Editer / Interpreter, 15-17, November, 2001: Les Normes du dire au XVIe siecle. Paris : Honore Champion, 2004. Asole, Francesco. Il Teatro di michel ...