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Body/Text/History: Violation Of Borders In Assia Djebar's Fantasia, David Waterman

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Assia Djebar's novel Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985) can be read as a political novel which examines the permeability of borders, especially between Algeria and the female body. As the primary site of signification and meaning, the body becomes a text which attempts to circulate knowledge and encourage resistance outside a position of mastery, and the same body/text suffers as it is inscribed by the dominant power. The distinction between nature and culture is interrogated as the borders of the body/text overlap the borders of war, writing, history, and sexuality. Ultimately, given the position of the female body within the …

Travels Through Heterotopia: The Textual Realms Of Patrick Modiano's Rue Des Boutiques Obscures And Mikhail Kuraev's Kapitan Dikshtein, Vitaly Chernetsky

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Within contemporary prose, one distinct mode or paradigm that can be discerned is constituted by the texts that daringly tackle the dark, suppressed, erased parts of our history and mentality; however, they approach this task not by way of self-righteous denunciatory investigations, but by provocatively problematizing the most established everyday facts, by depriving the reader of the possibility of even conceiving any firm ground of the stable construct of an origin or a self-identification—historically and culturally. Their irreverent and playful deconstruction of the all-pervasive national cultural mythologies has mounted a powerful challenge to ideological constructs big and small. This article …

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Johnson, Roberta. Crossfire: Philosophy and the Novel in Spain 1900-1934 by Nina L. Molinaro

Lucey, Michael. Gide 's Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing by Jocelyn Van Tuyl

Morris, Alan. Patrick Modiano by David Herman

Sartiliot, Claudette. Citation and Modernity: Derrida, Joyce, and Brecht by Siegfried Mews

"A Myth Becomes Reality": Kaspar Hauser As Messianic Wild Child , Ulrich Struve

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The topos of the "Wild Child" occupies an important place in the mythic and literary imagination of the West. The European climax of a long line of wild children, Kaspar Hauser was a nineteenth-century German foundling whose fate has inspired a host of novels, dramas, novellas, poems, songs, and movies, even an opera and a ballet. It has been treated by Paul Verlaine, R. M. Rilke, and Klaus Mann, by the Dada poet Hans Arp, by the dramatist Peter Handke, and by the filmmaker Werner Herzog. This article offers a brief historical sketch of Hauser's life before discussing a key …

Etc.: No End To Interpretation Of Julien Green's Le Voyageur Sur La Terre , Robert Ziegler

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

A critical reappraisal of Julien Green's Le Voyageur sur la terre may bring a realization that the text itself is the itinerant traveler, a vagabond temporarily sheltered in readings accorded to it while it awaits entry into heaven, where its meaning is revealed. A tale incorporating inhospitable interpretations, Le Voyageur sur la terre charts a journey toward an impossible homecoming, where the confusion of narrative voices, origins, and identities is finally resolved in a celestial illumination of perfect clarity. As this paper argues, evidence of Green's protagonist Daniel O'Donovan's deliverance from the world is the exile of his narrative in …

"Borges And I," A Narrative Sleight Of Hand , Armando F. Zubizarreta

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Because of its autobiographical appearance, critics have paid little attention to the narrative of "Borges and I" which is so masterfully handled that its complex and transparent texture is almost invisible. A close analysis shows, however, that, in the confessional mode, the two individuals—I and Borges—are true characters involved in a narrative action that is taking place to allow the implementation of vengeance. By focusing on his victim's experience, the narrating I offers an attractive bait to his victimizer, Borges. Borges, the writer, driven by a compulsive pattern of stealing, unsuspectingly takes over the victim's grievances against him by virtue …

Libertine Spaces: Anonymous Crowds, Secret Chambers, And Urban Corruption In Retif De La Bretonne, Amy S. Wyngaard

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

In Le Paysan perverti, ou Les Dangers de la ville (1775) Nicolas Edme Retif de la Bretonne portrays the tragic life of Edmond R.**, a virtuous young peasant seduced and corrupted by the libertine possibilities of the city.

Figuring Frames: Painting As Inspiration For A New Literary Aesthetic In Two Novels By J.-K. Huysmans, Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

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Scène De Mariage Et Populationnisme Dans Le Supplément Au Voyage De Bougainville, Servanne Woodward

Servanne Woodward

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The Cabaret Of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History, Agnieszka Taborska, Jake Mahaffy, Szymon Bojko, Gella Alhassid, So-Hee Cheong, Matthew Cottam, Dawn Danby, Lorreine Fedor, Andrew Gardner, Carl Henschel, Michael Hoard, Kevin Lang, Eric Leichner, Michael Libby, April Lin, Pia Restina, Markus Reyes, James Sanders, Nicholas Scappaticci, Brett Shagen, Michael Shih, Aika Tong, Araby Williams

Programs

Program for the eleventh annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar at the top of the Waterman Building. Graphic design: Mia Moran, Matt Murphy, James Wynn and Katia Popova.

Froissart Across The Genres, Donald Maddox

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Less Or More Black And White? Reassessing Genet's Les Nègres In Light Of Both Published Versions, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

Each of the five plays by Jean Genet performed before his death in 1986 exists in more than one published version.² Critics have discussed the differences between the various published versions of each play³ with the exception of Les nègres: the drama commissioned by Raymond Rouleau, first published by Marc Barbezat in 1958, first performed in a production by Roger Blin at the Thèâtre de Lutèce in Paris in 1959, and published in a revised edition the following year.

Why have the changes Genet made to Les nègres remained undiscussed? Perhaps the attention of critics, like that …

Karukéra: Présence Littéraire De La Guadeloupe, Micheline Rice-Maximin

French & Francophone Studies Faculty Works

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Should Feminists Forget Foucault?, Dominique D. Fisher

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Up Against Foucault (1993), a collection of essays edited by Caroline Ramazanoglu, reevaluates Michel Foucault's theories on power and sexuality in regard to feminism from a sociological perspective…

L’Or Et L’Émeraude: Sur La Signification Alchimique De Quelques Personnages De Notre-Dame De Paris, Denis M. Augier

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

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Denying Limitations: Women's Seizure Of Education In Revolutionary France, Angela C. Anderson

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Prior to the French Revolution of 1789, women were seen primarily as private and domestic individuals, whereas men were seen more as public and political. Women were oppressed in many ways, and girls had fewer opportunities to become educated than did boys at this time. During the Revolution, however, women came into a new existence and became politically involved in various manners, and it was in this way that women seized a non-traditional form of education. Women initiated politically motivated marches, such as the October Days (4-5 October 1789), during which thousands of women marched from Paris to the king's …

Spinoza And Marx, Eugene W. Holland

Eugene W Holland

This essay explores what replacing Hegel with Spinoza as a philosophical source might do for contemporary Marxism.

Modern, Modernity, Modernism: The Shaping Of Brazil's Soul, Antonio Dorca

Antonio Dorca

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Bert Dutil: Washington D.C. Trip 1998, Bertrand A. Dutil

Scrapbooks

Photographs, postcards, brochures, and other mementos

Camus' Meursault : The Only Christ That Modern Civilisation Deserves?, Eamon Maher

Articles

Material reproduced by kind permission of Studies.

Divertir Et Instruire Dans Les Livres Pour Enfants D’Henri Bosco, Laurence Karine Graire

Dissertations and Theses

The theme of this thesis is the double focus of reading: pleasure and learning. Reading allows the readers, not only to identify themselves but also to escape from their everyday life. However, reading is more than a simple amusement, the cultural and personal enrichment it provides is especially valuable. Precisely because of the nature of the audience for children's literature, there is a deep desire from the author to teach the readers. The personality of the child is being formed and education with books is critical in laying a good foundation. Consequently, the writer, through the account he narrates, offers …

The Illustrators Of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

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Tanbou Lwen Tini Bon Son: L'Oral Comme Reconstitution Historique Dans L'Oeuvre De Simone Schwarz-Bart, Frances J. Santiago Torres

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In an effort to reconstruct a History that has been marked by discontinuity and displacement, Simone Schwarz-Bart–a woman writer from Guadeloupe–has written two novels that are infused by the oral tradition of the Caribbean. This dissertation studies the diverse manifestations of the oral genres (such as songs/chants, sayings, proverbs, riddles, etc.) within the novels Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle and Ti Jean L'horizon. This author has given a new dimension to the written French language, even though the Creole language is not transcribed into the texts, it is nevertheless the material out of which the texture of these novels …

Effets De Mimétisme: Sophie Volland: Un Monde De Demoiselles, Servanne Woodward

Servanne Woodward

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Froissart Across The Genres, Donald Maddox

Donald Maddox

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Raising To Object In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Lucie Rabaovololona

Ileana Paul

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Existentials And Partitives In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

Cet article décrit la construction existentielle en malgache et rend compte de la distribution et de l'interprétation des syntagmes nominaux. Il est montré que les syntagmes nominaux spécifiques se déplacent à l'extérieur de la petite proposition complément du verbe existentiel misy alors que les syntagmes nominaux non-spécifiques demeurent dans leur position de base. Cette corrélation entre la position des syntagmes nominaux et leur interprétation appuie l'hypothèse d'appariement (Mapping Hypothesis) de Diesing (1992). Cependant, cette analyse structurale ne rend pas compte de l'interprétation précise attribuée aux syntagmes nominaux spécifiques, qu'il s'agisse de l'interprétation partitive, possessive ou locative. Afin d'unifier ces trois …

Focus Movement And Wh-Questions In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Wauchier De Denain's Vie De Seint Marciau (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Ms. Fr. 411), Molly Lynde-Recchia

Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Complex Verbal Constructions In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Jeannot Ranaivoson

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.