Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures

Articles and Book Chapters

romance languages and literatures

2009

Carpenter, Dwayne E. “Prayers and Players: What’s Luck Got to Do with It?” In Gambling and the American Moral Landscape. Ed. Alan Wolfe and Eric Owens, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009, 291-97.

Mostefai, Ourida. “Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire,” in An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee, eds. E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 285-96.

Newmark, Kevin. “L'horizon du savoir: Emma Bovary comme modèle esthétique de la réception chez H.R. Jauss,” Madame Bovary et les Savoirs, ed. Gisèle Séginger. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne-nouvelle, 2009), 303-11.

Mostefai, Ourida. “Singularité et exemplarité du cas Jean-Jacques: théorie et expérience du fanatisme chez Rousseau.” In Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, co-edited with John T. Scott. Amsterdam: Rodopi (Faux Titre Series), 2009, pp. 98-112.


2008

Bruckner, Matilda T. “Of Cannibalism and Cligès.” Arthuriana 18.3 (Fall 2008): 19-32.

Livon-Grosman, Ernesto. “La primera persona en dos documentales argentinos recientes: La televisión y yo de Andrés Di Tella y Los rubios de Albertina Carri,” Entre discursos: Nuevos espacios y nuevas lecturas. Ana Amar Sánchez ed. (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuet, Volumen VIII, 29 (2008), 105-121.

Mormando, Franco. “Nudus Nudum Christum Sequi: The Franciscans and Differing Interpretations of Male Nakedness in Fifteenth-Century Italy.” Fifteenth Century Studies, 33 (2008): 171-97.

Mormando, Franco. “Of Clowns and Christian Conscience: The Art of George Rouault” (review of McMullan Museum exhibition, “Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958”). In America (vol. 199, no. 17, Nov. 24, 2008). 237-321.

Mostefai, Ourida. “De Vincennes à Ménilmontant: promenade et projet autobiographique dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire.” In The Nature of Rousseau’s “Reveries”: Physical, Human, Aesthetic, ed. John C. O’Neal. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2008: 03, pp. 197-208.

Mostefai, Ourida. “Les Lettres du citoyen: correspondance et polémique chez Rousseau.” In Lire la Correspondance de Rousseau, eds. Jacques Berchtold & Yannick Séité, Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau (volume 47) 2008, pp. 365-379.

Newmark, Kevin. “Tongue-tied: What Camus’s Fiction Couldn’t Teach us about Ethics and Politics,” Albert Camus in the 21st Century, edited by Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme, and Lissa Lincoln. (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2008), 107-120.

Rhodes, Elizabeth. “The Economics of Salvation in El esclavo del demonio.” Bulletin of the Comediantes, 59.2 (2008): 281-302.


2007

Bruckner, Matilda T. “Acts of Nomination: Naming Names and Troubadour Poetry.” Tenso: Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX 22.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2007): 1-8.

Bruckner, Matilda T. “The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance,” in Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freemen Regalado, ed. E. Jane Burns, Roberta Krueger, and Eglal Doss-Quinby. Boydell & Brewer, 2007. 279-87.

Mormando, Franco. “Pestilence, Apostasy, and Heresy in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Deciphering Michael Sweerts’ Plague in an Ancient City,” in Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Truman State University Press, 2007, 237-321.

Rhodes, Elizabeth. “Gender in the Night. Juan de la Cruz y Cecilia del Nacimiento.” Calíope 13.2. (2007): 39-61.


2006

Bruckner, Matilda T. “Arthur in the Narrative Lay” in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, IV The Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt. Cardiff: The Vinaver Trust and the University of Wales Press, 2006. 186-214. (co-authored with Glyn Burgess; section on Marie de France’s Lais, 187-98, 206-8).

Bruckner, Matilda T. “Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal.” The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature, ed. Virginie Greene. New York/Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 13-28.

Bruckner, Matilda T. “Clever Foxes, Fierce Lions, Diabolical Dragons: Animals Tell Tales in Medieval Arts and Letters.” In Secular Sacred, 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, ed. Nancy Netzer. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. 19-42.

Bruckner, Matilda T. “LeFresne’s Model for Twinning in the Lais of Marie de France.” Modern Language Notes 121 (2006): 946-60.

Bruckner, Matilda T. “The Miracle of Compound Interest, or Accounting Games in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas.” “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Réunis par Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont et Frank Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 39-55.

Mormando, Franco. “The Making of the Second Jesuit Saint: The Campaign for the Canonization of Francis Xavier, 1555-1622” in Francis Xavier and the Jesuit Missions in the Far East: An Anniversary Exhibition of Early Printed Works in the Jesuitana Collection of the John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Chestnut Hill, MA: The Jesuit Institute, 2006, 9-22.

Newmark, Kevin. “Deconstruction,” in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 29-35.

Rhodes, Elizabeth. “Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus.” The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Eds. John W. O’Malley et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 33-47.

Shepard, Laurie. “Marking Time: The Lives of the Young in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany” in Sacred/Secular, 11th-16th Century. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, 2006, 74-80.


2005

Bold, Stephen. “Borges, Inventor of the Pensées, or La busca de Pascal.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 115-34.

Bruckner, Matilda T. Le Chevalier de la Charrette: That Obscure Object of Desire, Lancelot.” In A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Norris Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2005, 137-55.

Livon-Grosman, Ernesto. “La poética del decir y del hacer: Pablo Neruda y Edgardo Antonio Vigo.” Sophia Austral Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Magallanes Número 9 (2005): 67-71.

Livon-Grosman, Ernesto. “Reinscripciones: textos y fotos en la narrativa del Perito Moreno.” Delirios de grandeza: los mitos argentinos (cultura, memoria e identidad). Edited by María Cristina Pons and Claudia Soria. Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Argentina, 2005, 273-287.

Mormando, Franco. “Art Responds to the Plague: Depicting Symptomatology, Identifying Remedies,” in Worcester Medicine (organ of the Worcester District Medical Society), Spring 2005, 14-15.

Mormando, Franco. “Response to the Plague in Early Modern Italy: What the Primary Sources, Printed and Painted, Reveal” in Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Exhibition catalogue. Worcester Art Museum, 2005, 1-44.

Mormando, Franco. “The Painted ‘Visions’ of Fra Angelico: A Singular New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, America, December 19-26, 2005: 8-11.

Rhodes, Elizabeth. “Redressing Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer.” Hispanic Review 73.3 (2005): 309-28.


2004

Beckjord, Sarah H. “Totems and Taboos Revisited: Roberto Matta and the New World Tradition.” Matta: Making the Invisible Visible. Ed. Elizabeth Goizueta. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004, 9-14.

Lamparska, Rena A. “Cenni sulla meraviglia nel pensiero degli Investiganti e di Gregorio Caloprese” in: Maestro e Amico. Miscellanea in onore di Stanislaw Widlak, Eds. Marcela Swiatkowska, Roman Sosnowski, Iwona Piechnik. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Universytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2004, pp. 357-60.

Mostefai, Ourida. “Inventer un langage nouveau: Rousseau et la polémique.” In Rousseau, Music & Language, ed. Claude Dauphin. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2004: 08, pp. 88-92.

Newmark, Kevin. “Danser le jazz: de La Nausée à L’Invitée,” Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 20, 2003-04, 18-29.

Newmark, Kevin. “On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan,” Yale French Studies (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan), December, 2004, 87-106.

Shepard, Laurie. “Siena 1531: Genesis of a European Heroine.” Quaderni d’italianistica. 25.2 (2004): 3-19.