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Item Open Access A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) Moore, FabienneIn 1799 Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) published an equivocal exotic, sentimentalist, and epic novel La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina set in Ceylon. Likely pressured by his brother Napoléon Bonaparte, Lucien quickly suppressed a novel avowedly anticolonial. This article analyzes Lucien Bonaparte’s critique of colonial practices and commerce as politically equivocal or “compromised,” and traces the ambivalence of his post-revolutionary novel to its main sources of inspiration, the best-selling Histoire philosophique des deux Indes published by Guillaume Raynal in 1780. Ultimately, La Tribu indienne reflects the impossible construction of an enlightened or soft colonialism à la française.Item Open Access From Spain’s Moors to Spain’s Colonies: Chateaubriand’s Mapping of Liberty and Equality in Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.(University of Nebraska Press, 2018) Moore, FabienneWhere does Spain fit on the post-revolutionary map? Contemporary Spain remains marginalized at the periphery of European civilization, as if deemed not yet ready, like its colonies, to put Enlightenment ideals into practice. Chateaubriand perpetuates this remoteness of the Iberian Peninsula by setting an interracial, interfaith romance, Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage, in the distant past of Moorish Spain, when, in fact, interracial romances prompted much contemporary debate in the American colonies. This article analyzes the contrast between an idealized vision of aristocratic liberty and equality set in 1526 and the pragmatic politics of liberal imperialism when it came to Spain's future and the fate of its Spanish colonies. The first part interprets the story against the backdrop of its writing in 1810 shortly after Napoleon's invasion of Spain. The second part connects the novella's 1826 publication with Chateaubriand's political role when, named Minister of Foreign Affairs, he instigated a military intervention in Spain in 1823.Item Open Access Pour une sémiotique de l'espace de la petite maison. ‘La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe’ dans La Petite Maison de Jean-François de Bastide (1758)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-09) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica(Bucknell University Press, 2013) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Popular Andalusi literature and Castilian fiction: Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani, 101 Nights, and Caballero Zifar(Revista de Poética Medieval, 2015) Wacks, David A.There is very little manuscript evidence of the popular (non-courtly) literature of al-Andalus. For this reason it is difficult to assess its importance for the development of Castilian literature, and more broadly, for our understanding of medieval Iberian literary practice as an interlocking set of systems that includes a number of linguistic, religious, and political groups. Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani (Granada, ca. 1250) and the 101 Nights (Granada, 1234) are two examples of Andalusi popular fiction that provide important information for our understanding of works of early Castilian fiction such as the Libro del Caballero Zifar. The two Andalusi works provide evidence of a bilingual culture of storytelling that nourished both Arabic and Castilian literary texts. In particular, the inclusion of Arthurian material in Ziyad that predates the earliest translations of Arthurian texts into Castilian forces us to rethink both the sources of Zifar as well as the Iberian adaptation of Arthurian material in generalItem Open Access Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism(Wayne State University Press, 2015) Wacks, David A.Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores’s conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relationship with Blancaflor is a metaphor for the Christian dream of the conquest of al-Andalus and the conversion of Iberian Muslims and Jews.Item Open Access University of Oregon Romance Languages Department Open Access Mandate(2015-11-13) Department of Romance LanguagesOpen Access Mandate adopted by the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Oregon (14 May 2009)Item Open Access Chateaubriand’s Alter Egos: Napoleon, Madame de Staël, and the Indian Savage(European Romantic Review., 1998) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Revolution or ‘Deplorable School’? Chateaubriand’s Analysis of French and British Romanticism in the Mémoires d’outre-tombe(European Romantic Review, 1999) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Homer Revisited: Anne Le Fèvre Dacier’s Preface to Her Prose Translation of the Iliad in Early Eighteenth Century France(Georgia State University, 2000) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Almanach des Muses vs. Almanach des Prosateurs: The Economics of Poetry and Prose at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century(Dalhousie French Studies, 2004) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Baudelaire et les poëmes en prose du dix-huitième siècle. De Fénelon à Chateaubriand.(The W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Vanderbilt University. 40: 1-2, 2005) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Early French Romanticism(Blackwell, 2005-12) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access The Crocodile Strikes Back. Saint-Martin’s Interpretation of the French Revolution.(Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2006-10) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise (1791)(Hispanic Issues, 2012) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre(Ashgate, 2009) Moore, FabienneBy examining nearly sixty works, Fabienne Moore traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some Eighteenth-Century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is habitually supposed to have existed. In the throes of momentous scientific, philosophical, and socioeconomic changes, Enlightenment authors turned to the past to revive sources such as Homer, the pastoral, Ossian, the Bible, and primitive eloquence, favoring music to construct alternatives to the world of reason. The result, Moore argues, were prose poems, including Fénelon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque, Montesquieu’s Le Temple de Gnide, Rousseau’s Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, Chateaubriand’s Atala, as well as many lesser-known texts, most of which remain out of print. Moore’s treatment of Bible criticism and eighteenth-century religious reform movements reveal the often-neglected spiritual side of Enlightenment culture, and tracks its contribution to the period’s reflection about language and poetic invention. Moore includes in appendices four unusual texts adjudicating the merits of prose poems, making evidence of their controversial nature now accessible to readers.Item Open Access Norberto Bobbio e l'autobiografia intellettuale contemporanea(Il Mulino, 2007) Lollini, Massimo; Lollini, Massimo"Il saggio studia la disaffezione alla scrittura autobiografica in prima persona in forme che in maniera sia pure diversa manifestano la comune tendenza «oggettivante» a trasformare l'io in un Sé come un altro, come direbbe Pau Ricoeur. Il discorso viene approfondito in particolare attraverso la lettura dei testi autobiografici di Norberto Bobbio, in rapporto alIa riflessione sui grandi temi della vita e della morte di cui la sua autobiografia intellettuale si fa veicolo."Item Open Access Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, Testimonianza e Verità(Marietti, 2001) Lollini, MassimoThe book examines the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity by focusing on some selected texts from Plato, the Bible and Augustine. Then it studies the emergence of the literary notion of testimony by analyzing crucial works by Dante and Petrarch. The modern and contemporary part of the book concentrates on the philosophical notion of testimony developed by Emmanuel Levinas and on the “testimonies” of important writers of the XXth century such as Renato Serra, Luigi Pirandello, Antonio Gramsci, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Paul Celan.Item Open Access ‘Country Cousins: Europeanness, Sexuality and Locality in Contemporary Italian Television’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access ‘Laughter and the “Popular” in Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, Sergio