Revue Romane. Langue et littérature - Current Issue

Abstract

This paper focuses on Portuguese adjetival constructions akin to English contructions with tough-movement — e.g., este problema é difícil de resolver ‘this problem is tough to solve’. In standard European and Brazilian Portuguese, the infinitival clause tipically contains a transitive verb, and no explicit external argument. However, some other — poorly studied, and arguably non-canonical — variants of these constructions occur in corpora of newspaper writing of both European and Brazilian Portuguese. These will be the focus of this paper. Three variants will be assessed: constructions with explicit external arguments; constructions with clear subject raising (of external arguments, or internal arguments of unaccusative verbs); (non-tough-)constructions with unmotivated insertion of the preposition de ‘to’. All in all, it is possible to conclude that Portuguese adjectival constructions with tough-movement are prone to substantial language variation and are occasionally affected by linguistic anomaly, even in relatively formal written registers.

Resumen

Los tratamientos son un asunto central para la dialectología y la historia del continuo lingüístico hispano-luso, si bien la variación que los caracteriza ha dificultado por mucho tiempo su descripción y su análisis. Muchas de estas dificultades han sido aliviadas en los últimos tiempos con la publicación de varios trabajos de síntesis sobre el conjunto de estas variedades, a la vez que se han cubierto en gran medida las lagunas aún existentes sobre algunos tratamientos. En este trabajo propongo reforzar la visión global del tema con un estudio comparativo de las normas alocutivas en las dos lenguas y una integración de sus variantes con el uso de escalas y jerarquías allí donde la variación parece desafiar la validez de cualquier generalización.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the image of Slovakia outlined in two debut novels composed by migrant women writers, such as Divorzio di velluto (2022) by Jana Karšaiova and Dal diario di una piccola comunista (2020) by Michaela Šebőková. My intention is to answer the question whether, and to what extent, women writers of Slovak origin, who have lived similar existential experiences, have constructed a homogeneous vision of their homeland. The analysis allows to capture a fragment of the history of Slovakia in the era of communism at the end of the twentieth century in a broad social and cultural context.

Résumé

Je me pencherai dans les pages qui suivent sur les aspects des méthodes d’écriture et des fictions de Raymond Roussel susceptibles de faire surgir une interrogation sur l’identité, sur les catégories ontologiques à partir desquelles nous ordonnons le monde, sur les différentes formes d’hybridation humain-machine et les transitions de genre. Nous verrons ainsi comment Raymond Roussel anticipe les fictions posthumanistes surgies dans les dernières décennies du xx^e siècle. La déstabilisation générale des identités, notamment des distinctions de genre, annonce de manière visionnaire certaines idées développées par le féminisme de Donna Haraway.

Abstract

The present article will attempt to demonstrate the ability of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, a Rwandan author, to convey the Rwandan imaginary and its history to a Western audience through everyday life. Umubyeyi addresses, of course, the trauma of the 1994 genocide, but she does not believe that the focus of her attention should be directed solely at this conflict. Instead, her goal is to convey a more complex and diverse society through her novels. Fiction allows her to explore the lives of the forgotten survivors, to revive, reconstruct, and share their own experiences. The author’s literary work is based on rewriting the Western media discourses that stereotyped and presented a partial view of her country and its citizenship.

Abstract

The article is about the rhetorical instruments and discourses used by La Peyrère in his Relation du Groenland (1647) in order to describe the unicorns and the monsters, two species typical of the early modern Greenlandic zoology. Similarly to the geography of Greenland which, at the time, was under the sign of ambiguity, the description of the two species is partly governed by the uncertainty. Whilst the unicorn is dealt with by means of observations based on empirical experiences, the monsters are described exclusively on the basis of a knowledge acquired from books. The description of the two species is founded on rhetorical devices like the comparison and the synecdoche.

Resumo

Neste artigo, defendo que In Nomine Dei (1993) é mais um argumento saramaguiano contra o elevado valor que se atribui à razão humana e uma exortação a que sejamos não só lugares de testemunho e reflexão dos erros do passado e do presente mas também atores envolvidos na construção de um futuro menos trágico. Na peça, o ceticismo de José Saramago em relação à religião enquanto crença num ser metafísico não é o problema fundamental; a questão está na sua desconfiança relativamente à razão humana, tantas vezes apresentada orgulhosamente como atributo superior que distingue o Homem dos animais irracionais (e de toda a natureza, que existe, como se proclama no Génesis e noutros livros da Bíblia, para que o ser humano a administre, a subjugue e se sirva dela). O tratamento dramático dado a personagens como o anabatista Jan Van Leiden e o bispo cristão Waldeck e a outras que em vão se lhes opõem, sobretudo mulheres, permite a Saramago expressar a falência da Reforma e expor a tendência do Homem para a morte mais violenta e em larga escala.

This article reviews Le Banquet des Belles Lettres

This article reviews Voci di prigionieri italiani della prima guerra mondiale

This article reviews Dario Fo tra storia e politica. Prospettive di studio sull’opera teatrale