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Sillages Critiques
ISSN 1272-3819 · Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" · 517 articles in the index
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La Belle éveillée et le Bel endormi : résistances et reconfigurations genrées du topos de la belle endormie dans les adaptations contemporaines de La Belle et la Bête
The sleeping beauty is a typical motif in painting and literature, especially fairy-tales: held captive by a century-long slumber or doomed by a poisoned apple, the fairy-tale princess is often brought back from the dead by the kiss of a charming prince. Asleep and unconscious, the sleeping beauty…
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Lits, souches, camps : circulations et proliférations écoféministes dans deux romans de Jean Hegland
Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest (1996) concludes with two sisters and their infant Burl abandoning their family home to embrace life in a neighbouring forest. Western domesticity, symbolised by private bedrooms, is replaced by the plural, biotic community of a centuries-old redwood forest. By taking…
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“My Coote thy Chamber, my bosome thy Bed”: (Dis)locating Homoerotic Sexual Fantasies in Richard Barnfield’s Ganymede Poems
Relying on a close analysis of Richard Barnfield’s Affectionate Shepheard (1594) and of the sonnets to Ganymede in Cynthia (1595), this article reflects on the representation of the bed in early modern England in highlighting the conspicuous absence of this everyday object in the poems the author…
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“I Will Follow You Into the Dark”: Romanticism and the Dark Emo Aesthetics
The aesthetics of early twenty-first century emo(tional) rock were inspired by the Gothic and Romantic writing of the nineteenth century. Even when no direct borrowing from Romantic writers can be traced, the general message carried by the lyrics and music videos can appear as a continuation – and…
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Poetics, Politics, and Pleasure in the English Dildo Poem, 1590-1740
This article explores the function of the dildo in early modern satirical poetry, focusing on Thomas Nashe’s The Choise of Valentines, John Wilmot, earl of Rochester’s Signior Dildo and The Argument, Samuel Butler’s Dildoides, and the anonymously published works Monsieur Thing’s Origin: or…
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Du lit de mort au lit d’amour : l’imaginaire érotique de Journey to Love (1955) de William Carlos Williams
At a time when America was facing the nuclear threat and relations were built on mistrust, Williams found himself on his deathbed, half-paralyzed and blinded by a stroke in 1951. It was during this period that he published Journey to Love (1955), an imaginary journey toward love that reinvents the…
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“A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Thing Sublime”: Caroline Shaw’s Romanticism
With interests spanning from the baroque to Postmodernism, Caroline Shaw, a contemporary classical composer and the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her 2013 Partita for 8 Voices, seems like an odd fit for Romanticism, never mind rock. However, she shows an antiquarian’s…
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Shoegaze’s Romanticism: “Only Shallow”?
Emerging in the early 1990s, shoegaze appears to engage with Romanticism in multiple ways, embodying many of its expressive tensions. At once diligent and disenchanted, shoegaze musicians crafted an image of doomed young artists that resonates with the myth of the misunderstood genius. Yet beyond…
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The Romantic Agony of Nick Cave’s Love Song: Romanticising Rock Music
Over the course of his forty-five-year music career, Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave has been widely perceived as a baffling shape-shifter on the independent rock scene, on account of his extreme musical shifts and broad artistic palette spanning post-punk rock, blues rock ballads, garage…
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“Piper Pipe That Song Again”: The Role of Biographies in the Musical Reception of William Blake
William Blake is one of the most celebrated English-language poets in music today, having inspired a myriad of renderings ranging from Hubert Parry’s classical hymn “Jerusalem” (1916) to Patti Smith’s panegyric “My Blakean Year” (2004). The large number of settings over the past sixty years and the…
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“The Lifeboat Burns”: Peter Gabriel’s Protopunk Romanticism in Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) remains an anomaly in the progressive rock genre. Drawing on American cultural sources, Peter Gabriel, lead vocalist and the album’s chief lyricist, grounded its often opaque narrative in a mid-1970s New York street character, seeking to deconstruct…
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Romanticism’s Longue Durée: the Woodstock Festival and History’s Journey Back to the Garden
The Woodstock Festival of August 1969 was an inherently Romantic event, the apotheosis of spectacular countercultural aesthetics in the form of music, audience, dress, undress, discourses of freedom and rebellion, communal coexistence, social cooperation, and return to the land. The Festival’s…
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Poetic Champions Compose: Van Morrison and the Romantic Tradition
For over sixty years, Northern Irish singer Van Morrison has crafted a musical legacy that is uniquely his own. Through it all, Morrison has engaged with multiple Romantic literary figures – naming them in his lyrics, invoking recurring themes based on Romantic tropes and symbols, particularly…
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“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Iron Maiden’s Adaptation of S. T. Coleridge’s Epic Ballad
This paper studies the musical adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) by New Wave of British Heavy Metal figureheads, Iron Maiden, on their Powerslave album (1984). After discussing the relevance of Romanticism to heavy metal and of the ballad for the band…
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Whispers of History: The Challenges of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
This article examines the representation of transgenerational transmissions of trauma in Jean Rhys’s interwar novel After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930). It explores the female protagonist’s struggle to understand her sense of alienation in relation to an unspoken history of suffering and neglect…
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“Beauty Is Difficult”: On (Still) Reading Pound
While Pound’s influence on twentieth-century poetics is widely recognised as unparalleled, the legitimacy of his work – its very literariness – is also often called into question, with claims that his fascism and antisemitism disqualify its achievements. As attempts are made to diversify and…
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Transmitting The Antiphon into Växelsången: A Song of Exchanges
This article explores the translation of Djuna Barnes’s challenging Modernist drama The Antiphon (1958) into Swedish as Växelsången. While English-speaking critics found the play impenetrable, the Swedish adaptation was praised for its accessibility, suggesting that translators clarified and…