{"title":"When the poet becomes the muse","authors":"Nina Rolland","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2021.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2021.20","url":null,"abstract":"Women are ubiquitous in Charles Baudelaire’s poetry, presented either as ideal, unattainable figures, or as earthly, abominable creatures. Instead of examining the gaze of the poet on women, it is interesting to reverse the roles and to explore the gaze of women on Baudelaire, or more precisely what women hear in Baudelaire’s poetry: what happens when the poet becomes the muse? While the most famous musical settings of Baudelaire’s poems have been composed by men (Duparc, Fauré, Debussy), this article aims to uncover musical settings of Baudelaire’s poetry by twentieth-century female composers. In a first instance, this article offers an overview of twentieth-century songs by female composers; from the mélodies of Marie Jaëll to the contemporary settings of Camille Pépin, what do song settings of Baudelaire tell us about the visibility of female composers? Secondly, the article provides a detailed analysis of L’Albatros (1987), a music-theatre piece by Adrienne Clostre. By deconstructing Baudelaire’s poems, Clostre offers a reflection on creativity that cannot be separated from a general understanding of the place of female composers in society.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41940122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Ordre et beauté’","authors":"Michael Downe","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2021.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2021.23","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The British composer Jonathan Harvey is generally associated with Eastern sacred texts rather than the secular Western literary canon. However, evidence from works composed over several decades suggests that Charles Baudelaire was a significant if subterranean influence upon his music. This article considers these works in detail. ‘L’Horloge’ [‘The Clock’] (1963) is a remarkable interpretation of Baudelaire’s text which reveals in it parallels with Harvey’s own contemporary preoccupations with the nature of musical time. Correspondances (1975) is a sequence of settings from Les Fleurs du mal and interludes and ‘fragments’ for piano which may be arranged in numerous orders at the discretion of the performers. Finally, the instrumental works Hidden Voice (1996) and Hidden Voice II (1999) demonstrate that the poet’s ideas remained an inspiration to Harvey well into his compositional maturity. Particularly striking is the variety and originality of these musical responses. Baudelaire’s real significance for Harvey was perhaps as an exemplar of aesthetic ideals - of ‘order and beauty’ - rather than merely as a source of musically suggestive images and phrases.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42555670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composing Baudelaire for contemporary times","authors":"Helen Abbott","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2021.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2021.19","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Sustained interactions with a poet’s work by musicians produce interpretative gaps. Through analysis of contemporary settings of five Baudelaire poems by Nicolas Chevereau, this article proposes a ‘thick method’ of song analysis which accounts for words and music as a conjoined ‘work’ and as a song ‘event’, using a systematic approach underpinned by digital tools including Excel, Sonic Visualiser, and Voyant. A consistent framework for song analysis enables us to rove around inside songs, and to draw in materials from outside the song. A highly individualized response to Baudelaire poems that are less commonly set to music, as in the case of Chevereau’s 2016 Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, reveals significant common ground in terms of multi-perspective approaches that are now possible with intermedial works. Chevereau’s settings of Baudelaire shine important light on a series of complex sensory events which open up the poetic landscape to fresh interrogation and new interpretations.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46402452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘From “Where are you from?” to “Where shall we go together?” Re-imagining Home and Belonging in 21st-Century Women’s Writing’ IMLR, 23-24 September 2020, online","authors":"Anissa Talahite-Moodley, Francesco Albé","doi":"10.3828/JRS.2021.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JRS.2021.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"147-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41618678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representations of the Peninsular War in Portuguese and British historical novels","authors":"Gabriela Gândara Terenas","doi":"10.3828/JRS.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JRS.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Peninsular War has undergone a process of historical revision from several perspectives (military, social, and political) and simultaneously a fictionalization in the guise of personal narratives or accounts in which the concern for historical accuracy varies greatly. More than two hundred years after the momentous events in Portugal, which played such an important part in determining the future of Europe, it would seem an opportune moment to contribute to the rediscovery of a series of fictional texts inspired by the conflict, many of which have fallen into an unjustified oblivion. This article focuses on Portuguese and British historical novels and the more significant aspects of the fictional representations of Anglo-Portuguese relations during the War.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"117-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44737803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emigration in Antón Villar Ponte’s theatre","authors":"Iolanda Ogando","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.24","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Antón Villar Ponte (1881-1936) was one of the leading figures of Galician nationalism, as well as a significant playwright. This analysis of Villar Ponte’s theatre builds on a combination of, on the one hand, theories of the imagological potential of literature and, on the other, studies of the role of emigration in the construction of cultural identities. The purpose of this analysis is to identify and analyse the images of the migratory phenomenon conveyed by Villar Ponte in his plays, and to link them to his political ideology, shaped in other texts, mostly essays, over a span of three decades. The issue of emigration, central to Villar Ponte’s thought, gradually acquired a complexity and richness that would eventually contribute to Galicia’s cultural and political imaginary.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"437-459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43368327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}