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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to, or with, or for, another? Can our aloneness—note the irony of the first-person plural—ever be said to be shared? Can it be said at all? Medieval theologians, especially Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Meister Eckhart, serve as guides in the wilderness here, alongside various voices from the history of North...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... uneasiness comes from the fact that he takes great pleasure in interpreting the allegory, even though it does not seem to provide him with an added layer of meaning. 8. Copeland and Sluiter’s notes on captatio benevolentiae , for example, cover the term’s use in texts far removed from the Bolognese...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
... characterizing some of cummings’s poems, a curious omission given Paz’s great interest in the subject” (Cisneros 82). At the end of her study, Cisneros further qualifies her criticism of Paz’s translations, pointing out that he had stated in print that translations were not a serious work for him...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 430–439.
Published: 01 December 2020
... dramatically, Marcel Proust managed to finish his great novel about time, but it’s not at all clear that his narrator, at work on an identical project, will do this. He may not have time. He has the theory he thinks he needs for his book, and he certainly has the talent. But he knows that the clocks tick even...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to him and put it all in his charge. And Modret wanted to take it all away from him and keep it all for his own use. He took homage from all the barons and hostages from all the castles. After this act of great wickedness, Modret did another evil deed, because, against Christian law, he took to his bed...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., the tale of Guido Cavalcanti's spectacular leap over the "house of the dead," Rebhorn traces Guido's famous quip to a passage from Psalm 48 cited by Gregory the Great in a passage from the Dialogues denouncing the Epicureans-an illuminating connection. Similarly, to justify his election to translate...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 May 2022
... is the personification of the abbess who can cure the ill person: “you must meet the great doctor called Patience, medicine and conservator of the order of travails!” (74). The author develops de modo sermocinandi her reasoning while constructing her identity as a disabled subject. The author also takes...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 129–135.
Published: 01 January 2009
... one great goal, and that goal has now been accomplished, triumphantly and conclusively, in the work of the poet whom you happen to be reading. This of course means that the poet's version of literary history is likely to be somewhat different from others that you may be familiar with. William Butler...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 173–189.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to Watteau vis-à-vis a subsequent author, but to set up a discursive field where two great works composed centuries apart can interact and intersect with one another. Using the notion of “sexual melancholia,” a verbal shorthand that neatly encapsulates the complex experience of exploring selfhood through...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 465–481.
Published: 01 May 2012
... scrute differents objets, qui les examine tranquillement sous tous leurs rapports, est de plus en etat d'approcher la verite qu'une assemblee d'hommes qui discutent, deliberent, argumentent."23 In stressing the singularity of the great writer, legitimate literary creation excludes any second parties...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 317–329.
Published: 01 May 2012
...-Sebastien Mercier's Tableau de Paris. Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon (1755), and Johann Winckelmann's accounts of the excavations at Herculaneum (1762), each of which raises philosophical questions about continuity and loss and about the role of events of great destruction in the larger scheme of history...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 311–319.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., yet at the cultural level, the division between Rome and the reformers was primarily caused by the Re­nais­sance, in par­tic­u­lar by the rediscovery of Plotinus and, more generally of Neoplatonism, due, indeed, in ­great part to the immigration to Italy of Greek clergy and scholars ­after the Fall...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2023
... discovers that the great test, for which he thought he had physically and mentally prepared, is not awaiting him in the Green Chapel but has already occurred in the bedroom during what he and many a first-time reader believed to be simply an interlude. But a more optimistic response to this mode...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
... neo-Kantian idealism, actually is generative of openness to the environment” (Wolfe xxi). 4. This should not suggest too great an overlap between Haraway and Latour. For discussion of how Latour’s speculative fabulation in terms of “war” differs from Haraway’s proposed modes of sympoiesis, see...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 January 2005
..." (on this day the great adventures and marvels of the Holy Grail will begin) (6), Arthur presses Gawain to try his strength. Although Gawain demurs, too, saying that if it does not belong to Lancelot, the sword cannot belong to him since "il est assez mieldres chevaliers que je ne sui" (he is a far better...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 187–202.
Published: 01 January 2009
... 22).1 This obsession Beckett inherits from that Anglo-Irish tradition that W. B. Yeats invoked in his 1925 Senate Speech as "that small Protestant band" he, "a typical man of that minority," was "proud" to belong to: "We are one of the great stocks of Europe," "the people of Burke of Grattan...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 336–356.
Published: 01 December 2020
... a great medievalist. Not a medievalist of the academic or philological sort, embodied in the contemporaneous figures of Gaston Paris, Joseph Bédier, or Paul Meyer, but a revivalist medievalist of the type that flourished more in Victorian England than in France. À la recherche du temps perdu is littered...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
... this intuitively. A school-based reading asks them, in turn, to account for the “greatness” and “literariness” of the work through a set of formal pedagogical exercises. The film’s underlying premise is that the two forms of reading are complementary. Personal engagement leads to scholarly mastery, which...
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Romanic Review (2019) 110 (1-4): 91–109.
Published: 01 January 2019
... have understandably tended to focus more on the enmity that very often colored interactions between Jews and non-­Jews in the period than on the moments of more amicable interaction. In fact, however, this tendency obscures more than it reveals. The ­great Jewish historian Salo Baron s injunction...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 619–637.
Published: 01 November 2010
... graces a l'architecte" ["this privilege that he attributes to himself of being the only one in this great edifice who has the capacity to recognize its beauty and its parts, the only one who can give thanks for it to the architect"] (450).10 Montaigne initially confronts the notion of man's superiority...