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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 356–371.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Charles Baudelaire Aimé Césaire Walter Benjamin censure anti-colonialisme Indépendamment de l’évolution esthétique dont fait preuve la deuxième édition des Fleurs du Mal par rapport à l’édition originale – affirmation plus nette de la modernité, thématique plus marquée de la grande ville...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 303–321.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Gallimard , 1973 . Bataille Georges . La Littérature et le mal . Paris : Gallimard , 1957 . Benjamin Walter . Écrits français . Paris : Gallimard , 2003 . Benjamin Walter . “ On the Image of Proust .” In Selected Writings , vol. 2 , edited by Eiland Howard...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 541–544.
Published: 01 November 2007
... femme fatale. Again returning to early twentieth-century concerns, Michael Payne in his short essay, which differentiates between the city as polis and the city as labyrinth, focuses on Walter Benjamin as an early twentieth-century flaneur of the labyrinthine city who is lost wandering between Berlin...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 401–421.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Nevertheless, if there's tenderness, geographical tenderness, between the texts, there's also tension, the tension between singularity and the complexity of the modern metropolis, a tension not unlike that which Walter Benjamin describes in his unfinished Arcades Project. In comparing them, I will show...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2010
... nineteenth-century French studies. For Samuels, the shock and parry arguments presented in Walter Benjamin's "On Some Motifs" gave rise, on one side, to a cottage industry of urban Paris monographs focusing on new manias of technological modernity, criminal pathologies, perversions, and phobias of all sorts...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 May 2023
... addiction to alcohol or nicotine, for example). With his three pathological cases, especially the second one (asthma), Prendergast is naturally following in the footsteps of Walter Benjamin’s landmark essay “The Image of Proust,” while taking the idea to its logical extreme: reading Proust is both poison...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 362–383.
Published: 01 September 2024
... telle comparaison. 77. Pier Paolo Pasolini, « Nous sommes tous en danger », op. cit ., p. 99–100. 78. Ibid., p. 97. 79. Filippo Trentin, “Organizing Pessimism: enigmatic correlations between Walter Benjamin and Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Modern Language Review, vol. 108, n o 4...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 151–155.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., what Michael Emmerich gives us in snow that haunts, what Anne Carson lays at our feet as she gropes for the light switch in a dark, but not unfamiliar room. What Walter Benjamin proposes in his flowering and his fruit. Language is already—in any combination, but particularly literary language—in flux...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 115–122.
Published: 01 January 2010
... University Works Cited Baer, Ulrich. Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. Bertier de Sauvigny, Guillaume de. Histoire de France. Paris...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (1-2): 69–76.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of modernism, however, that of Walter Benjamin, this is just where modernism would begin, namely at the point where attention flips over into distraction, where the craft of form-giving would be interrupted, subjected to shock, producing discontinuities and strange juxtapositions of the kind Eisenstein reveals...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 2014
... by un film gai, by an aesthetic form that Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Camus, called a work of art "consummated by a collectivity in a state of distraction." 5 Typical of Camus's early work is the scene from "L'Ete a Alger," written in 1937 and published as part of Noces, in which Camus...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of the allegories and their content -Walter Benjamin! Pilgrimage as Allegory Near the end of the Vita nuova (c.1292-1294), Dante sees pilgrims passing through Florence to Rome in Holy Week, to see "quella imagine benedetta la quale Iesu Cristo lascio a noi per essemplo de la sua bellisima figura" (Vita nuova 40.1...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 481–503.
Published: 01 November 2007
... actividad interpretativa al traducir poesia, 0 en la transmision de su aura filosofico-religiosa, como ensefia Walter Benjamin, que logra intensidad iinicamente en el ambito espiritual de la propia lengua. De ahi el ejercicio constante, debido a este caracter provisional, diferido, que se adhiere a toda...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 411–425.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., he gathers resolve for a more ruthless mode of governance. "Jules, give me a synonym for authority," Rougon says to his secretary as he prepares a series of repressive decrees. " 'Well, there's power, government, empire,' the young man answered with a smile" (E 196). Walter Benjamin's enigmatic...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 544–546.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of history," Simone Weil's "extremism," and Hannah Arendt's "recuperation of judgment" with Walter Benjamin's "legacy," only to conclude that today we are not only at a loss for an answer to history, but even more so for the appropriate questions to ask about history. The collection of original essays...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 185–189.
Published: 01 January 2010
... is the only participant to mention J. L. Austin, Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke, and Charles Sanders Peirce, or the fact that there is not one woman or one "person of color" among the participants. 1 noted that 1966 was an annus mirabilis which explored "Les Chemins actuels de la critique" at Cerisy and saw...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
... translational, as translation is also an act of diachronic revision; not only is a non-mimetic “equivalent” of an original work produced, but so are reconstitutions, and therefore revisions, of its tropes, images, symbols, and figures (or, to echo Peter Szondi’s reading of Walter Benjamin, its modes of intent...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Metamorphoses , filmed in Barcelona in 1912 for both Ibérico Films and Pathé, captures what Walter Benjamin describes as the very definition of modern life: the ephemeral experience of shock (165). Here Chomón, through the use of fire and reverse motion cinematography, repeatedly astounds his audience...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 153–161.
Published: 01 January 2000
... the essence of baroque art. In his highly influential book on the German Trauerspiel, Walter Benjamin cites Karl Borinski's study on classical antiquity in poetics and art theory in order to underscore the concept of thaumaston as a key to European art of the period: "The Aristotelian idea of thaumaston...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 105–126.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., 1943-1946, et autres textes inedits, suivis de six lettres a Marie Dubuc, 1935-1937. Paris: Gallimard, 1977. Artaud, Antonin, and Evelyne Grossman. 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie. Paris: Gallimard, 2004. Beckett, Samuel. Proust. London: J. Calder, 1965. Benjamin, Walter. "The Task...