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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 601–603.
Published: 01 May 2012
...James Petterson Carrie Noland . Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2009 . Pp. 264 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS 601 Carrie Noland. Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 December 2021
... agency and interpersonal harmony. Throughout her maxims, she lays out explicit strategies for managing conflicts but is caught between an emphasis on gaining an advantage over one’s adversaries and, at the other extreme, finding a middle ground with them. But conflicts from her life suggest a different...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Marilynn Desmond Abstract Among the twelve modes he describes in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence , Bruno Latour identifies two—the “beings of technology” [TEC] and the “beings of fiction” [FIC]—that aptly depict the nonhuman agency inherent in the production and circulation of the premodern book...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
... theater phenomenology shows us how mystery plays used self-given realities like flame to shuttle between human and nonhuman standpoints. If Latour rejects phenomenology for its refusal to consider the agency of the nonhuman, States’s focus on reality as resistance offers an implicit retort. I propose...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of this problem by focusing on the operations of the religious mode [REL] in medieval bestiaries—a mode that includes reference [REF] but does not cross with it as a separate mode. Latour’s dismantling of the Modern opposition between world and words invites a reassessment of how we conceptualize the agency...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Condé 653, of Antoine de la Sale’s Le Paradis de la Reine Sibylle , a fifteenth-century account of travel to, and myths associated with, the Monte della Sibilla in the Apennine Mountains of Italy. From a Latourian perspective, Chantilly 653 attests to the agency of a mountainous landscape and the myths...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 674–687.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of volition and agency. When Furetiere notes that "sujet signifie aussi cause, occasion, fondement," it appears as the source of determination and action, and this notion of subject as source is crucial to Corneille's moral defense of his play in the Discours de l'utilite et des parties du poeme dramatique...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... about the mountain—and reproduction [REP]—as the mountain itself. For Griffin, La Sale’s late medieval account of his own arduous journey on the Monte della Sibilla, near Perugia, shows how Latour’s discussion of Modern navigation and cartography—and their neglect of the agency of landscape—could...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 265–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
... scene of tension must emerge to question synthesis (a new paradox, such as the statement, "I am dead," shows that perhaps the whole problem is not about performance versus description, but about language and agency, about who in fact is speaking in both of these statements, is it a unitary or 'real...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 293–299.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... What if, Guynn asks (channeling Jack Halberstam), we were less strident in presuming “‘the form that agency must take?’ (127)” (185). Might it not operate even through attributes associated with agency’s absence: passivity, silence, masochism? Was it not possible in the Middle Ages, as now, to top from...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 445–459.
Published: 01 May 2006
... all agency on the part of the thirty-three year old poet. According to Pasolini's formulation, Rosselli is on the one hand relegated to the position of passive bystander, an observer in the laboratory recording events as they unfold without her intervention; on the other hand, she is the Petri dish...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 561–577.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as a paramount value. Why must you preserve the environment? Not because you are told to do so by an authority or prohibited from despoiling it by laws and regulatory agencies or even because it is impersonally right, but for the sake of your own enjoyment. Everything Is Soup! Let's return now to the scene I...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 31–44.
Published: 01 January 2002
... by The Archaeology of Knowledge two years earlier; there Foucault acknowledged that he had unduly stressed discursive synchronicity at the expense of human agency, reducing the "structuralist controversy" to the level of mediatic hype in his unique style: "So I did not want to carry the structuralist enterprise...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 225–244.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the false narrative authority that has been assigned to and imposed upon him. The paternalistic tradition thus constructs a simulacrum of male discursive empowerment which multiplies locutionary authority while eradicating perlocutionary agency. As a result, the male who writes in the context...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 253–254.
Published: 01 May 2003
..." des agences de voyage ont banalise nos rivages. Le soleil, la mer, Ie ti-punch des a aAntilles sont present la portee des bourses les plus modestes. Les Antilles sont une destination grand public et bon marche. En plus, sur un certain plan, nos iles sont des decalques. Les fonctionnaires...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 75–77.
Published: 01 January 2017
... reigns. If words can trap us into conventional modes of beh avior, they also give agency. They transform t hose who utter them, shake up those who receive them, and redraw the maps of supremacy, however fleetingly. To teach litera ture is to open up such realms of possibility. Ross s seminars...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 859–861.
Published: 01 November 2010
... oeuvre. Inspired by Joan Dejean's "tender geographies," Seifert coins the term "tender masculinity" to describe the type of ideal man who diverges from other models such as honnetete and galanterie by giving women the agency to control men's behavior, rather than encouraging men to imitate women (118...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and not closed intermediaries for a true tencione to come into being—we may now return to the notions of exile, extra solum , and extracomunitario , and to the agency of war and political exclusion in Brunetto’s authorship. The “extra” prefix in the Isidorean type of definition (“ex-sul,” “extra solum...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of writing music. She acknowledges the difficulty of connecting the written 120 BOOK REVIEWS record to the shapes of the text in performance, given the subtle interplay between oral and written tradition in the transmission of medieval literature and the agency of scribes in the inscribing of text and music...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 111–121.
Published: 01 January 2014
...: what we, moderns and non-moderns alike, have to deal with in our daily practice and collective agency is an inseparable mix of facts and fetishes, which Latour baptizes as "factishes" (faitiches). Factishes cannot simply be observed as mere facts: they necessarily affect us in more than merely rational...
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