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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and to perceive the extent to which past and present, medieval and Modern overlap. In response to Latour, then, we would say that if we have never been Modern, we have also always been medieval. And we would also insist that if our goal is to “teach the Moderns to protect themselves against Double Click...
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Why Proust Isn’t an “Essayist,” and Why It Matters
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2020
... always tentative and provisional, ready to be relinquished at any moment. At least when it comes to the relationship between selfhood, style, and art, Proust had a set of pretty robust beliefs; and those same letters, along with elements of the novel itself, also show that he wasn’t flying without...
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The History of My Pleasure in Le Plaisir du texte
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 441–454.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that gives her definite pleasure, she finds it also always embroils her in contradiction. She works to understand that contradiction via the articulations of contradiction in Barthes’s text. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Roland Barthes...
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Desert Polyphony
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 125–140.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as a matter of voice. Drawing in particular on the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, it argues that prophetic voice is polyphonic in its isolation, as some trace of divinity always echoes through it. In most circumstances, such echoes are inaudible over the noise of many speaking voices...
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The Loneliness of the Untimely Man: Petrarch’s Letters to Classical Authors
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Karen Sullivan Abstract If solitude can be conceived as having a history, Francesco Petrarca can be said to have experienced this state in a way no thinker had done before him. In classical and late antiquity, it was a commonplace that the wise man (and he was always a man) was never less alone...
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Mapping the Knowledge of Dante Commentaries in the Digital Context: A Web Ontology Approach
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Carlo Meghini; Mirko Tavoni; Michelangelo Zaccarello Abstract With digital repositories and databases available since the 1990s, Dante scholarship has always been at the forefront of the digital humanities and the digitization of medieval texts and manuscripts. However, the amount of information...
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Form and/as Mode of Existence
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., though he goes further in trusting [FIC] than AIME is always willing to do. An instance of medieval historiography thus leads the way in overcoming a residual Modern suspicion of a nonreferential mode of existence and of knowledge. Additionally, although AIME’s restriction of crossings to two modes...
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Fragments of Future History: On Violette Leduc
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2016
... wasn t complaining about the village doctor, or the mayor, saying that they were always against us and against our best interests. By us, I mean to say those without money, the ones who never even went to high school, the jobless, the hopeless. My grandmother also screamed, and probably her mother...
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Homage to Gita May: A Woman of Valor
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 19–20.
Published: 01 January 2016
... generously made time to meet with me. In fact, it was that conversation that convinced me to choose Columbia University. I am forever grateful to Professor May for her guidance on my career path. She had a holistic approach to teaching and was committed to every one of her students, always taking a deep...
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Conflict or Union in Difference: Institution, Belief, and Heresy
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 155–173.
Published: 01 January 2012
... begins. Belief is the environment that makes social life possible. Always already one is plunged into a borderland of authorities and truths, but these are only the expression of an individual itinerary inscribed into a singular collectivity. For Certeau, no lived or intellectual experience can...
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“Ce que dit la bouche d’ombre” or The Master’s Voice from beyond the Grave
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 293–295.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... It is no longer de bon ton, however, to evoke the idea of one's master, as I do in my title and imply throughout these inadequate remarks. The hierarchies this term implies have been under attack for so long that most people don't realize how many of them are still around; nor how many of them will likely always...
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Queer Couplings
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 31–33.
Published: 01 January 2017
... to an essay I had sent him about teaching in Shanghai. He wrote: I know very well that feeling of being somewhere, perfectly safe and comfortable, but with the knowledge that the place itself is completely unassimilable. Ross always read what one wrote and shared with him, not only by engaging with the text...
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Un grand professeur
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 276–281.
Published: 01 January 2010
... was not only University Professor but a grand professeur. You will note I am using a French phrase instead of the English terms, great teacher or great professor. Why? Mike, as it amused him to be called-when we were fellow students back in the Fifties, he was still Michel, and I always called him Michel-Mike...
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A Brief Note of Appreciation
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 17–18.
Published: 01 January 2017
... always heard used, and that recurs now that he has left us, is generosity. Ross Chambers, more than anyone e lse I ve ever heard talked about, was always said to be generous: with his time, with his help, with his comments, with his praise. B ecause I d read some of his work, I understood that he...
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A Master Performer
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 242.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Victor Brombert Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Victor Brombert A MASTER PERFORMER M ichael Riffaterre was to my mind above all a remarkable reader of texts, a true artist at interpretation-playful, imaginative, often surprising and unsettling, but always close...
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Life as Anecdote and as Digression (Or Maybe Is It Literature?)
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 97–100.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Didier Coste Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Didier Coste LIFE AS ANECDOTE AND AS DIGRESSION (OR MAYBE IS IT LITE RATURE?) It is always an irony to write about an admired friend after his demise. The only way this tribute can...
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The History of the Future
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Carlos J. Alonso Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Carlos ]. Alonso THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Looking back recently at my professional career, I was struck by the fact that, excepting my season as a graduate student and my current appointment at Columbia, I have always...
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Hiding Spots in the Chambers of the Heart
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 45–48.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as a surprise to learn that Ross nearly always had the upper hand at this game. And yet even today, nearly a year since his passing, I find myself picking out postcards with him in mind when out in new cities. Like so many others, I will miss talking with him, writing letters and postcards to him. In fact...
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dreamscapes (betrayals)
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 5–9.
Published: 01 January 2017
... still for instance, the live horizon of the trees yesterday opening and suddenly shut. a feathered patch around the square white mail truck. that is something i need to remember. and there is always (and always) that face, the third one, yesterday, that s been keeping me attached through hours, years...
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Last Calls
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 2017
... friends on Southern time (i.e., 4:45 p.m. for a 5:00 p.m. supper) to avoid the crowds, make an appearance, and leave before too many invitees arrived. (I, however, was the Ann Arbor bartender s last-call nightmare, always taking advantage of the last-c all call to order a final drink before walking home...
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