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Response from a Quasi-Latourian

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Graham Harman
Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 192–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8008006
Published: 01 May 2020
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Materiality and Language at El Escorial: From José de Sigüenza to Miguel de Unamuno and Back

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Carmen Urbita Ibarreta
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10604196
Published: 01 September 2023
..., as reverberations of these disparities, late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century appraisals of Sigüenza’s text that have projected the unblemished geometrical lines of the Escorial onto the friar’s writing. Its overall aim is to shed light on the lingering tensions around language, architecture, and place...
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Subjectivity in the Fictional Ruin: The Caprice Genre

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Joanna Augustyn
Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 433–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-91.4.433
Published: 01 November 2000
... of poetics from references to real ruins remains and as with most questions of a theoretical order, should engage the research community for some time to come. The fine line between fiction and reality disappears in most critical treatments of ruins when the presupposition that the architecture being...
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“Le Vain Bastiment”: Human Systems and Philosophy in Montaigne’s Apologie de Raimond Sebond

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Kathleen Bachynski
Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 619–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-101.4.619
Published: 01 November 2010
... as an "architectural" project, insofar as its goal is to create the foundations of the knowledge from which Christian doctrine can be argued. As Sebond himself explains, "son but est de confirmer ce qui est couche aux saintes Escritures, et de jetter les fondemens, sur lesquels nous puissions bastir ce que s'ensuit en...
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Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: the Multiple and Contrasting Emotions of Cities and Puzzles

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Laura Chiesa
Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 401–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-97.3-4.401
Published: 01 May 2006
... as triomphe," Fournel writes to Calvino "les oulipiens me chargent de te feliciter." In Italo Calvino, Romanzi e Racconti, ed. Claudio Milanini, Vol. III (Milano: Mondadori, 1992) 1241. 4. Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion. Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film (New York: Verso, 2002). The Romanic Review...
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Infinity and Mechanical Arts in Montaigne’s and Bacon’s Essays

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David L. Sedley
Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 195–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-108.1-4.195
Published: 01 January 2017
.... The staircase forms the core of a fabulous piece of architecture. The ­castle of Chambord was based on designs by Leonardo da Vinci.10 It offered François I and his companions a lieu de rêve where they could occasionally come and live like the chivalric heroes of medieval romances.11 This purpose helps...
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“Les lignes vaines et solitaires de mon écriture”: “Word” and “World” in Proust’s Recherche

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Edward J. Hughes
Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 201–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-105.3-4.201
Published: 01 May 2014
... of "Ie livre 'architectural et premedite'" (164). The narrator's carefully laid theoretical framing and the capacity of "life" and "the world" to contest and exceed such framing are central to Proust's Recherche, which may be read as exemplifying, to borrow from the subtitle of La Parole muette...
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“From a Daumier Drawing by a Process of Dehydration”

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R. Howard Bloch
Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 67–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-101.1-2.67
Published: 01 January 2010
... and secular, together as one. jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet considers the materiality of literature: manuscripts, performance, audience, metaphors for writing (agriculture, architecture, navigation), and modes of composition (numeric, genealogical). She does this not in service of the old questions of source...
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Theaters of Solitary Selves

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Sarah Salih
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 141–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10357387
Published: 01 May 2023
... been funded. At the center of Castle , as in the anchoritic literature, is the architecture that both contains and figures the vulnerable self as besieged by all that the world and the otherworld can throw at it: “þis is þe castel of perseueraunse þat stondyth / In þe myddys of þe place...
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Sheltering in Place: The Solitude of Hermits

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Virginia Burrus
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10357317
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Thomas Schütte’s Crystal was the first outdoor work installed at the Clark in 2015, following a major redesign of the campus in which the museum’s architecture was integrated with the landscape via a series of reflection ponds and an upgraded network of trails (Conforti and Cassins 130–34; fig. 2...
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Avant-propos

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Elisabeth Ladenson
Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 5–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-101.1-2.5
Published: 01 January 2010
... the most immediate architectural example, was built in 1910, the moment at which the recently founded Morningside Heights campus was assuming something like its current form. The conference organizers chose Albert Robida's "La Sortie de l'opera en l'an 2000" for the poster and program because it seemed...
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Against Retrofitting: Queerness, Race, and Disability in French Studies

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Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 609–616.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10807123
Published: 01 December 2023
... for access, but disallowing the possibility of action for change” (77). In terms of university architecture, ungainly tacked-on ramps or elevators tucked away on the far sides of the buildings are piddling nods toward inclusion that are costly and can actually inconvenience rather than help those who depend...
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Books Received for 2016

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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 217–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-107.1-4.217
Published: 01 January 2016
... Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2016. Brooks, Peter. Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year. Paris: Hachette, 2017. Chiesa, Laura. Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory...
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Books Received 2005

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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 459–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-96.3-4.459
Published: 01 May 2005
... BOOKS RECEIVED 2005 aBaetens, Jan. Le Roman contraintes. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, "Faux Titre," 2005. Bohn, Willard. Marvelous. Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry and Architecture Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005. xxBrown, Llewellyn. Figures du mensonge litteraire. Etudes...
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Demons of Analogy: Likeness and Photography in Bruges-la-Morte

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Zakir Paul
Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8503484
Published: 01 September 2020
... gaze away from symbols of psychic conflict back toward the world. Without captions, the images appear either briefly before or after a site is mentioned. Inserted after the narrative had been written, they create a space between image and writing. While they depict the architecture of Bruges, they also...
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Shaping the Word: Repression, Archive, and Dialogical Discourse in Jorge Luis Borges’s “La muralla y los libros”

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Nataly Tcherepashenets
Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 265–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-98.2-3.265
Published: 01 May 2007
...." In both texts, architectural construction can be viewed as a point of departure for the artistic exploration of aesthetic work, history and dreams as interrelated realms. These three phenomena operate by the common mechanism of displacement which is also required for their interpretation. Borges's essay...
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The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France

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Cynthia Skenazi
Romanic Review (2003) 94 (1-2): 247–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-94.1-2.247
Published: 01 January 2003
... perspective interdisciplinaire de cette etude en fait a la fois la force et l'attrait: Margaret M. McGowan s'y montre maitre dans l'art d'etablir des connexions entre des domaines artistiques differents (gravure, peinture, sculpture, architecture, numismatique, litterature) qui se combinent et se repondent...
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Material Culture as an Index of Modernity in Spain’s Silent Film Era

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Leigh Mercer
Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-10604216
Published: 01 September 2023
... within the Pabellón de Carlos V at the Alcazar of Seville 2 —a heavily tiled courtyard filled with an arcade of Moorish arches and columns with ornate capitals—they separate the dances presented from any storytelling inclination or form of cultural pedagogy. Instead, this fixed architectural backdrop...
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“Or da poggia, or da orza” (Purg. 32): Nautical Deixis in Dante’s Commedia

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William Sayers
Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 67–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-96.1.67
Published: 01 January 2005
..., is derived from Old Norse hjolm 'helm' and esturman 'steersman' from stj6rnarmaor; we may assume that the navigational technology of the imagined ship was also derived from early medieval Scandinavian naval architecture and sea-faring. A succinct and authoritative commentary on handling the tiller and self...
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L’Ecriture ambivalente du labyrinthe dans “Le Jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent” (Borges, 1941)

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Hélène Campaignolle-Catel
Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 73–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/26885220-97.1.73
Published: 01 January 2006
... qui lui donnent une architecture. Borges propose bien dans L'Aleph une solution alternative mais pour la repousser aussitt)t : « l'eInblcIlle ». Cet eleIllent, situe it Ini-chenlin du texte et de J'ilnage20, de la JlletonYlnie et de la nletaphore21 , est rejete parce qu'il contanlinerait la...
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