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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 May 2023
... women, and the author’s own. Reading the novel as largely to do with class and money, patriarchal capitalism, and the affective ruptures generated by social, economic, and cultural mobility, the Middle Ages seem far from its concerns. Yet solitude, loneliness, and death haunt the texts by and about all...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Annabel L. Kim [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 humanities higher education liberal arts marginality capitalism Works Cited Cardona Miguel (@SecCardona) . “ Every student should have...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2017
... writes of Maupassant s Mont-Oriol, mariage et capitalisme ont un but commun, celui de la multiplication des espèces (136). 222 Susanna Lee Piketty does ine quality as a result of ownership of capital, it casts inequality as the very point, the driving goal, of that ownership. The goal...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 109–127.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... Modern editions of the text obligingly guide the reader through Villon's picaresque Paris: footnotes point out the pubs and street corners named in the verses, capital letters and italic type ensure that the names of these places are recognized as proper names. In a recent edition, for example, a typical...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony, sets out to reclaim irony from what she considers to be its "near total repression in political thought." For her, Baudelaire's poems warrant ironic reading in Benjaminian terms as productions of "capital itself." Benjamin posits in language a kind...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 465–481.
Published: 01 May 2012
... la France a conc;u Ie besoin d'etre libre / Aux fiers accents des deux Brutus."8 Such prizing of the singular and disinterested dramatic vision deliberately occludes, however, the very real practices of collaboration in which the participants' cultural and social capital, to use Pierre Bourdieu's...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 420–435.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Journal of European Studies 27 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 29 – 51 . Phillips Barnaby . Britain and the Benin Bronzes . London : Simon and Schuster , 2021 . Picketty Thomas . Capital and Ideology . Translated by Goldhammer Arthur . Cambridge, MA : Bellknap Press of Harvard...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 169–184.
Published: 01 March 2006
... capitalism-begin to take root in French culture, especially in Paris. In what follows, I argue that the Jew comes to serve as a privileged screen for the projection of anxieties about modernity in both literature and other discourses from the time. But whereas the male Jew tends to incarnate the negative...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 223–242.
Published: 01 May 2013
... epistemological project to supplement the global form of capital, determining the exodus of the former colonized groups toward the metropole, leading to the violence perceived as only racial, only gendered. We envisage an extensive, expansive, and uniquely global future for this project. Unlike most "global...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 503–519.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of providing the Pope with a prosperous refuge should nascent Italian nationalism require the transfer of the Holy See. It is unclear whether the opportunistic Saccard feels the same level of religious devotion as Hamelin, but he exploits the Catholic angle in order to lure capital from pious speculators...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 183–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
... initial participation in the discussion and the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. On the momentous occasion of the passage of abolition, Robert Badinter's thoughts turned to Hugo: "Je regardai l'horloge : il etait douze heures et cinquante minutes, ce 30 septembre 1981. Le vreu de Victor Hugo...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to private life, and artistic representations of food production became a rarity. With the development of industrial capitalism, the representation of food and feasting were “torn away from the process of labor and struggle,” removed from the marketplace, and confined to the home. The image of a “‘banquet...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 280–300.
Published: 01 September 2023
... prominent businessmen like Arnús, Güell, and Ferrer “owed their fortunes, in whole or in part, to King Cotton” (Hughes 235), thereby helping to buoy the Catalan capital’s fashion industry. The region’s rapid urbanization owed much to the manufacture, sale, and display in small shops and department stores...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 2014
..." and explained that "the term of the concession, which will not expire until 1983, its range, which encompasses the capital and its suburbs, make 'Mexico Tramways' an investment whose profits could increase significantly" (5). Proust asked Hauser for his opinion, but the broker replied that he "did not know...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 437–450.
Published: 01 May 2003
... conditions of longdistance narrative have come into historical focus, fostering cartographic literary histories and mappings of literary territory that compete with linear time. These geopolitical models urge literary history to take on imperial conquest and the rise of capitalism through renewed attention...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 September 2021
... . Benjamin Walter . “ Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century” (1935); and “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century” (1939) . In The Arcades Project , translated from the German by Eiland Howard and McLaughlin Kevin , 3 – 26 . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 35–44.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in 2015 (5–7). In Heather Cleary’s study of representations of translation in contemporary Latin American literature, “iteration and play” emerge as practices of translational creativity as opposed to the ideas of “author and authoritative original” linked to global capital’s underlying structures...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 333–352.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the influence of" les familles financieres, les fameuses deux cents familles" (Birnbaum 54). The slogan "deux cents familles" proved enduring partly because it managed to capitalize on a particular image of the French economy and, consequently its government, at the mercy of a secret cabal of financiers...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
Published: 01 September 2023
... display of technological objects and consumer goods reveals how Spanish filmmakers made materiality speak for Spain’s centrality in modern European capitalism, and thereby dismissed the Lumière objectification of their nation as an exotic cabinet of curiosities. Likewise, the manipulation of things...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 485–501.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of feverish speculation that allowed the bank to quadruple its capital in just a few short years, 1882 brought total collapse. Gnawed from within by its risky penchant for speculating on its own stock shares, as well as by a host of other likely chicaneries large and small, the bank left in its wake a swathe...
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