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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that characterize the most instrumentalized—and yet paradoxically dematerialized—of Iberian materialities. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Escorial architecture José de Sigüenza construction history temporality...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 185–199.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of Relevance," Yale Journal of Criticism, 1, No.2 (Spring 1988), 163-76; and in the same issue, the responses of Paul H. Fry, "Non-Construction: History, Structure, and the Occasion of the Literary," 45-64; and Barbara Johnson, "Response," 177-78. 188 MICHAEL RIFFATERRE and can be used and, indeed, is used...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 265–273.
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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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2012
... that skirts the question of interpretation itself, we ultimately may be on unsteady ground when it comes to stating just what "becoming an author" could have meant. To avoid this risk, we can approach authorship as involving a double mediation consisting of both history and discourse, the implication of one...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 3–10.
Published: 01 January 2012
... undergone radical transformations. We are no longer willing to consider heresy as a given object accompanied by a series of valorizations; that is, we can no longer rewrite its history from an exterior position that Michel Foucault would have defined as savage. Scholars with colonial pasts remind us...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 September 2021
... role the institution of literature has played in the creation of a specifically French cultural identity since the seventeenth century. Reading French cultural history through the social construction of its literary institutions, broadly conceived, she shows how central literature and its practitioners...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 377–385.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Françoise Massardier-Kenney Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 Fran(oise Massardier-Kenney HISTOIRES DE FAMILLE: FAMILY HISTORIES IN SAND A s Roddy Reid and others l have recently argued, fiction, like the discourse of science, constructs common cultural narratives...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 105–110.
Published: 01 January 2010
... My brief intervention will suggest that one way to think about "Romance languages" and the often vexed relationships among them is to invoke translation: particularly the history of translation, and particularly a history that focuses on the moment when the vernaculars as we now know them finally...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 632–639.
Published: 01 December 2023
... tradition that constructed metropolitan France and its ex-colonies as two autonomous objects of study. 2 A further reassessment of the role of precolonial history, understood as interwoven with colonial and postcolonial legacies rather than a reified past, would allow us to further decenter a historical...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 200–204.
Published: 01 January 2015
... period, Dadabhoy's reading shows the persistence with which "blackness and Islam disturb normative, Western European, American constructions of identity" (124). Like Schleck, she aims to spur students to rethink their "progress-oriented approach to history and to problematize the narrative of racial...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Josué Rodríguez Abstract This article explores the poetry and essays of Peruvian surrealist poet César Moro (1903–56) in relation to the French surrealist aesthetic of convulsive beauty as defined by André Breton (1896–1966). By examining Moro’s textual construction of a speaker who privileges...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 391–404.
Published: 01 May 2003
... d'emmener Ie apeuple prendre vie" (37). Myth stands revealed under the gaze of critique as an invocation to history, to the self-transformation of Antillean colonial experience out of the ever-recurring circularity of dependency and unfreedom, a movement into a newly constructed historical existence...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 408–410.
Published: 01 May 2014
... each other for an entire book, a feat that Stahuljak pulls off, drawing on extensive and varied quotation from a vast range of nineteenth-century medical and historiographical sources. This "cultural history of medical medievalism" (3) considers the ways that medical discourse drew on narratives...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2006
... as trope represents a change in the position of the subject and, by extension, the poet, with respect to the production of the idea of nation and culture. De Torre's cityscape contrasts with Machado's construction of the ruraI landscape as Illirror of history: {Existe esteticanlente el paisaje rural...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 514–517.
Published: 01 November 2001
... homeland, denied hope in a saving future," Ziegler writes, "the Decadents also felt cut off from other people, who could never be known except as unverifiable constructs produced by a subject imprisoned in the cramped space of his own consciousness" (p. 11). But in expressing that loss, the Decadents...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of contemporary identity, the Caribbean subject finds itself thrown center stage, paraded before the world as the ideal postmodern being. A brutal, hellish history of deracination, slavery, colonialism, and (for some) independence has apparently been recuperated and reinterpreted as the ideal context...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 May 2000
... rather than mere facts, action or storyline. In order to analyze how certain recurring procedures construct and establish such a narrative memory, one must combine a theory of narratio and a theory of lectio, substitute a nonlinear (paradigmatic) reading for a linear (syntagmatic) reading and show how...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 265–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., is that they generate many new varieties of this tension, none of which overlap as would a series of parallel oppositions: natural/national can branch out toward ethical/political, transcendent! constructed, memory/history, utopia/dystopia, and many more, but in each case we learn in a slightly new way how reality...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 81–110.
Published: 01 January 2012
... on his orders, and the Inca was beheaded for all to see in the main plaza of the old Inca capita!. Tinkuy Heresy, Writing from the Chaupi, and Titu Cusi's Instrucci6n While the Spanish narrators considered above constructed a history of Inca apostasy, in part, perhaps, to document for their superiors...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 155–173.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and that an appropriate language had to be constructed to think about the specificity of knowledge about the unconscious. It was necessary to construct a poetics of the impossible. Certeau's study of the epistemology of history, ethnology, and psychoanalysis was born from this preoccupation. He called these modes...