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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 303–316.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alain Viala Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Alain Viala LA CONSECRATION ACADEMIQUE CONFISQUEE, 21 : L'ABBE D'OLIVET ET LES CONTRADICTIONS DE L'ACADEMIE FRANAISE Pour decrire la condition des ecrivains, il faut a la fois retracer leurs « biographies sociales d'auteurs...
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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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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 430–439.
Published: 01 December 2020
... completes the experiences of involuntary memory that ground his whole theory of regained time— and also has experiences that contradict the theory, that show time to be ever-elapsing, impossible to regain. He doesn’t endorse the contradiction, and he doesn’t give up his theory. But he doesn’t erase...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 316–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to the colonial condition. However, the colonial legacy continues to pervade Daoud’s own narrative particularly in his portrayal of contemporary Algeria and Islam. There are unresolved contradictions in the fabric of Daoud’s text as well as a silence that emerges from a hyperbolic bavardage . Copyright © 2020...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the "first knight" (although in the medieval tradition Gawain would seem more deserving of this epithet),4 and we have often viewed Lancelot's love for the queen as noble and ennobling. What we have done less frequently is to confront the inherent contradiction in these judgments-how the king's best knight...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 51–69.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., who is now wearing a luxurious pink silk dress, once again finds her clothing in contradiction with her sense of self: "lei, Florita, dans ce salon, vetue de cette jolie robe de soie rose, Dominga est toujours la manja de Santa Rosa! A force de courage et de constance, je suis parvenue a echapper de...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 319–327.
Published: 01 May 2003
... and violent event, however, the protective shroud of expectation is shattered or wounded, radically changing the way we experience or know an event and affecting the performative function of memory. The contradiction inherent in the experience of trauma is that it is essentially a belated experience...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 265–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
... for an Italian national literature. Oxymoron, dynamism, and paradox thus best describe the tension of nature and culture, universality and originality, order and disorder at work in imagined geographies. As figures of contradiction, these terms point to skeptical and pre-Socratic philosophies, in which...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 January 2007
... ou obscurs », comme l'ecrit S. Michaud dans sa belle introduction (21). Le choix des textes cible moins la vie privee que la vie publique et la parole republicaine, socialiste et ouvriere de Flora Tristan (25). En lisant ce materiau brut, on per<;oit plus clairement les contradictions d'un personnage...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 583–585.
Published: 01 May 2010
... critics like Sainte-Beuve, literary historians like Lanson and twentiethcentury Marxist scholars like himself with an essential difficulty: the contradiction between, on the one hand, (the belief in) the irreducibility of the literary and, on the other, the disciplinary requirements of literary history...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 585–587.
Published: 01 May 2010
... difficulty: the contradiction between, on the one hand, (the belief in) the irreducibility of the literary and, on the other, the disciplinary requirements of literary history-a contradiction that often causes fiction to be set against a straw-man version of literary history. (SOTIRIOS PARASCHAS, University...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 49–64.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... In effect, each time that they pressed him with their questions and objections, confronting him with his constant contradictions, 9. Hearing held February 14 and 15, in the first year of his detention. SOLANGE ALBERRo Quadros limited himself to responding that he had already answered those questions or he...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 391–404.
Published: 01 May 2003
... dans la conscience antillaise" (6); "il faut helas Ie dire " (9); "11 ne faut pas oublier que " (18); etc. Cesaire's text garners force in its refusal to remain a hollow affirmation of black identity, but instead depicts in all its complexity the contradictions of Antillean unfreedom and dependency...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 61–71.
Published: 01 January 2001
... aMaman, devant Ie monde."13 This story of childhood knowledge and confusion of identity gives one plenty to ponder, but the real twist comes in the Author's commentary that follows it. The Author flatly contradicts, as far as his own life is concerned, the story told by his creature Pierre: "Moi, tout Ie...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 87–97.
Published: 01 January 2001
... into an aesthetic discourse. Both politics and poetics, relying on Aragon's rhetorical capacities, are the two faces of a single attitude towards life, an attitude that, like the term "mentir-vrai" itself, does not exclude the complexity of an internal contradiction. I would like to consider two texts from Aragon's...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 201–204.
Published: 01 January 2000
... refers to this contradicted dynamics as the logic of immobile in mobili. Entertaining that logic probably means a necessary "failure," but as Aurora admirably shows, there is nevertheless rich reward to be had in the ambivalent poise and taut contradictions of a challenging collection of verse. Aurora's...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 364–366.
Published: 01 May 2004
... religion. C'est a travers les contradictions qu'il voit entre les Illustres Fran(aises et les Difficultes sur la religion, texte qu'il n'hesite pourtant pas a attribuer a Challe, que J. Goldzink nous propose d'aborder la question de cette incompatibilite. Son article, polemique dans la mesure OU il...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 557–576.
Published: 01 December 2024
... ’Ntoni is so hesitant to leave. However, his mental image of Aci Trezza as benign community is blatantly contradicted by what we learn about the village throughout the novel. While commenting on this final representation of the village, critics from Debenedetti on have rightfully talked about “mythical...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 185–191.
Published: 01 January 2018
... littérature ») ; mais une autre contradiction, cruciale, surgit dès lors. Bien des écrivains font co­­ exister une certaine distance à l égard de la politique, avec la volonté de dialoguer pourtant avec elle. Valéry, par exemple, peut en même temps adresser de sévères critiques à la politique et à ses...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 177–184.
Published: 01 January 2001
... s'etablisse entre deux champs d'etudes si voisins et qu'ils s'interpenetrent pour Ie plus grand bonheur de la recherche. Au premier abord, Ie Journal de la Poesie Nationale d'Aragon semble presenter une double contradiction. Contradiction entre ce projet qui se veut national et la perspective marxiste, c'est...