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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
...Alfonso Mendiola; Monique Dascha Inciarte Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Alfonso Mendiola CONFLICT OR UNION IN DIFFERENCE: INSTITUTION, BELIEF, AND HERESY TRANSLATED BY MONIQUE DASCHA INCIARTE T his essay presents the following thesis: Michel de Certeau's entire...
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Signifying Difference: Reading Balzac and Sand / Writing Balzac and Sand
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Reflecting on the dialogical generation of meaning, I trace the ways in which reading Balzac and Sand together reveals a complex and continuing conversation between the two authors about similarity, difference, and the dialectical nature of identity. This ongoing intertextual exchange, I argue, helps us see...
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George Sand, George Eliot, and the Politics of Difference
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 77–102.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Alexandra K. Wettlaufer Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 The Politics of Difference Alexandra K. Wettlaufer George Sand, George Eliot, and the Politics of Difference For Gita May, with admiration, gratitude, and affection. I n 1876, the year...
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« Il nous faut toujours mesurer l’orgueil d’être différent à la joie d’être ensemble »
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 491–499.
Published: 01 December 2023
... « French and Francophone Studies: What Should We Be Doing? » s’articule de toute évidence autour de la langue, le français, dans son épaisseur polycentrique et autour du nœud colonial-postcolonial-postcontact-décolonial-global que cette langue génère par différents détours. À ces éléments-clés s’ajoutent...
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The Trial of Meursault: Inquests and Counter-inquests
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 316–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Hanan Elsayed Abstract This essay focuses on Kamel Daoud’s “response” to Albert Camus’s L’Étranger by highlighting the differences in and implications of their writing styles and narrative voices. Daoud’s narrative refigures the concept of the absurd and his linkage of Camus’s silences...
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Demons of Analogy: Likeness and Photography in Bruges-la-Morte
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... literary and pictorial practices. The aura of Bruges is used to explore the nature and limits of analogy—a term shared by symbolism and photography—leading to a critique of forms of identification that conflate difference with similitude. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University...
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Textual Authority in the Vita Nova ’s Nineteenth-Century Editions
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-long tradition that did not consider them “text” but rather “gloss”—to engage in efforts to differentiate them from the rest of the text in order to point out their different textual nature. 2. For the two families’ different approaches to transcribing the Vita Nova ’s text, and for an analysis...
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“Vivre avec les vivants”: Madame de Sablé, Conflict, and the Art of Ambiguity
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 December 2021
... agency and interpersonal harmony. Throughout her maxims, she lays out explicit strategies for managing conflicts but is caught between an emphasis on gaining an advantage over one’s adversaries and, at the other extreme, finding a middle ground with them. But conflicts from her life suggest a different...
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Chronicle Conditions
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... disrupt perceptions of the linearity of time, yielding alternate temporalities grounded in bodily experience. In contemporary self-fiction, to chronicle a chronic condition is to juggle different kinds of time. But what about genres, like premodern historiography, that impose a linear, chronological...
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“Il y a du goth . . . dedans”: Aim and Author of Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Timothy Raser Abstract The differences existing between the first three editions of Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné make it impossible to speak of single work with a single message, and close examination of the text shows that it is following a repetitive, mechanical compulsion that has come...
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La querelle du quiétisme dans Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse : Dévotion mystique, transcendance et émancipation
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 448–472.
Published: 01 December 2022
... s’en défende et cherche à démontrer à Saint-Preux en quoi son cheminement est différent, de bien des manières, la dévotion de Julie fait écho à celle de Guyon. Cet essai cherche à répondre à cette ambivalence. Si Julie n’embrasse pas le quiétisme comme il a été reproché à Guyon, elle depend d’une forme...
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Four Solitudes
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 96–102.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Cary Howie Abstract These four lyrics give voice to different intersections of solitude and community, this world and whatever lies beyond or within it. They are propelled and animated, they are done and undone, by desire. Solitude, here, is above all an erotic question. I guess if angels took...
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Lyric Dispossession as Solitary Presence
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... In the poetic dynamics of the muwashshah , discourses of dispossession compete through the interaction of different languages and social registers. The muwashshah poetics illuminates how the female-voiced solitary presence is maintained not only in the cantiga d’amigo but also in other genres such as trobairitz...
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The Physician’s Species: Knowledge and Power in the Animal Clinic
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... narratives, this article argues that such texts draw their readers into the logic of the “animal clinic”: a conceptual space in which stakes of species difference and predation circulate alongside genuine medical knowledge, with the resulting instability calling into question everything from the nature...
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Painting (and Writing) over Dante
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
...’ assignment of meaning and cultural “readings” to medieval illuminators. Yet numerous sources, especially the instructions to illuminators that remain still visible in unfinished manuscripts, confirm that methods of work in the illustrating of medieval texts were guided by very different criteria than...
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Material Culture as an Index of Modernity in Spain’s Silent Film Era
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and thereby addressed foreign objectification of their nation as exotic or different. Through an analysis of several actualities, point-of-view rail films, and factory films produced in Barcelona between 1900 and 1930, as well some key Segundo de Chomón trick films shot in the city, this article shows how...
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Translating Utopia: Stéphane Bouquet’s Queer Futurities
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 134–150.
Published: 01 May 2024
... appearance in English marks a new stage of the New York School’s life and history—a crossing from English to French and back by which earlier forms of social, erotic, and political awareness are refracted through a different sensibility and an expanded global consciousness. Tracing the complexities...
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Source Word versus Target Poem: The Evolving Translation Collaborations of Muriel Rukeyser and Octavio Paz
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., the article then provides a close reading of the correspondence between these two long-time collaborators, bringing to the foreground a gradually increasing disconnect over how Paz’s poetry should be translated. These progressively differing points of view on translation would eventually play a role...
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La fin du collectif: Les banlieues, terrains d’un imaginaire décliniste
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 425–446.
Published: 01 September 2024
...), travaillent le motif de l’Apocalypse en l’ancrant dans une réflexion aux accents ethnologiques et sociologiques autour des territoires périurbains : cités de banlieue et banlieues résidentielles. Dans ces trois textes, à partir d’espaces pourtant bien différents, se développent des hantises partagées : la...
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Hard Labor and Sweet Delights: Luisa Carnés’s Tea Rooms and Luis Marquina’s El bailarín y el trabajador
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the idle rich. Both the novel, with its Marxist critique, and the film, with its bourgeois message, mobilize affects by deploying the material metaphors of foodstuffs—sweets, in this case—that provide not so much sustenance as pleasure. These two works thus foreground in quite different ways the notion...
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