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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 521–546.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Jean Duffy Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jean Duffy SILENCE, TALK, AND VOICE IN THE RITUAL ENCOUNTER: FRAN~OIS BON'S L'ENTERREMENT AND LAURENT MAUVIGNIER'S LOIN D'EUX1 I n Loin d'eux and L'Enterrement, Laurent Mauvignier and Fran~ois Bon offer ostensibly quite...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 115–134.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner TRAFFIC IN PARADISE: DRAMATIZING JEWISH-C HRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN THE JEU D ADAM Conscriptum est autem, sicut legi ab omnibus oporteret, etsi a paucis haec...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 200–204.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Shirin A. Khanmohamadi Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters (eds). Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. 253 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 200 BOOK REVIEWS Karina F. Attar...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 125–140.
Published: 01 May 2023
... monotheistic traditions, the desert is a traditional site of solitude but also of encounter between human and divine. In the stories of such encounters for a series of biblical prophets—Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, and John the Baptist—isolation and encounter entangle. This article focuses on that encounter...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
... dynamic, reading Jerome through the mediation of four objects of art that Burrus encountered on the Clark campus in 2020–21. Three are contemporary sculptures—Kelly Akashi’s A Device to See the World Twice (2020), Thomas Schütte’s Crystal (2015), and Giuseppe Penone’s Le foglie delle radici ( The Leaves...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Andrew Holleran Abstract “The Invalid” is an autobiographical account of one American novelist’s reading Proust over the course of his life. After the initial impact of encountering Remembrance of Things Past as a young soldier in 1968 Germany, he is forced to wonder: Did Proust bring the novel...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of their oeuvres in a self-conscious exchange with, and about, one another. In letters, novels, memoirs, and paratexts from their first encounter in the early 1830s to the end of their careers, Balzac and Sand portrayed, parodied, quoted, misquoted, alluded to, wrote, and rewrote each other in ways...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Luke Sunderland Abstract This essay offers an encounter with Bruno Latour’s account of ontological pluralism by way of a close reading of the Livre des propriétés des choses , Jean Corbechon’s fourteenth-century French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s encyclopedia. Engagement with Latour’s...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 December 2020
... at how novels construct figures of strangers, how other characters react to these, and how the novels model this encounter for their readers. She uses three closely read and densely argued case studies from the 1830s to do so: Balzac’s novella La Fille aux yeux d’or , Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 49–52.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Sharon Marquart Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Sharon Marquart SHIT HAPPENS On, on, one goes, despite everything, not knowing why or how. Hanif Kureishi, The Tale of the Turd The first time I encountered Ross Chambers...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 91–108.
Published: 01 January 2011
... (not Toute Belle) as a palpable fuzziness22 or background noise occasionally disrupting Guillaume's supposedly pure lyric discourse. Initially, the woman disturbs the harmonious exchange simply by insisting on a real-life encounter (i.e., she wants to move from the ideal sphere to the everyday one-from...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2015
... in its focus on pre-modern and early modern cross-cultural encounters, it is savvy and relevant in its linking of its theme to the pedagogical endeavors in contemporary American classrooms that, it turns out, enjoy a number of features that invite and reward the study of pre-modern and early modern cross...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 March 2006
... existence. Exile has enabled her to reformulate the idea of resistance, something that before leaving, she and the others had been unable to do. The fleeting movement into exile has made Brigitte more conscious of herself and of Haiti. Her encounter with Normand in the intermediary space of the detention...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 101–102.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Murray Pratt Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Murray Pratt THE END OF DIALOGUE The first time I encountered Ross Chambers was through his work. Devour ing Story and Situation many years ago as an e ager young lecturer at the University...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 2017
... minutes fast, so actually that drink must often be consumed by 2:20 p.m., even if by that time many have forgotten to notice the difference. Ross Chambers was never a person one would encounter at last call. Even more uncomfortable in a crowd than I, he would show up at the parties of even his closest...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 309–317.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of creolization, demonstrating, if nothing else, Depestre's awareness of the sexual dimension of cross-cultural encounters. Depestre's bawdy rewriting of a tropical "education sentimentale" is aimed in his later work at the castrating forces of American imperialism, particularly during his years as a Marxist...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 107–109.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of Ranciere whom Phil chose to include in the volume he coedited with Gabriel Rockhill in 2009. Instead, I'd like to do something different and try to see what effect reading Ranciere had on Phil's trajectory. I want to see what Phil's encounter with jacques Ranciere enabled him to do differently, if anything...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., no less troublesome, stumbling block. Even a relatively indifferent translation of a great text is likely to inspire a feeling of nostalgic attachment in that student, teacher, or casual reader for whom it first opened the way to an otherwise opaque text. A first encounter with a great text in translation...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “a redefinition of metaphysics itself” as a set of diplomatic encounters on a flat, nonhierarchical plane: “an altogether singular form of ‘diplomacy’” that would grant all the modes of existence equal access to being and that would allow all the “institutions” to which those modes correspond (“both science...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 369–390.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in this terrain. The last thing I want to do is to hypostasize, reify, or idealize the heterosocial to the disservice of other terms in the four-term matrix I have just described. But on we go. Caroline Hedouin: Pivot or Afterthought? Let us now turn to the pattern of encounter one finds in a particular type...
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