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The Philosophy Class
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 430–439.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Michael Wood Abstract Even as a schoolboy Marcel Proust specialized in thoughts of loss and doubt, and in À la recherche du temps perdu , he puts these thoughts to a very particular kind of philosophical work: the cultivation of epistemological (and other) errors that are certainly errors...
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Tristan’s Origins: Foucault, History, and Genealogy in the Prehistory of the Prose Tristan
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
... genealogy is revealed as an illusion: it is a genealogical stemma that only exists in virtue of an archetypal error—the “bad grammar” of incest. The immense thirteenth-century work known as the Tristan en prose begins its tale of the lives of Tristan and his lover Yseut by recounting the adventures...
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Poetry as Translation
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 52–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
...) in order to thus show its proper nature and, at the same time, “correct” its error. Hence the complexity of the double operation that takes place in Hölderlin’s translations: on the one hand the Greeks, who have renounced their proper element in order to excel in the gift of exposition, are returned...
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Thinking with the Inquisition: Heretical Science and Popular Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 111–132.
Published: 01 January 2012
... necesitan de alguna expurgaci6n asi en elogios de herejes, como en errores que incidentemente traen y no de prop6sito controvertidos ni asumptados - Carlos de Sigiienza y Gongora I n his influential genealogy of the Latin American intellectual, La ciudad letrada [The Lettered City] (1984), Angel Rama...
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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
... commends the work, he often follows his praise with a series of corrections and minor complaints. The letters of this period regularly contain examples of errors and misunderstandings he believes he has found in the translations, with him pointing out problems he has with phrasing here or a single word...
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Text and Document in Dante’s Vita nova
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 10–23.
Published: 01 May 2021
... devoted to these “reliable witnesses,” however, did not constitute the basis for a methodical examination of the manuscript tradition and its errors of transmission. Michele Barbi’s monumental 1907 edition of the Vita Nuova was to Italian literary criticism what Petrocchi’s edition of the Commedìa...
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Love, Subjectivity, and Truth: Existential Themes in Proust
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 223–226.
Published: 01 May 2024
... across as highly selective. Proust’s famous 1914 letter to the literary critic Jacques Rivière warns us about his philosophical designs: “I am therefore obliged to depict errors, without feeling compelled to say that I consider them to be errors; too bad for me if the reader believes I take them...
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Cultural Mediations and Material Contexts of Dante’s Commedia: The Case of Beinecke MS 428
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Alighieri’s ‘Comedy’” 44). While we rightfully strive to investigate and categorize material and textual analogies (or, on the contrary, common errors) and reconstruct a stemma codicum that might eventually lead us to discover or at least reconstruct a “perfect” and often perfectly unknown archetype, we...
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The Library of the Disaster
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 317–329.
Published: 01 May 2012
... adopted without attention, the second become precipitate conclusions; and men thus go on from prejudice to prejudice, and from error to error. What remained for us to do, but to rebuild the structure of human knowledge?" (189). As it turned out, not much reconstruction was necessary. The good was sorted...
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Rupture and the Limits of Reading
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 57–67.
Published: 01 January 2002
... to work is validated by the maintenance of what Bataille and Sartre see as the "transcendence of obligation." But here Bataille parts company with Sartre: this is not an individual error in Baudelaire, and Sartre's mistake is to think it is. The unparalleled tension in Baudelaire's work, and "the fullness...
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La Poesia Come Traduzione
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 May 2024
... convenienza nazionale e degli errori, con cui essa è sempre venuta a patti, in modo tanto più vivo, in quanto metterò più in risalto l’elemento orientale ( das Orientalische ) che essa ha rinnegato e correggerò il suo errore artistico, là dove esso appare”. Si trattava, cioè, di nulla di meno che di spingere...
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Los Trionfi de Petrarca comentados en catalán: Una edición de los manuscritos 534 de la Biblioteca Nacional de París y del Ateneu de Barcelona
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 579–580.
Published: 01 May 2012
... when corrections seemed obvious ("mala lectura del texto 0 [ mala interpretacion de la palabra en italiano") and addresses the most substantial errors in the footnotes (29). One wonders, however, if these corrections and notes may always be pertinent or accurate. The editor has assumed that she...
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The PCF, Stalinism and the Cold War
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 13–20.
Published: 01 January 2001
... by the Russians. It will always remain a mystery why Stalin fell into the American trap. He had only to accept the American promise of aid in order to insure that Congress would never pass the plan. As if to compound the error, the passage of the Marshall plan was in fact sealed by the strikes of 1947 that were...
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Orden y desorden en el cancionero gallego-portugués B . Las claves del texto y del libro
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 27–47.
Published: 01 January 2011
... nota precedente. 17. En correspondencia con las cantigas de esta serie de B, Colocci asigna en la Tavola el numero 1357 a Martin Soarez, mientras que, por un error banal, atribuye los textos que comprenden de 1358 a 1370 a Afons'Eanes do Coton. El equivoco del humanista ha sido ya explicado de manera...
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Djebar’s Odyssey
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 13–28.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., the narrator suggests that the birdlike-women are not dangerous and that men have been mistaken. As it turns out, however, we, the reader, also run the risk of mistaking the narrator's own take on the myth-errors that could stem from the malleability, the motility of her discourse, especially when it pertains...
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A Quintilian for the 21 st Century: On Fictional Truth
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 239–241.
Published: 01 January 2010
... errors," a paradoxical phrase much like "fictional truth." So, struck by the similarity of Riffaterre's title to Dante's own metapoetic language, I picked up Riffaterre's Fictional Truth and found it to be a wonderful tool for someone intent on showing that the Divine Comedy is, after all, an artifact...
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Mapping the Knowledge of Dante Commentaries in the Digital Context: A Web Ontology Approach
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the number of such agents in carrying out trivial, time-consuming, and error-prone tasks , freeing humans from such tasks and letting them use their time for the more intellectual activities. Since its inception, the Semantic Web vision has been pursued by the World Wide Web Committee (abbreviated...
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A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 580–583.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the manuscript only when corrections seemed obvious ("mala lectura del texto 0 [ mala interpretacion de la palabra en italiano") and addresses the most substantial errors in the footnotes (29). One wonders, however, if these corrections and notes may always be pertinent or accurate. The editor has assumed...
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How Marcel Proust Can Change Your Life—For Better or for Worse
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 336–356.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of my characters” (letter to Louis Martin-Chauffier, qtd. in Compagnon 222). The same might be said about Brichot’s historical errors. 8. Antoine Compagnon notes that the character of Brichot is modeled after Victor Brochard, a professor of ancient philosophy (225). 7. As Tadié observes...
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The History of My Pleasure in Le Plaisir du texte
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 441–454.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by perverse or by perverted . It can refer to sexual perversions but it can also refer to a manner of thinking. The English adjective perverse can mean “obstinately persisting in an error.” 3 ( American Heritage Dictionary 980). The psychoanalytic fetishist is both a sexual pervert and also perverse...
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