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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 33–49.
Published: 01 January 2006
... irrepresentable" (back cover). "Ecrits essayant" and ""espace irrepresentable" are expressions that could just as well ha ve characterized his nlore recent books of essays, and the oXylnoronic "spontanelnent et avec calcul" expresses well the conflicting forlns of "living history" that Sollers seeks to write...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 213–214.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Phillip John Usher Jan Miernowski . La Beauté de la haine. Essais de misologie littéraire . Geneva : Droz , 2014 . Pp. 280 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 BOOK REVIEWS 21 3 Huchon (an excellent piece organized around Jean de Tournes), and Elise...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (3): 235–244.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Michael Kramer Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Michael Kramer ESSAI DE DATATION INTRATEXTUELLE DE LA COMEDIE DES PROVERBES Collection phraseologique burlesque du premier XVIIe siecle, presentee sous forme de piece de theatre, la Comedie des proverbes est un document...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 415–426.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Deborah N. Losse Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Deborah N. Losse A STORIED LIFE AND A LIVED STORY: WRITING ONESELF IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS W hen Montaigne recasts a story borrowed from antiquity or from medieval sources, he reshapes the anecdote to include many...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 109–114.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Thomas Parker Philippe Sellier , Essais sur l’imaginaire classique . Paris : Honoré Champion , 2003 , Pp. 394 . Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 BO()KRrVIEWS 109 n10st in1portant and most accessible of living French postwar poets. With a sensitivity...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 519–520.
Published: 01 November 2007
...James Fujitani Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Book Reviews Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 195–215.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of Montaigne s legacy, but they do not examine the Essais and the Essayes side by side. The Romanic Review Volume 108 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 196 David L. Sedley of topics that may appear unrelated, including arms and letters, shops and backshops, mathem atics and the Scientific...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 473–491.
Published: 01 December 2022
... challenges our understanding of Emma as a sterile dreamer, this essay seeks to reevaluate her faculty of imagination as a powerful creative force. The argument is developed in two parts. Since no assessment of Emma’s relation to “unreality” can legitimately bypass a careful analysis of her reveries...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 260–281.
Published: 01 September 2022
... be challenged by the perceived need to shield children from traumatizing scenes. This essay examines four recent children’s books published in Italy that dramatize immigration from Africa. Authors Maria Attanasio, Erminia Dell’Oro, Dino Ticli, and Francesco D’Adamo allude to canonical Western literature...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Amy Hollywood Abstract Against the background of the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, this essay returns to Charles Dickens and Great Expectations , especially his infamous recluse Miss Havisham, and asks what relationship we might discover between Miss Havisham’s solitude, that of many medieval holy...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Virginia Burrus Abstract This essay explores the relationship of solitude to place in Jerome’s fourth-century Life of Saint Hilarion . It does so through the medium of Burrus’s own experience of solitude and place. In 2020, having planned to visit Hilarion’s mountaintop hermitage in Cyprus, she...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the text. This essay explores the tensions between these two literacies, which become manifest in the film, especially in scenes where the students, who so easily relate to the novel’s characters, struggle with the more formal analysis. In a second part, inspired by the writings of Priscilla Ferguson...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and the Assumption—illustrate reprise and conversion, both of which are necessary in coming to terms with monogeism, the knowledge that there is only one world. This essay examines Latour’s proposed relationship between reprise and conversion through a consideration of late medieval Marian devotion. Focusing...
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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 (2021) 112 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Lewis C. Seifert Abstract Starting from the premise that the study of quarrels—and especially those involving women—has much to gain by considering conflicts that do not involve an appeal to a public, this essay focuses on the case of Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (1599–1678), who...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Maggie Fritz-Morkin Abstract Some medical treatises from medieval France and Italy demonstrate surprising rhetorical exuberance, especially in the paratexts where an authorial persona can emerge in the first person. This essay launches from the scatological metaphors and epithets in the exordia...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
...-writing avant la lettre. With readings of both the Latin and the vernacular works, this essay shows that the chronicle is achieved through a series of subtle chronological and sensory displacements: Gilles’s chronic condition has enabled him to create an anachronic subject-position, outside of both linear...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 199–221.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Célia Abele Abstract This essay shows that the pre-Romantic conception of the late Rousseau as alone in nature has led to misunderstandings of the project of the Rêveries du promeneur solitaire as an exclusively solipsistic text about Rousseau’s self turning inward. Focusing on the central “Fifth...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the question by reading the narrative of incest that dominates the “prehistory” of the prose Tristan against two key concepts that inform Michel Foucault’s 1971 essay “Nietzsche, la généalogie, l’histoire.” First, Foucault’s focus on the succession of discursive formations allows for a reinterpretation...
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