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Postmodern Ethics, Premodern Farce
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 293–299.
Published: 01 September 2022
...John Parker [email protected] Noah D. Guynn , Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Pure Filth...
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Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 375–378.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jason Jacobs Luke Sunderland . Old French Narrative Cycles: Heroism between Ethics and Morality , Gallica 15. Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 2010 . Pp. xiii + 204. ISBN: 978-1-84384-220-0. Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Book Reviews Luke Sunderland. Old...
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Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory!: Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 190–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
... communism as a manifestation of “desire” conceived as an impersonal force that establishes an ethical relation with the foreign, the inassimilable, the other. More specifically, this essay ponders the aesthetic, ethical, and political implications of the cine-poem’s construal of the negative hands of upper...
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Denatured Nature: Cioran and the History of Decay in Spanish Contemporary Fiction
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
... critically address the challenges of the Anthropocene—in particular, the destructive effects the tenets of Western modernity (Kantian ethics, utilitarian values, human-Nature divide, logic of exploitation, dualistic and anthropocentric thought, etc.) have had on the more-than-human world. Heavily influenced...
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Dante and Cecco d’Ascoli on Love and Compulsion: The Epistle to Cino, Io sono stato , the Third Heaven
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Nuova to a more “scientific” view in the third epistle and again to a moralistic view in the Commedia (whose circle of lust boasts, in the wind that buffets the lustful, an example of compulsion borrowed from Nicomachean Ethics 3.1). The philosopher and astrologer Cecco d’Ascoli is a contemporary...
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Gallic Anti-epiphanies in Joyce’s Dubliners
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 81–103.
Published: 01 May 2025
... than genuine cosmopolitanism. The collection’s final story ultimately evokes the need to overcome the opposition between Ireland and Europe in favor of an ethic of locally rooted cultural hybridity that is realized in the multilingual idioglossia of Finnegans Wake . [email protected]...
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Aesthetics of Blankness: Political Imagination in Marguerite Duras’s Hybrid Narratives
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 359–376.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Some of the anti-PCF statements in Duras's film released that year, Le Camian, show that she borrowed heavily from Dionys Mascolo's ideal of communism as a unity of radical political equality and ethical respect for absolute otherness (Camian 37). Ever since leaving the Party, Duras considered herself...
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Questioning the Territory of Modernism: Ultraísmo and the Aesthetic of the First Spanish Avant-garde
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of English and An1erican n10dernisnl. However, lllodern Spanish poetry is also intilllately linked to the discourse of national identity-typically couched in ternlS of the ethical subject's position in the t'netaphysical landscape. Charles Taylor's argument that nlodernity's existential need to locate...
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Response to Maurice Samuels
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., and the mediation-read: alienation-of experience). In Kevin McLaughlin's densely argued essay, "On Poetic Reason of State: Benjamin, Baudelaire, and the Multitudes," ethical irony-filtered through the Benjaminian concept of Erlebnissen or "[l]iberation from the protective custody of a life of self...
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Phil Watts, Reader of Rancière
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 107–109.
Published: 01 January 2014
.... 'Knowing is nothing, doing, making is everything 1 Very quickly, then, I want to suggest that after reading through Phil's work, some of which I knew, and some of which was new to me, it seems to me that his encounter with jacques Ranciere was taking Phil away from a primarily ethical perspective...
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Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in a variety of works drawing on Aristotelian and Stoic ideas of emotion, that is present, too, in rhetorical works, and that enjoys well-recognized ethical, political, and devotional uses. For Berlin, the passions of late medieval Iberian texts are not just innocuous themes around which courtiers exercised...
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Unrequited Sublimations: Borges Reads Spinoza
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2007
... could not abide by Spinoza's system, and even less so by his philosophical method. In short, Borges liked his image of the man (he liked Spinoza in the way he liked literary characters like Don Quixote); he expressed sympathy for certain ethical principles espoused by Spinoza; but he went out of his way...
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Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde . Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 189–193.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Monolinguisme de ['autre, which alienates even mother tongues from their speakers: no one can master language. The ethical results of such translation politics emerge in BOOK REVIEWS a final comparative analysis of the Devisement's account of the life of Buddha across a number of French, Italian, and Latin...
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The Italian Redemption of Cinema: Neorealism from Bazin to Godard
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 483–500.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., neorealism could not be said to result in a common aesthetics, but perhaps rather in an "ethic of an aesthetics" (INCI, 27). Since its inception, Italian neorealism has been the darling of French critics. Although in Italy, as we have seen, no consensus was ever established regarding the nature and scope...
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The Stakes in Holocaust Representation: On Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 69–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
...-we could call them crisis works or "weathervanes"point to unresolved ethical and aesthetic issues concerning representations of the Holocaust. What can or should be shown or told in a work of art dealing with a historic event that has been called unrepresentable? Even more importantly, what can...
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The Exemplary Chaim Rumkowski in Primo Levi’s “La zona grigia”
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 425–444.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., "'Per Mia Fortuna Irony and Ethics in Primo Levi's Writing," Modern Language Review 92 (1997): 337-47 as well as his excellent Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001). On exemplarity, see Andrzej Warminski, Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger...
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The Anxiety of Senecan Influence in Racine, or Phèdre in the Labyrinth
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 417–432.
Published: 01 November 2001
... mapping of the play's contradictions, both internal and external, with the help of Racine's own topological metaphor: the labyrinth. Adhering closely to tradition and to Racine's stated concerns, we will take two well-lit entrances into this literary monument: aesthetics and ethics, plaire et instruire...
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The Devil’s Advocate: Baudelaire’s Cat as the Daîmon of Erotic Mysticism in Les Fleurs du mal
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 427–444.
Published: 01 November 2002
... historically with demon or devil and is thus linked with the evil that generates Baudelaire's vision for flowers or objects of beauty and delicacy. In a post-Levinas world, we learn from Alain Finkielkraut that love is the basic model for ethical relationships" Ie Mal procede d'abord d'une volonte de punir...
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Linguistic Finitude as Capability in Borges and Wittgenstein
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 249–264.
Published: 01 May 2007
... not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite" (L, 202 254 E. JOSEPH SHARKEY to an ideal of unlimited exactitude. The half-page story begins with an ellipsis: " En aquel Imperio, el Arte de la Cartografia logro tal Perfeccion que el Mapa de una sola Provincia ocupaba toda una...
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Erec et Enide and the Concept of Consent
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 September 2022
... or ethical standards. While the notion that the absence of refusal signals consent is still the law in many jurisdictions (including most US states), many have, that is, put forth important arguments for more affirmative standards of consent (see Fischel, Screw 69; Sex 119). Yet here, it is not clear...
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