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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 443–454.
Published: 01 May 2005
...David A. Powell David A. Powell COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT: SAND'S HUMAN COMEDY Sociologists define a community as any group of people that perceives itself as distinct from other groups, and which is perceived by the outside world as distinct. Groups establish community solidarity in opposition...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 619–637.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Kathleen Bachynski Kathleen Bachynski "LE VAIN BASTIMENT": HUMAN SYSTEMS AND PHILOSOPHY IN MONTAIGNE'S APOLOGIE DE RAIMOND SEBOND M ichel de Montaigne as a philosopher is often reduced to helping revive and popularize Pyrrhonism; by extending skeptical tendencies into a crisis affecting all...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2006
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 457–463.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Joshua Armstrong [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 humanities French literature Yannick Haenel Wallace Stevens There is only one good novel by French author Yannick Haenel, but it’s quite good: Tiens...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Annabel L. Kim [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 humanities higher education liberal arts marginality capitalism Works Cited Cardona Miguel (@SecCardona) . “ Every student should have...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Heike Scharm Abstract This essay places the narrative of the Spanish writer José A. Cano (b. 1954 in Madrid) within the context of contemporary Spanish ecofiction. Concerned with the state of global humanity, Cano reflects a growing postnational perspective among Spanish writers whose works...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 73–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... a beatitudo huius vitae still valid for a Christian Eden, the poet appeals to the text of Ovid’s Fasti through which in many occurrences he is building a harmonic image of human living that, in the shadow of forebears’ sin, only a future intervention of Grace will dispose for Dante’s words. Through exact...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., allowing audiences to perceive stage illusions as real. On the other hand, they drew attention to their own artfulness, inviting spectators to marvel at human achievement and contemplate the possibility of misfire. This paradox encapsulates the theological ambiguities of medieval religious theater, which...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 September 2024
...) that have come to characterize the humanities as the forms and institutions of higher education find themselves increasingly subsumed by the logics and imperatives of neoliberalism? The present article proposes to think through and tarry with this problem by taking as a case study of sorts the reaction...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
... nonpurposiveness, where stark pessimism about the ecological impacts of human life allows for the cultivation of hospitable ideas of a posthuman future. The critique of apocalyptic fantasies and doomsday rhetoric is sufficiently widespread that it risks obscuring the equally if not more urgent critiques...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 533–556.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Isabelle de Vendeuvre Résumé Au carrefour des « Blue Humanities » et de la lecture de près, cet article propose une lecture thalassopoétique du Voyage au centre de la terre de Jules Verne. La mer y est « centrale », invitant paradoxalement à un décentrement radical, non seulement sur le plan...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 336–356.
Published: 01 December 2020
...R. Howard Bloch; Ellen Handler Spitz Abstract This article turns around the role that Proust’s novel played—for better or worse—in my formation as a medievalist and as a full human being. In the curé’s obsession with genealogy and etymology, I recognized in the 1970s a deep medieval mental...
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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 (2): 401–419.
Published: 01 September 2023
... actors and agents. L’esperit del temps situates Nazi thanatopolitics at the intersection of biology and law, emphasizing how a politics of death relies on what kinds of matter, such as the phenotype of skin, are fetishized, pathologized, and subjected to human-centered techniques of power. Domínguez...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Roots ) (2011)—and one is a seventeenth-century map. Burrus suggests that solitude allows us to know place (and ourselves as part of it) more deeply and intimately, offers a vantage point for seeing further and more clearly, undoes our sense of distinctiveness as humans, and transforms the intervals...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Carlo Meghini; Mirko Tavoni; Michelangelo Zaccarello Abstract With digital repositories and databases available since the 1990s, Dante scholarship has always been at the forefront of the digital humanities and the digitization of medieval texts and manuscripts. However, the amount of information...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Michelle M. Hamilton Abstract The tale of the City of Brass, best known today from the Arabian Nights , tells of the imagined encounter between humans and the occult properties of the material world, namely, the powers inherent in minerals. In the Middle Ages knowledge of such properties...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 66–84.
Published: 01 May 2020
... work of Gilbert Simondon and Étienne Souriau, provides a way to break down the division between the human mind and the world (and hence the mind and the machine), offering a rich understanding of the way in which the beings of technology [TEC], fiction [FIC], and religion [REL] act in concert upon us...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., substance, and matter. This essay argues that the Livre deploys precisely such an ontology in dynamic and flexible ways. The varying visual programs in Livre manuscripts each configure the encyclopedia’s ontology differently, either making humans privileged observers of nature or positioning them as subject...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and medicine’ mean[s], and to whom” (vii). New work on literature and medicine, including scholarship undertaken through increasingly prominent approaches such as medical humanities and disability studies, promises to continue working through the “and” problem. 1 Although it has been argued...
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