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Cajou’s Reason: Michèle Lacrosil and Post-war Intellectual Liberalism
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 171–181.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Dawn Fulton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Dawn Fulton CAJOU'S REASON: MICHELE LACROSIL AND POST-WAR INTELLECTUAL LIBERALISM Les choses que ['on tait sont-elles moins pernicieuses? Michele Lacrosil, Cajou Cajou, the eponymous heroine of Michele Lacrosil's second...
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“Les Hommes ont toute l’autorité”: Madeleine des Roches and the Querelle between Women and the Law
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2021
... obstructive process of law. Des Roches’s rejection of overtly agonistic writing in favor of discreetly powerful methods of persuasion reflects her objection to quarreling—as an unwelcome distraction from the literary self-expression that she maintains is a woman’s intellectual right—even as she engaged...
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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
... the political, economic, and axiological frameworks that structured the Western world. By focusing on the May revolution as a pivotal moment in the writers’ friendship, intellectual life, and political commitments, the author traces the afterlife of May ’68 in their respective texts, concentrating specifically...
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Remembering Ross, the Kynic
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 19–24.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of nonbelonging produced both intellectual detachment and the remarkable generosity necessary to maintain an oppositional and secular consciousness. Ross did not identify as a cosmopolitan, a term he found too pretentious, and in this way, I should add, he went even beyond Diogenes who declared himself a citizen...
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The Mentir-vrai and Aragon’s Politics
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 73–77.
Published: 01 January 2001
... sense wasted it. I refer to the fact that Aragon was not simply an intellectual working for the party, but rather a quintessential party intellectual who was on the Central Committee, and edited several important and critical party publications, doubling his career as a writer with substantial...
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Philip Watts Editor/Edited
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2014
...? As his own writing so clearly shows, Phil valued straightforward honesty in intellectual work above all else, and so tended to focus his editor's gaze on those flourishes in my writing least grounded in solid evidence. Any ad hominem attack on a critic, any too-easy or tendentious accusation in my...
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Orientalism and the Nineteenth-Century Nationalist: Michele Amari, Ernest Renan, and 1848
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Karla Mallette Karla Mallette ORIENTALISM AND THE NINETEENTHCENTURY NATIONALIST: MICHELE AMARI, ERNEST RENAN, AND 1848 D uring the nineteenth century, European intellectuals began to overcome the repugnance for the Middle Ages that characterized early modernity. Philologists resurrected the same...
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Les Deux Discours inedits d’Aragon au 3ème Congres de la “League of American Writers”, le 2 juin 1939
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 163–175.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the intellectuals of Spain, which has been able to take them out of the concentration camps and enable them to live as free men upon the soil of France for almost four months now, has thereby given sufficient proof that culture can not be saved up in the clouds. Confident in the future of humanity, our Association...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 September 2021
... intellectual versatility and commitment to helping younger scholars articulate their own scholarly visions. Always enthusiastically receptive to new ideas and genuinely happy for any of us who managed to find fulfillment in the life of the mind, Priscilla modeled an uncommon and uncompromising style...
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From Anonymity to Autobiography: Mme d’Arconville’s Self-Fashionings
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 381–397.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., presidente Thiroux d'Arconville (1720-1805), manifested exceptional intellectual range and versatility. She published literary and scientific translations, moral treatises, original scientific research, two novels, and three substantial biographies. All these works appeared anonymously. Despite whatever real...
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Aragon, Elsa Triolet: Love and Politics in the Cold War
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 3–12.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the CEuvres romanesques croisees. The extent to which their personal lives and their writing were inextricably bound up with the historical and political events was precisely the stuff of the New York meeting. Like other left-wing intellectuals, Aragon and Triolet were often led by their unconditional loyalty...
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The Decameron
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... applies to the Divine Comedy, the lamb can walk and the elephant swim. Casual readers are free to plash through the readily grasped delights of Boccaccio's novelle; more zealous readers, those eager to acquaint themselves with the intellectual, historical, and religious context of Boccaccio's work, need...
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The History of the Future
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to history is supposed to have displaced or superseded, that is, the linguistic turn in which almost everyone in this audience-including me-was both formed intellectually and went on to contribute to as a scholar. This is probably the sense in which the organizing committee intended it to be understood...
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Riffaterre of the 1970s
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 264–265.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Riffaterre and Edward Said. I took all their courses, even beyond what was required. It was intellectually an exciting moment not just for me but for my peers-the other graduate students. We used to sit for hours after each lecture of theirs, trying to decipher the subtle meaning behind their every word...
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Paul Valéry’s Cahiers/Notebooks
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 427–432.
Published: 01 November 2004
... volumes, respecting affinities between related subjects and themes. Two of these volumes have been published thus far: VOLUME 1: THE NOTEBOOKS-EGO-GLADIATOR-THE "I" AND THE PERSONALITY-AFFECTIVITY-EROS This presents the rigorously intellectual but also personal and affective dimension of the writing. We...
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Authors Present and the Experience of the Past
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2012
... better the development of literature as concept, practice, and institution, as well as its location in and contribution to a broader intellectual field. But if we return to the question of the author via an interpretive mode, the empirical-historical, that underreads or misreads the text, and thus...
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Borges, Buddhism, and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 640–643.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Jullien’s Borges, Buddhism, and World Literature offers a fascinating insight into Borges’s intellectual engagement with the Buddhist renunciation trope, using it to shed light on his own aesthetic program and, from there, as a productive reading model for other literary, philosophical, and religious...
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Roses and Everyday Beauty in France
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to generate the ideas that would animate her inquiry into the cultural valence of roses in nineteenth-century France and their relation to modernity. In the excerpts below we were struck by passages in which she articulates the kinds of questions that typify her intellectual trajectory and that, we hope...
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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
.... Yet, among the most important works of the period, visions of literary and intellectual catastrophe are common. In part, of course, this is because catastrophe makes for good storytelling: readers in the eighteenth century were both attracted to and horrified by accounts of disasters of all kinds...
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Some Kind of Relation
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 478–482.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Studies on structuralism, and I found myself reading Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, and Lacan, in addition to Barthes and Todorov and Greimas. It was an intellectually heady time, and I was fortunate to be part of a junior faculty culture that was both fractious and generous. We talked and we partied...
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