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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 May 2022
... reorient readers’ understanding of the disability narrative. Suffering itself serves as an embodiment of consolation and as a medical and religious treatment that relieves her suffering. This article argues that to objectively examine her illness and disability, Teresa deploys intersectional knowledge...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... narratives, this article argues that such texts draw their readers into the logic of the “animal clinic”: a conceptual space in which stakes of species difference and predation circulate alongside genuine medical knowledge, with the resulting instability calling into question everything from the nature...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Thomas Harrison Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Thomas Harrison LAUGHTER AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE M ark Twain, in The Diary of Adam and Eve, tells a funny story about the expulsion of our fore parents from the Garden of Eden. It was not an apple that caused the Fall...
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Thinking with the Inquisition: Heretical Science and Popular Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 111–132.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Anna More Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Anna More THINKING WITH THE INQUISITION: HERETICAL SCIENCE AND POPULAR KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Digo, que entre los libros de mi uso matemdtico, fil6logos, humanistas y otros diferentes, hay algunos que...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
... for understanding the relationship between the imagination, technological invention, and discovery of new knowledge, which necessarily entails questions of prestige and power. Alexander’s ingenuity, which manifests both as verbal trickery and in the invention of new machines, is shown to be fundamental...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 61–71.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Susan Rubin Suleiman Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Susan Rubin Suleiman ARAGON'S "LE MENTIR-VRAI": REFLECTIONS ON TRUTH AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Ma vie. Tout Ie monde croit la connaitre. a me donne parfois des fous rires. 1 Aragon was a prolific...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
... available about such aspects is imposing, and its location subject to the extreme dispersion of traditional scholarly publications: commentaries first but also academic journals, miscellanies, and so forth. Rather than being based on traditional word searches, a true advancement of knowledge needs...
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in Mapping the Knowledge of Dante Commentaries in the Digital Context: A Web Ontology Approach
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Published: 01 May 2021
figure 1. The Knowledge Base on which DanteSources relies is structured as an RDF graph that is a set of RDF triples. For the exchange of this graph, or fragments of it, with the other component of the system, an XML encoding of the RDF triples is used. Fragments of Dante’s minor works
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to be interpreted but as social artifacts through which meaning, knowledge, and memories are made. Following Morgan Adamson’s call to consider how “images of resistance endure” and how “enduring images resist,” the article traces the (im)materiality of Portugal’s revolutionary filmic images with the aim of thinking...
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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 (3): 357–369.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Peter Brooks Abstract This essay revisits the question of the fictional person, largely by way of Proust’s claim that the novel offers us nonexistent persons the better to espouse vision through other eyes: knowledge of the world as experienced by another consciousness. If the New Critical...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 73–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... allusive quotations, Dante opposes to the absolute time of Eden the idea of an imperfect time, tied to the pattern of an all-human knowledge, which Dante himself connected to the teaching and character of Brunetto Latini. Opere Citate Alighieri Dante . La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the “guerre des récits” that traverses the Tristan : within this critical framework, Foucault’s work on judicial forms permits the identification of the points of emergence of new power/knowledge relationships within the prehistory, with the advent of ecclesiastical authority embodied by Saint Augustine...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 336–358.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I show that food and cooking provided object lessons imparting practical and scientific knowledge to enlighten the masses, and textbooks canonized regional specialties as part of a new national geographic consciousness. At the same time...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Dante’s models of vernacular knowledge sharing by drawing on AIME’s notion of the diplomat, whose measured speech helps “renegotiate the new frontiers of self and other.” It is especially concerned with the modes of engagement Latour labels as the beings of politics [POL], law [LAW], and fiction [FIC...
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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): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., though he goes further in trusting [FIC] than AIME is always willing to do. An instance of medieval historiography thus leads the way in overcoming a residual Modern suspicion of a nonreferential mode of existence and of knowledge. Additionally, although AIME’s restriction of crossings to two modes...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 155–173.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... Even further, for Certeau, as for Michel Foucault, human sciences should be called "heterologic knowledge." I prefer to call it heterodox knowledge, knowledge whose purpose is to alter orthodoxy itself. The title of Certeau's most recently published anthologyThe Place of the Other-makes this explicit...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... encyclopedia focus on its epistemological dimensions. For example, scholars argue that these works provide complete “cycles” of knowledge, containing everything worth knowing; that encyclopedias compile inventories of creation or ideal libraries; that they elaborate hierarchical orderings of knowledge...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 133–153.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of whether or not they claim to be heirs of those" historical" Gnostics. These subsequent trends share with the latter a series of ideas that challenge the church and that will, in most cases, lead to their condemnation and persecution. Among these ideas are, above all, a recognition of a knowledge (gnosis...
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