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Materiality and Language at El Escorial: From José de Sigüenza to Miguel de Unamuno and Back
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the literature on El Escorial. This article revisits José de Sigüenza’s Fundación del monasterio de El Escorial (1605)—the most exhaustive and authoritative chronicle of its construction—as a reaction to the official representational apparatus of the building. Whereas the language of Philip II’s instructions...
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The Old French Guillaume de Palerne and the Stag of Saint Eustace: A Study in the Symbolic Language of Medieval Fiction
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 135–154.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Christine Bourgeois Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Christine Bourgeois THE OLD FRENCH GUILLAUME DE PALERNE AND THE STAG OF SAINT EUSTACE: A STUDY IN THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF MEDIEVAL FICTION The anonymous late twelfth-or early thirteenth...
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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
...Christine Chism Simon Gaunt . Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde . Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity . Series: Gallica , v. 31 . Cambridge, UK : D.S. Brewer , 2013 . Pp. 212 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Book Reviews Simon Gaunt...
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Investigating a Disappearance: Multilingualism and Language Erasure in Assia Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 93–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Erin Twohig Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Erin Twohig INVESTIGATING A DISAPPEARANCE: MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE ERASURE IN ASSIA DJEBAR'S LA DISPARITION DE LA LANGUE FRANCA1SE T he title of Assia Djebar's 2003 novel La Disparition de la langue fran~aise...
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Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama, Signs of Challenge and Change
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 283–286.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Estelle Doudet Lynn Forest-Hill . Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama, Signs of Challenge and Change . Aldershot – Burlington (USA) – Singapour – Sydney : Ashgate , 2000 . Pp. 215 . Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS nouvelles...
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Reading the Signs in Villon: Puns, Proper Names, and Implied Language Theory in the Lais
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 109–127.
Published: 01 January 2011
...David Georgi Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 David Georgi READING THE SIGNS IN VILLON: PUNS, PROPER NAMES, AND IMPLIED LANGUAGE THEORY IN THE LAIS V illon's Lais quickly announces itself as the last will and testament of a poor scholar named Fran<;ois Villon...
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Seductive Topographies: The Languages of Landscape in La Puce de Madame des-Roches
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 249–269.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Kendall Tarte Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Kendall Tarte SEDUCTIVE TOPOGRAPHIES: THE LANGUAGES OF LANDSCAPE IN LA PUCE DE MADAME DES-ROCHES T wo of the most interesting discourses to emerge in the sixteenth century were topographical description and the anatomical...
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Sound and Vision: Bruno Latour and the Languages of Philippe de Thaon’s Bestiaire
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of language in the modes of existence. This passage from Enquête sur les modes d’existence 1 wryly illustrates one of the principal arguments of Bruno Latour’s project about the presumed opposition between signifying language and the material world. Latour’s exposition of what he terms, after Étienne...
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“Acaricié las cosas”: Family Matters and Rural Words in Luz Pichel’s Cativa en su lughar
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 380–400.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Carlos Varón González Abstract After her father’s death, the poetic subject in Luz Pichel’s Galician-language Casa pechada ( Closed Home , 2006) returns from the city to clear the things in her house in a small Galician village. However, these things do not conform to any sense of social, emotional...
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Poetry as Translation
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 52–57.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Giorgio Agamben; Kevin Attell Abstract This essay reflects on the constitutive bilingualism that characterizes the self-translation of twentieth-century poets in dialect into Italian. Here, Agamben proposes, the poem no longer dwells within the identity of one language but finds a true home...
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The Mediator Serving Two Mistresses
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 110–114.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that his translation of poets from English, Arabic, and German into French is thus “doubly foreign” because his French is steeped in his Arabic culture and language. The essay advocates for the peaceful coexistence of any two languages, and especially the postcolonial coexistence of Arabic and French...
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Dire, Médire, Dédire : Speech Acts in Le Misanthrope
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 249–259.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Stephen H. Fleck Abstract The article analyzes the triviality of Austin’s version of everyday-world speech act theory (which explicitly excluded fictional uses of language) in favor of its specific value for investigation of fictionality, invoking ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Émile Benveniste...
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Engin : Creativity, Invention, and Knowledge in the Medieval Romance Tradition of Alexander the Great
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jonathan Morton Abstract The main texts under consideration in this article are two French-language Alexander romances written in the second half of the twelfth century, discussed in relation to the Latin historical, romance, and naturalist traditions that form the backbone of the medieval...
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Demons of Analogy: Likeness and Photography in Bruges-la-Morte
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Zakir Paul Abstract Widely considered the first French-language photo narrative, the use of images in Bruges-la-Morte (1892) tends to occlude as much as it reveals. Drawing on archives and contemporary debates about the image, this article contends that photography structures the novel on a formal...
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Rigor and Imprecision in Literary Studies: Past Debates
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Thomas Pavel Abstract The article examines several twentieth-century polemics between mechanist approaches to language and art and studies that emphasize creativity and historical developments. The 1944 exchange between Leonard Bloomfield and Leo Spitzer was an eloquent example of such polemics...
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Dining with the Hermaphrodites: Courtly Excess and Dietary Manuals in Early Modern France
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into vernacular languages. The precepts of this genre entered into the literary culture of early modern France primarily through the avenue of satire, in which characters were defined by the food they ate and by other aspects of the Galenic regimen. Because of its association with treatises on the education...
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Lyric Dispossession as Solitary Presence
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... In the poetic dynamics of the muwashshah , discourses of dispossession compete through the interaction of different languages and social registers. The muwashshah poetics illuminates how the female-voiced solitary presence is maintained not only in the cantiga d’amigo but also in other genres such as trobairitz...
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Translating Utopia: Stéphane Bouquet’s Queer Futurities
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 134–150.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of these crossings helps reframe translation not as a single one-way trajectory from source to target language but rather as a multiple and dynamic back-and-forth and a temporal opening to new possibilities akin to the version of queerness suggested by José Esteban Muñoz as “the work of not settling for the present...
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Source Word versus Target Poem: The Evolving Translation Collaborations of Muriel Rukeyser and Octavio Paz
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in opening up Paz’s Spanish-language poetry to new translators in the United States. While this article examines an understudied but crucial facet of Rukeyser’s career as a writer and translator, it also sheds light on the complicated set of expectations and realities involved when one poet translates...
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Glottopolitics of Prophecy: Lengua o muerte and the Contested Futures of the New Normal
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2024
... that imbricates language and politics), it is contested between elites and subalterns articulating class warfare. Here, prophecy from above is analyzed through the concept of the “new normal,” which allowed Spanish politicians to predefine immediate future and safeguard the integrity of the capitalist system...
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