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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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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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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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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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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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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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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of language in the modes of existence. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Bruno Latour medieval bestiaries Philippe de Thaon language sound As the example of Médor in the epigraph to this essay illustrates, Latour’s networks include a broad...
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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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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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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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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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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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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
... exile in their vernacular writings. It examines how the two authors reflect on the pluralities of language and community that connect them to readerships both at home and in exile, focusing especially on Brunetto’s Rettorica and Dante’s Convivio . The essay investigates Brunetto’s rhetorical doctrine...
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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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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 285–307.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Paola Gambarota Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Paola Gambarota SYNTAX AND PASSIONS. BOUHOURS, VIeO, AND THE GENIUS OF THE NATION Contemporary scholars of nationalism agree that language does not constitute a necessary and sufficient criterion of nationality any more...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 105–126.
Published: 01 January 2013
... language. Artaud's writing confronts us with reams of vitriolic pronouncements against the ability of language to express thought; his later work becomes increasingly studded with clusters of syllables and guttural consonants that do not resemble known words and that dismantle the flow of an otherwise...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 249–264.
Published: 01 May 2007
...; hereafter OC ["enigma of a sentence written by a god"; What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in the human languages there is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe; to say the tiger is to say the tigers that begot it, the deer...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 105–110.
Published: 01 January 2010
... the fact that in large Romance language departments, the Italianists are almost always outnumbered by those who teach Spanish and French (if not Portuguese)? And should Italian fit by virtue of its distinctiveness-or by what Paul Ricoeur, in an essay to which I will return, calls its "comparabilities?" 1...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 377–390.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of nationalism. 1. Conde, 2003, 3. The Romanic Review Volume 94 Numbers 3-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 378 AMA MAZAMA Guadeloupean Creole and French: A Combative Coexistence, or the Language Question in La Vie scelerate, Traversee de la mangrove, and Les derniers Rois mages Like all creoles...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 147–161.
Published: 01 January 2013
... schools and attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1925. He taught briefly in Illinois, apparently at a public high school, and then, in 1927, landed an appointment in the Romance Languages Department at Syracuse University. A year later, in 1928, he also had a master's degree in hand from...
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