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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 435–455.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Rodrigo Cacho Casal Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Rodrigo Cacho Casal GONGORA IN ARCADIA: SANNAZARO AND THE PASTORAL MODE OF THE SOLEDADES T he Soledades stands as one of the most revolutionary and innovative poems of the Spanish Golden Age. Gongora created...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Jane Gilbert Abstract This essay focuses on two of the modes of existence posited by AIME, a collaborative project comprising Bruno Latour’s monograph An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and a multiauthored website associated with it. I juxtapose the modes of reference [REF] and fiction [FIC...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 505–522.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Alison James Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Alison James FEAR OF FALLING: THE MYTH OF ICARUS IN LA VIE MODE D'EMPLOI ]'aime: les pares, les jardins, Ie papier quadrille [ ] les toits d'ardoise, La Chute d'Icare [ ]1 T he presence of "programmed" allusions...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 66–84.
Published: 01 May 2020
... himself to the same mode of existence (nonexistence?), which he can do (he believes) only through death. “Ingremance” (“magic”) is placed duplicitously here, for it follows a partial explanation of how this mechanism works (it is powered by wind blowing through tubes). The machine is something like...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Emma Campbell Abstract As moralized works of natural history that are simultaneously scientific and religious, medieval bestiaries combine the modes Bruno Latour terms reference [REF] and religion [REL]. Bestiaries challenge the dualisms Latour identifies as central features of Modern thinking...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anke Bernau Abstract In An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence , which addresses itself to the profound challenge of how to “compose” a common world in the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour proposes that the mode of religion [REL] offers a model for all the others—that of reprise. Emerging from...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to show how Ferguson’s “food fears” can elucidate Perec’s rewriting of Proust’s madeleine episode. I sketch this out in La Disparition (1969) and W ou le souvenir d’enfance (1975), before focusing on La Vie mode d’emploi (1978). While Proust’s madeleine episode concerns both the evocative power of food...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Marilynn Desmond Abstract Among the twelve modes he describes in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence , Bruno Latour identifies two—the “beings of technology” [TEC] and the “beings of fiction” [FIC]—that aptly depict the nonhuman agency inherent in the production and circulation of the premodern book...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Noah D. Guynn Abstract This essay deploys Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence and Bert States’s Great Reckonings in Little Rooms to analyze the pyrotechnics used in mystery plays to symbolize supernatural truths. On the one hand, these effects cultivated aesthetic immersion...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Miranda Griffin Abstract This essay focuses on the recurrent metaphor of a painstaking journey in Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and the ways in which it can be deployed as a reading of the world. I use this metaphor to scrutinize the transmission, in manuscript Chantilly, Musée...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 September 2021
... pattern that comes to characterize not only food but also bodies, clothing, décor, narrative form, and modes of attention and belief. I argue that the aesthetics of patchwork and collage extend as well to Sue’s self-fashioning as a political and moral opportunist. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... sanitatem nominant!” (This is what the shitting Salernitans call health!); “discursores alienis fecibus imbuti” (vagrants steeped in other dreck)—tap into carnivalesque modes where excrement is organic, filthy, vituperative, and comic, in contrast to the sterility of the treatises’ technical, Scholastic...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Marisa Galvez Abstract While medieval literature offers many models of solitary thinking, vernacular lyric confronts the problem of solitude in a unique mode, grappling and coping with this phenomenon that gives shape and texture to ambivalence and vexation. Comparing the event of lyric...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 May 2023
...” and at the same time more fully in tune with oneself. The interlude introduces a brief parenthesis, intended less as a provocation and more as a clarifying interruption to distinguish between lonely and solitary modes of living. Finally, Act 3 wanders into the realm of poetics and aims to think about the strange...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
... is a translational poetics that avoids the binaries of source and target audiences, thereby allowing the emergence of nonlinear and dynamic modes of contact. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2024 22. For more on Moro’s...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 425–446.
Published: 01 September 2024
... destruction des modes de vie collectifs comme du sens de la communauté, le repli sur les intérêts individuels dans une perspective du tous contre tous, jusqu’à l’explosion finale, littérale et métaphorique. Si le monde court à sa fin, c’est en banlieue que celle-ci couve. Œuvres Citées Bonard Yves...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
... pronouncements and a discussion of their implications, this essay argues that Antoine Volodine’s dark fiction offers tools for imagining why one might assert the validity—if not the productivity—of dark modes of thought. Specifically, it shows how Volodine’s darkness explores literary intransitivity and defiant...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Inquiry into Modes of Existence enables a new reading of medieval encyclopedias that takes seriously Latour’s suggestion that premodern cosmologies retain importance for modern ecological thought while simultaneously challenging his arguments about the rigidity of ontologies based on ideas of nature...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 192–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
... tell—lacking any professional expertise in medieval studies—the scholarship also appears impeccable. But what is perhaps most startling is that they all seem to get Bruno Latour’s AIME project ( An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and its related website) basically right, even as the philosophy world...
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