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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 235–236.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Mary Shaw Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Mary Shaw MOURNING SONG FOR MICHAEL (NOVEMBER) i couldn't come for i was sick on each official sender that in june this early fall but now it is november last time i came your eyes wouldn't stick emptiness in front...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 29–45.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., with her, to these buried voices, murmurs, whispers, mutterings, and Tzarl-rit,4 to the intimate 1. The original French title, "Les endeuille-es," emphasizes both the masculine and the feminine forms of the word mourner and could also be translated as "Men and Women in Mourning." 2. Assia Djebar, Nowhere...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 514–517.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death. In Beauty Raises the Dead, Robert Ziegler seizes on these darker moods of Decadence. The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 January 2005
... omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. (0 all ye that pass by the way, attend and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow). -Lamentations 1.12 mourning, which is at once the mother of the allegories and their content -Walter Benjamin! Pilgrimage as Allegory...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... after the writer's death, they combine personal remembrances with reflections on loss and mourning as recurrent themes of Djebar's writing. They also speak to Djebar's legacies as a feminist writing between cultures and as a major voice of postcolonial thought. Djebar was a canonically anti-canonical...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... immobilized time. Taking stock of these details, their composition, their framing, it is impossible to argue in favor of an illustrative function: Bruges becomes a character, even the protagonist of the novel, as Rodenbach suggests. The photographs radicalize Viane’s mourning linking his recollections...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 513–514.
Published: 01 November 2001
... via elaborately lurid exercises in disavowal and compensation. They fetishize, they fixate. And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death. In Beauty Raises the Dead, Robert Ziegler seizes on these darker moods...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 425–444.
Published: 01 May 2010
... understanding of L'ultimo into the instrument of his own self-abasement. 19 Levi-Narrator might have read Alberto's and Levi-Haftling's inaction more gently. It is tempting to read the contradictions in the figure of Rumkowski as the richly complex paradoxes that inhere in any masterpiece of mourning. "La zona...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 277–289.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... Veronica is a classic example of the Freudian melancholic subject who maintains a stance of self-deprecation because she is unable to mourn for her own lost (racial) "origins" and harbors hostile as well as longing feelings for these "African" origins. According to Freud, the melancholic subject's...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 May 2006
... not been effective in coming to terms with [trauma], notably through modes of mourning" (10). Mourning, however, came with difficulty, as post-war European society "appeared" to obtain a certain mask of normality. The economic booms all over Europe were of course one crucial factor in these delayed...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 491–511.
Published: 01 November 2001
... a masterpiece of mourning in the Derridean sense: a work which withdraws itself from presence at the moment of its revelation. Figured in the enframing sublime, Auschwitz was intended by its artists/builders to contain nothing but ashes. The concentrationary sublime figures withdrawal. Levi's Aushwitz...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... 10 In his Tableau de Paris , serialized in weekly installments of two to three columns in two important Parisian dailies, Vallès displays his consistent militant commitment by creating a systematic inventory of the human, political, and symbolic mournings on which the Second Empire...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 105–109.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... This experience, this encounter alone, and yet not alone served as a reminder too, and h ere in Ross s own words, that reading is necessarily and inescapably a form of mourning and that what it mourns is the death of the author (Facing It 32). This fragment, from Ross s chapter in Facing It, titled Dying...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 231–254.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... The haunting of Pascoli's poetry by the ghosts of his family members reveal that the poems are not an exercise in "working through" their deaths.2 On the contrary, the poems are neither the symptoms nor the staging of an effective mourning, but rather a resistance to mourning. Wordsworth's "contadinella," who...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 445–459.
Published: 01 May 2006
... The Work of Mourning, cautioning against the dangers of applying observations or feelings about one death to another, thereby reducing the individuality of each 'act of mourning'; at the same time, one might argue that that slippage enriches our understanding of the ties that anchor the dead to the world...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 265–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
... models" via two paradoxical discourses: first, discussions of the tattoo, in the contexts of criminology, anthropology, and art, oscillate between "on the one hand, an official condemnation of primitive aesthetic expenditure haunting the productive European body and, on the other, the mourning...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2010
... because of the "return to history," there is no future for Romance studies, and that this development is to be neither mourned nor resisted. I could engage in a fairly run-of-the mill and perhaps even predictable reading of the phrase "the return to history" in order to evince an essential ambiguity...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of women is scathing, to say the least. In the opening chapter of The Apparel, Tertullian insists that women must live as perpetual penitents in memory of their role in introducing sin into the world. Women should not wear ostentatious clothing, but rather they should dress "in mourning garments acting...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 2014
...). What is striking in this passage from The Stranger is the commingling of death and the distraction from death, of Meursault's mourning and Fernandel's comedy. Critics, prompted by Camus's own statements, have generally interpreted this scene as one more instance of Meursault's inability to play...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 455–478.
Published: 01 November 2001
... life-giving potential. 17 The death of her nephew Joseph has even more drastic consequences-it seems to propel her towards dementia and death. In the case of Annick's reaction to Joseph's death, the "excessive" observance of mourning conventions provides her with a means of expressing the enormity...
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