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Denatured Nature: Cioran and the History of Decay in Spanish Contemporary Fiction
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... Western civilization, according to him, built up a precarious facade made up of human arrogance and the illusion of knowledge. Religion and the history of philosophy prop up humanity as a semi-god—separated from and placed above Nature—while providing no true insight into its “natural” place within...
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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
...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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Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Bruno Latour medieval encyclopedias manuscript illuminations natural history cosmology A major challenge for the humanities and social sciences, according to Bruno Latour, is the need to supersede the model of cultural diversity...
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Textual Authority in the Vita Nova ’s Nineteenth-Century Editions
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... history on the other. At the center of this discussion is one of the thorniest aspects of the Vita Nova ’s text: the divisions (technical prose of a scholastic nature in which Dante explains the formal structure of his poems). Over the centuries, Dante’s authority over his own text was brought...
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“Go Little Book”: The Matter of Troy and the Ecology of the Medieval Codex
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... This essay offers a survey of the pan-European textual traditions on the matter of Troy as a case study in the history of the book, with the manuscript codex conceived as a crossing between [TEC] and [FIC]. I show that the affordances and ecologies of the codex as a “being of technology” lent it a vitality...
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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
... for a certain model of knowledge-acquisition that sees natural truths as hidden and in need of tools to be extracted. This ingenuity is shown, also, to be closely connected to the inventions of writers of romance, and the article suggests the specific importance of the Alexander material in the history...
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Rousseau on the Île Saint-Pierre: Realism as Circumscription
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 199–221.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by describing both society and nature. In doing so, I prolong lines of argument sketched by Bernhard Kuhn, who insists on Rousseau’s positioning of nature within history, and Jeff Burkholder, for whom nature in Rousseau serves to ground his notions of society and self: both seek to rethink the opposition...
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Constitutive Elements of the Discourse of Natural Instruction in Rousseau’s Emile : Situations and Implications
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (3): 245–258.
Published: 01 May 2001
... at the fair, the gardener, the tumbler, the vicar, the text of nature, history. There is only one initiatee, however - Emile - and in the end he transforms into an initiator. All initiators play different parts according to the level Emile has THE DISCOURSE OF NATURAL INSTRUCTION IN L'EMILE 255 reached...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of Latour’s premise that the material and the semiotic are densely interwoven, a fact typically overlooked in Modernity. As moralized accounts of natural history, bestiary texts mark a conflation rather than a crossing of the modes of reference and religion [REF•REL]. They are, in other words, simultaneously...
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Of Nightmares and Whale Oil: Rabelais’s Quart Livre and the Lure of Disenchantment
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 191–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
... beyond-we habitually call "a monster." Pantagruel It is telling, then, that Pantagruel avoids the word. Ignoring scripture and the Platonized Ovid, he fishes his nomenclature from Pline's Natural History. The de-monstration to which he then proceeds seems an outgrowth of that word choice: here we have...
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The Italian Redemption of Cinema: Neorealism from Bazin to Godard
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 483–500.
Published: 01 May 2006
... ontological investigations of cinema, albeit no longer on behalf of realism, but in the name of a more sophisticated philosophy of immanence. Deleuze's theory promises nothing less than a taxonomy of images, a natural history of the film medium indelibly marked by the crucial event of neorealism and thus...
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In the Dark (Antoine Volodine)
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
... . “ Ecospirituality: Vegetal Ghosts in Antoine Volodine’s Le Nom des singes (1994) .” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 25 , no. 2 ( 2021 ): 231 – 40 . Céline Louis-Ferdinand . Mort à crédit . Paris : Gallimard , 1952 . Claeys Gregory . Dystopia: A Natural History . Oxford...
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Telling Tales Out of School: The Fairy Tale and Italian Academies
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 257–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of subjects addressed during these meetings. The Oziosi interpreted literary texts, participated in the debate on the status of women, considered puzzling aspects of natural history, and addressed moral questions.34 The eclectic nature of De Pietri's book belies the predominant interest of this academy...
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Zola and Freud: Spent Energy in Thérèse Raquin
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 349–368.
Published: 01 May 2011
... pacifism that he had himself claimed to experience in an earlier "Causerie," published on 25 June. There (a distinctly Rousseauian) Zola recounts how, with Jules Michelet's natural histories in hand, he would set out in search of a solitary retreat on the banks of the Seine, indulging in "longues reveries...
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Bodies in Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist’s Model
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 January 2006
...' study, the l1lodel begins to clainl her literary territory through Balzac's La COl1uidie hunlail1c, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du 111a/ and MOll Ca:ur ntis a nu, and the Goncourt's Manette Sa/onzon. The influence of scientific theories of acclilnatization and naturalization on perceptions of the Jewish...
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The Historian’s Dilemma: The Quest for Master Narrative in Prosper Mérimée’s “La Venus d’Ille”
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 169–182.
Published: 01 January 2011
... understanding, for him, comes at the price of an anxiety about the nature of the past. For the "historian" in "La Venus d'Ille," the desire for myth emerges as a reaction to the obsessive desire for history. Pierre Nora develops a similar notion when formulating the distinction between History and Memory; never...
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Convulsive Transfers in the Work of César Moro
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
... , 1970 . Descola Phillipe . Beyond Nature and Culture . Translated by Lloyd Janet . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . D’hulst Lieven . “ (Re)Locating Translation History: From Assumed Translation to Assumed Transfer .” Translation Studies 5 , no. 2 ( 2012...
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Condé’s Trials of the Spirit
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 429–436.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with the Cartesian doctrine that the soul always thinks-have, you might ask, to do with Conde's work? What would belief be like if it were as absolute, as real as a fist to the stomach? If it were as natural, as concretely held as the sense of touch? What, then, are the exigencies of spiritual work? Doesn't "spirit...
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Kairos and the Pascalian Model of Time and History
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 273–291.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of liturgy. The present essay takes these scholars' insights about how Pascal's religious beliefs pervade the content of his writing and seeks to add to their work by showing how the form of his writing is also an articulation of his beliefs about the nature of history and temporality after Christ's advent...
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Authors Present and the Experience of the Past
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in nature. The question of the author is certainly one of these no longer purely literary questions. Treating it must thus involve developing ways to understand the mechanisms and practices that serve to institutionalize the literary through the mediation of other practices, fields, and forces. Becoming...
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