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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 December 2020
... these lines, namely, ask us not to forget the past debates in our field in order to better understand who we are today and what we search for. In 1944, a lively debate opposed Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), who at that time was the most influential American linguist, and his contemporary Leo Spitzer...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 639–654.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Eric MacPhail Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Eric MacPhail PRAISING THE PAST: NOVELTY AND NOSTALGIA IN MACHIAVELLI, CASTIGLIONE, AND MONTAIGNE O ne of the commonplaces that the Renaissance inherited from antiquity was the idea, usually formulated as a complaint...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 37–50.
Published: 01 January 2010
...David F. Hult Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 David R Hult TEXT EDITING: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A s I've been thinking about Romanic Review's 100th anniversary, I was tempted, as I gather many participants on the program were, to dip into some of the first issues...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Daniel Brewer Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Daniel Brewer AUTHORS PRESENT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST Since the so-called cultural turn in literary studies in the United States, the exploration of the "literary field" in the wake of the sociologist Pierre...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 319–327.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Nayana P. Abeysinghe Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Nayana P. Abeysinghe SHATTERED PASTS, FRACTURED SELVES: TRAUMA AND MEMORY IN DESlRADA M aryse Conde's Desirada, published in 1997, chronicles the lives of three generations of women, Nina, Reynalda and Marie-Noelle...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 408–416.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Thomas Pavel Abstract This essay begins as a reminiscence of its author’s early readings, including the first volume of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past . It then reflects on Proust’s depiction of his family, his love of art, and his pessimistic views on love. Copyright © 2020...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Andrew Holleran Abstract “The Invalid” is an autobiographical account of one American novelist’s reading Proust over the course of his life. After the initial impact of encountering Remembrance of Things Past as a young soldier in 1968 Germany, he is forced to wonder: Did Proust bring the novel...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and L’Insurgé . I examine the ways in which Vallès’s reading of the Paris of the early 1880s and excavation of the multilayered city’s past and cultural representations help foster the return of repressed voices and collective memories. Using the trope of the city as palimpsest, I argue that the critical power...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 260–281.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Maria Rosa Truglio Abstract Demand for books about current events in Italy has yielded scores of children’s books in the past three decades that treat the topic of immigration. The goals of eliciting empathy in children and explaining to them complex historical and contemporary events can...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and the past, with ourselves and one another. Being alone is complicated. Works Cited Altmann Barbara . “ Christine de Pizan’s Lyric Poetry and the Question of Intertextuality .” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan , edited by Tarnowski Andrea , 146 – 55 . New York...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., not only allows the transformation of revolutionary images into heritage but also makes possible their (re)activation in ways that both speak to the past and reinvent the future. Attending to the (im)materiality of Portuguese militant cinema makes it possible to approach these images not as texts...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to account and repent for his past. Hoccleve, however, finds that self-analysis only produces further instability and that he needs social engagement with others in order to recover his self. figure 1. “Spiritual Marriage.” New Haven: Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, f. 66r...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., and domes that bind or contain jinn, treasures, and secrets of the pre-Islamic past. Copper (or the copper-zinc alloy brass in the Morisco version) is the central element in the story—the construction material from which the city takes its name, as well as the material out of which several...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ultimately that, in dark and disorienting times, literature—which perhaps does nothing so well as help us to grapple with the ways in which the past and the present, and thus any possible futurity, are mutually entrammeled with one another—may help us get certain ideas, if not infallibly right, a little less...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 409–424.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Martin Munro Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Martin Munro RHYTHMS, HISTORY, AND MEMORY IN EDOUARD GLISSANT'S LE QUATRIEME SIECLE The past, to which we were subjected, which has not yet emerged as history for us, is, however, obsessively present. (Glissant, Caribbean...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 169–182.
Published: 01 January 2011
... have narrated the tale more meaningfully? The rivaling perspectives of the narrator and the Illois, both clearly signaled within the text, reflect opposing modes of thinking about the past. However the different participants of the tale choose to interpret the statue, they are all nevertheless...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to repeat, relive, be possessed by, or act out traumatic scenes of the past In this sense, what is denied or repressed in a lapse of memory does not disappear; it returns in a transformed, at times disfigured and disguised manner. (10) -Dominick LaCapra History and Memory after Auschwitz This essay is about...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 133–153.
Published: 01 January 2012
... by addressing the presence of Gnosticism in Parsifal in order to confront a more general theoretical problem about how the past is staged, both its impossibility and necessity. Richard Wagner's extraordinary originality in the creation of the character of his final drama and the combination of the typical...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 464–470.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Building on the theories and debates that appeared during the colonial period, 1 they aim to read the colonial past by articulating a criticism of the concrete aspects of colonial domination (crimes, exploitation of manpower and resources, etc.) and the less palpable cultural and psychological aspects...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 209–231.
Published: 01 January 2012
... on the notion that one should disentangle those elements of the past (whether ancient or medieval) that might have "life" in the present from those that remain "dead."1 On the other hand, if Renaissance humanism is viewed in the broader context of its period, then it can be seen as having shared both...
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