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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 37–51.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Steven Ungar Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Steven Ungar "TOUTE LA MISERE DU MONDE": ELI LOTAR'S AUBERVILLIERS AND A SENSE OF PLACE Paris, the center; the banlieues, the circumference; to these children, this is the whole world. They never venture beyond...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 387–388.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Phillip John Usher Louisa Mackenzie . The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2011 . Pp. 304 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS any student or scholar...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 311–324.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Aimée Boutin Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 Aimee Boutin OUT OF PLACE: FAMILY DYSFUNCTION AND DISPLACEMENT IN VALENTINE "11 me semblait que la Vallee noire, c'etait moi-meme, c'etait Ie cadre, Ie vetement de rna propre existence." 1 I n the preface to Valentine...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Virginia Burrus Abstract This essay explores the relationship of solitude to place in Jerome’s fourth-century Life of Saint Hilarion . It does so through the medium of Burrus’s own experience of solitude and place. In 2020, having planned to visit Hilarion’s mountaintop hermitage in Cyprus, she...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 245–262.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Leonid Livak Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Leonid Livak THE PLACE OF SUICIDE IN THE FRENCH AVANT-GARDE OF THE INTER-WAR PERIOD T he cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 433–444.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Floriane Place-Verghnes Floriane Place-Verghnes "LES DIMANCHES D'UN BOURGEOIS DE PARIS" : REALITE BURLESQUE OU CARICATURE EFFRAYANTE? Le XIXe, siecle par excellence de l'avenement du bourgeois, s'est egalement avere celui du moteur de la caricature. La caricature, procede qui signifle...
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in Under the Cobblestones, Prehistory!: Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, and the Afterlife of May ’68
> Romanic Review
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Film still from Les Mains négatives (dir. Marguerite Duras) of the first traveling shot as the car departs from the Place de la République.
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 423–436.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as a societal institution, outlining how it fails utterly to reduce the daily experience of petty injustices and wrongdoing. Placing that failure squarely at the feet of the clergy, Gournay includes advice for the confessors, making of the text a secular “manuel des confesseurs”—an extraordinary undertaking...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 409–422.
Published: 01 December 2021
... engagée croise les enjeux esthétiques, politiques et religieux, dans un contexte de guerre des religions et de changement de pouvoir. Mlle de Beaulieu en use pour servir trois femmes et trois causes : elle-même et la place des femmes dans le champ des lettres ; Andreini et l’art théâtral italien ; Marie...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 372–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Myriam Dufour-Maître Abstract L’article propose une réflexion sur la construction des querelles galantes, en leur temps puis dans l’histoire littéraire, du point de vue de la place qu’y occupent les femmes et les autrices. Dans la plupart des cas, leur accès à l’autorité ne passe pas par la...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Cary Howie Abstract This introductory essay gestures toward some of the ironies of solitude—and the places where those ironies become paradoxes, even promises—beginning with the grounding questions of this collection: What does it mean to speak of solitude together? How does one solitude speak...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... than when alone. Because the wise man reads books and perhaps corresponds with other writers of his day, he feels himself to be in the company of those whose works he is studying. In the Renaissance, however, the humanist feels alienated from the time period in which he is living, and he reads to place...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 305–320.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Cary Hollinshead-Strick Abstract If the idea of cuisine invites readers to an elite place of appreciation, as Priscilla Ferguson has shown, comparing newspapers to leftovers and subsistence food is a move designed to generate suspicion. Nineteenth-century authors wary of press innovations compared...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., as reverberations of these disparities, late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century appraisals of Sigüenza’s text that have projected the unblemished geometrical lines of the Escorial onto the friar’s writing. Its overall aim is to shed light on the lingering tensions around language, architecture, and place...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 380–400.
Published: 01 September 2023
... or trash, repurposed tools or ruins, personal souvenirs or museum pieces. However, the rural, at times impoverished, at times gentrified, may lack names for its materials. Pichel’s self-translation Cativa en su lughar ( Cativa in Her Place , 2013) gets this point across by using familiar Castrapo rather...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 227–248.
Published: 01 September 2020
... répercussions plus larges du changement de perspective que nous proposons. En vue d’études ultérieures, nous examinons la façon dont le concept du sublime royal change notre conception de la place des Anciens dans la politique absolutiste, avant de montrer comment le concept de sublime royal contient en germe...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 260–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
... pornographie to designate these sexually explicit publications. Reviving an esoteric word, the press redeployed it with a new meaning and a (concocted) origin narrative that highlighted both the word’s “newness” and Zola’s place in the “new” genre it designated. This reinvention and deployment of the word were...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... into question on account of the inclusion in the literary text of what readers and editors considered to be commentary. Even though in the second half of the nineteenth century the editors began recognizing the divisions’ rightful place within the libello ’s text, they continued—operating within the centuries...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Heike Scharm Abstract This essay places the narrative of the Spanish writer José A. Cano (b. 1954 in Madrid) within the context of contemporary Spanish ecofiction. Concerned with the state of global humanity, Cano reflects a growing postnational perspective among Spanish writers whose works...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., but through necessity. For Haiti itself remains to many of its citizens a place of exile, and one of its most fundamental problems lies in its people's inability to truly inhabit the place. Even if there is no lack of popular expressions of attachment to Haiti-"Ayiti cheri" (beloved Haiti), "manman cheri m...
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