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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 293–317.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Anne E. Linton Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Anne E. Linton LUSTING AFTER THE LOUVRE HERMAPHRODITE: MEDICAL DISCOURSE AND ANDROGYNY IN GAUTIER'S MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN AND ITS POPULAR PREDECESSORS N ineteenth-century France was so enamored of androgyny...
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Thinking with the Inquisition: Heretical Science and Popular Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 111–132.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Anna More Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Anna More THINKING WITH THE INQUISITION: HERETICAL SCIENCE AND POPULAR KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Digo, que entre los libros de mi uso matemdtico, fil6logos, humanistas y otros diferentes, hay algunos que...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lee Douglas Abstract On April 25, 1974, everyday Portuguese citizens transformed a military coup into collective popular resistance, thus initiating a revolutionary process that marked an end to the Estado Novo. Image-makers, aware of the historical event unraveling in plain view, occupied public...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Janet Beizer Abstract This article explores the concept of the arlequin , the plate of used food collected piecemeal from the tables of the rich to sell to the poor, as it was popularized by Eugène Sue in 1842 in his blockbuster novel Les Mystères de Paris . I show how this alimentary genre...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 May 2022
... medical philosophy. Guinizzelli’s correspondence between love and nobility is nurtured by Avicenna’s increasingly popular doctrine of forma specifica , which structures the reasoning and the examples of the vernacular poem. Guinizzelli therefore frames the idea of nobility in the heart of the lover...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2023
... American popular music. Solitude, they show, is a richly mixed terrain, where we may get lost in our self-atomizing pride or, just as easily, open ourselves to the world’s (and the divine’s) endlessly unpredictable self-disclosure. To cultivate solitude is something like a game we play with the present...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and flavorful). Based on a play by Jacinto Benavente (1925), and repurposed in the era of the Popular Front, the film attempts to ease class conflict by celebrating the working life and asserting interclass harmony, thereby appealing to viewers on both the left and right. But despite its bourgeois perspective...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 260–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Raisa Rexer Abstract This essay explores the sudden popularity and redefinition of the word pornographie in France in the 1880s. Following the publication of Émile Zola’s novel Nana and the rise of a genre of cheap, bawdy newspapers in 1880, the French daily press knowingly “invented” the word...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 333–352.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., ContreAttaque broke with other existing movements on the left, deeming the Popular Front's uniting of socialists, communists, and radicals as too "defensive" and thoroughly rejecting the Communist International's insistence that intellectuals abide by a set aesthetic program preapproved by the Soviet Union...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 239–256.
Published: 01 May 2008
... to the macabre detail, for the earliest gothic novelists, such as Walpole. In short, Melvin Palmer argues that Madame d'Aulnoy may have done more than any other writer in France (or in England for that matter) to influence the forms and popularity of the modern English novel. His claim seems extraordinary...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 227–238.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., Wieland was extremely influential in popularizing fairy tales as a genre. Before him, fairy tales-which then meant French contes de fees-were considered a completely useless waste of time, utterly unworthy of an educated person. On the whole, unbridled fantasy was regarded with suspicion, and reading...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 297–315.
Published: 01 May 2008
...-belonged to the vibrant imagination of popular gossip. Episodes were taken from classical mythologies and popular superstitions. Themes included violence, beauty, wealth, poverty, a journey, metamorphosis and change of social status. Although readers and hearers could not link episodes to their own lives...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 September 2022
... camps. (The infamous case of Blanche Monnier, la séquestrée de Poitiers , whose story reverberates throughout the minds of Gide, Roland Barthes, and Nathalie Sarraute, is another good reminder that popular forms like the fait divers are not as distinct from high art or theory as we might imagine...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 167–187.
Published: 01 January 2015
... ensemble litteraire debutant dans les annees 1980 par la sortie de l'ere du soup~on)" (8). The Romanic Review Volume 106 Numbers 1-4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 168 LUCAS HOLLISTER to fiction, return to imagination, return to the popular novelistic or "roman , romanesque."3 In addition...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 409–412.
Published: 01 May 2009
... participate in what Nelson Goodman calls "worldmaking" (66). This argument allows Lucey to frame Gide, Colette, and Proust as purveyors of first-person utterances about same-sex sexuality who are engaged in conversation with each other within "a certain kind of popular queer culture" in the early decades...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 571–574.
Published: 01 November 2009
... utterances about same-sex sexuality who are engaged in conversation with each other within "a certain kind of popular queer culture" in the early decades of the twentieth century. That conversation shifts over time in a complex relation to the social formations of which the conversation is a part. Lucey's...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (1-2): 13–20.
Published: 01 January 2001
... at the 1981 elections, in which the PCF received a bare 150/0 of the popular vote, and began its contemporary decline.3 But it remains an open question whether the PCF decline resulted from failed policies, or rather whether Communism in France was a generational phenomenon, slated to decline anyway.4...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and sociolinguistic situations shape female-voiced conditions of lyric dispossession. Through the multicultural and multilingual muwashshah and the popular tradition of the Galician-Portuguese cantiga d’amigo , metrical structures are possible that change the terms of dispossession, either as a defiant or self...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 137–146.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and Proust to illustrate West-European fiction" (262-3). The course in question was the celebrated "Masters of European Fiction" class that eventually made his name at Cornell, became that university's second most popular course, after Pete Seeger's folk-song class, and provided the material...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 115–122.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Dori Laub, which, perhaps more than any other book, helped popularize trauma theory in literary studies. An attempt to account for the unique problems involved in representing the Holocaust, Testimony juxtaposes chapters by Laub on The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia...
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