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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... First, everyone seems to agree that our field is in crisis. The language of apocalypse one finds in current assessments of the state of the humanities—in publications like the Chronicle of Higher Education , for example—is deployed here in the same abundance. Second, many authors in this volume have...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Carlo Meghini; Mirko Tavoni; Michelangelo Zaccarello Abstract With digital repositories and databases available since the 1990s, Dante scholarship has always been at the forefront of the digital humanities and the digitization of medieval texts and manuscripts. However, the amount of information...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 538–545.
Published: 01 December 2023
...) department of language, media , and cultures (job descriptions attest to this trend). The students we train are increasingly at ease in the public humanities and are digitally and culturally literate. Our French classes are often cross-listed with other departments and programs. We have...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2023
... for positions of leadership and a life of service to the nation and all of humanity. 3 The public institutions also tout the capacity of a liberal arts education to help students become critical thinkers, but there is a distinctly pragmatic angle to their descriptions: By pursuing a degree...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 183–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
... designation of the novel as a part of the polemic came in 1832, three years after its first publication, and he links the novel more closely to its author's "precocious obsession with the torn body, with physical torments, and with human degradation" (38).1 Hamilton sees a similar preoccupation...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., and by extension, in the late Middle Ages: “In the fifteenth century the representative human being has no unifying essence. . . . Disunited, discontinuous, the hero of the moralities is not the origin of action; he has no single subjectivity which could constitute such an origin; he is not a subject” (36...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 167–180.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., a space of contention, playing on the clash between the institution and the "outside." For a short decade, the critique of the human sciences spilled out of the lecture hall and became a public spectacle. Journalists scoured the catalogues of the MLA convention hunting for samples of bizarreness to quote...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 553–559.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of knowledge that struggles to justify itself in instrumental terms. I take this worry to be part of our condition as scholars in the humanities at this point in the twenty-first century. Should we be doing this work at all, with its limited economic rewards and lack of direct impact on the world at large...
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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
... adhered to mathematical truth even while he acknowledged natural influences beyond the scope of human observation and calculation. 14 Astrology and the Colonial Public Sphere Although the intellectual currents of Habsburg learning provided the particular amalgam of mathematical calculation and Neoplatonic...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 583–589.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that we essentialize and fetishize it—we help humanize our field by demystifying the extent and nature of labor that goes into a completed scholarly work. Much of our profession is defined by deferred gratification: publication comes with time and effort, and the institutional changes we can effect...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-off versions of the self but other human beings and, indeed, the best human beings who have ever lived, even if they are encountered in mind rather than in body. The challenge of being alone, these pagan and Christian thinkers agree, lies in reconfiguring one’s mental capacities so that one has...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Claude Barbin, undoubtedly for that same public of restless social aspirants who, in their reading, sought behavioral and linguistic codes to emulate and for whom a non-actionable, abstract articulation of humanity's “inconstance” would likely have been of lesser interest. I actually think...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 427–432.
Published: 01 November 2004
... that scholars and students who usually work in the original text might ignore this important publication. It is a well-known fact that with all translations, something is gained, something is lost. While non-French readers will easily understand what their gain is, my hope is to bring forth examples in which...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 420–435.
Published: 01 September 2023
... sack-cum-sheet is a manta and Diop himself is a mantero , one who occupies an undocumented and hence illicit, though visibly public, position in the transnational circuit of capital and goods. The plastic strings are fitted tightly onto each of the four corners of the sheet and come together...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Roots ) (2011)—and one is a seventeenth-century map. Burrus suggests that solitude allows us to know place (and ourselves as part of it) more deeply and intimately, offers a vantage point for seeing further and more clearly, undoes our sense of distinctiveness as humans, and transforms the intervals...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., Eichmann in Jerusalem. We had in fact planned a conference to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Arendt's profoundly influential and controversial work, to be held at the Glasscock Humanities Center at Texas A&M this year. That conference took place this past January. I am so sorry...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 617–624.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Julien Suaudeau [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 curriculum reform DEI digital humanities pedagogy transdisciplinarity “Updates are available.” You know how you tend to procrastinate when you see...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 452–469.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in the 1670s with the publication of several poems in the Mercure Galant ; and over the next two decades she took part in a number of literary quarrels, with her engagement in the quarrel over the two versions of Phèdre granting her notoriety. These two plays fell on either side of the division between...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 341–350.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., the publication of Sartre's lecture L'Existentialisme est un humanisme (1946) was accompanied by a detailed response from Naville, in which the latter picks up Sartre's use of the phrase "la condition humaine" in order to lecture him on human conditioning: Les individus ne naissent pas et n'apparaissent pas dans...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to the traditionally analytic and supposedly detached method of knowledge production in the humanities, although this paradigm has been challenged in recent years. I will briefly mention two illustrative examples from my area of specialty, medieval French and Occitan song. The publication of Sarah Kay’s Medieval Song...
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