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Four Solitudes
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 96–102.
Published: 01 May 2023
... said good morning, class , [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 angels Dante Alighieri purgatory unlearning desire 1. De angelis problematic , specific emptinesses of a profession. I want...
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Nabokov’s Canon
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 137–146.
Published: 01 January 2009
... trying to identify the characteristics of those he elevates to his hall of Nabokovian value-obviously, what they have in common is that they share certain characteristics with the curator himself-I propose to attempt to discern on what grounds he relegates the others to the purgatory of the mediocre...
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“Le Miroir de l’étranger”: Subjectivity in André Frénaud’s “Le Silence de Genova”
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 423–443.
Published: 01 May 2006
... employed.20 Though here identified with Genoa, the "unnamable mountain of sorrow and desire" clearly recalls Purgatory, the place and the canticle of restlessness, where the paradigm of the journey, though fundamental throughout the Commedia, is particularly intensified (Barolini 99-121). 20. Most...
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The Anonymous Marie de France
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 362–364.
Published: 01 May 2004
... materials but each in a different manner. Chapter 9 delicately inserts the Espuragatoire, as encoded cultural touchstone, into the political reality of the Anglo-Normans' invasion and subsequent administration of Ireland, with emphasis on the text's exploitation of the symbolic idea of purgatory. The book...
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dreamscapes (betrayals)
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 5–9.
Published: 01 January 2017
... nor hell, not purgatory. it is, but comes definitely from in-side. under the rest and not beyond. caves indeed, these worlds of words, little habitats. sleepy hollows within the natur al wood. it took me long to come to a commitment, because i kept on looking to escape. but i m willing now to s...
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Choices: Beckett’s Way
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., and he makes the connection to the condition of dying (in time) confronting Dante's penitents: "Pill non posso." This canto of the Purgatory presents a mixture of art and life, Dante scholar Rachel Jacoff wrote to me: "Earlier the bas reliefs (art) are presented as 'visibile parlare,' speaking images...
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Thinking Melancholy: Allegory and the ‘Vita Nuova’
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 January 2005
... nacque e vivette e morio la gentilissima donna" (40.1) [where the most gracious lady was born, lived and died], so sanctifying Beatrice.26 gatory, which Jacques Le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1980) dates to the 1170s. Dante's pilgrims going to Rome show how Rome...
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Paul Valéry’s Cahiers/Notebooks
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 427–432.
Published: 01 November 2004
... as such." Valery's poetic work became mostly ignored, and placed in some kind of purgatory in the years following his death in 1945. After being scornfully designated as the "ineffable poet of 'The Young Fate'" by Nizan, and France's official civil servant of poetry, un "haut fonctionnaire de la poesie," Valery...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the while learning a little Italian along the way—to tell me what he has learned from it this time and new passages he enjoys. One year he wrote to say he had only made it through Purgatory due to the demands of his child’s health problems. I invariably reply to share with him a couple of passages I have...
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Lyric Dispossession as Solitary Presence
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (in the muwashshah , which incorporates the Romance kharja ), or as a refrain and dialogue between girl and mother that enables an empowerment of dispossession in the cantiga d’amigo . Not only does Dante honor Arnaut by allowing him to speak Occitan in purgatory, but he transforms the lyric joy (“jau...
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Fra Ovidio e Brunetto, nel fiume del tempo
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 73–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... 37 , 2009 , pp. 317 – 25 . Dante’s Purgatory Christian Eden Ovid’s Fasti Brunetto Latini medieval idea of time Nell’episodio narrativamente assai articolato del passaggio di Dante attraverso il Paradiso Terrestre viene a delinearsi l’immagine di un vivere ispirato ai princìpi di...
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In the Dark (Antoine Volodine)
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 322–341.
Published: 01 September 2024
... à cendre, une planète d’ordure, un champ d’ordure” ( Des anges 45)—and as characters traverse the darkness of the postexotic purgatory (modeled after the Buddhist Bardo) their impulse is often to seek oblivion rather than rebirth. Early scholarship on Volodine’s work primarily debated how to interpret...
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The Exemplary Chaim Rumkowski in Primo Levi’s “La zona grigia”
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 425–444.
Published: 01 May 2010
... della Fede" (recalling Dante's Cato, constable of ante-Purgatory [Purgatorio I, 31-39]) (47). He had his courtiers sing praises to his "mano ferma e potente" (47). Sick and starving children in the ghetto schools were forced to compose eulogies to "[il] nostro amato e provvido Presidente " (47...
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Painting (and Writing) over Dante
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... but not to the visual program’s representation at the end of every canticle: the stars that Dante emerges from Hell and Purgatory to see and which are the objects of the divinity’s movement ( Paradiso 33 .145). But at the end of all three canticles, in the midst of a plethora of images, the program fails to depict...
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Disinterring and Reinterring the Dead: Tense in French Grammars, Du Vair, and Pasquier (c. 1550–1610)
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 209–231.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of what happens after death (notably Purgatory) as well as introducing greater discontinuity into the relationship between the living and the dead. Catholicism's routine commerce of various sorts between the living and the dead, such as prayers of intercession to help hasten the dead to heaven...
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Synguler: Margery Kempe’s Irregular Desires for a Queerer Present
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in Purgatorye, but, whan þow schalt passyn owt of þis world, wyth-in þe twynkelyng of an eye þow schalt haue þe blysse of Heuyn” (I, the same God, forgive you your sins to the utmost point. And you shall never come either to Hell or to Purgatory, but when you pass out of this world, within the twinkling...
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Juan Ruiz and the Heterodox Naturalism of Spain
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 11–47.
Published: 01 January 2012
... to the testimony of Lucas of Tuy. The most important ones, to summarize, were their discourse on hell and purgatory (they did not believe in the latter); their discourse on the principle of evil that created all visible things (which is why Lucas associated them with the Manicheans, and why they remained...
