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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 117–121.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Suzanne Jill Levine Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Suzanne Jill Levine BORGES: 'THE READER' IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY I gladly accepted Dominique Jullien's invitation last year to edit an homage to Borges on the twentieth anniversary of his death, June 14 1986. I...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 107–109.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Kristin Ross Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Kristin Ross PHIL WATTS, READER OF RANCIERE The title given to my remarks in the program, which I've kept here, is a bit misleading, for I am not going to try to situate Phil Watts among the interpreters of jacques...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 369–386.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Jerry C. Nash Jerry C. Nash FICTIONAL EVIL AND THE READER'S SEDUCTION: RABELAIS'S CREATIONS OF "L'ESPRIT MALING" A mong other readers of Fran~ois Rabelais, Robert Griffin and M. A. Screech have written convincingly on the subject of evil and the Devil, and especially on the moral and religious...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 260–281.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (such as Pinocchio and Cuore ) as a way to sweeten these often bitterly disquieting narratives for their young readers. This essay probes the potentials and limits of intertextuality and ultimately argues that several texts go beyond leveraging the image of capsized ships in the Mediterranean, an image that has...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 426–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Kathryn E. Levine Abstract The apparent ambiguity at the heart of Marie de France’s lai “Chèvrefeuille” has beguiled generations of readers. This short twelfth-century Old French verse text purports to tell a simple story of how the exiled Tristan manages to signal to Yseut as she passes through...
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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 (2021) 112 (3): 452–469.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as a gendered strategy of modesty, this article shows instead that her equivocal and even parodic, burlesque way of intervening in the two quarrels is consistent with her skepticism and presents readers with a hermeneutical challenge that disrupts the rhetorical logic of a quarrel. Deshoulières’s interventions...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 December 2021
... art of ambiguity: through her involvement with the first readers of La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes and her relations with the nuns of Port-Royal, Sablé aims to preserve her own viewpoint and her friendships at the same time. These ambiguities lead to the hypothesis that she faced gendered limits...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 May 2022
... reorient readers’ understanding of the disability narrative. Suffering itself serves as an embodiment of consolation and as a medical and religious treatment that relieves her suffering. This article argues that to objectively examine her illness and disability, Teresa deploys intersectional knowledge...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that their contemporary readers would doubtless have recognized. In considering some of these various invocations in terms of a larger dialogue between this pair of influential authors, surprising intersections emerge that complicate our current conceptions of the relationship between Balzac’s and Sand’s works...
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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 (2021) 112 (2): 336–358.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I show that food and cooking provided object lessons imparting practical and scientific knowledge to enlighten the masses, and textbooks canonized regional specialties as part of a new national geographic consciousness. At the same time...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... narratives, this article argues that such texts draw their readers into the logic of the “animal clinic”: a conceptual space in which stakes of species difference and predation circulate alongside genuine medical knowledge, with the resulting instability calling into question everything from the nature...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to its laws while adopting varying solutions for communicating ontological contentions to readers. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Bruno Latour medieval encyclopedias manuscript illuminations natural history cosmology These sections...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 103–126.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Rousseau by avid readers of La Nouvelle Héloïse following its 1761 publication, Pierre Gallot s letter, dated August 5, 1764, stands out as exemplary of the traits normally assigned to this corpus. So much so, in fact, that Claude Labrosse included an excerpt from it as an epigraph to his 1985...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 195–199.
Published: 01 January 2015
... commemorating an individual act of reading or in conventions of illumination, formatting and glossing seen across large manuscript corpora, medieval manuscript books frequently bear signs of readers' engagement with the texts they contain, beginning with the scribes and artists responsible for giving form...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 May 2000
... opens his argument with an observation that the readers of Flaubert and of his Correspondance know quite well: in Flaubert's works the importance of the implicit is such that the dessus (surface) and the dessous (depth) of the text "complement each other," challenging "traditional mimesis" (1). However...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 81–90.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of the archilecteur in a context never studied by Riffaterre, that of literary obscenity trials, with a view toward construing the function of the government as reader in such trials as similar to that of the archilecteur. I conclude by proposing a historically inflected reading of the archilecteur. One...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 7–13.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... But at the same time I cannot but recognize how much this concept, especially when thinking of the works of Michael Riffaterre, is attuned to the American way of understanding literature by having a direct impact on the everyday reader in a given socio-political context. I feel now that part of my work resonates...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... This imbalance may well be inevitable; one certainly can make the case that the Aeneid is the most important of the Virgil poems read by French Renaissance readers, or that Renaissance readers thought it so. This said, the reader might feel some disproportion. Not everything here covers new ground: the ideas...
