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Rigor and Imprecision in Literary Studies: Past Debates
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 December 2020
... interpretations. Barthes ( Critique ) retorted that literary criticism does not need to subject itself to the historicist truth. The similarity with Proust’s argument in Contre Sainte-Beuve was striking. Yet soon Barthes, seeking for rigor, would turn to structural linguistics. By then, literary formalism aimed...
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Marie de Gournay’s “Advis à quelques gens d’Église” and the Early Modern Rigorist Debate
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 423–436.
Published: 01 December 2021
... for a laywoman at the time. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2021 Marie de Gournay religious controversy confession laxism rigorism Ah mon, Dieu! Pardonnez-moy-Sire, d’oser armer ma quenouille pour me mesler à ces...
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Form and/as Mode of Existence
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
...] with a famous digression reflecting on historiographical practice in William of Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum . AIME offers analytical rigor to medievalists’ discussions of the notorious overlap between “history” and “fiction.” William’s bold use of [FIC] to advance [REF] is in the spirit of AIME’s project...
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From Doctoral Student to University Professor: The Trajectory of a Brilliant Career
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 248–249.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in organizing an enviable troika of visiting professors, which included Umberto Eco,julia Kristeva, and Tzvetan Todorov, and his world-wide reputation made it possible for the department to attract big names as well as highly promising younger scholars. Michael Riffaterre subscribed to close, rigorous readings...
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Rime: Edizione critica con commento a cura di Fabio Sangiovanni
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 327–329.
Published: 01 January 2017
... has mostly been criticized for its arbitrariness and lack of rigor (judgment passed by, among others, Gianfranco Contini). A detailed introduction, divided into several sections, inaugurates this edition. It opens with a reconstruction of Tomaso s biography or, to be more precise, of what...
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Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 539–541.
Published: 01 November 2007
... (and even for the twentieth-century texts that interest her here) Berman avoids using an exclusively postcolonial, racial or gender studies lens, adopting instead a rigorous historical and textual approach that allows her to do full justice to her literary object, while sketching out the contours of its...
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Zola à l’Œuvre. Hommage à Auguste Dezalay
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 January 2005
... also see how Zola's method itself evolved in the process, from the rigorous naturalist documentation of the Rougon-Macquart to the city monographs of Les Trois Villes to the utopian forecasts of Les Quatre Evangiles. There is no doubt that Zola's work lends itself especially well to this branch...
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Two Solitudes: Houellebecq and Haenel
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 404–424.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the novel, “Ma réalité était devenue intenable. Aucun être humain ne pouvait survivre dans une solitude aussi rigoureuse” (158). The full rigor of Florent-Claude’s current state of solitude is measured against a former “bonheur” he once knew, when he was in love, long ago. “Un seul être vous manque et...
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The Decameron
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... is refreshing; the unadorned language, regular use of contractions, and rigorous avoidance of archaisms preserve the text from the studied quality that makes Payne's translation so cloying. It is also remarkably free of the ungainly contemporizations or donnish elaborations of Boccaccio's understated humor...
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Invisible Work: Borges and Translation Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 297–302.
Published: 01 May 2007
... be difficult to argue with Kristal's advocating serious and rigorous readings of Borges. But in my view the assertion of translation's "central role" invites the following question: What would prevent us from examining translation together with Borgesian skepticism, irony and humor, not as a concession...
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Metternich’s Censors at Work: Philosophy and Practices of Censorship in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 103–126.
Published: 01 January 2018
... the important role that the traumatic memories of 1809 and the period of crisis that followed would come to play in the consciousness of the entire Biedermeier period. Under Napoleonic occupation, the Austrian press was rigorously censored and the drafting of a new internal censorship memo was ostensibly...
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Avant-Propos
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 1–2.
Published: 01 January 2016
... her personal and her professional life, Gita provided a unique variety of mentorship to her graduate students, one that combined fierce intellectual rigor with compassion and understanding. The first part of this two-p art issue, consisting of a biographical sketch and personal remembrances, reveals...
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Remembering Ross Chambers
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 57–58.
Published: 01 January 2017
... concretize our legacy, in honor of Ross, in the influence we will have on our own students, the next generation of thinkers and doers. Let us teach empathy, by example. And let us teach critical thinking rigorously. Ross was a superb mentor, a dear friend, a brilliant teacher, a gifted scholar, and a good...
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Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction. Readings in French Realism
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 December 2020
... historian I wish she had pursued this logic further, with a more rigorous contextualization of her object of study. If 1830s French realist-cum-psychological novels (with a dash of romanticism) are so effective at unpacking the opaque workings of hearts and minds, then what is to say that this holds true...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 3–5.
Published: 01 January 2014
... with intellectual rigor and professional dedication and, above all, with a deep sense of humanity. A specialist of twentieth-century French literature and film, Phil published on numerous subjects in this area. His first book, Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers...
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In the Footsteps of Gita May
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 21–23.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... Gita May knew and communicated to her students that perfectibility as a scholar was all about determination and rigor. Yet it is her generosity of spirit that I remember most about her. She did not seek to cultivate acolytes who would replicate her own approaches, but rather helped her students develop...
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Borges. A Life
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 302–304.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of the simulacrum could not in principle be used to counter the seemingly self-evident rationales of the market and mass media. It is only to say that the difference between them is by no means self-evident and would require a more careful and rigorous demonstration. (PATRICK DOVE, Indiana University) Edwin...
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Queer Couplings
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 31–33.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as comparatists, but Ross was nothing if not inclusive. He did not rely on social distinctions and was not prone to prejudgment. At the same time, he maintained exceptionally high standards. Anything could be made more difficult, more rigorous, more interesting. For him, the interrogation of the production...
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The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 170–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of the century. But his reading is, in many ways, far more ambitious than that of either of those critics, in its vast multidisciplinary reach. White situates French divorce fiction in a thorough social and legal history, which he examines in rigorous detail in his second chapter. These pages will serve...
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Remembering Phil
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 129–131.
Published: 01 January 2014
... a distinct method, the graceful and rigorous "historical poetics" that was his life's intellectual project-and we will turn to his books and essays to understand the connection of style, sentence level, and camera level, to history. In his notes for his new book, centered around Roland Barthes, Foucault...
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