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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 709–725.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Elena Russo Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Elena Russo THE NAKED PHILOSOPHE AND THE SHAMELESS PRUSSIAN: DIDEROT'S PORTRAIT SITTING I n one of the most intriguing passages of his Salon of 1767, Denis Diderot recounts at length his dealings with the Prussian-Polish...
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Published: 01 May 2021
figure 1. Colophon on c. 83v (82v): Deus canoris laudetur om(n)ibus horis. / Explicit hic liber. scriptor sit crimine liber. / Manus scriptoris francisci predicatoris. / Explicit expliciat qui debet soluere soluat. Beinecke Library MS 428. More
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 250–252.
Published: 01 January 2010
... may speak to the difference between my typically American low threshold for spirited argument and the glee with which the French seem to plunge into rancorous debate.) Sitting in the audience at the public lectures of his colleagues, he would pretend to fall asleep-at least, this is what he later...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 13–15.
Published: 01 January 2017
...; exchange of commodities, no. Friendship d­ oesn t work that way, and neither did Ross. Many of ­those friends who have contributed to this collection of tributes ­were once Ross s students. I never was, unfortunately, at least not in the strict sense of the term, but I did get the chance to sit...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 13–16.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... Vigée Le Brun is beginning to establish a friendly relationship with Queen ­Marie-­Antoinette and is about to become her favorite portrait artist. One day, however, she misses a sitting appointment because of a ­pregnancy-­related illness: On one occasion Vigée Le Brun unexpectedly missed an appointment...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 445–459.
Published: 01 May 2006
... possession of the gaze (or I should say the glare) unlike the male subject whose regard is nullified by the absence of angelic observers. More explicit in their indictment of the male gendered reader is the pair of poems that begin 'Do come see my poetry' (p. 134): Do come see my poetry sit for a portrait...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 409–424.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and the never-known, which are parts of the past that the rational, "scientific" historical narrative does not incorporate. 13 Science, Papa Longoue says, does not "give the thing," because, as he observes, Mathieu sits shaking feverishly before him, "without even having a cutlass in sight" (147). Nor, Papa...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 5–9.
Published: 01 January 2017
... than i m strewn about. i learned from dreams i have imagination. last night, a crazy, like garage-h­ ouse party, celeb­ rations of an automatic sort. i was sitting in an unmade bed, right in the midst of the commotion. t­here was a strugg­ le with my m­ other over a story. petty but at the same time...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 May 2021
...figure 1. Colophon on c. 83v (82v): Deus canoris laudetur om(n)ibus horis. / Explicit hic liber. scriptor sit crimine liber. / Manus scriptoris francisci predicatoris. / Explicit expliciat qui debet soluere soluat. Beinecke Library MS 428. ...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 262–263.
Published: 01 January 2010
... that, he would always The Romanic Review Volume 101 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University ADIEU, MICHAEL RIFFATERRE hand me the critical notes himself. When it came time for the defense of my study, we went over to the room where it was to take place. He showed me where I would sit and where he...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 264–265.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Riffaterre and Edward Said. I took all their courses, even beyond what was required. It was intellectually an exciting moment not just for me but for my peers-the other graduate students. We used to sit for hours after each lecture of theirs, trying to decipher the subtle meaning behind their every word...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 101–102.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and engagements with the world around him, the same intellectual precision, sparky curiosity, fondness for digression, and above all gentleness, I had found in his writing. I remem­ ber a few moments in par­ticu­ l­ar, when I was able to attend lectures he gave, or to share a moment in his comp­ any, sitting...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 57–58.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... It is hardly an adequate response. And yet it is what we are reduced to when we sit and passively watch the eve­ning news. We must do our work, and we must try to make it m­ atter, try to make a difference, through our teaching, through our writing, through our actions. We, many of us, most of us participating...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Lee (1904 76), Y­ iddish-­language poet. Gita May: A Life 7 I read without fear, freely, with no need to look over my shoulder. Across from me stands the poet: Malka Lee. She looks at me with her penetrating but tender, dreamy eyes. The writer Leyb Faynberg8 sits and listens, and so does the scholar...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 273–275.
Published: 01 January 2010
...-year old, "the bunny on this page is looking at a painting of the Three Little Bears sitting on chairs. That's called ekphrasis It is a thrilling literary tool. Evacuating Philosophy Hall during a bomb scare is absolutely silly. Young women who stand in perfect third-position while being intro...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
... terrace of the castle, the cobblestoned streets below. Only my puritanical determination to not “waste” time made me sit down in the library every evening after work to read this novel about wasted time. What else was there to do when you were stuck somewhere but knock off a book you were supposed to read...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of which are of particular interest for us. Taddeo asks whether the forma specifica derives from the complexio of the body or it is something infused by celestial virtues or god (“an ipsa forma specifica sit res facta ex elementis aut sit res infusa a corpori celesti vel a deo,” comm. Isagoge , fol...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 96–102.
Published: 01 May 2023
... into the diner booth, tenderly, tenderly; or the Main Street giant who says God and fuck in the same uneven breath as he lumbers down the cracked sidewalk. And today this tiny member of the cherubim: seven, maybe eight years old, he runs past the picnic table where I’m sitting. His chunky...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (1-2): 77–86.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... M. Forster, Woolf wrote of Proust in terms that seem haunting in light of her later suicide: "Everyone is reading Proust. I sit silent and hear their reports. It seems to be a tremendous experience, but I'm shivering on the brink, and waiting to be submerged with a horrid sort of notion that I shall...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 436–439.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and rhetorical sophistication of the analyses, each chapter benefits from an unusually broad knowledge of the literary field in which each close reading sits. Bernard is also supremely well situated to navigate between French and Anglophone criticism, having maintained close contact with academic life in France...