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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
... recognizes the city from an image he has in his book, explaining that looking at it confounds one’s vision. In the Morisco version the copper of earlier accounts of the tale from the Arabic tradition has become the Spanish latón or brass. In this version, the other copper elements of the tale...
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Questioning the Territory of Modernism: Ultraísmo and the Aesthetic of the First Spanish Avant-garde
Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Renée M. Silverman Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Renee M. Silverlnal1 QUESTIONING THE TERRITORY OF MODERNISM: ULTRAiSMO AND THE AESTHETIC OF THE FIRST SPANISH AVANT-GARDE T he prohlell1 of situating the subject in tin1e and space is perhaps a con1monplace in what...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 447–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Heike Scharm Abstract This essay places the narrative of the Spanish writer José A. Cano (b. 1954 in Madrid) within the context of contemporary Spanish ecofiction. Concerned with the state of global humanity, Cano reflects a growing postnational perspective among Spanish writers whose works...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2023
...María Rosón; Ana Pol Abstract This article examines the relationships that developed in exile between women writers and artists and things following the Spanish Civil War. Our analysis is based on self-writing and visual art. Using a New Materialist theoretical framework, the article shows how...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 301–316.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Leigh Mercer Abstract This essay examines the display of technological objects, consumer goods, and other materials within the earliest Spanish realist cinema, as well as the manipulation of things in pioneering fantasy films, to reveal how Spanish filmmakers projected the modernity of Spain...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 380–400.
Published: 01 September 2023
... than Spanish: a pidgin romance variation that belongs to no normative language that it is closely related to (Spanish, Galician, or Portuguese) but traverses them all. Phonetic aspects, like accent and phonemes (the “gheada”), resist incorporation to any standardized, state-sponsored language...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 420–435.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and practices of neoliberalism in Europe from the perspective of the street vendors, who embody and perform the bordering mechanisms that propel such economies. As such, Spain and Catalonia’s alignment with the European Union comes into view, as does the granularity of Spanish democracy and its tensions...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 280–300.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the nineteenth century. By examining commercial ephemera produced and distributed in Barcelona, alongside theories of male homosociality and empire, this essay demonstrates how Spanish men—specifically Catalans—commercialized fantasies of bourgeois masculinity, thus contributing to the consolidation of cultures...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in opening up Paz’s Spanish-language poetry to new translators in the United States. While this article examines an understudied but crucial facet of Rukeyser’s career as a writer and translator, it also sheds light on the complicated set of expectations and realities involved when one poet translates...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2024
... that imbricates language and politics), it is contested between elites and subalterns articulating class warfare. Here, prophecy from above is analyzed through the concept of the “new normal,” which allowed Spanish politicians to predefine immediate future and safeguard the integrity of the capitalist system...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 321–322.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Currently he also serves as general editor of Diacritics. Jorge Luis Castillo (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995) is Associate Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include a critical book...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 163–187.
Published: 01 January 2000
... el perro." The Fables of Felix Maria Samaniego The importance of Felix Marfa Samaniego (1745-1801) to the Spanish Enlightenment can scarcely be exaggerated. His two volumes of fables, numbering one hundred fifty-seven in all, stand at the center of Spanish Neoclassicism, and remain favorites...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 81–110.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., that is, renegades who rejected Christianity and Spanish rule, "standing away" from the imposition of colonial power.2 As Jose Rabasa convincingly argues, apostasy is a unique category of being "without history," for apostates reject their forced incorporation into universal history that Christian baptism...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 327–359.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Hilaire Kallendorf Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Hilaire Kallendorf "~QUE HE DE HACER THE COMEDIA AS CASUISTRY T he Spanish Golden Age comedia as a genre has proven notoriously difficult to explain fully. Since Lope de Vega first published in the early seventeenth...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 65–80.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., Spanish religious and secular bureaucrats-modernity's vanguard-fashioned institutions to rule over colonized peoples and over the subjects of a slowly emerging nation. "Race-thinking" was at the core of these imperial and national designs, and "the heretical," as it turns out, was intrinsic to race...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 211–217.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to include cultural phenomena in the various romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician. In making this selection, I have wanted to insist on the necessity, when using the term “Iberian,” of including Portugal, study of which is beginning to take hold in departments...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 May 2023
... autobiographical texts from the Peninsular War (1808–14), in which Spanish guerrillas successfully repelled French invaders with the aid of British forces, dealing a decisive blow to Napoleon’s imperial ambitions. Her sources include French and British memoirs as well as lesser-known Spanish ones and a smattering...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 105–110.
Published: 01 January 2010
... the fact that in large Romance language departments, the Italianists are almost always outnumbered by those who teach Spanish and French (if not Portuguese)? And should Italian fit by virtue of its distinctiveness-or by what Paul Ricoeur, in an essay to which I will return, calls its "comparabilities?" 1...
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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
... subjects, collectively associated with the plebe or vulgo. To illustrate the attitude of the colonial elite toward the urban lower class, Rama cites a passage from the Mexican Creole scholar Sigiienza y Gongora's 1692 letter to his friend the Admiral Pez, at the time a resident in the Spanish court...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2007
... published, this beginning passage of Carmen announces the subject of two worlds: ancient and modern but also Spain and France. The name of Julius Caesar's Munda differs by only one letter from the Spanish word for world, mundo; and the name of the Spanish town Monda is notably similar to the French word...
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