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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 291–307.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Pim Higginson Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Pim Higginson OF DOGS AND MEN: LA BELLE CREOLE AND THE GLOBAL SUBJECT "Rien ne protege des morsures de cette enragee qu'est la chienne de vie" 1 I t has often been noted that much of Maryse Conde's novelistic energy...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 23–43.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Carl Grey Martin Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Carl Grey Martin BISCLAVRET AND THE SUBJECT OF TORTURE I dream that I am the wolf [that] Bramond is looking for. I can see him shooting at me to kill me, and I can't speak to him and tell him that I am not a wolf Oh...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jerry Root Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Jerry Root MARVELOUS CRYSTALS, PERILOUS MIRRORS: LE ROMAN DE LA ROSE AND THE DISCONTINUITY OF THE ROMANCE SUBJECT Critics have, for some time now, highlighted the discontinuity of Guillaume de Lorris' version of the Roman de...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 433–457.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Joanna Augustyn Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Joanna Augustyn SUBJECTIVITY IN THE FICTIONAL RUIN: THE CAPRICE GENRE "What a clever chap that architect is, though; how he takes his client's measure!" Edith Whartonl A fter Roland Mortier's La Poetique des ruines en...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 423–443.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Andrea Malaguti Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Andrea Malaguti "LE MIROIR DE L'ETRANGER": SUBJECTIVITY IN ANDRE FRENAUD'S "LE SILENCE DE GENOVA" O f all French poets of the twentieth century, the one who demonstrated the most intense interest in modern Italy-i.e...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 129–135.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Edward Mendelson Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Edward Mendelson LITERARY HISTORY: OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE: THE POETICS OF AUDEN'S ANTHOLOGIES When you read any version of literary history written by any modern English poet-whether an explicit history of the kind...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 674–687.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Thomas Wynn Thomas Wynn THE PROBLEM OF NAMES AND SUBJECTIVITY IN CORNEILLE'S RODOGUNE I mprisoned in the Bastille, Voltaire's Ingenu is introduced by his cellmate to French theater. After Racine's Iphigenie, Phedre, Andromaque, and Athalie have sent the young Huron into tearful rapture...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... framework? What is at stake when the narrative temporality of a medieval chronicle is filtered through the disrupted temporalities of a chronically impaired subject? This article interrogates these questions through the works of Gilles li Muisis (1272–1353). A Tournaisian abbot, Gilles authored both a Latin...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 62–72.
Published: 01 May 2021
... be attributed to the presence of numerous themes dear to the poet, which sometimes emerge only in nuce and sometimes already in a mature form in the treatise. Nonetheless, Dante took many of these subjects and linguistic experimentations and elaborated on them in his later works. In particular, book 4 functions...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 177–198.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Giulia Boitani Abstract The initial section of the thirteenth-century Tristan en prose has been the subject of multiple critical investigations, mostly devoted to identifying its teleological purpose or figurative function in relation to the rest of the romance. This article proposes to reframe...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
... available about such aspects is imposing, and its location subject to the extreme dispersion of traditional scholarly publications: commentaries first but also academic journals, miscellanies, and so forth. Rather than being based on traditional word searches, a true advancement of knowledge needs...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... interpretation. Instead, the material and mechanical realities of reproducing medieval texts, among them Dante’s Commedia , were often subject more to production efficiency, cost effectiveness, taste, and scribal and cultural norms. Examining the instructions to the illuminator of an unfinished copy...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., substance, and matter. This essay argues that the Livre deploys precisely such an ontology in dynamic and flexible ways. The varying visual programs in Livre manuscripts each configure the encyclopedia’s ontology differently, either making humans privileged observers of nature or positioning them as subject...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., for these women in exile, things had agency, producing entanglements, ruptures ( desgarros ), or moorings necessary for a new orientation. Disorientation, arising from the new social and geographical context of exile, also affects the uses and function of things. This produces a subjectivity saturated by material...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 380–400.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Carlos Varón González Abstract After her father’s death, the poetic subject in Luz Pichel’s Galician-language Casa pechada ( Closed Home , 2006) returns from the city to clear the things in her house in a small Galician village. However, these things do not conform to any sense of social, emotional...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 401–419.
Published: 01 September 2023
... actors and agents. L’esperit del temps situates Nazi thanatopolitics at the intersection of biology and law, emphasizing how a politics of death relies on what kinds of matter, such as the phenotype of skin, are fetishized, pathologized, and subjected to human-centered techniques of power. Domínguez...
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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 (2000) 91 (3): 289–311.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of vision also warrants closer attention within the context of optical science, for no simple definition of visual perception-as immediate, subjective, or nonnarrative-can adequately define its role in Simon's novels. On the penultimate page of Orion aveugle the reader encounters the fullcolor anatomical...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 243–251.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., there is only one subject who elaborates, defines, and activates the past, present, and future, who determines what must be said and preserved and what must be destroyed. This is the dominant/dominating subject. The dominated-the colonized or their heirs-remain in the shadows, in a "second college" of thought...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 7–13.
Published: 01 January 2002
... started applying the utterance participation to several texts within a specific dynamics of the subject. Intertextuality, once a formal phenomenon, led me to investigate its intrapsychic and psychoanalytic implications. The textual plurality "Nous DEUX" OR A (HI)STORY OF INTERTEXTUALITY 9 was reframed...
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