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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 10–23.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Dario Del Puppo Abstract This article considers the importance of material philological features of the early manuscripts of Dante’s Vita nova for the work’s critical reception. Over the centuries, editors (most notably Giovanni Boccaccio) have recast textual meaning in the work mainly...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 237–258.
Published: 01 September 2023
... criticism, a way to read early modern texts in terms of their own material theory. victorsierramatute@gmail.com Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 early modern Iberian materiality history of the senses manuals of textual production...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... that from 1872—as he becomes an experienced textual critic. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, several editors of the Vita Nova— Casini, Beck, and Witte—would return to a more integral version of the text. Perhaps the most sober remarks among these nineteenth-century editors are offered by Witte...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 473–491.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Larysa Smirnova Abstract What to make of Emma Bovary’s dreaming constitutes a fundamental problem in the study of Flaubert’s novel. The dominant reading of Emma’s dream life adopts a critical stance toward her unwillingness, or incapacity, to accept her everyday reality. Showing how Flaubert’s text...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 2004
... those of their predecessors. They have also written a detailed introduction (pp.ix-li) that clearly presents the daunting textual-criticism issues that surround Li Livres dou Tresor, and that lays out their prudent strategy for establishing a new critical edition of the work. The end result...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 37–50.
Published: 01 January 2010
... a textual scholar than Frederick Whitehead, in a 1961 "historical review" of the textual criticism of the Chanson de Roland, called the appearance of Luquiens's article "The 'Copernican revolution' in Roland criticism," adding that the" outstanding merit of [his] work has" undoubtedly not "yet been...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... textual culture reinterprets what it copies; and these interpretations affect individual readings and the treatment of entire works. The critical—and I dare say delicate—adjective to describe Gioacchino da Fiore’s prophetic spirit in Paradiso 7. 141 is from Vandelli to Sanguineti settled by the reading...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 362–364.
Published: 01 May 2004
... a detailed introduction (pp.ix-li) that clearly presents the daunting textual-criticism issues that surround Li Livres dou Tresor, and that lays out their prudent strategy for establishing a new critical edition of the work. The end result of their efforts is, in my judgment, an edition that-by virtue of its...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... rash and hasty? The text narrates the critical moment and Lancelot's choice with the following details (complete with a textual problem): Tantost a sa voie tenue Ii chevaliers que il n'y monte. Mar Ie fist et mar en ot honte que maintenant sus ne sailli, qu'il s'an tendra por mal bailli. Mes Reisons...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 75–89.
Published: 01 January 2010
... elicit a less than cheerful response. It's even become vieux jeu to call ourselves literary critics. So how are we to refer to our metier in an era when so many departments have abandoned the term "French literature" to describe themselves in favor of portmanteau rubrics like "Department of French...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2021
... , based on the Vatican Library’s Chigiano L. viii .305, in comparison to Barbi’s 1907 critical edition, my introduction to the rigors of scholarly textual editing, whenever I think of the text of the Vita Nuova , I visualize the work’s copy in the last two fascicles of Martelli 12. Thus when I read...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 227–238.
Published: 01 May 2008
... was Potthoff's translation sufficiently faithful to the original to be usable for contemporary textual criticism of Basile's tales. Rudolf Schenda's pathbreaking 2000 edition was a breakthrough. This edition offers the complete text of all the "Cunti" (tales) in language that reflects contemporary usage. It also...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 378–383.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and variant medieval textual traces-including alternate versions and "misfit" texts (53 )-that participate in the dense web of intertextual reference even if they are not represented in extant cyclical manuscripts. Indeed, such a critical practice seems called for by new experiments in digital text editing...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 75–77.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and laugh: an interlocutor against The Romanic Review Volume 108 Numbers 1 4 © The Trustees of Columbia University 76 Ross Chambers: A Legacy of Love whose critical perspectives I still test some of my own, as I did early on when we debated the paradoxes of textuality and situationality in contrast...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 May 2000
... has a critical function against an empty or insipid Romanticism and romantic topoi, for instance the Parisian dream and, moreover, the Orient that has become a commonplace. The fourth chapter describes the relations between irony and intertextuality. Two kinds of palimpsestic writing are here...
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (3-4): 375–378.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to rethink medieval literature from the viewpoint of manuscript production and dissemination rather than the modern critical edition (perhaps best exemplified by Digital Humanities projects such as the Roman de la Rose Digital Library and Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France).1 And in its...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 413–433.
Published: 01 November 2007
... was limited to diegetic, structural and metaleptic interventions whereas Perec pushed this exploration of control farther, investigating the ways in which the letters themselves could be linked to hidden meanings, textual structure and personal identity. Thus, while Gide's approach to structure remains mostly...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 426–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the real enigma of the lai : Yseut’s reception of Tristan’s message, and the communicative potential of the love they share—a potential that resonates throughout the Tristan tradition. The idea that “Chèvrefeuille” problematizes textual exchange is deeply ingrained in the critical tradition; Bloch...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 185–199.
Published: 01 January 2002
... for literature alone.1 The first position implies that the practice of the texts is quite enough. It seems to assume that conscious reading will blossom forth into evaluative criticism. For such to be enlightened criticism, taste and a sense of tradition should suffice, together, perhaps, with an open-minded...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 293–295.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., impishly, as he often did in his classes whenever anyone had the nerve to attempt to out-wit or-comble du culot-contradict him, something he respected greatly. The latter trait was no doubt his most typically "French" characteristic. I can still hear him saying that critics worth their salt need to be able...
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