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“Les lignes vaines et solitaires de mon écriture”: “Word” and “World” in Proust’s Recherche
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 201–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Edward J. Hughes Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Edward ]. Hughes "LES LIGNES VAINES ET SOLITAIRES DE MON ECRITURE":l "WORD" AND "WORLD" IN PROUST'S RECHERCHE [Gilberte] me passait une balle; et comme le philosophe idealiste dont le corps tient compte du monde...
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Source Word versus Target Poem: The Evolving Translation Collaborations of Muriel Rukeyser and Octavio Paz
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 May 2024
... collection, includes “Hypnogogic Figure,” a Gunnar Ekelöf translation done with Leif Sjöberg (ca.1974). While she indicates the source of these pieces, some are marked as “after so-and-so,” or simply “from,” as opposed to an overt use of the word translation . 14 This fluidity of attribution highlights...
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Shaping the Word: Repression, Archive, and Dialogical Discourse in Jorge Luis Borges’s “La muralla y los libros”
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 265–273.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Nataly Tcherepashenets Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Nataly Tcherepashenets SHAPING THE WORD: REPRESSION, ARCHIVE, AND DIALOGICAL DISCOURSE IN JORGE LUIS BORGES'S "LA MURALLA Y LOS LIBROS" W hile Borges's non-fictions as well as his fictions brought him...
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A Woman’s Words: From Le Brun-Pindare to Citoyenne Pipelet and Constance, Princesse de Salm
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 December 2021
... femmes-poëtes, En réponse aux vers de La Chabeaussière, qui disait à propos d’Orphée: Le Brun, c’est bien son art que ta voix nous retrace; / Ne nous rappelle point sa fin et ses malheurs” (April 29, 1796). Returning to mythological tradition, and keen to have the last word in the spat, he suggested anew...
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“Acaricié las cosas”: Family Matters and Rural Words in Luz Pichel’s Cativa en su lughar
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 380–400.
Published: 01 September 2023
... mentioned more often than he was. Poems with a cyclical structure become linear, others change the performative speech act of the poem. Importantly, emotionally loaded words like arrullar (lull to sleep) or preñada (pregnant) can simply disappear. Depending on how we think of translation, we may...
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Taking the Words Right Out of his Mouth: From Ventriloquism to Symbol-reading in J.-K. Huysmans
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 77–88.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Robert Ziegler Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Robert Ziegler TAKING THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF HIS MOUTH: FROM VENTRILOQUISM TO SYMBOL-READING IN J.-K. HUYSMANS Since Laurence Porter took critics to task in 1987 for "ignoring the preoedipal level" (52) of Huysmans...
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L’Année pornographique : The French Press and the Invention of Pornography
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 260–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Raisa Rexer Abstract This essay explores the sudden popularity and redefinition of the word pornographie in France in the 1880s. Following the publication of Émile Zola’s novel Nana and the rise of a genre of cheap, bawdy newspapers in 1880, the French daily press knowingly “invented” the word...
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Stephen’s French: Traducing the Irishman in Ulysses
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Shane Lillis Abstract This essay studies Stephen’s explorations in Ulysses into the sounds, meanings, and performances of French words uttered and exchanged during his sojourn in Paris and rekindled in his mind as he walks in Dublin. Alongside a reading of the early drafts of the “Proteus” chapter...
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Fra Ovidio e Brunetto, nel fiume del tempo
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 73–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... a beatitudo huius vitae still valid for a Christian Eden, the poet appeals to the text of Ovid’s Fasti through which in many occurrences he is building a harmonic image of human living that, in the shadow of forebears’ sin, only a future intervention of Grace will dispose for Dante’s words. Through exact...
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Food Fears: From Proust to Perec, Madeleine to Anti-madeleine
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Priya Wadhera Abstract In Word of Mouth: What We Talk about When We Talk about Food (2014), Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson discusses “food fears,” recognizing how food can be both a source of sustenance and pleasure and, at the same time, a site of danger and death. In this article, I endeavor...
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The Message of “Chèvrefeuille”: Reading for Tristanian Intertextuality in Marie de France
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (3): 426–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a forest with her entourage, and its only interpretive difficulty seems to be the way Tristan communicates his message by carving some words or letters onto a stick. This article argues that, by debating what exactly Tristan writes, the scholarship on “Chèvrefeuille” leaves aside the intertext...
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Mapping the Knowledge of Dante Commentaries in the Digital Context: A Web Ontology Approach
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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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Materiality and Language at El Escorial: From José de Sigüenza to Miguel de Unamuno and Back
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the monastery’s value as purely symbolic permanence. As Bestué explains, his book functions “no como un acto más de significación, otra capa, sino como un corte.” This mechanistic notion of the written word as a device with which to shape abstraction back into physicality, however, is not a novel addition...
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Sound and Vision: Bruno Latour and the Languages of Philippe de Thaon’s Bestiaire
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 128–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of this problem by focusing on the operations of the religious mode [REL] in medieval bestiaries—a mode that includes reference [REF] but does not cross with it as a separate mode. Latour’s dismantling of the Modern opposition between world and words invites a reassessment of how we conceptualize the agency...
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“The Blatant Latin Language”: Joyce, Latin Sources, and Dogma (Scattered Notes and Lexilical Wanderings)
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 May 2025
... words of Church Latin will be humanized through a dissemination of their particles in everyday life. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2025 James Joyce Ulysses Latin quotations Perhaps Aquinas would understand...
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Reading the Signs in Villon: Puns, Proper Names, and Implied Language Theory in the Lais
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 109–127.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of such a reading makes the enseignes part of a texture of double entendres, uncertainties, and comic horrors. I use the word enseignes throughout to refer to the painted or sculpted signs that labeled the medieval city's taverns, streets, and houses. It seems practical to take advantage of the French word...
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Desert Polyphony
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 125–140.
Published: 01 May 2023
... not witnessed the isolation and the thunder, how do they know who is speaking when he speaks? The Lord explains how to know a true prophet. First, he insists that “I myself will hold accountable” those who ignore the words that the prophet speaks from God (Deut. 18:19). Besides this, prophets who either speak...
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Choices: Beckett’s Way
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Proust and Samuel Beckett in his wake. In what follows, I look at an early, a middle, and a late work by Beckett in order to trace how Beckett" rereads" Proust, in both a specific and more diffuse sense: Beckett's Proust, Molloy, and, although it may not seem an obvious selection, Words and Music...
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Victor Hugo’s Poetics
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 151–160.
Published: 01 January 2002
... frequently levelled at classicism by the Romantics16). The true mark of poetic genius is thus not originality but "primitiveness." The word has no chronological connotation: "one can be primitive in any epoch: whoever draws direct inspiration from man is primitive." 17 In Amphitryon Moliere is only original...
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Belated Strokes: Lyotard’s Writing of The Confession of Augustine
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (1-2): 151–169.
Published: 01 January 2004
... that this reflection is always imperfect, and it surprisingly takes not a spatial form (i.e. a two-way mirror), but a temporal one: it is a temporized mirroring and so it appears as always belated. To render this nuance, Lyotard plays on Augustine's distinction in his Confessions between two words that designate...
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