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The Rape of Roxane and the End of the World in Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 57–76.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Mary McAlpin Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Rape of Roxane Mary McAlpin The Rape of Roxane and the End of the World in Montesquieu s Lettres persanes Catastrophe is oddly comforting Hollywood thrives on the genres that the concept produces...
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Caring for Others, Changing the World
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 25–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Laurence M. Porter Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Laurence M. Porter CARING FOR O THERS, CHANGING THE WORLD R oss Chambers! I thought with surpriseYou re supposed to be in Australia! I had never seen him or his image before, but his...
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Mirabile Visu: The ‘Wonderful’ World of Calderón
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 153–161.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Vincent Martin Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Vincent Martin MIRABILE VISU: THE 'WONDERFUL' WORLD OF CALDERON A ristotle's discussion of thaumaston in the Poetics had a great impact on Renaissance, baroque, and neoclassical theoreticians and preceptists...
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Embarkation for Méséglise: Thinking Proust’s World with Watteau
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 173–189.
Published: 01 May 2024
... experiences (Lushenkova-Foscolo 216). In Proust, therefore, the question is not one of identification with the natural world, but one of transfiguration: physical phenomena leave emotional imprints that raise intelligence and affectivity to a more meaningful level by creating access points to visions...
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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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figure 1. Kelly Akashi, A Device to See the World Twice (2020). Courtesy of Kelly Akashi and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photograph by Thomas Clark / Clark Art Institute.
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World Literature in French: From Unity to Diversity
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 560–566.
Published: 01 December 2023
... for learning other subjects. Works Cited Apter Emily . Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . London : Verso , 2013 . Coursil Jacques , and Perret Delphine . “ The Francophone Postcolonial Field .” In Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary...
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Borges, Buddhism, and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 640–643.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Liesbeth François [email protected] Dominique Jullien , Borges, Buddhism, and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave , 2019 . Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Dominique...
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“La destruction est notre manière de bâtir”: Kevin Lambert’s Apocalyptic World-Building and Prophetic Textuality
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 342–361.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a formulaic way of transitioning from the inked pages that precede it, which constitute a world unto themselves, to the reader’s world—the world that is beholden to legal obligations such as those that require the information provided by the colophon. Turning to the colophon is like the moment in a movie...
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1923: “Columbia Attracts Scholars of World”
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 191–221.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Antoine Compagnon Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Antoine Compagnon 1923: "COLUMBIA ATTRACTS SCHOLARS OF WORLD" M y starting point is an article I read in the New York Times a couple of months ago, an old copy of the Times. Older copies of the Times can be worthier...
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French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War
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Romanic Review (2013) 104 (1-2): 172–174.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Rachel Mesch Nicholas White . French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War . London : Legenda , 2012 . Pp. 205 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS problems are, as the author suggests, matter for another book entirely...
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The Poetics and Perils of Faction: Contemporary French Fiction and the Memory of World War II
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 53–68.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san THE POETICS AND PERILS OF FACTION: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION AND THE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II I n an essay published in the summer 2011 special issue of Le Debat entitled "L'Histoire saisie par la...
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Remembering World War II in Today’s France: Its Precedents and Legacies
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 7–8.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II IN TODAY'S FRANCE: ITS PRECEDENTS AND LEGACIES I n October 2012, Phil Watts organized a roundtable at Columbia University's Maison Fran~aise devoted to the topic of World War...
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Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 519–520.
Published: 01 November 2007
...James Fujitani Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Book Reviews Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact...
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Dire, Médire, Dédire : Speech Acts in Le Misanthrope
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 249–259.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Stephen H. Fleck Abstract The article analyzes the triviality of Austin’s version of everyday-world speech act theory (which explicitly excluded fictional uses of language) in favor of its specific value for investigation of fictionality, invoking ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Émile Benveniste...
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Bruno Latour and the Loving Assumptions of [REL]
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anke Bernau Abstract In An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence , which addresses itself to the profound challenge of how to “compose” a common world in the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour proposes that the mode of religion [REL] offers a model for all the others—that of reprise. Emerging from...
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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
...: they foreground the mediated nature of the world, they ground their descriptions in textual traditions and religious doctrine rather than direct observation, and they represent nature as articulate rather than mute. Latour’s modes help us understand the multimodal nature of bestiaries in ways that refuse...
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On the Trail of the Sibyl’s Mountain: Antoine de la Sale’s Le Paradis de la Reine Sibylle
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Miranda Griffin Abstract This essay focuses on the recurrent metaphor of a painstaking journey in Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and the ways in which it can be deployed as a reading of the world. I use this metaphor to scrutinize the transmission, in manuscript Chantilly, Musée...
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Two Solitudes: Houellebecq and Haenel
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 404–424.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Sérotonine (2019) and Haenel’s Tiens ferme ta couronne (2017) are both stories whose protagonists isolate in their apartments, and—from that remove—proceed to, ostensibly, see the world for what it really is. Looming in both novels is a twenty-four-hour-news-cycle culture that serves as the ultimate prophet...
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Synguler: Margery Kempe’s Irregular Desires for a Queerer Present
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 2023
... from Richard Rolle’s self-authorizing singularity that unites the term’s meanings of both solitude and exceptionality, Kempe’s term is fitted to the circumstances of her own social, worldly life. She presents her achieved solitude not as a turning away from the world, but instead as the world’s...
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