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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 357–369.
Published: 01 December 2020
... stricture against taking fictional characters as real beings—something other than writing on a page—is correct, it does not account for the way in which we imagine, make use of, and interact with the minds of literary characters. Yet Proust’s understanding of the fictional being cohabits with the inevitable...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 378–391.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Proust. And yet, as an invalid himself toward the end of his life, he can only conclude that the novel is inimitable. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 writing Proust anxiety of influence invalidism The first person who said I had to read...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... This novel seems at first glance to be a fairly straightforward satire of the excesses of the court of Henri III of France (r. 1574–1589). Yet the banquet scene evokes the flexibility of diet and of other aspects of the Galenic regimen in the profusion and variety of food presented. In linking the practices...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Charlie Samuelson Abstract Chrétien de Troyes’s Erec et Enide is about a husband’s appalling and disturbing mistreatment of his wife. Yet, this article contends, it can also be understood as a (perhaps surprisingly) critical reflection on sexual consent, which overlaps with key concerns of both...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 May 2023
... women, and the author’s own. Reading the novel as largely to do with class and money, patriarchal capitalism, and the affective ruptures generated by social, economic, and cultural mobility, the Middle Ages seem far from its concerns. Yet solitude, loneliness, and death haunt the texts by and about all...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 420–435.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Yet, neoliberalism also defines its own hegemony through the construction and perpetuation of such margins, so that bordering becomes a self-perpetuating sociopolitical dynamic. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 259–279.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that characterize the most instrumentalized—and yet paradoxically dematerialized—of Iberian materialities. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Even before El Escorial had been completed, Herrera’s Estampas were...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
...’ assignment of meaning and cultural “readings” to medieval illuminators. Yet numerous sources, especially the instructions to illuminators that remain still visible in unfinished manuscripts, confirm that methods of work in the illustrating of medieval texts were guided by very different criteria than...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 577–594.
Published: 01 December 2024
... fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. As performative utterances, these abortive confessions ultimately perform little...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (3-4): 391–409.
Published: 01 May 2011
... University J.39 2 ANDREW COUNTER must surely recognize the all too real mutilation inflicted on this particular family by ideologies arguably more pernicious, and accept the good faith of Zola's celebration of that family's ultimate, unlikely rehabilitation. And yet, if sentimentalism in the letter...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 298–300.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... With the help of Cristina and Stephanie, two work-study students, I undertook the task of cleaning his office. I was in my seventh month of pregnancy and could barely move. Yet the compulsion to start a new project, paint a room, or rearrange furniture, which sometimes strikes pregnant women, hit me. I spent...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (1-2): 3–8.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of Columbia University 4 ANNA-LoUISE MILNE Of course it remains possible to protest that the concept of the modern was first and foremost a French invention. There is undoubtedly a connection to be made between "Ie moderne" and modernism, yet it is not clear that this connection would operate most directly...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (3): 355–361.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of the name "Lazarillo" and the Lazarillo's play with the word "lacerado." Lepers were separated in leper hospitals built with private charity because people were afraid of defilement. Yet, at the same time, they reminded of the need for and the possibility of salvation of recipients and donors alike through...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (1): 134–150.
Published: 01 May 2024
...) have come to resonate in French. Yet the stakes of this essay are not simply to point out an example of transnational poetic influence, although Bouquet’s work certainly exemplifies such influence. Instead, I consider three temporal moments of the poet-translator process: first, Bouquet’s...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 257–261.
Published: 01 January 2010
... against their utterers, as against their subject. Who exactly did that man think he was? Yet even the most spiteful gossip was spiced with praise: "Riffaterre is a genius," "Riffaterre's courses outshine all others," "He's the best reader I've ever met." Anxious to take my required courses with due haste...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 401–421.
Published: 01 May 2006
... are dealing with a collection of literature and with geographical maps not yet drawn, but rather atlases and literatures to come, yet to be discovered by the emotions. Giuliana Bruno, in Atlas of Emotion,4 develops an interdisciplinary research project at the heart of which she places la Carte du pays du...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 123–134.
Published: 01 January 2007
... reduction of the world. This in turn constitutes yet another implicit Borgesian critique of naively mimetic representation in literature. And perhaps there is some oblique homage to Flaubert's idea of writing a novel about nothing since, through the focus of Funes, the very notion of a subject matter begins...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 285–307.
Published: 01 May 2006
... von Humboldt who linked the two concepts of the spirit of the nation and the spirit of the language (Ober die Verschiedenheiten des menschlichen Sprachbaues, 1827-1829).4 Yet many of the German "Romantic" arguments 1. According to linguist John Edwards, language is not even "essential for identity...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2004
... question of whether certain literary characters represent one of the sexual deviances typically recognized in the nineteenth century and, if so, in what particular way. Others have explored gender and power, frequently focusing on the misogyny prevalent in decadent literature. Yet another faction has...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (4): 413–433.
Published: 01 November 2007
... literary and metaphorical, Perec's interest in materiality is literal and visceral. Yet for all that separates them, both writers attempt to transform the writing experience into an identity forming process which privileges the potential. I argue here that the desire to control and construct one's self...