The Romanic Review articles from May 2006

The Romanic Review archives from May 2006

A letter from the outgoing editor-in-chief.(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... After six years as Editor-in-Chief of The Romanic Review, I am stepping down, having moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, which offered an excellent opportunity for dual academic careers. When I took over The Romanic Review, it...

Imagined geographies.
May 1, 2006... IMAGINED GEOGRAPHIES the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight: ...

Translator's introduction: "Italy in translation".(Italian romanticism)
May 1, 2006... The publication of Germaine de Stall's "De l'Esprit des traductions" in the Milanese journal Biblioteca italiana in 1816 was the most dramatic event in the saga of Italian Romanticism. The essay exhorts Italians to free themselves from their...

The spirit of translation.
May 1, 2006... The greatest service we can render literature is to transport the masterpieces of the human intellect from one language to another. So few truly great works exist, and genius of any kind whatsoever is so rare a phenomenon that each modern...

Syntax and passions. Bouhours, Vico, and the genius of the nation.
May 1, 2006... Contemporary scholars of nationalism agree that language does not constitute a necessary and sufficient criterion of nationality any more than religion or territory. (1) They usually ascribe the belief that a national language expresses the...

Translatio galliae: effects of early franco-italian literary exchange.
May 1, 2006... In the sixteenth century, French writers adopted Italian models, translated and plagiarized Italian works, and even wrote in the Italian language. Italy, it seemed, had introduced France to antiquity, but Italianism was seen as a disease that...

The mirror of modernity: Marinetti's early criticism between decadence and "renaissance latine": a "French" Poet in Italy: Marinetti and the Anthologie-Revue de France et d'Italie.(Filippo Tommaso Marinetti)(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... While the name of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is indissolubly tied with futurism, the movement which he founded in 1909 and of which he remained the undisputed leader, theorist and impresario until his death in 1944, his pre-futurist poetic...

Dyspepsia* as dystopia? F.T. Marinetti's Le Roi Bombance.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... La Grande Dypepsie eclatera tout a coup, coincidant avec le refroidissement de la terre sterile! (Quatrieme acte, p. 230) You have stripped off the old self... and have clothed yourself with the new self (Colossians 3: 9-10)...

Primitive marks of modernity: cultural reconfigurations in the Franco-Italian fin de siecle *.
May 1, 2006... "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Benjamin, Illuminations 256) From Kristeva's The crisis of the European subject to Samir Amin's critique of Eurocentrism (Eurocentrisme) or...

Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: the multiple and contrasting emotions of cities and puzzles.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... If the question of estrangement is emblematic and inescapable in the literary criticism of Italo Calvino, (1) for Georges Perec the question is that of the 'infra-ordinaire' and of the 'contrainte du reel.' (2) I will try, beginning with these...

"Le miroir de l'etranger": subjectivity in Andre Frenaud's "le silence de Genova".(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Of all French poets of the twentieth century, the one who demonstrated the most intense interest in modern Italy--i.e. in Italy as a modern nation, with all its conflicts and contradictions--was Andre Frenaud (1907-1993). After WWII, Frenaud...

'Nor do I want your interpretation': suicide, surrealism, and the site of illegibility in Amelia Rosselli's Sleep.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Suicide and Sleep Sleep, Amelia Rosselli's collection of English language poems, written between 1953 and 1966, presents a commentary on the poet's critical reception; or, more precisely, on being read and interpreted. It is frequently...

Staging memory and trauma in French and Italian holocaust film.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Reading Memory in the French Documentary and the Italian Fiction Film The memory lapses of trauma are conjoined with the tendency compulsively to repeat, relive, be possessed by, or act out traumatic scenes of the past... In...

The Italian redemption of cinema: neorealism from Bazin to Godard.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... In 1952, the Parisian journal Films et Documents codified the "ten points of neorealism" and, with this definitive gesture, pronounced neorealism a school. (1) By contrast, Italian critics have always seemed reluctant to acknowledge neorealism...

Laughter and the tree of knowledge.(Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve)(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... Mark Twain, in The Diary of Adam and Eve, tells a funny story about the expulsion of our fore parents from the Garden of Eden. It was not an apple that caused the Fall but a Chestnut. A Chestnut, asks Adam, what Chestnut? A Chestnut, Eve...

"In Se Da Simulacro a Fiamma Vera / Errando:" Ungaretti's poetry from Bergson to Plato.(Giuseppe Ungaretti)(Critical essay)
May 1, 2006... [...] tutta la mia poesia e un modo platonico di sentire le cose, ed essa ha del resto due maestri nel campo dello spirito, da una parte Platone e i Platonici, e dall'altra Bergson: sono i due maestri che mi hanno sempre accompagnato quando io...

Books received for 2006.
May 1, 2006... Abramson, Julia. Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. Ahmed, Ehsan. Clement Marot: The Mirror of the Prince. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 2005. Alonso, Beatrice...