ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-11-05DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1997070
A. Anderson
{"title":"Celebration and ambivalence in Lorca’s “Oda a Salvador Dalí”: Apollo and Dionysus, Noucentisme and Cadaqués, and the rose","authors":"A. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1997070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1997070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Lorca’s “Oda a Salvador Dalí” ranges over a variety of themes. It addresses Dalí’s then involvement with styles of painting associated with Cubism and Purism, which in the poem are described in Nietzschean terms as an espousal of the Apollonian and the suppression of the Dionysian. At the same time, the “Oda” does not fully endorse these modes of avant-garde painting and the distinctly Apollonian turn that Lorca sees in them. A certain hesitation and a preference for a more moderate approach—to art, and to life—are communicated via different symbols, principally the village of Cadaqués (with which Dalí was strongly connected) and the rose. The earlier artistic style of Noucentisme with its strong neoclassical tendency is associated with Cadaqués, situated on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, while the location and character of the village itself also exemplify the kind of moderation and balance extolled by the “Oda.” This also applies to the rose, whose rich symbolism encompasses classical beauty and a kind of natural perfection again in accord with the eschewing of the extremes of Apollonianism. As much as Lorca admires Dalí for his striving toward his artistic goals, he is also concerned that those goals imply a kind of coldness and detachment that could eclipse their close personal relationship.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"16 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45418465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1978359
Adam Cohn
{"title":"Replaced: Andalucía, national belonging, and Jewishness in Lorca’s Los títeres de Cachiporra","authors":"Adam Cohn","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1978359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1978359","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Federico García Lorca’s fascination with the cristobicas, a traditional Andalusian puppet show, led him to write and stage a number of these plays from early on in his career. Scholars of Lorca’s guignol often note that through the revitalization of this endangered art form, the young playwright sought to bring innovation to Spain’s theater. As a result, the actual contents of these plays have received little attention, and are generally viewed as using stock characters and conventional plots. The present article argues that Los títeres de Cachiporra (1922) stages a modern version of the Spanish nation as lived in Andalucía through a farcical take on the el viejo y la niña marriage plot. Specifically, I illustrate how Rosita’s three suitors have different relationships with regnant power structures and display various degrees of rootedness to the Andalusian town where the action unfolds. Particular attention is paid to Rosita’s former lover, Currito, who returns after abandoning both her and the town five years earlier. I demonstrate that the anti-Semitic insults directed at Currito reveal a deeper anxiety over who should be included in the modern Spanish nation. Contextualizing these comments among broader trends in European anti-Semitism and Spanish philo-Sephardism in the early twentieth century, I argue that Jewishness is a productive analytic for understanding Currito’s function in the play. A superseded Jewishness, in a final analysis, becomes the counterpoint against which Spanishness is measured.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"209 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47918816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1978358
F. Riva
{"title":"Demonic Jews and Christian redemption in Berceo’s “Milagro de Teófilo”","authors":"F. Riva","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1978358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1978358","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is the purpose of this study to reflect on the manner in which a fragment of the Christian history of salvation, in other words, the transition from the Old to the New Covenant, is embodied in Teófilo’s spiritual process. This process starts with the cause that leads him to sign a pact with the Devil up until his redemption initiated by the imperfect figure of Moses’s shining face and finishes by his full participation in the New Law through the Eucharist and Marian worship. Specifically, this will be achieved through an analysis of his establishment of a new pact with God, which represents ultimately the redemptive victory over the pact with the Devil. The Devil’s agency, in turn, is reinforced in the text by using the widespread medieval motif of the relationship between the Jews and Satan, and emphasized by the practice of Solomonic magic, a type of necromancy allegedly of Jewish origin, but also by adding several other elements such as those coming from the popular lore.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"240 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47621931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1977579
Vinodh Venkatesh
{"title":"González-Allende, Iker. Hombres en movimiento. Masculinidades españolas en los exilios y emigraciones, 1939–1999","authors":"Vinodh Venkatesh","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1977579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1977579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"259 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45229088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1978357
Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
{"title":"Ficciones del origen y orígenes de la ficción en la obra de Juan José Nieto","authors":"Felipe Martínez-Pinzón","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1978357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1978357","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay approaches the ways in which Afro-Colombian intellectual, president and novelist, Juan José Nieto (1805–1866), represents Colombia as a new republic where education and personal merit, in contrast to lineage, are the sole purveyors of legitimacy to govern and write. In literary self-representations, Nieto erased his origins as a person of diverse racial origins and instead decided to represent himself as a “new republican notability” who made it to power through hard work. The present essay argues that Nieto, as the first writer of historical novels in Colombia, in his novel Ingermina o la hija de Calamar (1844), plots a new origin for the Republic – one akin to himself, mixed race, based on education and with popular support. As a new letrado in the midst of Romantic euphoria in the continent, Nieto would participate in debates about the origins of national literature for the new nations. As an outsider attacked because of his nonwhite origins, Nieto would contradictorily erase his own history and use the figure of French Romantic Alexandre Dumas, a novelist with Afro-Caribbean origins like himself, to legitimize his own public persona as a self-taught man and defender of republicanism. The essay concludes by suggesting that despite Nieto’s strategies to found a Republic that would erase racial origins as providing legitimacy to occupy positions of power, he was erased from literary and political Colombian history for over 150 years precisely because his antagonists could not accept a nation, and a national literature, without origins in Europe.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"223 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46253692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1977578
D. Tierney
{"title":"The Projected Nation: Argentine Cinema and the Social Margins","authors":"D. Tierney","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1977578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1977578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"257 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47419093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1978356
Brian T. Chandler
{"title":"Dis/articulations and the writing of Aporias in Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga","authors":"Brian T. Chandler","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1978356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1978356","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga (2012) the search for bodies that are absent yet residually present serves as a self-realizing allegory for the limits of language to express reality and human experience. This essay explores these themes through the lens of the aporia, defined by Jacques Derrida as undecidable propositions whose very conditions of possibility are the same conditions that lead to their impossibility. Through an analysis of the various aporetic propositions in the novel that reflect the undecidable nature of language, violence, and communal experience, this article contends that the metaphor of the taiga as a geographic space becomes substituted with that of the taiga as labyrinth where the unresolved tension between articulation and disarticulation invites readers to appropriate the narrated experience in an act of mutual creation and contestation. Paradoxically, the uncertain nature of narrating the corporeal experience enables communal communication and creation through which subjectivities are made absent only to be affirmed and created anew.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"197 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47166988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1960113
Jeffrey N. Peters
{"title":"Clouds, style, and poetic generation in Descartes’s Météores (1637)","authors":"Jeffrey N. Peters","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1960113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1960113","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay, I argue that the clouds in Descartes’s Météores (1637) tell us something valuable about the impact of contemporaneous deliberations around poetic writing on philosophical expression in early modern France. When Descartes replaces rainbows with clouds as the primary origin of meteorological wonder at the start of the Météores, he is engaged, I suggest, with a question of poetic style. To wonder at rainbows and clouds was, for a generation of humanists, philosophers, and rhetoricians, to become a poet. The meteora, those atmospheric phenomena which, according to Aristotelian tradition, lacked substantial form, were imperfectly mixed, and were therefore provisional and uncertain, could only be the object of a similarly speculative kind of poetic language. As he takes pains to distinguish the rainbow from the clouds, Descartes strips the language of meteorological investigation of its poetic ostentation and casts his broader repudiation of Aristotelian qualities as a rejection of the figure of enargeia in natural philosophy. I argue that the Météores are a reflection on writing in early modern France in which meteorological phenomena are shown to be, like poetic writing itself, the product of both material and ineffable forces.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"144 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41802138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1960115
Mark D. Rosen
{"title":"Cartography and the other side of the clouds","authors":"Mark D. Rosen","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1960115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1960115","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since they are by nature ephemeral and shapeless, clouds would seem to have little purpose in an early modern map. Yet they appear regularly, for a host of uses: to distinguish between the realm of divinity and that of the aerial viewer; to add visual punctuation to otherwise stable geographical features, and to give linear rhythm and drama to the compositions. Drawing primarily from examples from the sixteenth century through the era of Ruskin and the Victorian cloud painters, this essay looks at clouds and early modern cartography to grasp how what Damisch described in art (the oxymoronic permanence denoted by the painted rendering of an ever-shifting cloud) operates at a similar number of disjunctive levels in maps. While much has been written about the dramatic presentation of clouds in the skies of Dutch landscape painting, little has yet been said about the imaginary yet transformative viewing position presented from the other side of the clouds.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"177 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59409826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1960112
Vincent Barletta
{"title":"Clouds as chaos machines","authors":"Vincent Barletta","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1960112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1960112","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the present essay, I explore the status of clouds in the lyric and epic poetry of early modern Portuguese poet, Luís Vaz de Camões (1524?–1580). Through a close reading of the elegy “O poeta Simónides, falando” (The poet Simonides, speaking) and the Adamastor episode in canto five of Os Lusíadas (1572), I analyze Camões’s poetic rendering of clouds and storms at the Cape of Good Hope and their connection to sixteenth-century theories of the “machine of the world.” To flesh out these theories, I explore more contemporary poetic work on clouds, sponges, and nets. Finally, I build on the account of “desiring machines” found at the beginning of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia to link Camões’s account of Cape storms to broader notions of machines, desire, empire, and human experience.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"68 1","pages":"130 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42221175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}