Romance StudiesPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2051908
Amotz Giladi
{"title":"L’invention d’un art moderne, national et « latin »: Guillaume Apollinaire et la défense des avant-gardes parisiennes durant la Première Guerre mondiale","authors":"Amotz Giladi","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2022.2051908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2022.2051908","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the Great War, Guillaume Apollinaire tried to drive back the attacks against foreign avant-garde painters in France, by demonstrating the compatibility of their art with the country’s aesthetic and spiritual values, as well as with those of ‘Latin’ civilization as a whole. Upon his return from the front line, he started working again as a journalist and embarked on a campaign aiming to legitimize Cubism and Futurism. These movements, composed mostly of French, Spanish and Italian creators, offered Apollinaire the possibility to enhance the Parisian avant-gardes’ ‘Latin’ essence. Thus, he elaborated on a conceptual synthesis reconciling this avant-garde art with French classicism, and with the latter’s Greco-Roman origins. Analyzing various texts written by Apollinaire between 1915 and 1918, I explore in this article the main thematic axes underlying his reflection upon a modern, national and Latin art.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"42 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48486162","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.2002552
Pedro Álvarez-Cifuentes
{"title":"‘As fezes que levar este feníssimo ouro’: Una curiosa dedicatoria del Ms. LC P-152 de la Crónica do Imperador Beliandro","authors":"Pedro Álvarez-Cifuentes","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.2002552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.2002552","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I transcribe and analyse the dedication of a manuscript of Part I of the late chivalric romance Crónica do Imperador Beliandro, which is now preserved in the ‘Portuguese Manuscripts Collection’ at the Library of Congress (Washington). Following the tradition of specula principium or ‘mirrors of princes’, the dedication, dated 1692, recommends to the young António Estêvão da Costa e Sousa (1671-1723) the example of the chivalric heroes and alludes to emblematic literature (with some references to Andrés Laguna and Ammianus Marcellinus). This paper thus helps to reconstruct the textual history of this copy of the Crónica do Imperador Beliandro.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"221 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49069868","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.2002553
Hilla Karas, H. B. Shyldkrot
{"title":"Intralingual Diachronic Translation and Transfer: The Case of Old French","authors":"Hilla Karas, H. B. Shyldkrot","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.2002553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.2002553","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Intralingual translation presupposes the crossing of several types of boundaries: societal, geographic, religious and diachronic among others. This paper focuses on the diachronic aspect. The French language has seen a large number of diachronic intralingual transpositions throughout its history, such as gloss, summaries, extracts, adaptations, reduced copies and translations. Interestingly, a text can be taken for a translation at a given moment, but viewed differently at a later stage and vice versa. The label ‘translation’ is significant because its use reflects accepted conceptions of change and linguistic continuity. Indeed, descriptive translation studies avoid formulating a rigid definition of the process and the product of translation. Based on a corpus of modern transpositions of medieval French texts, we aim to find the contexts and circumstances in which the term ‘translation’ emerged, demonstrating the different categories of intralingual transfer, in particular the affinities and relations between translation and paratext on the one hand and editions and translations on the other. As a case study, the paper reviews the various translations of Saint Alexis since 1880 and examines the circumstances of their production, their features and their positions on relevant questions of language and literature.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"189 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41974776","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.2002555
Paul Joseph Lennon
{"title":"Figuring Vittoria Colonna’s Desirous Widow in Francisco de Aldana’s ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’","authors":"Paul Joseph Lennon","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.2002555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.2002555","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The sonnet ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’ by Spanish-Neapolitan poet Francisco de Aldana (1537-78) challenges interpretation through its genre-defying mix of consolatory, philosophic, and amatory elements; in particular, its inclusion of an enigmatic statement by a ventriloquized female figure alien to contemporary Hispanic courtly poetry. In this study, I offer an interpretation through a comparative study with the Rime amorose (1538) of Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), in which she popularized the Petrarchan voice of the desiring widow in Italian poetry. After establishing a link between the Aldana and Colonna families by virtue of the fragment ‘Aunque a la alta región del alegría’, which addresses the death of Colonna’s niece, I explain how the yearning contained within Colonna’s lyric, noted to possess an erotic potential, may have led Aldana to incorporate this voice in his own poetic exploration of a combinatory spiritual and physical philosophy of love. Additionally, given the absence of the Colonnaesque tradition in Spain, I consider how expressions of desire by female voices in the arte menor and pastoral traditions potentially could have led to a similar interpretation for Hispanic readers.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"208 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46109939","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.2002556
Cristiano Bedin
{"title":"“Se il partito più caritatevole non sarebbe di ‘chiudere’ l’Africa?” Stereotipi, esotismo e discorso coloniale nel resoconto africano di Emilio Cecchi","authors":"Cristiano Bedin","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.2002556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.2002556","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article aims to analyse Appunti per un periplo dell’Africa (1954), a travel book written by Emilio Cecchi that narrates the writer’s impressions and experiences in some Portuguese African colonies. The text is influenced by fascist propaganda, linked to imperialism, and shows the tendency to present African populations as the object of colonization. We consider the various stereotypes and images that Cecchi uses in the representation of the colonized people of the Portuguese territories in Africa, in particular in discourses focused on race, women, dance and the colonial system. It turns out that Cecchi’s work is fully inserted into the ideological context of the early twentieth century, reaffirming a colonial discourse that supports the primacy of the civilized European over the primitive African and giving into the fascination for the exotic, typical of colonial literature.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"233 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46494379","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1950353
Lloyd Hughes Davies
{"title":"Acknowledgement","authors":"Lloyd Hughes Davies","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950353","url":null,"abstract":"(2021). Acknowledgement. Romance Studies: Vol. 39, Special Issue: ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’: Critical and Creative Lives, pp. 65-65.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517757","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1956213
Niall H. D. Geraghty
{"title":"Becoming Menard? Geopolitical Readings and the Authorial Subject in Ricardo Piglia","authors":"Niall H. D. Geraghty","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1956213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1956213","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses Ricardo Piglia’s extensive engagement with ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ in his critical and fictional work, examining the ways in which Piglia politicizes Borges’s celebrated story. Building upon Piglia’s well-documented attempt to reconcile Borges with left-wing criticism, the article engages in close dialogue with Robin Fiddian’s Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry (2017) to elaborate the geopolitical significance of Piglia’s novel Respiración artificial (1980) and his wider oeuvre. In order to do so, the article pays particular attention to the narratorial strategies that Piglia deploys in the novel, and the literary alter-ego he creates to carry the authorial subject into the work, analysing the unique position Piglia assigns to Borges’s story within the Argentine canon. Thus it will be proposed that Piglia effectively re-orders Argentine literary history from the perspective of ‘Pierre Menard’ to augment the political significance of the story. In developing these arguments, it will ultimately be shown that Piglia seeks to become the titular character, reproducing his literary experiments further to develop the postcolonial critique contained in Borges’s original story.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"156 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43668493","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1950355
Edwin Williamson
{"title":"‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ and the Death of Borges’s Father","authors":"Edwin Williamson","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950355","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The young Borges sought to forge a literary destiny of his own, freed from his family’s expectation that he compensate for the literary destiny that had been denied his father, but it was the failure of that endeavour that resulted in the kind of work that actually made his name. Far from being the product of a frigid, cerebral writer enclosed in a literary utopia, Borges’s early ficciones were generated by a complex ordeal originating in his relationship with a young woman in the 1920s and eventually brought to a head by his dying father’s request that his son ‘re-write’ his novel El caudillo. Pivotal in this process was ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ because, in this ingenious text, Borges at last found a way of transforming abstract ideas into figurative vehicles for his own desolation and angst. From this discovery would spring the philosophical themes that would enable him to articulate profound existential concerns in his ficciones — the elusiveness of reality, the evanescence of the self, solipsism, the mysteries of time, and the horror of the infinite.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"84 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42525621","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1950359
L. Davies
{"title":"All that is Solid Melts into Air: Borgesian Variations on Translation, Fidelity, Citation and Plagiarism","authors":"L. Davies","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950359","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers Borges’s central role in the Argentine literary tradition of misattribution and false citations. It reassesses his subversion of normative perceptions of traditional literary values and practices such as originality and plagiarism and contextualizes his now familiar views on the relative merits of translation and ‘creative’ writing (reminiscent of his elevation of the reader above the writer) and investigates his preference for collaborative production over individual authorship. The essay reminds the reader of Borges’s joyful view of literature and ends by considering two contemporary Argentine writers (Tomás Eloy Martínez and Ricardo Piglia) whose largely divergent outputs find some common ground in their gravitation towards distinctively Borgesian motifs and techniques.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"138 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44841762","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 StudiesPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1950357
K. L. Brown
{"title":"Miguel de Cervantes, Author of the Apocryphal Quijote: Borges, ‘Pierre Menard’, and Literary Creation as Apocrypha","authors":"K. L. Brown","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950357","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ (1939) and Miguel de Cervantes’s two-part novel (1605 and 1615) in terms of Borges’s notion of the apocryphal. With reference to Borges’s writings on the apocryphal as a productive form of literary creation and interpretation, particularly the way in which he defines the apocryphal in terms of the ‘hidden’ meanings in a text, the article considers Cervantes’s own relation to the apocryphal in his imitation of various literary genres and in his response to Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda’s apocryphal Quijote (1614) in the second part of the novel. By analysing the significance of the chapters from the first part of the Quijote that Menard reproduces, as well as Menard’s explicit refusal to reproduce the prologue to the second part of the Quijote, the article concludes that Menard’s engagement with Cervantean notions of truth, falsehood, and originality (as well as with Cervantes’s own treatment of Avellaneda’s apocryphal Quijote) ironically articulates the apocryphal nature of all ‘original’ literary texts.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"110 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48719069","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}