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Item Open Access A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) Moore, FabienneIn 1799 Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) published an equivocal exotic, sentimentalist, and epic novel La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina set in Ceylon. Likely pressured by his brother Napoléon Bonaparte, Lucien quickly suppressed a novel avowedly anticolonial. This article analyzes Lucien Bonaparte’s critique of colonial practices and commerce as politically equivocal or “compromised,” and traces the ambivalence of his post-revolutionary novel to its main sources of inspiration, the best-selling Histoire philosophique des deux Indes published by Guillaume Raynal in 1780. Ultimately, La Tribu indienne reflects the impossible construction of an enlightened or soft colonialism à la française.Item Open Access From Spain’s Moors to Spain’s Colonies: Chateaubriand’s Mapping of Liberty and Equality in Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.(University of Nebraska Press, 2018) Moore, FabienneWhere does Spain fit on the post-revolutionary map? Contemporary Spain remains marginalized at the periphery of European civilization, as if deemed not yet ready, like its colonies, to put Enlightenment ideals into practice. Chateaubriand perpetuates this remoteness of the Iberian Peninsula by setting an interracial, interfaith romance, Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage, in the distant past of Moorish Spain, when, in fact, interracial romances prompted much contemporary debate in the American colonies. This article analyzes the contrast between an idealized vision of aristocratic liberty and equality set in 1526 and the pragmatic politics of liberal imperialism when it came to Spain's future and the fate of its Spanish colonies. The first part interprets the story against the backdrop of its writing in 1810 shortly after Napoleon's invasion of Spain. The second part connects the novella's 1826 publication with Chateaubriand's political role when, named Minister of Foreign Affairs, he instigated a military intervention in Spain in 1823.Item Open Access Pour une sémiotique de l'espace de la petite maison. ‘La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe’ dans La Petite Maison de Jean-François de Bastide (1758)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-09) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access University of Oregon Romance Languages Department Open Access Mandate(2015-11-13) Department of Romance LanguagesOpen Access Mandate adopted by the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Oregon (14 May 2009)Item Open Access Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism(Wayne State University Press, 2015) Wacks, David A.Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores’s conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relationship with Blancaflor is a metaphor for the Christian dream of the conquest of al-Andalus and the conversion of Iberian Muslims and Jews.Item Open Access Popular Andalusi literature and Castilian fiction: Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani, 101 Nights, and Caballero Zifar(Revista de Poética Medieval, 2015) Wacks, David A.There is very little manuscript evidence of the popular (non-courtly) literature of al-Andalus. For this reason it is difficult to assess its importance for the development of Castilian literature, and more broadly, for our understanding of medieval Iberian literary practice as an interlocking set of systems that includes a number of linguistic, religious, and political groups. Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani (Granada, ca. 1250) and the 101 Nights (Granada, 1234) are two examples of Andalusi popular fiction that provide important information for our understanding of works of early Castilian fiction such as the Libro del Caballero Zifar. The two Andalusi works provide evidence of a bilingual culture of storytelling that nourished both Arabic and Castilian literary texts. In particular, the inclusion of Arthurian material in Ziyad that predates the earliest translations of Arthurian texts into Castilian forces us to rethink both the sources of Zifar as well as the Iberian adaptation of Arthurian material in generalItem Open Access ‘The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access Item Open Access ‘Laughter and the “Popular” in Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access ‘Country Cousins: Europeanness, Sexuality and Locality in Contemporary Italian Television’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica(Bucknell University Press, 2013) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access The Death of Carlos Fuentes: An Impossible Silencing Act. In Memoriam (1928-2012).(A Contracorriente, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroObituary for Carlos FuentesItem Open Access "Más allá del silencio."(Revista de la Universidad de México, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access “Entre occidentalismo y orientalismo: la escritura estereográfica de la Revolución mexicana en España. El militarismo mejicano (1920) de Blasco Ibáñez y Tirano Banderas (1926) de Valle-Inclán.”(Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2012-06) García-Caro, PedroThis article explores different interpretations of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917) in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s El militarismo mejicano (1920) and Ramón María del Valle Inclán’s Tirano Banderas (1926). Spain’s colonial legacies and neocolonial practices in the Americas were mobilized by Spanish writers to discuss not only the revolutionary processes experienced in Mexico, but also to argue about Spanish internal politics and to define the meaning and import of the emerging concept of Hispanidad. This mode of writing can be best understood through the concept of postcolonial stereography: descriptions and discussions of the former colonial possessions by metropolitan writers are not only postcolonial ethnographies; they also contain a wealth of commentaries on social and political customs and events in the former metropolis. It is consequently a writing in two directions that uses the postcolonial country, in this case Mexico, as a site to discuss side by side two societies that share many political trends and social habits but are also distinctly separate. Blasco Ibáñez’s description of the protofascist military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1929) as a “mejicanización” of Spanish politics, exemplifies this mode of writing as he spuriously detects unwarranted influences of the former colony on the metropolis. Blasco Ibáñez’s earlier series of newspaper articles on the Mexican Revolution evidence an ethnocentric, occidentalist rejection of the social emancipatory promises of the Revolution. In contrast, Valle-Inclán’s fictional approach to the Revolution reveals an orientalized representation of the corrupt Hispanic elite as the source of postcolonial social unrest.Item Open Access How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise (1791)(Hispanic Issues, 2012) Moore, FabienneItem Open Access "Natura, ragione e modernità nella Scienza nuova di Giambattista Vico"(2011-06-24) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This videoconference discusses on the one hand Vico's idea of nature in relation to the emergence of human history; on the other hand it analyzes Vico's idea of modernity. Finally, it offers some reflections on Vico's "more than human humanism."Item Open Access Humanism in the Digital Age(Humanist Studies &the Digital Age, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-The importance of writing and reading in Humanist Studies from manuscript to digital culture.Item Open Access Return to Philology and Hypertext in and around Petrarch’s Rvf(Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article examines the theoretical premises and consequences of the renewed attention to the intersection between philology, hermeneutics, and criticism in humanist studies in general and in Petrarch studies in particular. The most recent philological achievements—from the new facsimile of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Codex Vat. Lat. 3195 (Rvf), edited by Belloni, Brugnolo, Storey, and Zamponi, to the new critical edition of Petrarch’s masterpiece by Giuseppe Savoca—are presented and discussed as introduction to reflections on the role that a hypertext project, such as the Oregon Petrarch Open Book initiated at the University of Oregon, may play in the return to philology as necessary tool of textual criticism and hermeneutics.Item Open Access “Las minas del Rey Fernando: plata, oro, y la barbarie española en la retórica independentista hispanoamericana.”(Complutense: Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 2011) García-Caro, PedroItem Open Access Vico's More than Human Humanism(Annali d'Italianistica, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction to purely human paradigms. The theoretical implications of this problematic approach to Vico's humanism and making of history lead to a new understanding of Auerbach's idea that "our philological home is the earth," one in which philology and philosophy in a genuinely Vichian fashion return to interrogate not only the historical institutions but also their relationships to earth and the natural environment as a significant part in the formation of humanity. Thus, this essay proposes Vico's idea of "places of humanity" as the driving force of a new humanism, one that is "more than human," and finally pays attention to what has been excluded or not valorized from purely historicist interpretations of his philosophy.