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Jeffrey Schnapp

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Academic Degrees: B.A. Vassar College; Ph.D. Stanford University (Comparative Literature).

Research Interests: knowledge design; archives, museums, and libraries; the material history of literature; paleography and codicology; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio...

Digital_Humanities

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by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp MIT Press, 141 pp., $16.00 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN - Form or content? Both I was reading Digital_Humanities on a Saturday evening just as my roommates and a group of friends were...

NATHALIE SARRAUTE’S TROPISMES AND THE METAPHOR OF TISSU
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When Nathalie Sarraute depicts a knitting woman in her 1932 novel Tropismes, a figure “silent and apart, her head bowed modestly, counting her stitches under her breath” (31), I argue that she points to such a woman as a means of thinking through ideas...

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Submission Romance Sphere publishes reviews, essays, videos, and other materials pertaining to the culture, history, and society of countries, regions, or communities where French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Catalan is spoken. Prior to submission...

Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

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by John Varriano University of California Press, 282 pp., $19.50 PETER LIEBERMAN In 1505 the Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto, at a banquet held by the artistic and gastronomic confraternity known as ‘the Company of the Cauldron,’ presented a scale...

Languages and Literatures by Kyle Hall

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A twentieth century poet once said: "You see the old way wasn't working / so it's on us to do what we gotta do / to survive." A similar tack, which reevaluates the humanities' arguments for their very existence, seems necessary in today's university. The...

TROUVAILLE

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Christie McDonald and Leslie Morris TROUVAILLE A Conversation About the Proofs of Maurice Blanchot's L'Entretien infini at Houghton Library Abstract: In acquiring the proofs of Maurice Blanchot's Entretien infini, Leslie Morris explored the curious ways...

Paura di cambiare. Crisi e critica del concetto di cultura

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by Francesco Erspamer Donzelli, 169 pp., € 16.00 JOHN WELSH - The Invention of Culture It is a conversation all too familiar for anyone involved in the humanities. It happens most frequently in situations of involuntary socialization—parties, receptions...

Menzogna

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di Franca D'Agostini Bollati Boringhieri, 133 pp., 9.00 € DALILA COLUCCI - Per un'eudemonia della verità “C’è una teoria della verità di cui bisogna dare conto, ed è quella lanciata da Nietzsche negli ultimi decenni dell’Ottocento, e che ha avuto una...