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Stresses how the literary and intellectual public needs to reconnect with the moral gems of this demon(ized) man, nowadays more so than ever, to explain our most critical issues and to reiterate the long-standing solutions Sade professed from the 1780s through the early nineteenth century.

Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection

Constance de Salm, Her Influence and Her Circle in the Aftermath of the French Revolution

Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women

Corneille's Horace and David's Oath of the Horatii

Denis Diderot was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, "The Illegitimate Son" and "The Father of the Family".

Foundational Texts of World Literature

Crossing Cultures Cruzando culturas

Beautiful War

Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought

Explores how word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how Academie francaise has embodied that type of distinction in France since its establishment in 1635. This book highlights how significance of language in French sense of race - as superiority - is at heart of Academie francaise.

Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation

Suitable for students of modern Latin American literature, this title articulates the role of travel as a catalyst in the formation process of young male and female protagonists by examining six representative novels from three different countries and time periods.

Fra Francesc Moner's Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason

Bette H. Lustig uses a hermeneutic approach to the Proust texts, which are cited in French, and provides the analyses of the texts in English. Themes treating the soul include metempsychosis (transmigration), imprisonment and deliverance, eroticism and sadism, homophilia and misogyny, and time and memory.

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) focuses equally on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio while minor writers are introduced in proportion to their importance and position in the cultural, historical, and social events of the time.

For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of the Venezuelan wars waged against Spain while seeking independence.

This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260).

Presents a variety of perspectives on Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. This book includes: reading literary identities within and without borders; constructing extra-literary identities at home and abroad; and literary ethnic voices from North American diaspora and beyond.

A memoir about life in post-Civil War Barcelona. It recreates the era from the standpoint of the winners. It paints a picture of life during the early Franco years, while offering an intimate, revealing look at the childhood and adolescence of one of Spain's remarkable contemporary authors.

Engaging contemporary theorists - Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others - the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. This book examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective.