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How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations.

Contains an introduction and translation into English of six poems by Geffroi de Paris, the fourteenth-century French writer and author of Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel, or Chronique rimee de Geoffroi de Paris. A glossary of proper names is included.

This critical, annotated essay is followed by appendices on painters in French fiction and selected paintings by them. A descriptive bibliography is also included.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from Latin femina, domina, and a few kindred words in the regional and border dialects of France. Adams also considers the descriptive terms for woman and girl in the same territory.

Marquis de Louvois served as French Minister of War under Louis XIV. The letters published in this volume were written from July 1681 to August 1684 and deal almost entirely with the War in Flanders. They are ordered by military campaign into ten sections, and the volume includes an introduction, identification list, and bibliography.

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, language, syntax, and composition of the work. Also included is a description of the handwriting used and an explanation of the preparation of the manuscript. The annotated poem is followed by a list of proper names employed in it.

This collection of essays is a memorial volume of Romance language etymological essays written by Prof. Carlton Cosmo Rice (1876-1945), a leading scholar of philology and linguistics at the time, and gathered by Urban T. Holmes.

Le Bocage de l'Art d'Armer, Le Loyer's version of Ovid's work, was published in 1576. Included in this volume is an introduction, the 156-stanza poem by Le Loyer with detailed notes, and a conclusion that makes comparisons between the original work by Ovid and Le Loyer's adaptations.

Examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste from its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics; develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro; and deals with the rewriting and reimagining of the Libro on into modernity.

Traces how courtly spectacles, short and full-length plays, and picaresque narratives arose under Philip III of Spain, and were then adopted by popular culture. The book focuses on some of the most prominent writers of the early, middle, and late Baroque, but considers their works through the optic of creative hysteresis - the artistic appropriation of the past to defend the present.

Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bolano's novels, short stories, poetry and essays examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition.

Offers a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labour and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyses gendered geographies and forms of emotional labour, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel.

Explores the intersection of the sciences and humanities in Spanish sixteenth- and seventeenth century representations of the extraordinary within the larger scheme of the Baroque. This title maps, among other notions, the imagination, the spectacular, the legendary, and the "novelesque" in scientific writing and examines the influence of the theatrical in representations of medical cases.

John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern ""Racine.

This text examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. All these were chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for their critical writings on art.

Shows how the dramas of Lope de Vega, Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz confronted the economic, legal, socio-political, and religious problems of Spain and its colonies. It studies how drama, a reciprocal transatlantic phenomenon, interacted with Spanish imperial ideology as it attempted to foster the creation of a national identity.

Driven by a dual analysis, Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain looks at French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) in Spain--his more or less direct influence on Spanish letters--and also at Bergsonism in Spain--the more indirect resonance with his methodological posture--articulated through Spanish texts as well as theoretical approaches to film and urban space. Through this twin investigation, one part historical and the other part methodological, Benjamin Fraser seeks to broaden the scope of interest in Bergson's philosophy, to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of Bergson's thought, and to insist upon the relevance of Bergson's methodological premise to two of the most important cultural studies disciplines today--film studies and urban geography.Following an eclectic and interdisciplinary methodology that the French philosopher himself advocated, Fraser reconciles works by some of the most notable twentieth-century authors and critics with compelling aspects of Bergsonism. From novelists Pio Baroja, Miguel de Unamuno, Juan Benet and Belen Gopegui to filmmakers Victor Erice (El sol del membrillo), Alejandro Amenabar (Abre los ojos) and Carlos Saura (Taxi), as well as urban theorists Henri Lefebvre and Manuel Delgado Ruiz, this work takes up philosopher Gilles Deleuze's call for a "return to Bergson," pushing past the established boundaries of interdisciplinary to what lies beyond.Fans of Bergson from all disciplines will also be eager to read English translations of Bergson's lectures at the Ateneo in Madrid the 2nd and 6th of May 1916, included here as an appendix.

This is the first complete edition of an anonymous late medieval Catalan translation of Italian writer Bernardo Illicino's commentary on Petrarch's Triumphs. Although the translation of Illicino's commentary is considered a classic of Catalan prose by scholars, until now, no one has undertaken the task of preparing a complete edition because of the complexity of the prose.

Presents an exploration of medieval modes of subject constitution and their transformation in fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental romance, with a focus on Diego de San Pedro's ""Carcel de amor"".

The monster is a key figure in Spanish early-modern art and literature. Employing both close readings and monster theory, this book focuses on three of Miguel de Cervantes' works: the short novel ""El coloquio de los perros,"" the play ""El rufian dichoso"", and the novel ""Don Quijote de la Mancha"".

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group. This study focuses on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts, including troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), and others.

Contains the transcription of the Neo-Latin text, as well as the English translation of Barth's prologue and notes. This edition of Barth's translation is a useful tool not only for Celestina scholars, but also for Neo-Latin scholars and for those interested in the history of translation and in early modern Europe.

Why is science often considered the opposite of literature? Lars O. Erikson examines the relationship between these two fields in eighteenth-century France and finds that the major intellectual and scientific transitions of the period can be better understood by paying attention to literary developments, particularly in genres not traditionally associated with learned societies.

This text traces the beginnings of a bourgeois literature in Golden Age Spain. The author analyses works by Baltasar Gracian, major picaresque works such as ""Lazarillo de Tormes"", and contemporary writings in which political economists and jurists look at new economic and political circumstances.

This text examines literary representations of various art forms in a series of major texts from the romantic period of French literature. Majewski explores efforts to represent and interpret artworks in poems and novels by a diverse collection of writers including Balzac and Hugo.

This work focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Benjamin Jarnes. It identifies the attempt to integrate conflicting epistemological, ethical and sociopolitical categories as the principle driving the avant-garde art and novel.

Saint John Perse's (1887-1975) poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where interlocutors are almost always reduced to anonymity. This book analyzes the poet's multiple strategies of dialogue, capturing his conversations with biblical figures, classical authors and other artists.