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Presents a cross-temporal examination of the discernible orientation toward East and South Asia that pervades the work of well-known intellectual and artistic Mexican figures. The book goes from the later years of the regime of Porfirio Diaz in the 1900s to the global spread of neoliberalism at the turn of the new century.

Proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental romance. In establishing the genre's boundaries and cultural underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial link between Eastern and Western Iberian sentimental traditions.

Underscores the tendency of Spanish American farce for self-parody, its capacity to uncover and also carry out a critique of their nations' artistic, social, and political rituals. This study of the role of farce in Spanish American theatre explores the intersection of politics and drama.

Through a political and cultural reading of Ruben Dario's canonical works, this title articulates a view of Spanish American modernismo as a cultural reply to Europe. It looks for the covert, less evident political statements in his artistic literary and journalistic prose. It also demonstrates the cultural transformations of the time.

Presents ""La Galeria de la Omnipotencia"" and ""Pasion y Triunfo de Christo"", 18th-century Peruvian texts. This title shows how the author textualized the contradictions of viceregal loyalty and a commitment to a distinct American identity.

The annotated text, followed by a listing of principal sources and a selective bibliography, has the dual purpose of tracing a biography of G. D'Orleans and depicting his patronage of the arts.

While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic profession, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties. This volume presents a critical analysis of French dramatic text.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This brief book examines Bayle's writings about Spanish authors and their work, which Scholberg argues was influential on other French critics and philosophers.

La Chancun de Willame is an Old French epic poem written before 1150 concerning Vivien's resistance to an invading Moslem army and the efforts of his uncle William to rescue him. The poem has a second part dedicated to the activities of a kitchen boy named Reneward in the same battlefield. This volume, edited by Nancy V. Iseley, includes an etymological glossary by Guerard Piffard.

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), the French poet and playwright, is based on the two earliest printed versions in the Bibliotheque Nationale and includes the original engravings.

Rutebeuf was a thirteenth-century French troubadour. This work examines his portrayals of Louis IX, who he considered to be a fanatic. The prose of Rutebeuf, Edward Billings Ham argues, calls attention to the king's avarice and political ineptitude, and to the self-interest of his counselors and their preposterous incapacity for war.

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a detailed study of six of her novels, showing how the French Naturalism contributed to them, and how Zola's chief Spanish follower could at once be a materialist and a staunch Catholic.

Jehan de Lanson is a thirteenth-century French epic poem in alexandrine verse. This edition is based on the manuscripts of Paris and Bern, and includes an introduction, a table of proper names, and a glossary.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier provides an introduction and notes to what was de Fontenelle's first major work, but the text is based on a 1758 edition of Dialogues.

Offers a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) - a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure of Spanish Baroque literature - titled El caballero de Olmedo. The study analyses the comedia in terms of the literary and social conventions that it reflects: cortesia, brujeria, and alcahueteria.

Antonio de Guevera (1481-1545) was a Spanish writer and official chronicler of Charles V. Guevera's Una Decada de Cesares, published in 1539. It was based on the lives of the ten caesars from Trajan to Severus Alexander, and became a widely translated and imitated work.

Examines in detail the insightful accounts by four prominent female writers who travelled to and from Latin America in the 19th century: the French-Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-1844), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1819-1892) and Eduarda Mansilla (1838-1892), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909).

Part one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De Passione Judas: An Anglo-Norman Poem. The poem is prefaced by an introduction describing it and relating its probable date of origin. Part three is Seth: An Anglo-Norman Poem.

Challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne's work. By doing so, Insdorf does not aim to characterise him as a feminist, but rather to expose the duality of his complex intellect.

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturation of Proust's textual construction, Crosman's key to a universal interpretation is narrowed to those metaphors that build up Proustian time itself.

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literary milieu that witnessed their creation. By doing so, Garay defends the un-Aristotelian medieval tradition, tracing the theory behind Vicente's comedies through Dante and the pre-sixteenth Century Iberian tradition.

Through close readings of eight tales from the Conde Lucanor, Anibal A. Biglieri offers the foundation for a Poetics of short didactic narratives. Biglieri's point of entry into this canonical work is his analysis of the text's unique relation with reality. This book also offers insights about the significance of the frame story, the ethics of social position, and the relationship between the author and his text. Hacia una poetica del relato didictico reaffirms the foundational role that El Conde Lucanor plays in the development of narrative structures, and celebrates the complexity of this quintessential landmark of Hispanic literature.

While work contrasting Polifemo and Galatea has been done previously, Kathleen Hunt Dolan's book elevates the level of that discourse and enriches the concept with its deeply researched comparative approach. The book explores Polifemo, tying him first to the pre-Ovidian, underworld-dwelling tradition of the Cyclops, then laying out his expansive semantic field.

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho's analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry. Walking the text's balance between the real and the imaginary, and focusing his reading on the thread of ambivalence that snakes its way throughout, Coutinho weaves together the text's dichotomies between ethics and aesthetics, rural regionalism and urban universalization, and socioeconomic and psychological epistemologies. This book also serves to place Grande Sertao: Veredas in the trajectory of the history of the Latin American novel, creating an accessible point of entry to the genre, and grounding the text firmly within the literary tradition.

Fred M. Clark offers a semiotic analysis of three plays by Nelson Rodrigues, based in Charles S. Pierce's triadic concept of the sign: as sign, interpretant, and object, in regards to its production as perception and consciousness. Clark's use of this triad approach demonstrates the self-conscious plays of icons in Vestido de noiva, Album de familia, and Anjo negro, and offers a basis for the relevance of his conclusions to theatre at large. Based on this semiotic theory, Clark demonstrates the particular modes in which Nelson's theatre builds up fictional situations that transcend the pretense of the vanguard to become radically innovative and achieve a first-rate literary realization, equal of any occidental writer of the period. The author demonstrates the way in which Rodrigues dissects the difference between seeming and being, questioning the very notion of permanence and order.

This is an edition of the parts of the Quincuagenas of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo that the author considers "aspectos de las Quincuagenas que podemos considerar respaldados por las vivencias del autor", hence the title Memorias. We are left, however, with two substantial volumes of which this is the second.

An interpretive essay briefly outlining the subject matter and history of the debates on the Italian language. This book proposes not to produce new material, but it is selective, concentrating primarily on the sixteenth century. Two appendices include a chronological table of the major documents used and a listing of notes and citations.

Spitzer, refuting ideas set forth by Grace Frank, redefines l'amour lointain as the result of the "paradox amoureux," which is the base of all troubadour poetry. This is a forty-four page article with extensive notes.

The complete text is followed by a listing of proper names and a table of variants based on six other versions of the manuscript. The introduction gives the background of the author, the work, and the legend and discusses the seven versions and language used.

This interpretive essay and epilogue is introduced by a foreword in which he defends the work.