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Includes all of Jehan Froissart's lyric poetry. McGregor includes explanatory notes, significant or noteworthy variants, as well as a useful glossary and an appendix of lyric forms found in Froissart's narrative poems.

A transcription of the previously unpublished seventeenth-century manuscript now in the possession of the Hispanic Society of America formerly known as the "Cancioneiro hispano-portugues da Academia das Ciencias, Lisboa". The volume is of importance to scholars of Spanish and Portuguese poetry of the Classical period, 1500-1700.

An attempt to trace the development of Moliere criticism organised around three categories: biographical, academic (both historical and formalistic), and commentaries by "theatre professionals."

First recognized with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco as a defining figure at the forefront of the "theater of the absurd," French playwright Adam Adamov had a fairly prolific career, writing twenty plays between 1947 and his death in 1970. Now, although he has fallen somewhat into obscurity, John J. McMann provides a study of Adamov's work which traces the playwright's artistic development and explores his role in defining the avant-garde and political theaters of France.

Examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse.

This edition is annotated and introduced with a detailed chart of representative Spanish and French works of "useless-precaution" plots. The intention is to deal with the specific aspect of cuckoldry (traceable in literary history), in which cuckolding is the final result of a dramatic plot.

Presents a clear picture of the structural history of the Romance language known as Vegliote and illustrates the applicability of structural linguistics to a diachronic study of many stages.

Examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of Modernsmo, via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels published in Spanish America. These novels incorporate all the attributes that consistently appear in a science fiction work through a blend of Darwinism and Spiritism.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work is a complete bibliography of Italian dialect dictionaries that had appeared at the time of its publication.

Offers a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light on this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

Published in 1966, this study is an interpretation of the Chanson de Willame and at the same time an enlargement of traditional concepts defining all medieval epic literature calculated to advance our appreciation of its literary quality.

Published in 1966, this bibliography of Oviedo went far toward advancing factual knowledge about the life and works of a great writer who explored early sixteenth-century America and commented upon its flora and fauna and aboriginal Indian life.

Through an investigation of the literary doctrines and ideas of the chief critics of the eighteenth century, the author of this study traces the concept of tragic theory in a would-be age of neo-classicism. The innovational and revitalizing forces advocated for tragedy are stressed, but problems relating to subject matter, form, and rules within the genre are also covered.

This tale, preserved in Arsenal MS 3150, was first published by Professor Sargent in 1963 in mimeographed form. This is a charming story, well suited for reading in a Middle French course.

The first part of the document under study is concerned with rhetorical patterns and phrases modeled after Cicero; the second part consists of a series of love letters composed in a mannered fashion and with a preliminary flavor of later preciosity.

This is an edition of the only Portuguese manuscript of the story of Joseph of Arimathea. It is a sixteenth-century copy of an early fourteenth-century original. This paleographic edition and the study based on it make contributions to the study of Old Portuguese and European Arthurian literature.

These two anonymous French poems indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the legend's decaying status as well as suggests its new uses, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern.

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait's French version of De Casibus virorum illustrium (Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes).

In her study of Marie de France's twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Christian morality thus upending previous scholarship about this medieval work.

Offers data to expand our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions found in those areas of the Western Roman world where Romance speech developed, and to shed some light on the controversial issue as to whether linguistic features that differentiate Romance languages and dialects correspond to dialectal differences already in existence.

A collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema drawn from various "little magazines" published in Spain from 1919-1930. This volume, edited by Paul Ilie, is intended to serve as a tool with which to break new ground in the study of the Spanish vanguard.

Examines the short stories of French author Arthur de Gobineau. Through detailed analysis, Valette underscores Gobineau's originality and his contribution to French literature. This study describes the various narrative techniques that are incorporated in the short stories and two fragments are included in this analysis.

Through careful reading of Luis Cernuda's later poetry, written after 1936, Alexander Coleman argues that Luis Cernuda was a poet whose primary impulse in his art was the suppression of the subjective and the consequent objectivization of poetry.

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut's important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies an acrostic connecting the earlier Dit de la Marguerite and Complainte VI with the crusader Pierre of Cyprus; and he established a probable historical framework for the three poems.

Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Jacopo's tragic love for Teresa and his subsequent suicide recall The Sorrows of Young Werther. In addition to being an intensely political novel, this work also expresses the author's romantic conception of nature as a mirror of human emotions.

A critical edition of the literary criticism of Jacques de la Taille, including the original French text, critical footnotes, and introductory essay. The work is primarily a study of quantitative verse in Italy, France, and England during the Renaissance.

A critical bibliography of the Nodier studies and editions of his works that appeared between 1923 and 1967. Part I presents a chronological bibliography of studies on Nodier and annotates each entry. Part II comprises a tentative list of the republications of works by Nodier, indicating those of special interest.

This critical, annotated edition and study of a long-neglected work by Lope de Vega reveals the philosophical seriousness that the author in his early maturity, anticipating Cervantes' Persiles y Segismunda by more than a decade, brought to his treatment of the Byzantine novel or novel-of-adventures.

John Bowle was the first scholar to consider Don Quixote a masterpiece. His edition, published in six volumes in 1781, "the first truly learned edition", established a foundation for future study and editing of Cervantes's great work. Here, Cox explores the life and works of John Bowle, and considers his lasting legacy.

Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron's Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, stems from four interpolated stories which Scarron included and which, according to many critics, have no relation to the novel's plot. Here, after studying the original Spanish versions of these nouvelles, Frederick Alfred de Armas argues that Scarron made changes to the originals to parallel the tone and underline the theme of the overarching story, thus unifying the novel as a whole.