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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.

An introduction to the Caribbean and Latin American writer, Luis Rafael Sanchez. It examines his work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico and addresses the international and regional dimensions of his writing in relation to the status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth and colony.

Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1664-1743), a writer of early eighteenth-century viceregal Peru, believed that his epic poem Lima fundada (1732) was his crowning literary achievement. For the first time in more than 280 years, David F. Slade and Jerry W. Williams have edited the entire poem, including all of its original paratexts, introductory compositions, prologue, footnotes, marginal notes and index.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto's Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italian and English translations. This study was the first in English to be devoted exclusively to an examination of this Renaissance epic, which is one of the major poetic creations of the Italian Quattrocento.

The legend of the Siete infantes de Lara has rarely been a part of the Spanish curriculum in American universities, mainly because of the lack of reliable and informative texts on the subject. This volume comprises a study of the legend's aspects, a comparison of the epic's various versions, and an edition of the lost epic from the Refundici toledana de la cronica de 1344.

Opening a new perspective on Malherbe's major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction Rubin defines and illustrates implied comparison. There follows a series of explications which recover each poem's values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes.

David O'Connell's study seeks to serve as the final word on which version of the Enseignements de saint Louis can claim ultimate authenticity. Through an analytical comparison of the three families of the Teachings and a historical overview of the critical controversy surrounding the texts, O'Connell argues for the authority and historicity of the Noster manuscript.

This philological study examines the possible influence exerted by religious traditions on the origin and development of the secular lyrics of the troubadours. It includes an historical outline, a survey of theories concerning the origins, and an analysis of the troubadours' conception of love.

The importance of the troubadour Raimon Vidal as poet and grammarian has been recognised since the thirteenth century. This volume presents Vidal's long poem on the decline of the jongleur's art, along with a prose translation, notes, and an index of names mentioned in the poem.

The life of the great Cistercian, St. Bernard, was translated into Portuguese from the first three books of Sancti Bernardi Vita Prima at Alcobaca. The surviving fifteenth-century manuscript constitutes an important example of the scholarship of that famous monastic centre.

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal with medieval subjects or subjects very closely associated with the Middle Ages.

Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989.

Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis of nearly six hundred reappearing characters shows that some appear only briefly, in no significant role; others play important parts; some become principals in later action.

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.

Modernismo, Latin America's first homegrown literary movement, has garnered critical attention for its political and social import during a time of intense nation building and efforts to propel the region into modernity. LaGreca's Erotic Mysticism explores two dominant discourses of the period, Catholicism and positivism, which sought to categorize and delimit the desires and behaviors of the ideal citizen. These discourses, LaGreca argues, were powerful because each promised to allay the individual's existential fears. Yet the coexistence of these two competing ideologies, one atheist and one religious, sowed doubt and unease in the modern intellectual who sought an alternative mode of understanding the human condition. From these uncertainties sprang a seductively liberating mode of writing: non-theistic erotic mysticism. Through analysis of key essays and fiction of Carlos Diaz Dufoo (Mexico), Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela), Jose Maria Rivas Groot (Colombia), Aurora Caceres (Peru), and Enrique Gomez Carrillo (Guatemala), LaGreca establishes erotic mysticism as a central philosophical substratum of the movement that anticipated the work of twentieth-century theorists such as William James and Georges Bataille. In modernista texts, the mystic's ecstatic state is achieved through a sublime erotic or sensual experience. The noetic mystical state expands one's consciousness, opening his or her mind to embrace diverse ways of loving and engaging. While science and religion sought to mold heteronormal and pragmatically useful citizens, modernista writers employed mystical discourse to transcend boundaries, opening readers' minds to alternative notions of sexuality, gender, desire, acceptance, and, ultimately, art.

Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portrayed in Spanish narrative, drama, and film. The book examines individual and social perceptions regarding gendered subjectivity, the operation of power relations, gender violence, and the economies of desire.

In 1253, this collection of fictional tales was translated from Arabic into the language of thirteenth-century Spain. It is one of the purest surviving representatives of a group of stories generally called the Book of Sindibad and is probably one of the most direct descendants of the long-lost original.

This general chronology of Voltaire's letters by an eminent "Voltairiste" contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an index.

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.