Bücher der Reihe North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

An encompassing study of oralitures - multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality - and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous.

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.

Illustrates how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers, including Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even down to such modern writers as Rilke.

D.J. Conlon examines Guy of Warwick,, a popular thirteenth century Saxon legend adapted into Anglo-French prose in the fourteenth century.

A critical edition of an adaptation of the Discipline Clericalis, the first western collection of eastern apologues, written between 1105 and 1110 by Petrus Alphonsi. The literary and social impact of this work was profound; we find adaptations of its prologues in the vernacular literatures of western Europe and evidence that medieval ecclesiastics used them in their sermons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contains fifteen essays, primarily in the areas of Romance philology and medieval literature, by former students, colleagues, and distinguished scholars, presented to Louis Francis Solano upon retirement from active teaching.

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.

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.

This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the use and effect of opium and hashish. Later chapters analyze the influence on the works of various writers of the period, particularly Baudelaire.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Contains twenty-one essays by former students, colleagues, and distinguished scholars throughout the United States, presented in honor of Professor Wiley's sixty-fifth birthday.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.