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

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.

Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne is a portion of a medieval Arthurian prose romance extracted from a longer work entitled La Suite du Merlin. Editor Patrick Coogan Smith includes background and summaries that provide context for the portion of text provided.

This edition of Cort d'amor with English facing translation is a welcome addition to studies on Occitan literature. This edition includes notes for both languages, an index of proper names, and a glossary.

This exhaustive morpho-syntactic analysis of Latin nominal declensions, as found in Christian funerary inscriptions from the Roman Empire, seeks to establish the extent to which this inscribed material reflects the period's linguistic evolution: from classical Latin's multi-case structure to the one-case system of Western Romance Languages.

Joseph Alston James provides the only modern edition of Octavien de Saint-Gelais's Le Sejour d'honneur. A highlight of this edition is the inclusion of illustrations from the manuscript de Saint-Gelais presented to Charles VIII. James's critical work for the edition includes an introduction, a bibliography of de Saint-Gelais's works, a bibliography of works influential to Le Sejour d'honneur, and notes.

This critical edition of the 1131 La Passion Nostre Seigneur offers comprehensive English-language annotation and a glossary as ancillary materials to this representative text that lays between Latin and early vernacular Biblical drama and the large scale cyclical vernacular Passions of the fifteenth century. Gallagher's introduction to the play offers particularly illuminating commentary on staging and the manuscript's textual forebears and milieu.

A concordance of Delie by the Renaissance writer Maurice Sceve that will be crucial in examining the structure and meaning of the work.

The Swiss writer and poet Juste Olivier was an eyewitness to the political and literary events in Paris during the July Revolution of 1830. His Journal is a keenly observed record of the Parisian intelligentsia of that period.

In this study of Andre Gide's magnum opus, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Karin Nordenhaug Ciholas argues for the novel's thematic unity.

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

A study of the somewhat parsimonious but intentional use of multiple sonnets in Calderon's drama.

Ruth el Saffar's study of novelistic technique in Don Quixote focuses on the interplay of characters, authors, and readers who populate the work.

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.

A psychological interpretation of Marie de France's Guigemar, a lai that uses the legend of Hercules as a vehicle for her ideas on love and duty in society.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen's Aire nuestro.

Provides an analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develop naturally from the Renaissance outlook on the world.

Artus Desire, whose career extended from 1545 to at least 1578, was the author of more than twenty theological treatises and anti-Protestant pamphlets. In this volume Frank S. Giese provides the first comprehensive study of Artus Desire and his work.

This study shows how Osuna uses mystical symbolism and allegory in his own writing and in the methods of meditation and contemplation he teaches.

The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined with pious devotion. Complementing the work of Antonio Vilanova, Juergen Hahn's study of peregrinacion focuses on Spanish literature of the Golden Age.

An edition of an anonymous poem about the famous thirteenth-century outlaw Eustache surnamed Le Moine (ca. 1170-1217), son of the Boulonnais nobleman Baudoin Busket, that survives in a single manuscript. Conlon's introduction explores the historical background, summarizes the content of the poem, analyzes its language and explains the editorial policy. Notes, an Appendix containing historical and literary texts that mention Eustache le Moine, a "Table des noms propres, noms de lieu," etc., a "Glossaire" and a "Bibliographie" conclude the edition.

This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes's article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various aspects of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures.

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.