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

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.

This honorary edition of twenty-six annotated articles was presented to Professor William M. Dey on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by his colleagues and former students. Professor Dey's vita and bibliography are also included.

The author indicates that the presence of liturgy and allegory in Perceval may possibly indicate that Chretien was experiencing spiritual growth.

Politzer, in collaboration with his wife, created a study of the vulgarisms in the Merovingian documents in France and the Lombard documents in Italy. The results support what has been generally believed about the progress of Vulgar Latin in those areas.

Three annotated essays are examined and conjectures made as to events probably occurring during the period. The essays are "Samuel Pepys in Paris", "Medieval Gardens", and "A Twelfth-Century Schoolmaster".

The sketch of manners originated in Colombia under the influence of the Spaniards Larra and Mesonero Romanos, whose works were well known there by 1840. Although the Colombian sketch is not distinguished artistically, its scope and variety of subject produce a richly detailed picture of the life, people, and institutions of mid-century Colombia.

In 1253 this book was rendered into Spanish from Arabic and became the inspiration for many great books of European literature. It will be of value to folklorists and students of Spanish and comparative literature, but it will also interest anyone who likes lively tales.

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.

Volume 32 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Shows that the Chanson de Roland is clearly the work of an individual creativity that could, by deliberate repetition of important parts and careful arrangement of the order of events, transcend speech limitations to hint at the complex reaction and subtle character development of the protagonist.

The first part of this study investigates both the historical probability of the love affair of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, and a Jewess and the peregrinations of the theme in comparative literature. The second part contains a critical edition of Lope de Vega's dramatic treatment of the subject.

Treats the evolution of that branch of serious French drama whose themes were taken from the national history. The study also concerns dramatic groups, the staging of plays, and audiences.

Traces social drama in Spain from its beginnings in the works of Moratin, treats those continuing the Moratin tradition, and studies the social drama of Tamayo y Baus, Ayala, Eguilza, Echegaray, the minor playwrights, and Dicenta and Galdos.

Carlton studies in detail some forty words that he has found in the texts published by Tjader in his Die nichtliterarischen lateinischen Papyri Italiens aus der Zeit 445-700, volume one (Lund, 1955).

Translating from writings of the period of King John III of Castile, Scholberg weaves together an admirable account of the life and customs of those times, 1406-1454.

This commemorative volume is a collection of essays whose subjects range from the structure of the Divine Comedy to detailed studies of Dante's influence, language, and thought.

Presents the first formal study of Jewish influences in the famous fifteenth-century cancionero, composed at the court of the poet-king, John II of Castile.

Contains over five hundred critical entries divided into thirteen sections that are concerned with the following aspects of Hugo scholarship: bibliographies; catalogues; editions; anthologies; biography; general criticism, political career and social philosophy; language, style and imagery; poetry; the novel; theatre; and foreign influence.

This study is based on a detailed analysis of the textual variants and revisions that reflect the poet's linear development from his poetic debut in 1922 to the present.

Traces the development of Roa Bastos's concern with the reality of his people and their history and focuses on the mature techniques employed in the creation of a literary myth of a social reality.

Provides an analysis of Rousseau's relationship to his reader in the major works from Discours sur les sciences et les arts to Reveries du promeneur solitaire. This volume should stimulate further discussion of the general subject of writer-reader relationships in literature.