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

This morphological study is designed to show the transformation from Latin verbs into the Old and Modern Italian verbal system. The work is inspired by the methods of traditional, historical philology, and its intent is largely pedagogical.

Utilizing the various methods already established by recognized authorities in the field, Mr. Clark studies ten doubtful plays long attributed to Lope. Contrasting subjective impressions of literary historians and the results of the objective tests applied to the comedias, the author discounts Lope's authorship of the ten works.

The first critical analysis of this comedia de costumbres y de enredo, written in 1617 by the creator of the national Spanish theater. In his edition, Professor Picerno has retained the orthography of Lope's original autograph manuscript, in which modern capitalization, punctuation, and accentuation have been added.

The only play of Lope de Vega's involving the Cid and Sancho II, this work has long been admired by critics of the Golden Age drama for its vitality and poetic character. This edition brings to light new variants and passages missing in the known printed editions.

Scholarly opinion on the philosophical and aesthetic significance of Ronsard's Christianity is sharply divided. This monograph makes a thorough review of the most important and representative writings on the question. The foreword by W.L. Wiley describes the broad cultural and literary framework within which Ronsard's Christianity may be examined.

Brings to light the significant influence of the Roman dramatist and philosopher, Seneca, on the works of Racine. After describing the characteristics of Senecan tragedy and the role it played in French drama from Jodelle through Corneille, Ronald W. Tobin analyses Racine's adoption and absorption of Senecan material into his own plays.

The author identifies the existentialist thinkers. After a review of the criticism (most of which does not consider Ortega an existentialist), the themes chosen are traced in his works, pointing out the ways in which he coincides with or differs from the usual existentialist treatment and attitudes.

This study has as its object the presentation of a new approach to the understanding of the content and style of the works of Francisco de Quevedo.

An annotated edition of a unique Spanish translation of Guido de Colonna's Latin version of the Old French Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure. The editor has provided a useful critical apparatus, including a source study and a glossary.

Examines the thematic unity of Les Tragiques as the resolution of disorder, interprets its form as a fusion of generic tragedy and the epic, draws a parallel between the poem and the Book of Revelation, and treats aspects of structure and style in the light of this reading of Les Tragiques as tragedy and Apocalypse.

Winner of the 1949 Language Association Oxford Award, Literature through Art, first published in 1952, sketches the history of French literature in terms of its relations to the fine arts, using pictures to interpret literature and literary texts to interpret art.

The first edition (Toledo, 1526) is here reproduced in facsimile in honor of Professor Sterling A. Stoudemire. Oviedo, an official chronicler of the Indies, describes in naive but charming fashion the dazzling variety of new flora and fauna as well as the customs of the Indians he has observed in the Caribbean Islands.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

The annotated text, followed by a listing of principal sources and a selective bibliography, has the dual purpose of tracing a biography of G. D'Orleans and depicting his patronage of the arts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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".

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.