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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Written in Spanish, this book explores the relationship between dramatic texts and their cinematic adaptations. It examines the transposition of form and ideology in film versions of 20th-century plays by writers such as Carlos Arniches, Federico Garcia Lorca and Antonio Buero Vallejo.

In an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to assume a recognizably modern form and function.

Examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry.

Investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol, Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel, and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo. Michael Aronna traces the reactions of these thinkers to the economic, cultural, social, and political challenges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Argues that the Escorial codex usually published and studied as nine separate saints' lives and romances is in fact a unified and organized whole. Thomas Spaccarelli shows how the codex is intimately related to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and to the religious, literary, and artistic traditions associated with it.

Examines the many ways in which seventeenth-century Spanish authors manipulated the expected outcomes of secular literature to create religiously motivated endings prompted by some kind of conversion.

Antonio de Guevera (1481-1545) was a Spanish writer and official chronicler of Charles V. Guevera's Una Decada de Cesares, published in 1539. It was based on the lives of the ten caesars from Trajan to Severus Alexander, and became a widely translated and imitated work.

This is the first translation into modern English of the story of Floire and Blanchefleur, a popular romantic story that appeared in numerous languages of both northern and southern Europe well into the Renaissance.

Offers a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) - a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure of Spanish Baroque literature - titled El caballero de Olmedo. The study analyses the comedia in terms of the literary and social conventions that it reflects: cortesia, brujeria, and alcahueteria.

Ramon Perez de Ayala's (1880-1962) was a Spanish author of poetry, literary essays, criticism, novels, and short stories. This study analyses how de Ayala adapted conceptual topics into his fiction and analyzes the central themes of his novels.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier provides an introduction and notes to what was de Fontenelle's first major work, but the text is based on a 1758 edition of Dialogues.

Jehan de Lanson is a thirteenth-century French epic poem in alexandrine verse. This edition is based on the manuscripts of Paris and Bern, and includes an introduction, a table of proper names, and a glossary.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, mathematician, and astrologer. This is the first English translation published in the twentieth century of his De gli eroici furori, or The Heroic Frenzies.

Examines the fictional works of the French writer Vital d'Audiguier (1565-1624), whose novels provide insight into the changes of the French reading public's taste in fiction during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.

This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding his life and execution, and reveals misattributions of his works in previous English translations.

Juan del Valle Caviedes (1645-1697), also known as Caviedes, was a seventeenth-century Peruvian poet. Daniel R. Reedy's examination of his life and work includes a survey of critical commentaries on his poetry since 1791 and a brief history of the editions of his works.

Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partido is the oldest surviving book on the game of chess. Jacob Ornstein provides an annotated introduction in two parts that gives a general overview of the text and its author, and discusses the work in relation to the Feminist debates.

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a detailed study of six of her novels, showing how the French Naturalism contributed to them, and how Zola's chief Spanish follower could at once be a materialist and a staunch Catholic.

Robert Burgess's study of Platonism in Desportes poetry rounds out those of his predecessors in the 16th-century field, particularly Merrill, Kerr, and Lefrancz.

Traces the history of Mexican literary academies and societies from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia University. This volume of Pei's scholarly articles was selected by his students and colleagues, and published posthumously.

Rutebeuf was a thirteenth-century French troubadour. This work examines his portrayals of Louis IX, who he considered to be a fanatic. The prose of Rutebeuf, Edward Billings Ham argues, calls attention to the king's avarice and political ineptitude, and to the self-interest of his counselors and their preposterous incapacity for war.

Bernart de Ventadorn was a twelfth-century Catalan poet and troubador. These forty-one poems, filled with nostalgia, joy, and tenderness, were written between 1150 and 1180. This edition, with notes and a complete glossary, contains the original texts accompanied by the only English translations available at the time of publication.

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), the French poet and playwright, is based on the two earliest printed versions in the Bibliotheque Nationale and includes the original engravings.