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

Volume 211 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Volume 214 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Volume 215 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

The years 1930 to 1950 were a period of considerable activity in the Argentine novel, in great part as a reaction and response to the military coup of September 1930 that inaugurated the "Infamous Decade" of Argentine social history. In this work, David Foster offers a reassessment of social realism in the Argentine literature of the time.

Offers a critical assessment of an important yet overlooked segment in the socio-cultural history of the interwar period. This book examines in detail the function, range, and implications of "sacred sociology" as practiced by the members of the 1937 College de Sociologie - Bataille, Caillois, and Monnerot.

Volume 231 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Alfonso Hordognez was the first translator of the Spanish classic Celestina. The antiquity and accuracy of his translation make it an important research tool, particularly in the effort to establish a critical edition of the classic. Kish has utilized Hordognez's work in this new Italian translation.

Contents: Pregnanza di significati e carattere della Vita Nuova; Vide cor tuum; Simulacra; Ego tanquam; Considerazioni sullo svolgimento di Amore nei capitoli XIII-XVIII della Vita Nuova e sul significato d'ispirazione poetica con riferimento al canto XXIV del Purgatorio; Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore; Che fai? Non sai novella? morta e la donna tua, ch'era si bella; che Amore non e per se si come sustanzia, ma e uno accidente in sustanzia; Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! facta est quasi vidua domina gentium; Li occhi dolenti per pieta del core; Allora vidi una gentile donna giovane e bella molto; Alcune considerazioni conclusive sulla Vita Nuova e sull'inserirsi dell'episodio della 'donna gentile' nella dinamica della narrazione.

Illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries, seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula.

Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi Chiappelli, Julia Conway Bondanella, Oscar Budel, Marga Cottino-Jones, Christopher Kleinhenz, Sara Sturm, Concetta Carestia Greenfield, Armaud Tripet, Douglas Radcliff-Umstead, Conrad H. Rawski, John E. Wrigley, Eugenio Battisti, Benjamin Kohl, Angelo Mazzocco, Jerome Taylor, Donald L. Guss, Paolo Cherchi, Frank L. Borchardt, Gerhard Dunnhaupt, and Gerhart Hoffmeister.

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.

Studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). Mariselle Melendez analyses elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Situates Juan Manuel at the apex of the European literary tradition of the exemplum. Following the medieval modes of reading and writing that structure Juan Manuel's text, this title uncovers a rhetorical lesson woven into the entire five-part Conde Lucanor that lays bare the inherent ambivalence of the exemplum as a narrative sign.

Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid's middle class viewed urban growth with apprehension in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Mapping the Social Body, Collin McKinney examines manifestations and critiques of that reaction in the work of Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest modern novelist.

By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between Lucien Foulet's Petite syntaxe de l'ancien francais and Haase's Syntaxe francais du XVII siecle.

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

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.