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

This volume is composed of fifteen essays on Hispanic subjects by scholars from the United States and abroad, and it was presented to Professor Adams in his seventieth year.

Editing this work in the context of modern scholarship has involved many literary and linguistic problems left untouched by the Meyer edition of 1880. The present edition provides a new, accurate reading of the sole manuscript, supported by copious textual notes and chapters on versification, dating, and language of author and scribe.

Provides commentary on Diderot's translation of Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, Walters demonstrates the evolution of Diderot's thought and artistic skill. Walters discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought.

After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyrics of the troubadours follows. Frank M. Chambers' book endeavours to include all the proper names found in the lyric poems of the twelfth and thirteenth century poets known as the troubadours.

After a discussion of the youth, education, and early writings of Canete, the author turns to the Madrid years with El Faro and later with El Haraldo. Canete's connection with the Academia Espanola is also discussed as is his response to the post-romantic era.

This story concerns the capture by Alexander's forces of the city of Milide. As an example of courtly literature, Le Parfait combines, curiously, aristocratic refinement with descriptions of violent and bloody battles. The critical apparatus includes an introduction, linguistic study, variants, notes, glossary, and index of proper names.

One of the most colourful episodes in Moliere's career was the so-called Comic War, the controversy provoked by the successful production of L'Ecole des Femmes. Among the ultimately unsuccessful attempts by rival dramatists to discredit him and his theatre, the three comedies published in this volume were particularly notable.

Based on contemporary sources and recent authoritative scholarship, this analytical index brings together in concise form the available information concerning each of the persons and works named or alluded to in Sainte-Beuve's most-discussed book. The introduction, index, notes, and appendixes are in French.

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France's narrative technique.

Includes all of Jehan Froissart's lyric poetry. McGregor includes explanatory notes, significant or noteworthy variants, as well as a useful glossary and an appendix of lyric forms found in Froissart's narrative poems.

A transcription of the previously unpublished seventeenth-century manuscript now in the possession of the Hispanic Society of America formerly known as the "Cancioneiro hispano-portugues da Academia das Ciencias, Lisboa". The volume is of importance to scholars of Spanish and Portuguese poetry of the Classical period, 1500-1700.

An attempt to trace the development of Moliere criticism organised around three categories: biographical, academic (both historical and formalistic), and commentaries by "theatre professionals."

First recognized with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco as a defining figure at the forefront of the "theater of the absurd," French playwright Adam Adamov had a fairly prolific career, writing twenty plays between 1947 and his death in 1970. Now, although he has fallen somewhat into obscurity, John J. McMann provides a study of Adamov's work which traces the playwright's artistic development and explores his role in defining the avant-garde and political theaters of France.

Examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse.

This edition is annotated and introduced with a detailed chart of representative Spanish and French works of "useless-precaution" plots. The intention is to deal with the specific aspect of cuckoldry (traceable in literary history), in which cuckolding is the final result of a dramatic plot.

Presents a clear picture of the structural history of the Romance language known as Vegliote and illustrates the applicability of structural linguistics to a diachronic study of many stages.

Examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of Modernsmo, via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels published in Spanish America. These novels incorporate all the attributes that consistently appear in a science fiction work through a blend of Darwinism and Spiritism.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work is a complete bibliography of Italian dialect dictionaries that had appeared at the time of its publication.

Offers a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light on this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

Published in 1966, this study is an interpretation of the Chanson de Willame and at the same time an enlargement of traditional concepts defining all medieval epic literature calculated to advance our appreciation of its literary quality.

Published in 1966, this bibliography of Oviedo went far toward advancing factual knowledge about the life and works of a great writer who explored early sixteenth-century America and commented upon its flora and fauna and aboriginal Indian life.

Through an investigation of the literary doctrines and ideas of the chief critics of the eighteenth century, the author of this study traces the concept of tragic theory in a would-be age of neo-classicism. The innovational and revitalizing forces advocated for tragedy are stressed, but problems relating to subject matter, form, and rules within the genre are also covered.

This tale, preserved in Arsenal MS 3150, was first published by Professor Sargent in 1963 in mimeographed form. This is a charming story, well suited for reading in a Middle French course.

The first part of the document under study is concerned with rhetorical patterns and phrases modeled after Cicero; the second part consists of a series of love letters composed in a mannered fashion and with a preliminary flavor of later preciosity.

This is an edition of the only Portuguese manuscript of the story of Joseph of Arimathea. It is a sixteenth-century copy of an early fourteenth-century original. This paleographic edition and the study based on it make contributions to the study of Old Portuguese and European Arthurian literature.

These two anonymous French poems indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the legend's decaying status as well as suggests its new uses, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern.

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait's French version of De Casibus virorum illustrium (Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes).

In her study of Marie de France's twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Christian morality thus upending previous scholarship about this medieval work.

Offers data to expand our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions found in those areas of the Western Roman world where Romance speech developed, and to shed some light on the controversial issue as to whether linguistic features that differentiate Romance languages and dialects correspond to dialectal differences already in existence.