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Explores Boaistuau's quest for a "nouvelle form" in his loose adaptation of Bandello's Novelle. Emphasizing psychological details absent in the Italian original, Carr repeatedly questions the human motives for the gruesome acts that Boaistuau selected as exempla for his readers.

Conchita Herdman Marianella's book develops the words "Duena" and "Doncella" in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this character type in pre-Cervantine usage, from the tendency of the duena or doncella to appear as a lady-in-waiting, damsel in distress, or other high-level intermediary and to behave in patterns commensurate with that socio-cultural status.

Alice Fiola Berry's study on the fundamental importance of language itself in the four books of Rabelais leads the reader down the path trod by Panurge and Pantagruel. Berry demonstrates how language and logos are the source of comedy, the focus of attention, and indeed the closest elements to the main character of the texts. Nowhere is this import more clear than in the dominant theme of Rabelais's volumes: the quest for truth. There, in the core of these texts, Berry teases out the ways that the legitimacy of language is most seriously questioned, and the limits of its power drawn.

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of saints on ordinary men and the relationship between holiness and heroism in the twelfth century. Divided into two parts, the first is devoted to aspects of the hero-saint and savior-saint, and the second, organized alphabetically by saint's name, engages the French hagiographic traditions.

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturation of Proust's textual construction, Crosman's key to a universal interpretation is narrowed to those metaphors that build up Proustian time itself.

Barbarino's orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn from approximately 4,800 epitaphs that include Latin inscriptions from Roman provinces in Britain, the Balkans, North Africa, Dalmatia, Spain, Gaul, and Italy.

Reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories, Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. Diane Wolfe Levy shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters.

An English language translation of the letters and documents written and exchanged during the literary quarrel about Roman de la Rose. The quarrel itself should be of interest to readers of Roman de la Rose, of Medieval French Scholars, and to scholars interested in feminism and conditions of women in Medieval France.

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contemporary Bahian Portuguese. Megenney interrogates a broad swath of claims concerning potential syntactic, morphological, and phonemic influences in the field.

Challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne's work. By doing so, Insdorf does not aim to characterise him as a feminist, but rather to expose the duality of his complex intellect.

Douglas Alden provides scholars of Proust a practical means of access to the Grasset Proofs, which include Du cote de chez Swann, A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and Le Cote de Guermantes. Alden guides the reader in approaching Proust's only work available in its pre-publication form by dividing his book into two sections. His "Commentary" offers an analysis of the changes Proust made to his work, and his "Variants" shows the 1913 and 1914 proofs in discourse with the Pleiade edition.

Conlon's edition usefully places Le Romant de Richart and Corrozet's prose adaptation Richart sans Peour into one text. This composition allows Conlon to explore the connections between the first prose adaptation and its epic source, hypothesizing the rationales for each of their creations.

This edition of Cort d'amor with English facing translation is a welcome addition to studies on Occitan literature. This edition includes notes for both languages, an index of proper names, and a glossary.

This exhaustive morpho-syntactic analysis of Latin nominal declensions, as found in Christian funerary inscriptions from the Roman Empire, seeks to establish the extent to which this inscribed material reflects the period's linguistic evolution: from classical Latin's multi-case structure to the one-case system of Western Romance Languages.

Joseph Alston James provides the only modern edition of Octavien de Saint-Gelais's Le Sejour d'honneur. A highlight of this edition is the inclusion of illustrations from the manuscript de Saint-Gelais presented to Charles VIII. James's critical work for the edition includes an introduction, a bibliography of de Saint-Gelais's works, a bibliography of works influential to Le Sejour d'honneur, and notes.

This critical edition of the 1131 La Passion Nostre Seigneur offers comprehensive English-language annotation and a glossary as ancillary materials to this representative text that lays between Latin and early vernacular Biblical drama and the large scale cyclical vernacular Passions of the fifteenth century. Gallagher's introduction to the play offers particularly illuminating commentary on staging and the manuscript's textual forebears and milieu.

Examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize. Language endangerment studies generally focus on the loss of a minority language to a European language. Tropical Tongues presents a fresh perspective on language shift and loss by examining how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages.

This work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France. Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France. This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second Memoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes. In his Memoire, Malesherbes suggests changes to the book trade and condemns censorship's arbitrary nature. Rodmell's introductory analysis proposes that Malesherbes wanted to make censorship a tool for liberalism.

Offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries.

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar H. Thompson; Teresa Wheeling; Paul J. Weingartner, Dwight Billings, and Kathleen M. Blee; Nelda Knelson Daley; Roberta McKenzie; Barry Elledge; Benita J. Howell; and Rodger Cunningham.

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Gordon B. McKinney; Jean Haskell Speer; Rodger Cunningham; Thomas A. Arcury; Rhonda England; Roger A. Lohmann; Richard P. Mulcahy; Kate Black; Beth Degutis; Garry Barker; Roberta Campbell and Alan J. DeYoung; and Barbara Ann Starnes.

The proceedings from the 1985 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Anne Campbell; Loyal Jones; David Williams; Grace Edwards; Charlotte Ross; James Gifford; Howard Dorgan; Ron Willoughby; Mike Yarrow; Richard Straw; Robert J. Higgs; Sharyn McCrumb; Melinda Bollar Wagner, Lynn Batley, Kai Jackson, Bill O'Brien, and Liz Thockmorton; Nancy Forderhase; and Sally Ward Maggard.

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Elizabeth C. Fine; Archie Green; Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer; Susan Eike Spalding; Linda Plaut and Lyn Wolz; Kathleen Curtis Wilson; Donald Edward Davis; Tom Costa; Robert Weise; Mary LaLone; Kim Gillespie; Anita Puckett; Pam B. Cole; Shaunna L. Scott; Sally Ward Maggard; and Richard Blaustein.

The proceedings from the 1980 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Wilson Somerville; George W. Hopkins; Helen M. Lewis and Myles Horton; Gene Wilhelm, Jr.; Rick Simon and Betty Justice; John Opie; Stephen L. Fisher and Mary Harnish; Peter G. Marden; Ted L. Napier and Elizabeth G. Bryant; Clyde B. McCoy and Virginia McCoy Watkins; and Gary L. Fowler.

The proceedings from the 1984 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Sam Gray; Derrell Roberts; Laurel Horton; Grace Toney Edwards; Parks Lanier; Ron Wlloughby; Allen Bateau; Thomas A. Arcury and Julia D. Porter; David K. Evans; Paul McClure; Cheryl Claasen; Bennie Lee Sinclair; Tom Boyd; Thomas R. Shannon; Ted Couillard; Gene Wiggins; John C. Inscoe; and David Carpenter.

The proceedings from the 1982 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Rick Simon; Ronald D. Eller; Deborah Morentz Markley and Brady J. Deaton; William W. Philliber and Phillip J. Obermiller; Virginia McCoy Watkins and Diana Gullet Trevino; Grace Toney Edwards; Harold Branam; Parks Lanier; Joan Moser; Melinda Bollar Wagner; and Thomas Plaut.

This volume is the proceedings from the 1974 Southern Appalachian Regional Conference which was sponsored by the Appalachian Consortium Press. This was the first meeting in what would eventually turn into the Appalachian Studies Conference.

The proceedings from the 1986 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Carl Ross; Ron Eller; Howard Dorgan; Ricky Cox; Becky Eller; Sally Bruce; Bennie Sinclair; Paul Salstrom; Dennis Soden; Parks Lanier; John McLaughlin; Betsy Covington; and Charles Watkins.

The proceedings from the 1987 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Sandra L. Ballard; Richard Blaustein; Ricky Cox; Alan J. DeYoung; Howard Dorgan; Karen Tice and Albie Pabon; Bennie Lee Sinclair; Amy Tipton Gray; Marie Tedesco; Marc Sherrod; Curtis Wood and Joan Greene; and Paul E. Lovingood and Robert E. Reiman.