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The legend of the Siete infantes de Lara has rarely been a part of the Spanish curriculum in American universities, mainly because of the lack of reliable and informative texts on the subject. This volume comprises a study of the legend's aspects, a comparison of the epic's various versions, and an edition of the lost epic from the Refundici toledana de la cronica de 1344.

The importance of the troubadour Raimon Vidal as poet and grammarian has been recognised since the thirteenth century. This volume presents Vidal's long poem on the decline of the jongleur's art, along with a prose translation, notes, and an index of names mentioned in the poem.

John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern ""Racine.

The monster is a key figure in Spanish early-modern art and literature. Employing both close readings and monster theory, this book focuses on three of Miguel de Cervantes' works: the short novel ""El coloquio de los perros,"" the play ""El rufian dichoso"", and the novel ""Don Quijote de la Mancha"".

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group. This study focuses on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts, including troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), and others.

Contains the transcription of the Neo-Latin text, as well as the English translation of Barth's prologue and notes. This edition of Barth's translation is a useful tool not only for Celestina scholars, but also for Neo-Latin scholars and for those interested in the history of translation and in early modern Europe.

This text traces the beginnings of a bourgeois literature in Golden Age Spain. The author analyses works by Baltasar Gracian, major picaresque works such as ""Lazarillo de Tormes"", and contemporary writings in which political economists and jurists look at new economic and political circumstances.

This work focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Benjamin Jarnes. It identifies the attempt to integrate conflicting epistemological, ethical and sociopolitical categories as the principle driving the avant-garde art and novel.

Saint John Perse's (1887-1975) poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where interlocutors are almost always reduced to anonymity. This book analyzes the poet's multiple strategies of dialogue, capturing his conversations with biblical figures, classical authors and other artists.

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.

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.

Illustrates how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers, including Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even down to such modern writers as Rilke.

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.

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.

This interpretive essay and epilogue is introduced by a foreword in which he defends the work.

An introduction to the Caribbean and Latin American writer, Luis Rafael Sanchez. It examines his work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico and addresses the international and regional dimensions of his writing in relation to the status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth and colony.

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.

This is an edition of the parts of the Quincuagenas of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo that the author considers "aspectos de las Quincuagenas que podemos considerar respaldados por las vivencias del autor", hence the title Memorias. We are left, however, with two substantial volumes of which this is the second.

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.

Examines in detail the insightful accounts by four prominent female writers who travelled to and from Latin America in the 19th century: the French-Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-1844), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1819-1892) and Eduarda Mansilla (1838-1892), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909).

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.

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.

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.

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.