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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.

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.

In this study of Andre Gide's magnum opus, Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Karin Nordenhaug Ciholas argues for the novel's thematic unity.

This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.

A study of the somewhat parsimonious but intentional use of multiple sonnets in Calderon's drama.

Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne is a portion of a medieval Arthurian prose romance extracted from a longer work entitled La Suite du Merlin. Editor Patrick Coogan Smith includes background and summaries that provide context for the portion of text provided.

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.

A psychological interpretation of Marie de France's Guigemar, a lai that uses the legend of Hercules as a vehicle for her ideas on love and duty in society.

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen's Aire nuestro.

Provides an analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develop naturally from the Renaissance outlook on the world.

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

Artus Desire, whose career extended from 1545 to at least 1578, was the author of more than twenty theological treatises and anti-Protestant pamphlets. In this volume Frank S. Giese provides the first comprehensive study of Artus Desire and his work.

This study shows how Osuna uses mystical symbolism and allegory in his own writing and in the methods of meditation and contemplation he teaches.

The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined with pious devotion. Complementing the work of Antonio Vilanova, Juergen Hahn's study of peregrinacion focuses on Spanish literature of the Golden Age.

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.

This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes's article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various aspects of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures.

An edition of an anonymous poem about the famous thirteenth-century outlaw Eustache surnamed Le Moine (ca. 1170-1217), son of the Boulonnais nobleman Baudoin Busket, that survives in a single manuscript. Conlon's introduction explores the historical background, summarizes the content of the poem, analyzes its language and explains the editorial policy. Notes, an Appendix containing historical and literary texts that mention Eustache le Moine, a "Table des noms propres, noms de lieu," etc., a "Glossaire" and a "Bibliographie" conclude the edition.

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.

The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto's Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italian and English translations. This study was the first in English to be devoted exclusively to an examination of this Renaissance epic, which is one of the major poetic creations of the Italian Quattrocento.

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.

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.

Opening a new perspective on Malherbe's major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction Rubin defines and illustrates implied comparison. There follows a series of explications which recover each poem's values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the six completed odes.

David O'Connell's study seeks to serve as the final word on which version of the Enseignements de saint Louis can claim ultimate authenticity. Through an analytical comparison of the three families of the Teachings and a historical overview of the critical controversy surrounding the texts, O'Connell argues for the authority and historicity of the Noster manuscript.

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.