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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.

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.

This philological study examines the possible influence exerted by religious traditions on the origin and development of the secular lyrics of the troubadours. It includes an historical outline, a survey of theories concerning the origins, and an analysis of the troubadours' conception of love.

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.

The life of the great Cistercian, St. Bernard, was translated into Portuguese from the first three books of Sancti Bernardi Vita Prima at Alcobaca. The surviving fifteenth-century manuscript constitutes an important example of the scholarship of that famous monastic centre.

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.

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal with medieval subjects or subjects very closely associated with the Middle Ages.

Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989.

Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis of nearly six hundred reappearing characters shows that some appear only briefly, in no significant role; others play important parts; some become principals in later action.

A concordance of Delie by the Renaissance writer Maurice Sceve that will be crucial in examining the structure and meaning of the work.

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.

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.

The Swiss writer and poet Juste Olivier was an eyewitness to the political and literary events in Paris during the July Revolution of 1830. His Journal is a keenly observed record of the Parisian intelligentsia of that period.

In 1253, this collection of fictional tales was translated from Arabic into the language of thirteenth-century Spain. It is one of the purest surviving representatives of a group of stories generally called the Book of Sindibad and is probably one of the most direct descendants of the long-lost original.

This general chronology of Voltaire's letters by an eminent "Voltairiste" contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an index.

Contains an introduction and translation into English of six poems by Geffroi de Paris, the fourteenth-century French writer and author of Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel, or Chronique rimee de Geoffroi de Paris. A glossary of proper names is included.

This critical, annotated essay is followed by appendices on painters in French fiction and selected paintings by them. A descriptive bibliography is also included.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from Latin femina, domina, and a few kindred words in the regional and border dialects of France. Adams also considers the descriptive terms for woman and girl in the same territory.

Marquis de Louvois served as French Minister of War under Louis XIV. The letters published in this volume were written from July 1681 to August 1684 and deal almost entirely with the War in Flanders. They are ordered by military campaign into ten sections, and the volume includes an introduction, identification list, and bibliography.

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, language, syntax, and composition of the work. Also included is a description of the handwriting used and an explanation of the preparation of the manuscript. The annotated poem is followed by a list of proper names employed in it.

This collection of essays is a memorial volume of Romance language etymological essays written by Prof. Carlton Cosmo Rice (1876-1945), a leading scholar of philology and linguistics at the time, and gathered by Urban T. Holmes.

Le Bocage de l'Art d'Armer, Le Loyer's version of Ovid's work, was published in 1576. Included in this volume is an introduction, the 156-stanza poem by Le Loyer with detailed notes, and a conclusion that makes comparisons between the original work by Ovid and Le Loyer's adaptations.

Examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste from its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics; develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro; and deals with the rewriting and reimagining of the Libro on into modernity.

Traces how courtly spectacles, short and full-length plays, and picaresque narratives arose under Philip III of Spain, and were then adopted by popular culture. The book focuses on some of the most prominent writers of the early, middle, and late Baroque, but considers their works through the optic of creative hysteresis - the artistic appropriation of the past to defend the present.

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).

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.

Modernismo, Latin America's first homegrown literary movement, has garnered critical attention for its political and social import during a time of intense nation building and efforts to propel the region into modernity. LaGreca's Erotic Mysticism explores two dominant discourses of the period, Catholicism and positivism, which sought to categorize and delimit the desires and behaviors of the ideal citizen. These discourses, LaGreca argues, were powerful because each promised to allay the individual's existential fears. Yet the coexistence of these two competing ideologies, one atheist and one religious, sowed doubt and unease in the modern intellectual who sought an alternative mode of understanding the human condition. From these uncertainties sprang a seductively liberating mode of writing: non-theistic erotic mysticism. Through analysis of key essays and fiction of Carlos Diaz Dufoo (Mexico), Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela), Jose Maria Rivas Groot (Colombia), Aurora Caceres (Peru), and Enrique Gomez Carrillo (Guatemala), LaGreca establishes erotic mysticism as a central philosophical substratum of the movement that anticipated the work of twentieth-century theorists such as William James and Georges Bataille. In modernista texts, the mystic's ecstatic state is achieved through a sublime erotic or sensual experience. The noetic mystical state expands one's consciousness, opening his or her mind to embrace diverse ways of loving and engaging. While science and religion sought to mold heteronormal and pragmatically useful citizens, modernista writers employed mystical discourse to transcend boundaries, opening readers' minds to alternative notions of sexuality, gender, desire, acceptance, and, ultimately, art.

Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portrayed in Spanish narrative, drama, and film. The book examines individual and social perceptions regarding gendered subjectivity, the operation of power relations, gender violence, and the economies of desire.

Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bolano's novels, short stories, poetry and essays examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition.

Offers a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labour and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyses gendered geographies and forms of emotional labour, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel.