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  • af J.-K. Huysmans
    292,95 kr.

    Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "lewd but exact" slice of life, was J.-K.

  • af Lucy A. Sponsler
    222,95 kr.

    Sponsler illuminates the role of women during this interesting period by exploring their portrayal in literature. Women in the Medieval Spanish Epic and Lyric Traditions examines the various ways in which women were portrayed in the formative years of medieval society, as well as the development of these views as new social mores evolved.

  • - Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut
    af William Calin
    362,95 kr.

    This collection is the first full-length literary study on Machaut, France's leading poet and musician of the 14th century. Here, author William Calin examines the works for their intrinsic merit and for their historical importance in influencing many writers, most notably Chaucer.

  • af Pietro Metastasio
    222,95 kr.

    Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698--1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

  • - The Poetry of Jorge Manrique
    af Frank A. Dominguez
    362,95 kr.

    After presenting the biographical and historical context of Manrique's poetry, Dominguez examines the poet's love lyrics, describing the large fund of commonplaces and forms that Manrique's verses share with those of other poets of his age.

  • - The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green
    af John M. Dunaway
    222,95 kr.

    The first non-French national to be elected to the Academie francaise, Green authored several novels ( The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, and the Dixie trilogy), a four-volume autobiography ( The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless Youth), and his famous Diary.

  • - Lorca and Cante Jondo
    af Edward F. Stanton
    217,95 kr.

    With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. Stanton examines Lorca's theoretical and practical approach to cante jondo, the traditional music of Andalusia, as seen in his lectures on the subject and in the 1922 concurso.

  • - Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater
    af Robert L. Fiore
    292,95 kr.

    The integration of drama and scholastic moral philosophy was an important aspect of the critical theory of this era, which held that art should both teach and delight. Through close textual analysis of representative plays, this book examines the artistic fusion of natural-law philosophy and drama.

  • af Shasta M. Bryant
    362,95 kr.

    Collected here for the first time in a single volume is a broad and representative sampling of romances in translation that encompasses historical ballads (including those about Spain's greatest folk hero, el Cid), Moorish ballads, and ballads of chivalry, love, and adventure. For the collection, Shasta M.

  • - Occultism in Hispanic Drama
    af Robert Lima
    362,95 kr.

    The dramatic works covered range from medieval materializations of Hell to the Golden Age plays of Lope de vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca, to modern stage works by Valle-Inclan, Garcia Lorca, Casona, Miras, and a number of significant Afro-Brazilian and Caribbean dramatists.

  • - Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934
    af Roberta Johnson
    362,95 kr.

  • - Three Comedies by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
    af Pedro Calderon de la Barca
    437,95 kr.

    This volume is a sequel to Four Comedies of Calderon (1980), which was hailed by reviewers as superb, faithful, and actable. The three comedies in the present volume are generally counted among Calderon's masterpieces: Casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar (A House with Two Doors Is Difficult to Guard);

  • af Henry K. Ziomek
    437,95 kr.

    Spain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius - the comedia. A History of Spanish Golden Age Drama presents the history of the comedia, with special emphasis on critical approaches developed during the past ten years.

  • af Bonaventure des Periers
    437,95 kr.

    The Nouvelles Recreations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Periers are here translated for the first time into modern English. The translators have been successful in retaining the vitality of this important French Renaissance satirist, turning his colloquial sixteenth-century French into equally colloquial and lively American.

  • - An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderon
    af Frederick A. de Armas
    362,95 kr.

    The literary cult of Astraea persisted in the sixteenth century as writers saw in Elizabeth I of England the imperial Astraea who would lead mankind to peace through universal rule. This and other late flowerings of the Astraea myth should not be taken as the final phases of her history.

  • af Machado de Assis
    687,95 kr.

    The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated.

  • - Influences on the Literature of England, America, and Southern Africa
    af George Monteiro
    368,95 kr.

    Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camoes (c. In this major work of comparative scholarship, George Monteiro thus breaks new ground, focusing on English-language writers whose vision and expression have been sharpened by their varied responses to Camoes.

  • - A Critical Edition
    af Hunain ibn Ishaq
    222,95 kr.

    The libro de los buenos proverbios, a key work in the medieval didactic tradition, is presented here for the first time in a western translation.

  • af Machado de Assis
    287,95 kr.

    The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis's famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces, Iaia Garcia belongs to what critics have called the Brazilian author's "romantic" phase.

  • af Garci R. de Montalvo
    722,95 kr.

    In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. The first great bestseller of the age of printing, Amadis of Gaul was translated into dozens of languages and spawned sequels and imitators over the centuries.

  • af Garci R. de Montalvo
    722,95 kr.

    In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul.

  • - From the Bizarre to the Sublime
    af James S. Patty
    312,95 kr.

    Salvator Rosa (1615--1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa's tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Theophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.

  • - A Critical Study
    af Guillermo Schmidhuber
    370,95 kr.

    Traditionally, scholars have attributed only one complete play to Sor Juana, but in 1989 Guillermo Schmidhuber discovered a lost play, The Second Celestina, which he proved conclusively to be Sor Juana's earliest comedia, co-authored with Agustin Salazar y Torres.

  • - English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses
    af George Monteiro
    368,95 kr.

    Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century.

  • af John E. Keller
    315,95 kr.

    The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252--84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain. Combining keen observation of detail with years of experience in the field, John Keller and Annette Grant Cash bring to life a world previously little explored.

  • - Plays by Golden Age Women
    af Teresa Scott Soufas
    368,95 kr.

    Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas offers the first book-length critical study of five important women playwrights: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marfa de Zayas y Sotomayor.

  • - Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes
    af E. Michael Gerli
    189,95 kr.

    The notion of writing as reading and reading as writing is thus central to an understanding of Cervantes' literary invention. Modern literary theory has confirmed what Cervantes and his contemporaries intuitively knew -- that reading and writing are closely linked dimensions of the literary enterprise.

  • - With a Life of Aesop
    af John E. Keller
    492,95 kr.

    Of equal value are the woodcuts, which depict the daily life of medieval Europe and contribute to a better understanding of fifteenth-century art history, bookmaking, natural history, and the visualization of narrative. La vida del Ysopet thus constitutes one of the finest concordances of text and illustration in European literary history.

  • - From Berceo to Alfonso X
    af John E. Keller
    191,95 kr.

    "Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. Keller studies the structure of the pious brief narrative, including such works at the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X and Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora, among others.

  • - Modernity and Beyond
    af Andrew Debicki
    315,95 kr.

    He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product.

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