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Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Modernity and Beyond
Häftad, 1995
511 kr
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Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate …
Tragic Myth
Lorca and Cante Jondo
Inbunden, 1978
344 kr
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With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child, Lorca imbibed traditional Andalusian songs from the lips of the family maids, whom he would remember …
Pious Brief Narrative in Medieval Castilian and Galician Verse
From Berceo to Alfonso X
Inbunden, 1987
344 kr
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"Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. They began with writings in Latin and, eventually, made their way into the vernacular languages of Europe. They include the fable, the apologue, the …
Aesop's Fables
With a Life of Aesop
Av John E Keller, L Clark Keating
Inbunden, 1993
762 kr
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In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and …
Presence of Camões
Influences on the Literature of England, America, and Southern Africa
Inbunden, 1996
595 kr
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Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524- 1580) remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not been fully recognized. In this major work of comparative scholarship, George Monteiro thus breaks new …
Dramas of Distinction
Plays by Golden Age Women
Inbunden, 1997
595 kr
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Renaissance Europe was the scene of flourishing and innovative dramatic art, and seventeenth-century Spain enjoyed its own Golden Age of the stage. According to traditional studies of this period, however, men seemed to be the only participants. Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas …
Miracles of Our Lady
Inbunden, 1997
334 kr
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Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages. Milagros de Nuestra Sehora, a collection of such stories by the Spanish secular priest Gonzalo de Berceo, is a premier …
Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Av John E Keller, Annette Grant Cash
Inbunden, 1998
511 kr
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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.No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to …
Presence of Pessoa
English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses
Inbunden, 1998
595 kr
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Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem ( …
Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
A Critical Study
Inbunden, 2000
575 kr
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most …
Hand and the Glove
Av Machado de Assis, Albert I Bagby
Häftad, 2014
886 kr
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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. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby, …
Iaiá Garcia
Av Machado de Assis, Albert I Bagby
Häftad, 2014
414 kr
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The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis's famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces, Iaiá Garcia belongs to what critics have called the Brazilian author's "romantic" phase. But it is far more than that implies. Like his other early works, Iaiá Garcia foreshadows the themes and …
Festive Play of Fernando Arrabal
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal is a major exponent of the Theater of the Absurd. In this study Arrabal's plays are seen as a contemporary expression of a festive form of theater that flourished during the Middle Ages and that had its roots in the drama of Aeschylus …
Spanish Ballad in English
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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This study offers an introduction to an important branch of Spanish literature -- the romance, or ballad. Although a great many of these poems have been translated into English by various authors, they are not generally known nor easily accessible. Collected here for the first time in a single …
Poet at the Fountain
Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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This collection is the first full-length literary study on Machaut, France's leading poet and musician of the 14th century. Machaut's narrative poems, called dits, have only been lightly studied. Here, author William Calin examines the works for their intrinsic merit and for their historical …
Lorca's Poet in New York
The Fall into Consciousness
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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Written in 1929--1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe" -- an an …
Metamorphoses of the Self
The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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American writer Julien Green's (1900--1998) origins, artistic motivation, and identity was a source of mystery and confusion even for those that most fêted him. The first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française, Green authored several novels ( The Dark Journey, The Closed …
Love and Remembrance
The Poetry of Jorge Manrique
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature. Frank A. Domínguez offers here an introduction to Manrique's poetry and the first book-length study of him in English in fifty years.After presenting the biographical and …
Galdós
The Mature Thought
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Pérez Galdós's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible. The later volumes in his ambitious and popular Episodios nacionales series, in particular, have suffered from scholarly …
Return of Astraea
An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderón
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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In classical mythology Astraea, the goddess of justice, chastity, and truth, was the last of the immortals to leave Earth with the decline of the ages. Her return was to signal the dawn of a new Golden Age. This myth not only survived the Christian Middle Ages but also became a commonplace in the …
La Diana of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world. Bruno M. Damiani argues here that, far from being simply a "pastoral dream," Diana has profound …
Christian Allegory in Early Hispanic Poetry
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Distinguishing figural or typological allegory -- a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament -- from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature. The author focuses on the thematic and structural …
Drama and Ethos
Natural-Law Ethics in Spanish Golden Age Theater
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Spanish Golden Age drama as an expression of morality falls between the extremes of art-for-art's-sake and utilitarianism. According to Spanish literary critics of the 16th and 17th centuries, drama imitated reality, the subject and domain of philosophy. The integration of drama and scholastic …
Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain
Av Otis Green
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis …
Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio
A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor
Av Juan Manuel, John E Keller m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the …
Vatard Sisters
Av J-K Huysmans, James C Babcock
Häftad, 2014
414 kr
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Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "lewd but exact" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by "his fervent admirer and …
Bonaventure des Périers's Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales
Av Bonaventure des Périers, Raymond C La Charité m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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The Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Périers 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 …
Narrative Imagination
Comic Tales by Phillippe de Vigneulles
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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Philippe de Vigneulles (1471--1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux. The work constitutes an important step in the development of the nouvelle form in France. In an extended explication, Ms. …
Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio
Av Pietro Metastasio, Joseph G Fucilla
Häftad, 2014
308 kr
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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698--1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. In this volume, Pietro Metastasio presents new translations of Dido Abandoned, Demetrius, and The Olympiad that stay close to the original form and …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On The Individual and Society
Häftad, 2014
499 kr
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In this study, Merle L. Perkins links individual freedom with national power in offering a close reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's major texts. He sees in Rousseau's thought an extreme tension and interdependence between the idiosyncrasy of nonconforming character and an almost obsessive concern …
