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Foundational Texts of World Literature

Crossing Cultures Cruzando culturas

Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought

Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation

Suitable for students of modern Latin American literature, this title articulates the role of travel as a catalyst in the formation process of young male and female protagonists by examining six representative novels from three different countries and time periods.

The end of the twentieth century witnessed a «boom» in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women¿s writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the «post-boom» period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number of women¿s movements on the continent. Within this «boom», the short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers ¿ Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende ¿ and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts. Combining close textual analysis of their fiction with a consideration of the social, historical, and geographical contexts of literary production, this book is essential reading for students and scholars in Latin American studies, women¿s studies, and comparative literature.

The first epic poem written in Italian is the Teseida delle nozze di Emilia (Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia) by Giovanni Boccaccio, the well-known author of the Decameron. Conceived and composed during the Florentine author¿s stay in Naples, it combines masterfully both epic and lyric themes in a genre that may be defined as an epic of love. Besides its intrinsic literary value, the poem reflects the author¿s youthful emotions and nostalgia for the happiest times of his life.