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La Chancun de Willame is an Old French epic poem written before 1150 concerning Vivien's resistance to an invading Moslem army and the efforts of his uncle William to rescue him. The poem has a second part dedicated to the activities of a kitchen boy named Reneward in the same battlefield. This volume, edited by Nancy V. Iseley, includes an etymological glossary by Guerard Piffard.

Offers a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light on this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This brief book examines Bayle's writings about Spanish authors and their work, which Scholberg argues was influential on other French critics and philosophers.

This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between Lucien Foulet's Petite syntaxe de l'ancien francais and Haase's Syntaxe francais du XVII siecle.

Examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of Modernsmo, via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels published in Spanish America. These novels incorporate all the attributes that consistently appear in a science fiction work through a blend of Darwinism and Spiritism.

Explores manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. The fascination of these modernist writers with such areas as alchemy, theosophy, and the supernatural expressed not only a residual Romantic literary sensibility but also the influence of numerous spiritualist movements around the world.

Fred M. Clark offers a semiotic analysis of three plays by Nelson Rodrigues, based in Charles S. Pierce's triadic concept of the sign: as sign, interpretant, and object, in regards to its production as perception and consciousness. Clark's use of this triad approach demonstrates the self-conscious plays of icons in Vestido de noiva, Album de familia, and Anjo negro, and offers a basis for the relevance of his conclusions to theatre at large. Based on this semiotic theory, Clark demonstrates the particular modes in which Nelson's theatre builds up fictional situations that transcend the pretense of the vanguard to become radically innovative and achieve a first-rate literary realization, equal of any occidental writer of the period. The author demonstrates the way in which Rodrigues dissects the difference between seeming and being, questioning the very notion of permanence and order.

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho's analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry. Walking the text's balance between the real and the imaginary, and focusing his reading on the thread of ambivalence that snakes its way throughout, Coutinho weaves together the text's dichotomies between ethics and aesthetics, rural regionalism and urban universalization, and socioeconomic and psychological epistemologies. This book also serves to place Grande Sertao: Veredas in the trajectory of the history of the Latin American novel, creating an accessible point of entry to the genre, and grounding the text firmly within the literary tradition.

While work contrasting Polifemo and Galatea has been done previously, Kathleen Hunt Dolan's book elevates the level of that discourse and enriches the concept with its deeply researched comparative approach. The book explores Polifemo, tying him first to the pre-Ovidian, underworld-dwelling tradition of the Cyclops, then laying out his expansive semantic field.

Raser questions criticism's predilection for a scientific discourse, arguing that aesthetic categories are better indicators of a text's literary qualities. Although aesthetics has claimed subjective pleasure as its sole criterion since the time of Kant, aesthetic judgments tend always to ground themselves in logic or reference.

Through close readings of eight tales from the Conde Lucanor, Anibal A. Biglieri offers the foundation for a Poetics of short didactic narratives. Biglieri's point of entry into this canonical work is his analysis of the text's unique relation with reality. This book also offers insights about the significance of the frame story, the ethics of social position, and the relationship between the author and his text. Hacia una poetica del relato didictico reaffirms the foundational role that El Conde Lucanor plays in the development of narrative structures, and celebrates the complexity of this quintessential landmark of Hispanic literature.

In her exploration of the quest for God in Beckett's fiction, Barge discloses a powerful substratum of thematic and narrative movements underlying the rhetoric of Beckett's texts. By studying examples of myth-making structures in representative selections of the fiction, she reveals their profundity and centrality to the whole of Beckett's visionary thought and art.

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literary milieu that witnessed their creation. By doing so, Garay defends the un-Aristotelian medieval tradition, tracing the theory behind Vicente's comedies through Dante and the pre-sixteenth Century Iberian tradition.

Philip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels - Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise - the characters' sincerity disguises how incompletely the meaning of their own experience is resolved.

Provides the first critical analysis of the Catalan novel of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch (1490). By breaking down the story into two fundamental narrative threads - the military and erotic exploits of the hero - Aylward reveals the two-pronged narrative scheme that supports Martorell's fast-paced and amusing account of romance and political intrigue in fifteenth-century Constantinople.

The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, affords a particularly privileged locus for the implementation of reader-response theory. As opposed to many medieval authors, Ruiz explicitly refuses to prescribe interpretation for his readership, a fact that has led to widely divergent critical readings of his fictional biography.

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the paradoxical case of fictions that proffer truths.

Offers the first book-length examination of a mythopoetic configuration that pervades Valery's entire textual universe. The Angel is linked to almost every one of its themes and informs all of its modes, which, in turn, form and deform it.

Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), poet and painter, friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, discreet disciple of Mallarme, led a vie de boheme while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet.

Challenges the notion that Lemaire's recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. Jenkins demonstrates the importance of rhetoric in pre-Renaissance French literature, filling a crucial gap in previous scholarship. He provides an overview of rhetorical tradition and Lemair's knowledge of it.

The Instructions are Saint Louis's second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. O'Connell's critical text is, for the most part, based on the non-Latinized manuscript ms. G (ca. 1300) and incorporates variants from E (the printed version of the Latinized manuscripts) and KMN (non-Latinized manuscripts).

This edition of Urban T. Holmes, Jr.'s exploration of medieval man includes an introduction and has been edited by his son. This is not an excessively theoretical text adhering tightly to the development of its argument. Instead, it allows the reader to meet not only medieval man in his own understanding of himself, but the author as well.

Explores Boaistuau's quest for a "nouvelle form" in his loose adaptation of Bandello's Novelle. Emphasizing psychological details absent in the Italian original, Carr repeatedly questions the human motives for the gruesome acts that Boaistuau selected as exempla for his readers.

Conchita Herdman Marianella's book develops the words "Duena" and "Doncella" in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this character type in pre-Cervantine usage, from the tendency of the duena or doncella to appear as a lady-in-waiting, damsel in distress, or other high-level intermediary and to behave in patterns commensurate with that socio-cultural status.

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of saints on ordinary men and the relationship between holiness and heroism in the twelfth century. Divided into two parts, the first is devoted to aspects of the hero-saint and savior-saint, and the second, organized alphabetically by saint's name, engages the French hagiographic traditions.

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturation of Proust's textual construction, Crosman's key to a universal interpretation is narrowed to those metaphors that build up Proustian time itself.

Barbarino's orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn from approximately 4,800 epitaphs that include Latin inscriptions from Roman provinces in Britain, the Balkans, North Africa, Dalmatia, Spain, Gaul, and Italy.

Reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories, Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. Diane Wolfe Levy shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters.

In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contemporary Bahian Portuguese. Megenney interrogates a broad swath of claims concerning potential syntactic, morphological, and phonemic influences in the field.