Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subjec
Have you ever prepared a discourse by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need
The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wif
Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora tr
The impact of naturalism, a literary approach invented by Zola and especially significant in the field of the novel through his American «disciples» Crane, Norris, and Dreiser, is well acknowledged an
McGrath (d.1995), taught French for 40 years at St John's College in Annapolis. This volume contains his translation of Paul Valery's poem in side-by-side format with the original and a companion essa
For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and e
This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally com
Rangarajan (French, U. of Alaska) presents 8 essays on the four novels of French New Novelist, Michel Butor. The novels were written in the mid 20th century and are in many regards experimental, inclu
This is a memoir of life in post-Civil War Barcelona by the late Spanish novelist Esther Tusquets (1936-2012). She traces her life from the age of three in 1939 to her graduation from the U. of Barcel
El repertorio de los personajes de Pereda es el primer censo comprensivo de los personajes del ilustre escritor español del siglo XIX José María de Pereda (1833-1906). Sus doce novelas, cinco coleccio
The concept of the soul in Platonic, Ciceronian, and Talmudic thought segues into the Celtic tradition, Thomas Aquinas, and Maeterlinck and threads its way through the tapestry of Proust’s narrative a
Leading French thinkers in the period between the French Revolution and Napoleonic era shared ideas at salons hosted by prominent women. Poortere (PhD, French studies) presents a bibliography of two o
Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people’s perspectives on hunting in the contex
This book explores how Les Crimes de l'amour provides a key to better understanding Sade's prose in both its public and its clandestine guise. More than just a critical appraisal of each of the storie
In Le Fils Naturel, published in 1757 and performed in 1771, and Le Pere de Famille, published in 1758 and performed in 1761, French writer Diderot (1713-84) delved into the attitudes of the bourgeois
Gutwirth (emerita, French and women's studies, West Chester U.) conducts a feminist analysis of gendered aesthetics and politics in Jacque-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, "a work of c
Hine (emerita, York U, Toronto) contributes to the recent surge of interest in the literature of revolutionary, imperial, and Restoration France, by placing the writings of Constance de Salm (1767-184
In this book, Eva Yampolsky explores the questions of identity, illusion and suicide in the works of Guy de Maupassant. Utilizing a historical context which stimulated numerous social, technological a
