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
Balzac’s Cane is an English translation of Delphine de Girardin’s 1836 novella, La Canne de M. de Balzac, which centers around a protagonist named Tancred Dorimont, a brilliant young man plagued by hi
Investigating Fascism offers an original approach to the historical novel and its connection to crime fiction. The study of contemporary novels set during Mussolini’s rule, with specific attention to
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
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
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
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
Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea
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
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
Mary Gregory, an author of many books about religion and science, explores the intellectual history of free-will, from its biblical roots through a line of French thinkers that includes Montaigne, Pas
Jeffery Johnson, an independent Proust scholar with a creative and scientific background, studies development and empowerment of creativity in Marcel Proust's series of novels, In Search of Lost Time.
Editor Jullien (French and comparative literature, U. of California, Santa Barbara) presents this study examining the concept of foundational texts in world literature. The concept was originally intr
In volume 192 of the seriesCurrents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Zepeda (Spanish literature, Indiana U.) examines three autobiographies of women expatriated at the end of the Span
The life, politics, and writings of Albert Camus are the subject of this collection of essays, which were presented in earlier form at a symposium held in 2006 at the U. of Wisconsin Madison. Camus's
Singular recopilación de ensayos que abarca la totalidad de la obra de Rosa Montero – literatura y periodismo –. La originalidad de este libro radica en las múltiples miradas de los ensayistas que des
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