SubjectsLiterature & Literary Studies / Romance literature & literary studies
Book series
ISSN 0165-8743
Journal
Revue Romane
Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures
Edited by Julio Jensen and Johan Pedersen
ISSN 0035-3906 | E‑ISSN 1600‑0811
Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari
Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis
Special issue of Revue Romane 60:1 (2025) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage
Edited by Francesco Stella
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] 2024. xviii, 706 pp.
Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies: Marginats i marginals / Marginates and marginals
Edited by Vicent Josep Escartí
Biografies invisibles: Marginats i marginals és un volum que conté una sèrie d’estudis de casos concrets de personatges històrics desconeguts en gran mesura i que, pel fet d’haver tingut unes vides al marge de la llei en moltes ocasions, no són actualment coneguts. També, sobre personatges… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 28] 2021. vi, 276 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
La burla en la literatura del Siglo de Oro
Edited by Ignacio Arellano
Special issue of Revue Romane 56:1 (2021) v, 140 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’
Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi
This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular, it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa, written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan, but… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 29] 2021. xxiii, 208 pp.
A History of Catalan Folk Literature
Edited by Carme Oriol and Emili Samper
A History of Catalan Folk Literature is the fruit of a collaborative effort between fifteen researchers from various universities and research centres who have joined forces to create a broader study of Catalan folk literature that addresses the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories in their… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 21] 2019. xv, 273 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes
Edited by Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Revue Romane 54:1 (2019) v, 203 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word: Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature
Edited by Manuel Pérez-Saldanya and Rafael Roca Ricart
This collection, which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word, is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature, but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 16] 2018. vii, 439 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages
Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große
Special issue of Revue Romane 53:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Un cançoner català del Renaixement a Roma: Les poesies de Joan Salom, astrònom valencià
Albert Rossich and Pep Valsalobre
This book contains an edited and contextualized collection of poetry that is preserved, without an author's name, in a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The internal and external analysis of the manuscript has made it possible to attribute it to Joan Salom (or Salon), a Franciscan monk… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 18] 2018. iv, 120 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that… read more[Not in series, 218] 2018. xvi, 343 pp.
Camus et Faulkner: Écriture et modernité
Edited by Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans Peter Lund
Special issue of Revue Romane 52:1 (2017) v, 112 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Vita coaetanea / A Contemporary Life / Vida coetánea / Vida coetània
Ramon Llull
Winner of the 2018 Premio internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti per il Mediterraneo in the category "Storia, Letteratura", awarded annually by Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy.The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 15] 2017. v, 205 pp.
Other subjects Medieval literature & literary studies
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II
Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega
Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIX] 2016. xiii, 765 pp.
The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon
Joan Rois de Corella
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 12] 2016. v, 238 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Aproximació a l'altre / An approach to the other: Biografies, semblances i retrats / Biographies, resemblances and portraits
Edited by Enric Balaguer, Maria Jesús Francés and Vicent Vidal
The different contributions included in this volume deal with aspects of biographical writing and other similar genres (semblances, portraits, etc.). These articles analyze theoretical and generic questions as well as some of the most relevant examples of the genre – with a focus on those written… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 11] 2015. xviii, 162 pp.
The Book of the Order of Chivalry / Llibre de l'Ordre de Cavalleria / Libro de la Orden de Caballería
Ramon Llull
The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death, it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 8] 2015. v, 226 pp.
More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició
Edited by Anna Maria Babbi and Vicent Josep Escartí
The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 10] 2015. xiv, 173 pp.
'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / Del Somni d'en Bernat Metge
Bernat Metge
Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered Bernat Metge’s best work. It is extremely innovative within the context of Catalan (and Iberian Peninsular) literature of the 1300’s. It consists of a dialogue between… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 4] 2013. v, 193 pp.
The Book of Fortune and Prudence
Bernat Metge
These new translations of Bernat Metge’s Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia’s most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge’s masterwork, Lo somni (The… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 6] 2013. v, 116 pp.
Estudis lingüístics i culturals sobre Curial e Güelfa: Novel·la cavalleresca anònima del segle XV en llengua catalana. Linguistic and Cultural Studies on 'Curial e Güelfa', a 15th Century Anonymous Chivalric Romance in Catalan
Editat per Antoni Ferrando
Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la anònima del segle XV escrita en llengua catalana, desconeguda fins al segle XIX i publicada por primera vegada el 1901. Es tracta d’una obra singular, a cavall entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement, en què es conjuminen magistralment els components cavalleresc i… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 3] 2012. xxi, 1193 pp. (2 vols.)
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Curial and Guelfa: A classic of the Crown of Aragon. Translated into English by Max W. Wheeler
Translated by Max W. Wheeler
Among 15th-century literature in the Romance languages, Curial and Guelfa is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. It is a veritable jewel of late medieval European literature and of narrative in the Crown of Aragon in particular. Curial shares a range of features — realism, humanity,… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 2] 2011. v, 363 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume I
Edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González and César Domínguez
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIV] 2010. xiv, 750 pp.
Les genres littéraires et l’œuvre singulière
Edited by Thomas Pavel
Special issue of Revue Romane 45:2 (2010) v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics
Classical Spanish Drama in Restoration English (1660–1700)
Jorge Braga Riera
From 1660 to c 1700, England set her eyes on Spain and on the seventeenth-century Spanish comedy of intrigue with an aim to import new plots and characters that might appeal to the Anglo-Saxon audience. As a consequence, Hispanic drama in translation enjoyed a period of relative popularity never to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 85] 2009. xv, 330 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 1: Hispanic and Francophone Regions
Edited by A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis and J. Michael Dash
This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, X] 1994. xviii, 579 pp.
El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia una poética del espectador
Oscar Rivera-Rodas
Rivera-Rodas proposes a new concept about what he calls the poetics of the theatrical reception. The discussion of this phenomenon, which also deals with meta theater, focuses on the dramatic work of Mario Vargas Llosa. Examination of the complex relationships of contemporary dramatic structures… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 41] 1992. viii, 213 pp.
Figures of the Text: Reading and writing (in) La Fontaine
Michael Vincent
The works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, Figures of the Text raises questions… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 39] 1992. xi, 154 pp.
Le Romantisme aux enchères: Ducange, Pixerécourt, Hugo
Marie-Pierre Le Hir
Reassessing the theoretical usefulness of the “high/low culture” perspective often found in writings on Romantic theater, this book shows how this dichotomy has obscured the centrality of melodrama as a dominant mode of Romantic expression in post-revolutionary France. The book focuses on Victor… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 42] 1992. x, 225 pp.
Lorca, una escritura en trance: 'Libro de poemas' y 'Divan del Tamarit'
Candelas Newton
Lorca's poetry is founded upon a complex symbolical system of recurring motifs. This book analyses a number of those motifs as poetic signs through a contextual reading of Libro de poemas (1921) and Diván del Tamarit (1940) as the initial and final stages of Lorca's career. The sexual and religious… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 40] 1992. x, 250 pp.
Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints: The Unity of 'Trois contes'
Aimee Israel-Pelletier
Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social,… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 36] 1991. xii, 165 pp
Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre
Julie Candler Hayes
[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 35] 1991. xiv, 186 pp.
La Parodia en la nueva novela hispanoamericana (1960–1985)
Elżbieta Skłodowska
In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 34] 1991. xx, 220 pp.
Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions
Susan Petit
This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 37] 1991. xvi, 224 pp.
Mirages de la farce: Fête des fous, Bruegel et Molière
Thierry Boucquey
Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 33] 1991. xviii, 158 pp., 9 ills.
Poetry as Play: 'Gongorismo' and the 'Comedia.'
María Cristina Quintero
During the Golden Age, poetry and drama entered into a dynamic intertextual and intergeneric exchange. The Comedia appropriated the different poetic currents prevalent during the Renaissance and also often enacted the controversies surrounding poetic language. Of particular interest is the… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 38] 1991. xviii, 260 pp.
Calderón y el Barroco: Exaltación y engaño de los sentidos
María Alicia Amadei-Pulice
Amadei-Pulice examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands of Calderon merged dramatic poetry with visual and auditory effects (comedia de teatro). The author places the Spanish baroque theater within the wider context of a… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 31] 1990. xii, 258 pp., 33 ills.
Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Proceedings of the 5th triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9–16 Aug. 1986
Edited by Keith Busby and Erik Kooper
The International Courtly Literature Society aims to promote the study of courtly literature, primarily, but not exclusively, of medieval Europe. The 45 articles selected here from the papers presented at the 5th Congress center around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 25] 1990. xvi, 621 pp.
Gender and Representation: Women in Spanish realist fiction
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 32] 1990. xiv, 205 pp.
Reading 'La Regenta': Duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure
Stephanie A. Sieburth
Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 29] 1990. viii, 127 pp.
Visions in Exile: The body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500–1800
Malcolm K. Read
Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 30] 1990. xii, 211 pp.
Le Cid: Tragi-comédie: Edition critique
Pierre Corneille
Margitic's critical edition of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637) provides scholar and student with a complete, accurate resource for the study of this famous play. The original text is reproduced, with subsequent variants indicated in footnotes. The book begins with an introduction which examines… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 28] 1989. lxxxviii, 302 pp.
Modelos dialógicos en la narrativa de Benito Pérez Galdós
Alicia G. Andreu
Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 27] 1989. xvi, 126 pp.
'Yvain' dans le miroir: Une poétique de la reflexion dans le 'Chevalier au lion' de Chrétien de Troyes
Joan Tasker Grimbert
This study views the pervasive ambiguity of Chretien's romances as a positive quality and focuses on the techniques used in Yvain to encourage reflection. An adversative structure informs this romance, setting up a disconcerting rhythm of false belief and reversal which forces the reader/listener… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 25] 1988. xii, 226 pp.
The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences: Acta of the International Dante Symposium, 13–16 Nov. 1983, Hunter College, New York
Edited by Giuseppe C. Di Scipio and Aldo Scaglione
The guiding principle of this volume is the concept of the artes liberales, the trivium and quadrivium, as branches of learning that are rooted in Dante Alighieri’s mind. The present volume contains essays by leading international scholars on the various scientific and artistic disciplines which… read more[Not in series, 34] 1988. ix, 385 pp.
Imitación y transformación: El petrarquismo en la poesía de Boscán y Garcilaso de la Vega
Anne J. Cruz
Aunque en Italia la imitación como ejercicio literario formaba ya parte integrante de la preceptiva poética, para los escritores castellanos del siglo XVI representaba una manera nueva de aproximarse tanto a los clásicos greco-latinos como a los italianos más recientes. La imitatio enlaza a España… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 26] 1988. x, 158 pp.
Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text: Practical Exercises
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Translated by Paul Perron Maupassant's short story, “Two Friends”, is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre.… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 1] 1988. xxxiv, 258 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics
The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception
Mary Jane Stearns Schenck
This is an interesting book that provides a sane analysis of the relation between form and meaning in the fabliaux. It will henceforth be standard reading for those dealing with what nevertheless remains one of the most problematic genres of Old French Literature for the modern scholar.Keith Busby,… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 24] 1987. xiii, 168 pp.
Intimate, Intrusive and Triumphant: Readers in the 'Liaisons dangereuses'
Peter V. Jr. Conroy
In both the real and the symbolic sense, the action of the Liaisons is writing letters, which is to say, giving the phrase an ontological twist, that writing is its own subject. Letters in an epistolary novel recount and reenact simultaneously, without distinction. Doing and telling are congruent,… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 23] 1987. xi, 139 pp.
André Breton: Sketch for an Early Portrait
John Matthews
Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he. It provides justification without excuse, especially when the commentator's purpose is to shed light on the intricacies of Breton's mind, the… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 22] 1986. xii, 176 pp.
Balzac und der Effet de Réel: Eine Untersuchung anhand der Textstufen dus 'Colonel Chabert' und des 'Curé de village'
Joachim Küpper
[Beihefte zu Poetica, 17] 1986. 290 pp.
The Language of Evaluation: A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Story of Pedro el Cruel in Ballad and Chronicle
Louise Mirrer-Singer
This study seeks to demonstrate that throughout centuries of re-creation, linguistic devices have been used to support both the production and the reproduction of the romances. On the basis of this demonstration, it is argued that it is time to recognize these devices as evaluators and to include a… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 20] 1986. xii, 128 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures
Diana Sorensen Goodrich
The shift toward the reader's task may be said to stem from a double source: the questioning of the sleuthlike approach to a text aiming at the discovery and explication of the author's intended meaning, coupled with the recognition that the work, liberated from its dependence on the authorial… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 18] 1986. xi, 150 pp.
Utopía, paraíso e historia: Inscripciones del mito en García Márquez, Rulfo y Cortázar
Lida Aronne-Amestoy
[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 19] 1986. xi, 167 pp.
“Appelle-moi Pierrot”: Wit and Irony in the Lettres of Madame de Sévigné
Jo Ann Marie Recker
The present study uses modern Molière criticism as a way of understanding Mme de Sévigné. In both Molière and Mme de Sévigné there is evidence of esprit or wit, that intellectual facility which perceives contrasts. Moliéresque critical theory would call this perception the "Imposteur" technique. As… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 21] 1986. ix, 128 pp.
L’Espace et le sens: ‘Germinal’ d'Émile Zola. Essai de sémiotique discursive (Space and Meaning. Emile Zola’s Germinal)
Denis Bertrand
La sémiotique a-t-elle quelque chose à dire sure la littérature en tant que sœur des ‘beaux-arts’? Peut-elle rendre compte des raisons d’une réussite d’écriture? – Intention naïve, dira-t-on, que de vouloir décourvrir, sure la base des seules méthodes structurales, pourquoi une œuvre nous captive.… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1985. 213 pp.
Other subjects Romance linguistics | Semiotics | Semiotics
The Pervasive Image: The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausiàs March
Robert Archer
It is tempting to speculate that had Ausiàs March (1397–1459) written in Spanish instead Catalan, or rather the Valencian form of it which was his native tongue, he would by now undoubtedly be more widely recognised as the finest lyric poet in the Iberian Peninsula before the sixteenth century, and… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 17] 1985. xii, 220 pp.
'Germinal' and Zola's Philosophical and Religious Thought
Philip Walker
[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 14] 1984. xii, 159 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy
En Nombre de Don Juan: (Estructura de un mito literario)
Carlos Feal
Añadir uno más a los múltiples estudios sobre don Juan quizá parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, más larga si cabe, de críticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan sólo. Pues las figuras que… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 16] 1984. ix, 175 pp.
Ezourvedam: A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Ludo Rocher
The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian – the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit – in order to convert… read more[University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 1] 1984. vii, 214 pp.
Other subjects Other literatures
Gustave Flaubert, critique: Thèmes et structures
Claire-Lise Tondeur
Mon propos est d'interroger cette Correspondance pour mettre en évidence les structures qui sous-tendent l'oeuvre critique de Flaubert. Bien que celui-ci rêve toute sa vie d'écrire des ouvrages critiques qui seraient à l'écoute de l'oeuvre, il n'en rédige aucun. La Correspondance, par contre,… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 15] 1984. xiv, 119 pp.
'Le Roman des Eles', and the Anonymous: 'Ordene de Chevalerie': Two Early Old French Didactic Poems. Critical Editions with Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Translations, by Keith Busby
Raoul De Hodenc and Keith Busby
Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 17] 1983. ix, 175 pp.
Antigüedad y actualidad de Luis Vélez de Guevara: Estudios criticos
Editado por C. George Peale
Esta colección de estudios críticos se ha compilado con el propósito de revalorar al genial comediógrafo del siglo XVII, Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644), y, posiblemente, restablecerlo como figura de importancia en la historia del teatro español. read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 10] 1983. xii, 298 pp.
Estructura del Martín Fierro
Carlos Albarracín-Sarmiento
Lo que ante todo me propongo es compartir una lectura actual del ya centenario Martín Fierro, una lectura conforme a vigentes concepciones de la naturaleza y función de la lengua literaria. Pretendo mostrar cómo se presenta hoy el poema de José Hernández a lectores entrenados en la lectura de… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 9] 1982. xx, 336 pp.
Reason and the Passions in the 'Comedias' of Calderón
David Jonathan Hildner
While Calderón's autos portray this teleological view of life with unequaled ingenuity, his comedias lie somewhere on the line of development of European thought and activity between the other-worldiness of orthodox Thomism and the naturalism of which Spinoza's ideas are one example among many. Let… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 11] 1982. xii, 119 pp.
Discurso retórico y mundo pastoral en la 'Égloga segunda' de Garcilaso
Inés Azar
La Egloga II propone el caos, lo diverso, el error, y también la posibilidad de orden. Sólo en el contexto de una especie literaria flexible y multiforme — la pastoral — y de una forma de expresión proteica — el discurso — esa vasta tarea de conciliación era posible. Discurso y pastoral constituyen… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 5] 1981. x, 172 pp.
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Roy Armes
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922 –2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. His first involvement with the cinema was in the early 1960’s; scripting one of the most controversial films of the decade, L’Année dernière à Marienbad , directed by Alain Resnais.In this study the focus lies on the cinema of… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 6] 1981. x, 216 pp.
From Linguistics to Literature: Romance Studies offered to Francis M. Rogers
Edited by Bernard H. Bichakjian
Francis M. Rogers, to whom the current volume is in honor of, may be a modest man in principle, but not in his academic pursuits. To call his interests broad in scope is no exaggeration as they cover the fields of linguistics, literature, philology, bibliography, travel narratives and celestial… read more[Not in series, 13] 1981. x, 292 pp. + 6 ills.
Invarianz und Variabilität literarischer Texte: Baudelaires 'Spleen' IV und Becketts 'En Attendant Godot'
K. Alfons Knauth
[Beihefte zu Poetica, 16] 1981. 296 pp.
Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis
Ana Hernandez Del Castillo
The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar was clearly influenced by his predecessors John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe. However, to what extent? Which aspects of the two Romantics have been kept and which ones transformed by Cortázar’s imagination? And is there a common bond in the works of Keats and Poe… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 8] 1981. xii, 135 pp.
Other subjects English literature & literary studies
Le 'Galien' de Cheltenham
Sous la direction de David M. Dougherty et Eugene B. Barnes
Le manuscrit 26092 de la célèbre collection de Cheltenham comprend les ouvrages suivants, dont les quatre premiers sont en vers et le cinquième en prose: 1) Hernaut de Beaulande, 2) Renier de Gennes, 3) Girart de Vienne, 4) Galien, 5) La Chronique de Saint-Denis. Une édition critique du quatrième… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 7] 1981. xxxvii, 203 pp.
Aspects of Góngora's 'Soledades'
John R. Beverley
This study of Góngora’s Soledades is intended to summarize and discuss some of the problems which seemed important for a better understanding of these poems. Special attention is paid to the two opposing ‘camps’ that developed over time; one mainly focussing on the form and the other on the content… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1] 1980. iv, 139 pp.
Chanson d'Antioche, chanson de geste: Le Cycle de la Croisade est-il épique?
Robert Francis Cook
Selon une dynamique évidente mais, apparemment, irrésistible, les textes médiévaux mal connus tendent à le rester, et leur obscurité à se justifier d'elle-même. La raison immédiate en est, cette fois, une répétition régulière d'une très vieille hypothèse, jamais vérifiée, sur la nature de la… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 2] 1980. viii, 107 pp.
History in the Text 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution
Sandy Petrey
The title of this study “History in the text” is an oxymoronic phrase, and by this, the main focus of the book is clear immediately. On the other hand, there still remains the question to what extent text and history are comparable. The author of this volume tries to answer this by discussing the… read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 3] 1980. viii, 129 pp.
Marcel Proust and the Strategy of Reading
Walter Kasell
This study examines Marcel Proust’s works and his readers, starting of with the reading encounter one needs in order not to miss out on things, and ending by exploring the nature of Proust’s vision. An interesting study for everyone who wants to know more about Proust and his ideas. read more[Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 4] 1980. x, 125 pp.
Formale Themen in Gian Battista Marinos 'Lira'
Joachim Schulze
[Beihefte zu Poetica, 14] 1978. 184 pp.
Entpersönlichende Personenerwähnung im modernen französischen Roman: Untersuchungen zur Grammatik und Poetik narrativer Texte
Johanna Kahr
[Beihefte zu Poetica, 12] 1976. 210 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
La parnasse médical Français, ou Dictionnaire des Médicins-Poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes morts ou vivants: 1874
Achille Chereau
[Not in series - Grüner, 24] 1972. xxiv, 552 pp.