Books in the Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures series

Engaging contemporary theorists - Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others - the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. This book examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective.

Covering nine major works of Catalan writer Terenci Moix, Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity places Moix's fictional prose against the backdrop of his autobiographical novels, thus highlighting the importance of the author's daily life experiences and their transmutation into the virtuality of fiction.

Sandian heroines swirl around men in their sororal and sartorial disguises like moths around candle flames. However, as Disguise in George Sand¿s Novels illustrates, the disguise is not an instrument to seduce men but rather to assert the heroines¿ true selves. The portrayal of female and androgynous protagonists in Rose et Blanche (1831), Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833/39), Gabriel (1839), Consuelo (1842), and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1844) is a metaphor to demonstrate the continuity of identities before and after the disguise as George Sand stipulates in her theory of the ménechme. Disguise in George Sand¿s Novels explores the maturation process of Romantic and artistically inclined heroines and highlights the spiritual meaning of the disguise as a rite of passage for the birth of a new type of protagonist: spiritual, self-assertive, and dedicated to erasing gender inequality and helping the poor.

Jose de Acosta's 'De procuranda Indorum salute': A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies.

The interactive cognateness of translation and modernist poetry is clarified through this book on the purported untranslatability of the poems by the avant-gardists, in particular, Stephane Mallarme and T. S. Eliot. These inspiring texts direct the reader to re-create the world with their multidimensional growth of meanings.

Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner's Angels in America.

Establishes the incipiently revolutionary context more or less foregrounded or in the background of works by Zola, Strindberg, Ibsen, Hauptmann, Synge, Shaw, and Tolstoy, focused especially on issues of class struggle and class war, as well as the prospects and possibilities of challenging the hegemony of the ruling orders.

Presents a variety of perspectives on Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. This book includes: reading literary identities within and without borders; constructing extra-literary identities at home and abroad; and literary ethnic voices from North American diaspora and beyond.

Los recursos que aparacen en Extinción de ¿vos¿ en el español peninsular esclarecen diversos reajustes sufridos por ¿vos¿ en el repertorio hispano peninsular durante el Siglo de Oro. Se dilucidan, además, los portentos extra-lingüísticos y los reajustes socio-comunicativos que surgieron en ese ámbito durante esa época. Paradójicamente, la mayoría de los elementos extra-lingüísticos que se analizan están relacionados con la pérdida del porte mayestático de ¿vos¿. Igualmente, se han observado rasgos que responsabilizan a diáspora ultramarina (Indianos) por las permutaciones sociolingüísticas que se generaron en España durante esas centurias. Tras el descrédito de ¿vos¿, los interlocutores comienzan a rechazar vehementemente este sociolecto, entre tanto, tu y vuestra merced ¿ usted comenzaron a disputarse el pedestal que ostentase el desvalido contendiente. La dinámica diacrónica establece, que, pese a la desaparición de ¿vos¿ en su lar de origen, una variante suya se reinstauró en el Nuevo Mundo. Cabe destacar, que este estudio diacrónico podría generar o contribuir en diversas investigaciones sobre los pronombres de tratamiento correspondientes al castellano peninsular.

Constance de Salm, Her Influence and Her Circle in the Aftermath of the French Revolution

Beautiful War

Fra Francesc Moner's Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason

A memoir about life in post-Civil War Barcelona. It recreates the era from the standpoint of the winners. It paints a picture of life during the early Franco years, while offering an intimate, revealing look at the childhood and adolescence of one of Spain's remarkable contemporary authors.

Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi.

On the basis of the French text and a translation that is at once accurate and poetical, this book provides an introduction to the poem, and thereby to the complex intellectual world of Valery. It exhibits the depth and breadth both of the poem and of the poet's thought.

La gavilla de artículos reunidos en este volumen forma un conjunto coherente de ensayos en torno a un tema común, la vida en la Andalucía rural en sus múltiples aspectos culturales, contada por viajeros extranjeros a lo largo de los dos siglos pasados. Con mayor o menor énfasis recalan en temas como la variedad y belleza del paisaje, en las costumbres culinarias, en las posadas y tabernas, en las diversiones, en fin, y las costumbres populares y folclóricas. Al tiempo, inciden en curiosas y sabrosas anécdotas que viven en persona de primera mano. Ello hace de esta singular antología una lectura jugosa y entretenida tanto para estudiantes como académicos interesados por los lazos entre culturas. En ella se brindan frecuentes encrucijadas de caminos y encuentros multiculturales sobre los que los curiosos viajeros escriben, asombrados unas veces y perplejos otras, al enfrentar costumbres y tradiciones tan alejadas de su propio acervo cultural. Esos rasgos distintivos, que tan acusados se perfilan en el agro andaluz, con el tiempo se han ido nivelando merced a la modernización de los medios de transporte y la transformación del espacio rural de antaño. Los viajeros aquí destacados, en su mayoría mujeres y hombres británicos y franceses, fueron sin duda testigos fieles y excepcionales del transcurrir de la vida cotidiana en esta peculiar y atractiva región de España. Los autores aquí reunidos han escrito todos ellos tesis, libros o artículos que iluminan de forma amena distintas facetas del poliédrico tema.

This book investigates in which dimension art meets science and how it happens.

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) focuses equally on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio while minor writers are introduced in proportion to their importance and position in the cultural, historical, and social events of the time.

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 entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of the Venezuelan wars waged against Spain while seeking independence.

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 composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260).