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Book Text as Topos in Religious Literature of the Spanish Golden Age

Download or read book Text as Topos in Religious Literature of the Spanish Golden Age written by M. Louise Salstad and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes an explanatory introduction to the index, biographical notes on authors, a chronology of works, a bibliography, and key word indexes of motifs in English and Spanish. The most extensive investigation of specific topoi undertaken in Spanish studies, this book will also be of interest to art historians and cultural historians whose focus is theology, the history of spirituality, or the history of the book.

Book Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael S  nchez

Download or read book Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael S nchez written by John Perivolaris and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael S¡nchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of S¡nchez's work in relation to

Book  Pueblos Enfermos

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  • Author : Michael Aronna
  • Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Pueblos Enfermos written by Michael Aronna and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol (1897), Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel (1900), and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo (1909). Michael Aronna traces the reactions of these historically and rhetorically related colonial and postcolonial thinkers to the new economic, cultural, social, and political challenges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He shows how concepts of sexual degeneration, racial inferiority, immaturity, and gender prominent in contemporary philosophy and science were central to these writers' shared understanding of the nation as an organism vulnerable to "social pathogens."

Book The Leper in Blue

Download or read book The Leper in Blue written by Amalia Gladhart and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on contemporary debates surrounding performance, gender and latin American studies, this book examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. It explores the work of individual playwrights such as Vicente Lenero, and topics including ritual game playing.

Book The Charm of Catastrophe

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  • Author : Alice Fiola Berry
  • Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Charm of Catastrophe written by Alice Fiola Berry and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in two parts in 1548 and 1552, Le Quart Livre is Rabelais's last book of certain authenticity and his most difficult and mysterious work. In it, Pantagruel and Panurge undertake a sea voyage and a quest for "the word of the Divine Bottle," but the islands they visit along the way are inhabited by strange beings whose nature and physiognomy defy natural categories. Expressing the elderly writer's despair at the failure of all his dreams as a young humanist, the voyage traces the last phase of the heroic quest, the cycle of old age and death. It is a descent into the underworld, but one that is undertaken hopefully, for the Quart Livre continues the search for a wife and for paternity begun in the Tiers Livre. Ultimately, all of these strivings may be associated with the writer-physician who faces misfortunes in order to cure them. In the end, the Quart Livre affirms the healing power of wine, laughter, and words.

Book Book Review Index

Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Book Gald  s s Segunda Manera

Download or read book Gald s s Segunda Manera written by Linda M. Willem and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the change that occurred in the writings of Spanish novelist Benito Perez Galdos when he entered his segunda manera in 1881 with the publication of La desheredada, his first contemporary novel. Critical work on this important phase of Galdos's career has tended to concentrate on the content of his novels, with little attention given to the way in which Galdos conveys that content to the reader. By studying these works in light of how their stories are told, Linda Willem shows that La desheredada marks the beginning of a more sophisticated and varied mode of narrative in Galdos's novels. Through close readings of his first seven contemporary works, Willem shows how the affective response associated with various narrative devices plays a role in the rhetorical strategies of each text.

Book A Medieval Pilgrim s Companion

Download or read book A Medieval Pilgrim s Companion written by Thomas Dean Spaccarelli and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas Spaccarelli argues that the Escorial codex usually published and studied as nine separate saints' lives and romances is in fact a unified and organized whole. He shows how the codex is intimately related to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and to the religious, literary, and artistic traditions associated with it. The Libro was produced by a team of compilers, who chose and translated specific French works with the goal of providing edification and encouragement to Spanish-speaking pilgrims. Spaccarelli elucidates the Libro's ideology of pilgrimage, which includes such concepts as guest/host theology, egalitarianism, and the matter of imitatio Christi. In addition, he proposes a series of structural elements operative in the Libro that bind the nine works into a whole.

Book Cloister  Court and City

Download or read book Cloister Court and City written by Janet Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Index

Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age

Download or read book Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age written by Sofie Kluge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Latin American Studies Newsletter

Download or read book Latin American Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetics of Inconstancy

Download or read book The Poetics of Inconstancy written by Hoyt Rogers and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of Late Petrarchism from earlier stages reflects a profound shift in cultural values--a 'crisis of the Renaissance' that generated new perspectives in poetic theory and practice. Broadly, this book identifies a distinctive 'poetics of inconstancy' that came to the fore at the end of the sixteenth century and pervaded the love verse of the age. At the same time, as a study based on the inductive method, the book takes as its point of departure a single poet: Etienne Durand. Because of his frequently anthologized 'Stances a l'Inconstance,' Durand is often singled out as 'the poet of inconstancy.' This study, however, identifies the theme of universal change as a hallmark of Durand's contemporaries as well--a signal of a stylistic revolution that heralded the end of Renaissance verse.

Book Ronsard s Contentious Sisters

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  • Author : Roberto E. Campo
  • Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Ronsard s Contentious Sisters written by Roberto E. Campo and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut pictura poesis ("as is painting, so is poetry"). The book explores issues that, despite their importance throughout Ronsard's poetry and the writings of leading paragone theorists such as Leone Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, have remained largely unnoticed. In broadest terms, Roberto Campo investigates the poet's notions about the differences between poems and pictures. More precisely, it examines Ronsard's views on two fundamental preoccupations of the theoretical and practical discussions about the arts during the Renaissance: which mode of expression, word or image, can more accurately and meaningfully represent natural realities and abstract celestial truths; and thus, whose art, the poet's or the painter's, holds the highest station in the hierarchy of human creative endeavor?

Book Dislocations of Desire

Download or read book Dislocations of Desire written by Alison Sinclair and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of La Regenta by Alas draws both on psychoanalytic theory and on an understanding of the social, sexual and medical norms of the period in which the novel was written. It proposes that the novel be understood as a coded summary of desire fantasied, dislocated, repudiated and thwarted.

Book Void and Voice

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  • Author : Charles O'Keefe
  • Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Void and Voice written by Charles O'Keefe and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives - L'Immoralist, La Porte etroite and La Symphonie pastorale - through the lens of semiotics and narratology. The author argues Gide's position as a pre-postmodernist who uses narrative strategies to connect story and self.