Download or read book The Allegorical Impulse in the Works of Julien Gracq written by Carol J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Allegorical Impulse in the Works of Julien Gracq written by Carol J. Murphy and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the role of history in Julien Gracq's novels, Le Rivage Des Syrtes and Un Balcon En Foret, and in his critical essays. It draws on theories of allegory, textuality and history in its analysis of the interplay of fictional and factual history in Gracq's writings.
Download or read book The Allegorical Impluse in the Works of Julien Gracq written by Carol J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
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.
Download or read book Mannerism and Baroque in Seventeenth century French Poetry written by James Crenshaw Shepard and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry. He then turns to Tristan's works, examining the poems contained in the Plaintes d'Acante et autres ouvres, Les Amours, La Lyre, and the Vers heroiques; his religious poetry; La Renomme; and his recently discovered poems. Shepard reveals Tristan's amatory poetry to be mannerist and his heroic and religious poetry to be baroque. Many poems, however, contain elements of both styles. This supports Frank J. Warnke's theory that Baroque is the period style, with mannerism and baroque being two aspects of the period. Shepard also uncovers a baroque dompte style--the toned-down baroque that Helmut Hatzfeld and others argue characterized French classicism--in some of Tristan's heroic and religious poetry.
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.
Download or read book French Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Artifice written by Marie Lathers and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve Future, a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her life to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.
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.
Download or read book South Atlantic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Download or read book CURRENT CONTENTS written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
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?
