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Word Mingas is an English-language translation by Paul M. Worley and Melissa Birkhofer of the award-winning book Mingas de la palabra written by Miguel Rocha Vivas (Casa de las Americas, 2016). It is an encompassing study of oralitures--multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality--and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous. In consequential dialog...

Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi Chiappelli, Julia Conway Bondanella, Oscar Budel, Marga Cottino-Jones, Christopher Kleinhenz, Sara Sturm, Concetta Carestia Greenfield, Armaud Tripet, Douglas Radcliff-Umstead, Conrad H. Rawski, John E. Wrigley, Eugenio Battisti, Benjamin Kohl, Angelo Mazzocco, Jerome Taylor, Donald L. Guss, Paolo Ch...

Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure, the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historica...

Volume 172 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

This book is an exploration into reading Du Bartas's poetry, specifically Creation, as baroque. Its contents include: Etat Present des Etudes sur du Bartas, Les Criteres de L'Oeuvre Baroque, La Creation du Monde: Etude du Poeme, and Du Bartas Entre la Pleiade et le Baroque.

The annotated text, followed by a listing of principal sources and a selective bibliography, has the dual purpose of tracing a biography of G. D'Orleans and depicting his patronage of the arts.

The complete text is followed by a listing of proper names and a table of variants based on six other versions of the manuscript. The introduction gives the background of the author, the work, and the legend and discusses the seven versions and language used.

With Vida u Obra de Petrarca, Dr. Francisco Rico questions whether the traditional biography of Petrarch is a product of the real life of the author, or from the critical understanding of his work. In this volume, he analyzes the environment and periodization of the Secretum, relocating its date of publication. It has long been assumed that the Secretum--composed of three dialogues in which "Augustine, " in the presence of "Truth" tries to per...

Articles by: Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce, William D. Ilgen, Luis Leal, Cyril A. Jones, Luis Monguilo, Donald F. Fogelquist, James A. Castaneda, Allen W. Phillips, Ivan A. Schulman, Philip Metzidakis, Enrique Pupo-Walker, Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, Andrew P. Debicki, Fernando Alegria, Roberto Gonzalez Echeverria, John S. Brushwood, Joseph Sommers, Klaus Muller-Bergh, Frank Dauster, Hugo Rodriguez-Alcala, Roger M. Peel.

This book presents a chronological study of the critical and scholastic work on the Cid. It starts at the beginning of the Eighteenth-century with the rediscovery and the publication of the poem, and ends in 1971, just before the publication of one of the revolutionary modern editions of the text. The most impressive trait of this study is its exhaustiveness. It masterfully organizes a vast field of information in a comprehensive and accessibl...

This volume, presented to Professor Pei on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia, contains sixteen studies by his former students in the fields of Romance philology and medieval literature.

Robert L. Politzer, in collaboration with his wife, Frieda N. Politzer, created a study of the vulgarisms in the Merovingian documents in France and the Lombard documents in Italy. The results support what has been generally believed about the progress of Vulgar Latin in those areas.

This study provides an introductory explanation on the differing ways to express the future tense in Latin before proceeding to the three core chapters that pertain to periphrasis. The chapters consider the historical emergence, the stabilization, and both the extended usage and grammatical usage of periphrastic vado (ad) plus infinitive.

Volume 162 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

This volume presents an English prose translation of Giacomo Leopardi's Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, complete with an introduction and annotations, all by Ernesto G. Caserta. Written near the end of Leopardi's life, and published posthumously, this work is a satirical poem consisting of eight stanzas with eight lines each.

This work examines the dialogue tradition as it shaped the structure and themes of Lobo's seventeenth-century classic. Lobo's departure from earlier views of courtly lore is shown in his preference for social eloquence and literary cultivation over nobility of character and physical prowess.

This study seeks to demonstrate an influential relationship between Moliere's classical reading and his character, Tartuffe. The work is divided into five sections: Introduction, The Satiric Element in "Tartuffe, " Moliere's "Tartuffe, " An Interpretation Based on Significant Parallels with the Traditions in Roman Satiric Literature, and Conclusion.

This study is an admirable addition to the corpus treating the Auto Sacramental in Golden Age Spain. Through this book, Dr. Donald Thaddeus Dietz demonstrates the allegorization of New Testament parables by dramatists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. Forming an excellent introduction to the genres of the Auto and the parable, this work opens the genre for a contemporary reader, and contextualizes it within its historiographic and li...

Volume 191 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Collected essays from a symposium held in April 1974, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this volume analyzes Beckett's philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and novels.