Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative. A key figure in reshaping the 'once and future fictions' of Arthurian story, he was instrumental in the late twelfth-century shift from written and oral legendary traditions to a highly sop…
This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'. Dialogue in Flaubert does not at…
A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem 'Commedia' in the early 14th century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as 'La Divina Commedia', or 'The Divine Comedy'. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this…
"Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist Jose María Arguedas (1911-1969) was a highly conflicted figure. As a mestizo, both European and Quechua blood ran through his veins and into his cosmology and writing. Arguedas's Marxist influences and ethnographic work placed him in …
by Abad Nebot, Francisco, Villegas, Francisco de Quevedo
fromBiblioteca EDAF
This is an unlooked-for project. Like many others, I first saw Artaud through the filters of American experimental theater and post-structuralism. My earliest work on Artaud began from accepted familiar premises, largely established in the 1960s: Artaud as prophet, madman, geniu…
Moving beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this study interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.
"Contextualized with a detailed introduction, along with contemporary legal documents, polemics, and ballads, "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja" reveals early modern Spain's profound fascination with the Moorish culture that was officially denounced and persecuted. By reca…
Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent …
Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now.
The Beach (La Spiaggia). They?ve all gone away?. the voice was blathering down the receiver. Then, knowingly:? They?ll not return?. But today. on this stretch of beach never visited before. those sunlight patches ... Signals. of theirs, who hadn't left at all?. And when you turn…
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus¿s ideas to provide acomprehensive and rigorous study of his political and philosophical thought and a significant contribution to a ra…
Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time.
'Molière on Stage' takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière's plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.
