Author: Mary M. GallucciPublisher:
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Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Wenches, Witches and Wives in Folengo's Baldus and Rabelais's Tiers Livre
Author: Mary M. GallucciPublisher:
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Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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A Companion to François Rabelais
Author: Bernd RennerPublisher: Renaissance Society of America
ISBN: 9789004360037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"A Companion to François Rabelais offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the works of François Rabelais, one of the most influential writers of the Western literary tradition. A monk, medical doctor, translator and editor, Rabelais embodies the ideals of Renaissance humanism. His genre-bending fiction combines vast erudition, comic verve, and critical observations of all spheres of contemporary life that are relevant to this day. Two sections of this volume situate Rabelais's work in the larger social, political, and literary context of his time. A third section gives concise interpretations of each of the five books of the Pantagrueline Chronicles. The contributors are eminent scholars of early modern literature, many of whom write in English for the first time"--
The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes
Author: Anthony J. CascardiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521663873
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes life and work, including his lesser known writing. The essays, by some of the most outstanding scholars in the field, cover the historical and political context of Cervantes writing, his place in Renaissance culture, and the role of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, in the formation of the modern novel. They draw on contemporary critical perspectives to shed new light on Cervantes work, including the Exemplary Novels , the plays and dramatic interludes, and the long romances, Galatea and Persiles. The volume provides useful supporting material for students; suggestions for further reading, a detailed chronology, a complete list of his published writings, an overview of translations and editions, and a guide to electronic resources.
A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Percy
Author: John BowleThe Life of Saint Margaret
Author: Saint MARGARET (Queen Consort of Malcolm, King of Scotland)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Cervantes in Algiers
Author: María Antonia GarcésPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514707
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Author: David Nichol SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
My subject is 'Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century'. What was his reputation then, and how have the critics, and the scholars, and the actors of that age contributed to his fame? ...At no time since his death has Shakespeare not been placed upon a pinnacle by himself as the greatest of all English writers. But each age has its own point of view, its own special interests, its characteristic method of treatment; and no age can ever say the last word on anything that is a living and life-giving force. Say the last word on Shakespeare, and Shakespeare is dead.' -From the Preface.
An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare
Author: Richard FarmerCervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age
Author: Anthony J. ClosePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book relates Cervantes's poetics of comic fiction to the Spanish Golden Age's common framework of assumptions about the comic. It studies the evolution of this collective mentality, and how this is reflected in the critical moment around 1600 when the major comic genres are re-launched, transformed, and theoretically rationalized.
A Journey from London to Genoa
Author: Giuseppe BarettiPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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