Author: Marina S. Brownlee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance explores the lure of the Aethiopika while also seeking to articulate the reasons for Cervantes' enthusiasm for his own text.
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance
Author: Marina S. Brownlee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance explores the lure of the Aethiopika while also seeking to articulate the reasons for Cervantes' enthusiasm for his own text.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance explores the lure of the Aethiopika while also seeking to articulate the reasons for Cervantes' enthusiasm for his own text.
The general and departmental libraries
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California: The general and departmental libraries
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Author: Andreas Dufter
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027289522
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently described. This volume aims at providing new observations on the availability and the use of focus markings in Romance languages. In doing so, it documents the plurality of research on focus in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Topics covered include constituent fronting and clefting, the position of subjects and focus particles, clitic doubling of objects, and information packaging in complex sentences. In addition, some contributions explore focus–background structure from acquisitional and diachronic angles, while others adopt a comparative perspective, studying differences between individual Romance and Germanic languages. Therefore, this volume is of interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including syntacticians, semanticists, and historical linguists.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027289522
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently described. This volume aims at providing new observations on the availability and the use of focus markings in Romance languages. In doing so, it documents the plurality of research on focus in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Topics covered include constituent fronting and clefting, the position of subjects and focus particles, clitic doubling of objects, and information packaging in complex sentences. In addition, some contributions explore focus–background structure from acquisitional and diachronic angles, while others adopt a comparative perspective, studying differences between individual Romance and Germanic languages. Therefore, this volume is of interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including syntacticians, semanticists, and historical linguists.
Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Vol. III
Author: Samuel G. Armistead
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322606
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322606
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain
Author: Christina H. Lee
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for ‘pure’ Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society – and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for ‘pure’ Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society – and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history.
Romance Languages Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The Danger of Romance
Author: Karen Sullivan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654043X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654043X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description