Literary companions books

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent...  Read More >>

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In the first book-length study of Porter's work, Nance defines a central thematic pattern - a principle of rejection...  Read More >>

Not a study of Faulkner's themes or ideas or of individual stories and novels as such, Longley's book nevertheless...  Read More >>

This tale, preserved in Arsenal MS 3150, was first published by Professor Sargent in 1963 in mimeographed form....  Read More >>

The first part of the document under study is concerned with rhetorical patterns and phrases modeled after Cicero;...  Read More >>

This is an edition of the only Portuguese manuscript of the story of Joseph of Arimathea. It is a sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

George Washington Cable, compared in his lifetime to Dickens and Daudet and praised in Moscow as a disciple of Turgenev,...  Read More >>

La Chancun de Willame is an Old French epic poem written before 1150 concerning Vivien's resistance to an invading...  Read More >>

This is the first translation into modern English of the story of Floire and Blanchefleur, a popular romantic story...  Read More >>

Ramon Perez de Ayala's (1880-1962) was a Spanish author of poetry, literary essays, criticism, novels, and short...  Read More >>

Antonio de Guevera (1481-1545) was a Spanish writer and official chronicler of Charles V. Guevera's Una Decada de...  Read More >>

Offers a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) - a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure...  Read More >>

Published in 1966, this study is an interpretation of the Chanson de Willame and at the same time an enlargement...  Read More >>

Through an investigation of the literary doctrines and ideas of the chief critics of the eighteenth century, the...  Read More >>

Published in 1966, this bibliography of Oviedo went far toward advancing factual knowledge about the life and works...  Read More >>

Presents the first formal study of Jewish influences in the famous fifteenth-century cancionero, composed at the...  Read More >>

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Jehan de Lanson is a thirteenth-century French epic poem in alexandrine verse. This edition is based on the manuscripts...  Read More >>

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published...  Read More >>

Translating from writings of the period of King John III of Castile, Scholberg weaves together an admirable account...  Read More >>

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Examines the fictional works of the French writer Vital d'Audiguier (1565-1624), whose novels provide insight into...  Read More >>

This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates...  Read More >>