Literary companions books

Volume 156 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.  Read More >>

Alfonso Hordognez was the first translator of the Spanish classic Celestina. The antiquity and accuracy of his translation...  Read More >>

With Hemingway's work arousing a new surge of interest, the need is evi­dent for a new, responsible critical approach...  Read More >>

While there has been a great deal written about the influence of French existentialism on modern fiction, Le­han's...  Read More >>

Considered by many critics to be Britain's most important woman novel­ist, Doris Lessing warrants major atten­tion....  Read More >>

Kafka scholars will find Ruth Tie­fenbrun's remarkably original thesis provocative and perhaps even contro­versial,...  Read More >>

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Best known for her historical novels--The Last of the Wine (1956), The King Must Die (1958), The Bull from the Sea...  Read More >>

This penetrating survey covers the most creative of the Anglo-Irish modern play­wrights, beginning with George Bernard...  Read More >>

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In this remarkably powerful and compre­hensive study of D. H. Lawrence and the whole range of his creative achievement...  Read More >>

This totally new and brilliant approach to the Ibsen canon presents the plays as a single, cohesive exploration...  Read More >>

An edition of an anonymous poem about the famous thirteenth-century outlaw Eustache surnamed Le Moine (ca. 1170-1217),...  Read More >>

This volume, presented to Professor Pei on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia, contains sixteen studies...  Read More >>

Examines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations of a few selected texts, both prose...  Read More >>

Contains sixteen articles that have been previously published in various journals and homage volumes but are now...  Read More >>

The alcade of Andujar during the reign of Henry IV of Castile (1454-1474), Escavias was also a historian, a poet,...  Read More >>

This is the first scholarly edition of Gil Vicente's last play Floresta de enganos(1536). The Spanish and Portuguese...  Read More >>

The first serious contemporary dramatist to come from off-Broad­way and successfully break through the financial...  Read More >>

In the midst of new estimations of Afro-American writers Darwin Turner's book is a landmark. In this brief but comprehensive...  Read More >>

The seventeen essays here brought together represent the most influential and significant thought on Dos Passos's...  Read More >>

Leonard Kriegel examines Wilson's principal nonfiction works in depth: Axel's Castle, which he finds a classic in...  Read More >>

Mr. Handy examines the terms and methods of the New Critics approach to poetry, and by application of this critical...  Read More >>

This provocative and valuable guide to modern drama covers the period of the 1930sto the present. In Morris Freedman's...  Read More >>

Intended to offer new insights into a major literary work by close examination of the work's structure--and concomitantly...  Read More >>