1. THE "COMEDIA" AND POINTS OF VIEW

Everett W. Hesse

The nine essays that make up this collection underscore Hesse's support for the notion of plurality in the seventeenth-century Spanishcomedia. "Hesse has given us still another opportunity to share his imaginative and provocative observations on the Golden Age comedia."James Agustn Castaeda, Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-07-8 xiii+175pp. Index. $54.50

2. PATRONIO Y LUCANOR: LA LECTURA INTELIGENTE "EN EL TIEMPO QUE ES TURBlO"

Marta Ana Diz

Languageas signifier and signifiedserves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. "This is an important work, a brilliant application of semiotics and narratology, precise, clear, and (unusual in such writing) eloquent."Peter Dunn, Journal of Hispanic Philology. "Diz's book offers several valuable new insights on the Conde Lucanor."Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Hispania. "This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies."Dayle Seidenspinner Nez, Romance Philology.

ISBN 0-916379-01-9 183pp. Index. $56.00

3. THE STORY OF A FAIR GREEK OF YESTER-YEAR: A TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH OF ANTOINE-FRANOIS PRVOST'S "L'HIS-TOIRE D'UNE GRECQUE MODERNE"

James F. Jones, Jr.

The most competent and reliable English translation of Abb Prvost's novel with an in-depth, scholarly, and brilliantly annotated introduction. "The text is introduced by a stimulating essay revealing a critical keenness and depth of perception as well as solid scholarship."Robert G. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century.

ISBN 0-916379-08-6 294pp. Bibliography. $50.00

4. JEAN DE SPONDE: LES SONNETS DE LA MORT OU LA POTIQUE DE L'ACCOUTUMANCE

Colette H. Winn

A stylistic analysis of the twelve Sonnets de la mort, based on the concept of "coupling." "The scholarly research done for this study is great and the footnotes extensive."Catherine E. Campbell, The Sixteenth Century Journal. "Professor Winn's monograph deserves to be widely read, discussed, and used as a point of departure for the reassessment of Les Sonnets de la mort."David Lee Rubin, Renaissance Quarterly.

ISBN 0-916379-03-5 xi+108pp. [out of print]

5. EN BUSCA DE LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL: ESTUDI0 SOBRE EL TEATRO ESPAOL DEL SIGLO DE ORO

Jack Weiner

This book shows how Spanish Golden Age dramatists viewed various social problems of the time, among them thelimpieza de sangre, conjugal honor and the incorporation of indigenous Americans into Spanish society. "While noteveryone will agree with Weiners approach in these essays, all can learn from them."Daniel Heiple, Journal of Hispanic Philology. "The book can be recommended as a contribution on this very important subject."Joseph V. Ricapito, Revista de Estudios Hispnicos.

ISBN 0-916379-11-6 150pp. $54.50

6. COLLAPSE AND REORGANIZATION OF THE LATIN NOMINAL FLECTION AS REFLECTED IN EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES

Paul A. Gaeng, assisted by Jeffrey T. Chamberlain

A study of changes in noun and adjective declensional patterns in late Latin inscriptions from the eastern part of the Roman Empire (Dalmatia and the Balkans). "A valuable buttress to our theorizing concerning the stages in the col-lapse of the Latin declension."Douglas C. Walker, Language. "Une vritable tude definitive."Frank R. Hamlin, Critique. "...It affords a good overview of the inscriptional evidence for the development of noun and ad-jective inflection in the Imperial period. ...[This study] can be warmly recommended."Robert A. Hall, Romance Philology.

ISBN 0-916379-06-X xxvi+140pp. Appendices. Index. $54.00

7. THE ALEPH WEAVER: BIBLICAL, KABBALISTIC, AND JUDAIC ELEMENTS IN BORGES

Edna Aizenberg

A study of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The author traces the origin and development of his interest in Judaism and the ways in which he uses textual strategies and archetypal metaphors drawn from Jewish sources, including the Kabbalah. "One gains a better understanding of Borges' response to Nazism and how crucial this response was to his finest tales."Choice. "Una fuente particularmente valiosa para los crticos y lectores de habla inglesa y una contribucin importante al campo general de los estudios borgianos"Malva E. Filer, Discurso Literario. "An excellent introduction to an important aspect of Borges oeuvre, a successful blend of literary history and criticism."John King, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. "A stimulating addition to Borges studies."Salomon Lipp, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispnicos.

ISBN 0-916379-12-4 162pp. Index. $55.00

8. CERVANTES, HARDY, AND "LA FUERZA DE LA SANGRE"

Michael G. Paulson and Tamara lvarez-Detrell

A critical edition of the early seventeenth-century French dramatist Alexandre Hardy's play,La Force du sang, which claims Cervantes novella as its unique source. "The edition is a good one...is most welcome, as it is the first critical edition ever offered of this play."Theodore E. D. Braun, Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-13-2 178pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.50

9. DEFLECTION/REFLECTION IN THE LYRIC POETRY OF CHARLES DORLANS: A PSYCHOSEMIOTIC READING

Rouben Cholakian

Through a meticulous analysis of syntax, this psychosemiotic reading of the ballades and rondeaux of Charles dOrlans demonstrates how both content and form reveal the paradoxes and complexities of the poetic persona created by this fifteenth century French poet. "Cholakian's analysis is perceptive, thought-provoking, and intriguing...the author avoids gratuitous observations, and responsibly defends his views on the psychological tensions underlying Charles poetry. In addressing the complicated question of Charles persona, focusing on imagery and especially on the use of syntax, Cholakian has made an important contribution to the study of Charles d'Orlans... His book demonstrates, at the very least, that there is much more to these deceptively simple poems than meets the eye."David A. Fein, French Review. "The book is cleanly organized, tersely written, provocative and rational at the same time." Ann Tukey Harrison, Fifteenth Century Studies.

ISBN 0-916379-21-3 94pp. Appendix. Bibliography. $55.00

10. THE GRAND AND THE FAIR: POES LANDSCAPE AESTHETICS AND PICTORIAL

TECHNIQUES

Kent P. Ljungquist

An examination of Poes use of the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, with a brief history of both traditions as they were developed in eighteenth-century America. "...an informative and provocative study."Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies Association Newsletter. "This is a book filled with new insights into individual tales and poems by Poe. ...It also provides a solid theoretical background for them." Donald Barlow Stauffer, University of Mississippi Studies in English.

ISBN 0-916379-20-5 216pp. $57.50

11. ESTUDIOS HUMANSTICOS SOBRE LA "CELESTINA"

D. W. McPheeters

This volume contains six previously-published studies, most of them substantially expanded, covering the years 1961-80. "These are all of McPheeters' most important studies." Alan Deyermond, Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar Newsletter. "The humanistic thrust of the essays reflect Professor McPheeters' thorough knowledge of the Spanish and Italian Renaissance."Charlotte Stern, Celestinesca. "A welcome collection."Dorothy Sherman Severin, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

ISBN 0-916379-09-4 110pp. Index. [out of print]

12. THE POETRY AND SELECTED PROSE OF CAMILLO SBARBARO

Vittorio Felaco, ed. and trans.

First English edition and translation of the works of Camillo Sbarbaro, leading twentieth-century Italian poet and prose writer. "This book provides an opportunity to become better acquainted with Sbarbaro, and therefore represents a step in the right direction." Franco Fido, Brown University.

ISBN 0-916379-19-1 312pp. Appendix. Bibliography $55.00

13. HISTORIA DE LA LENGUA ESPAOLA

Mara del C. Candau de Cevallos

The book, consisting of fifteen chapters, begins with a synthesis of the theories of modern linguistics, traces the historical, cultural and linguistic development of the Spanish language, and ends with an interesting chapter on the Spanish spoken in Latin America.

ISBN 0-916379-22-1 284pp. [out of print]

14. RENAISSANCE AND GOLDEN AGE STUDIES IN HONOR OF D. W. McPHEETERS

Bruno M. Damiani, ed. and trans.

This volume gathers seventeen important contributions to a better understanding of the poetry, drama, and prose of the Golden Age. Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr., Francisco Lpez Estrada, Everett W. Hesse, Margherita Morreale and A. Valbuena Briones are among the contributors.

ISBN 0-916379-10-8 xiii+255pp. $55.00

15. PARBOLAS DE IDENTIDAD: REALIDAD INTERIOR Y ESTRATEGIA NARRATIVA EN TRES NOVELISTAS DE POSGUERRA

Bernardo Antonio Gonzlez

A synchronic and diachronic study of works by Camilo Jos Cela, Miguel Delibes and Juan Goytisolo. "A solid contribution to modern Hispanic criticism" Nol Valis, Johns Hopkins University.

ISBN 0-916379-31-0 195pp. $58.00

16. LA EDAD MEDIA (APROXIMACIN ALFONSINA)

Carmelo Gariano

In five concise chapters, this work represents the Middle Ages through the mental prism of Alfonso Reyes, better known as the "Mexicano Universal." The book gives new insights into chivalric values, Marian movements, philosophic thought, mythical cycles, and folkloric tales of the age. "Una sntesis crtica definitiva del Alfonso Reyes medievalista"James W. Robb, George Washington University. "Gariano has given us an important and unique piece of scholarship which besides being of interest to medievalists should be recommended to our Latin Americanist colleagues as well."Anthony P. Espsito, Speculum.

ISBN 0-916379-26-4 257pp. Index $50.00

17. TRADITION AND RENEWAL IN "LA GLORIA DE DON RAMIRO"

Gabriella Ibieta

The first major study in English of La Gloria de don Ramiro discusses Enrique Laretas brilliant modernista novel in relation to nineteenth century European and Spanish-American literature, and offers lucid, fresh, and challenging critical analysis of its major themes. "Excellent book. Ibieta's research is solid, well organized, well controlled, and superbly documented; it is a model of fine scholarship."Myron I. Lichtblau, Hispanic Review. "The reader will find this a thorough and careful examination of Larreta's literary sources."Annella McDermott, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

lSBN 0-916379-29-9 147pp. Index [out of print]

18. ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS EN HONOR DE GUSTAVO CORREA

Charles Faulhaber, Richard Kinkade, T. A. Perry, eds.

Fifteen leading Hispanists contribute to this impressive volume with studies ranging from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Among the contributors are Reynaldo Ayerbe-Chaux, Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr., Birut Ciplijauskait, Manuel Durn, Charles Faulhaber, Richard Kinkade, Elias Rivers and Francisco Ruiz-Ramn.

ISBN 0-916379-14-0 229pp. [out of print]9

19. PIERACCI AND SHELLEY: AN ITALIAN UR-CENCI

George Yost

The author shows the English poet's genius in reshaping materials from an Italian neoclassical play to his own Romantic and Shakespearean work. This book includes the Italian original of Pieracci and an English translation. "The author has made two important and valuable contributions to the literature of the theater, for he has resurrected Pieracci's play and he has demonstrated its relevance to Shelley's work."Barbara Groseclose, Comparative Drama.

ISBN 0-916379-33-7 141pp. $57.50

20. THE POETRY OF GABRIEL CELAYA

Zelda Irene Brooks

Innovative socio-philosophical interpretation of the poetry of Gabriel Celaya, renowned poet personally known by the author. "Libro de valioso y variado trasfondo filosfico...extenso e importantsimo estudio."Alberto Baeza Flores, Nueva Estafeta.

ISBN 0-916379-27-2 98pp. Illustrations. $56.00

21.

LA RELACIN O NAUFRAGIOS DE LVAR NEZ CABEZA DE VACA

Martin A. Favata and Jos B. Fernndez, eds.

A critical edition of Cabeza de Vaca's account of his North American journey, the

Relacin or Naufragios, based on the Valladolid text of 1555. Variants from the 1542 Zamora edition are noted, as well as information from the summary sent by Cabeza de Vaca and his companions to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo in 1539. Ample footnotes on names, history, geography, flora, fauna, and Cabeza de Vaca's route. "La edicin es una contribucin a la bibliografa de Cabeza de Vaca. El texto de la Relacin est cuidadosamente fijado, y las notas son de utilidad. Es una bienvenida adicin al campo de los estudios sobre las letras coloniales."Francisco J. Cevallos, Hispania. "A fine reproduction of the texts of both editions of Cabeza's tale."Paul E. Hoffman,

Tampa Bay History.

ISBN 0-916379-35-3 172pp. Index. [out of print]

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THE THEOLOGY OF "LA LOZANA ANDALUZA"

Pamela S. Brakhage

This book examines the relationship of Delicado's humanistic theology to the ironical and paradoxical style of

La Lozana andaluza. "Meticulous study of Delicado's sense of word-play, vocabulary, rhetoric and of Lozana's novelistic structure."Bruno M. Damiani,

Catholic University of America.

ISBN 0-916379-34-5 77pp. [out of print]

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. GRACIN Y LA IMAGINACIN ARQUITECTNICA

Jorge Checa

A detailed analysis of the functional role of architectonic images from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. "A very valuable and well-structured study."

David J. Hilner, Hispania. "[Checa] presents a perceptive and unique contribution to the traditional corpus of critical interpretation of allegorical works and provides the foundation for future research."Joan Cammarata, Modern Language Studies. "La labor de Checa es muy meritoria por su planteamiento, originalidad y meticulosa articulacin terica."Antonio Torres Alcal, Revista de Estudios Hispnicos.

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ISBN 0-916379-28-0 147pp. Index. [out of print]

24.

MARA LUISA BOMBAL: REALIDAD Y FANTASA

Gloria Glvez Lira

This volume examines Bombal's fictional works as a reflection of a socioeconomic period in Chilean life. It emphasizes the positive utilization of fantasy throughout Bombal's work as a compensatory and sublimating counterpart to the unsatisfied desires and emotional needs of her protagonists. This unique view is convincingly reinforced by Bombal's own words. The author conducted the last recorded interview with Bombal before her death. The interview took place in Via del Mar in January 1979, and is included in its entirety as an Appendix. "[This work] will most certainly appeal to a broad range of readers... One gains a greater appreciation of the universality of Bombal's works."

Virginia Brownell Levine,

Hispania.

lSBN 0-916379-25-6 121pp. Appendix. Bibliography. [out of print]

25.

IRONA Y TRAGEDIA EN CALDERN

Susana Hernndez Araico

The author follows Hofmannsthal's and Ortega y Gasset's historical application of the Schlegels ideas on irony in order to establish the Spanish

tragicomedia as an ironic response to social and aesthetic ualues. Her study touches on various Calderonian works but deals in particular with La hija del aire, Los cabellos de Absaln, Apolo y Climene, and El hijo del sol, Faetn. "Many of Hernndez-Araico's remarks on the individual works [are] valuable and worthy of further attention."Diane Fox, Journal of Hispanic Philology. "Hernndez-Araico adeptly synthes-izes and interrelates complex techniques and theories. Her book is a valuable contribution to Calderonian criticism."Ann E. Wiltrout,

Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-18-3 154pp. [out of print]

26.

GIACOMO ZANELLA: POET, ESSAYIST, AND CRITIC OF THE "RlSORGlMENTO"

Philip J. Spartano

The first comprehensive treatment, in English, of Giacomo Zanella. "Professor Spartano is to be commended for making available to the English reader a whole new corpus of information and original data on Zanella and the Veneto's men of letters of the Risorgimento."

Roberto Severino,

Georgetown University.

ISBN 0-916379-02-7 162pp. [out of print]

27.

ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY: MAN OF AMERICAN LETTERS

E. Kate Stewart

Preface by Louis J. Budd

A thorough and engaging treatment of Hardy as poet and prose writer. "Now that Dr. Stewart has introduced Hardy properly, [the reader] will get a surprised scrutiny as we reshape the history of American letters between the Civil War and World War I."

Louis J. Budd, James B. Duke Professor of English, Duke University. Mentioned in American Literature. "Stewart's volume will be of value."Glenn O. Carey,

American Literary Realism.

ISBN 0-916379-38-8 128pp. Appendix. Index. $58.50

28.

THE DECAMERON 11

Giovanni Boccaccio

Carmelo Gariano, ed. and trans.

Perceptive and well-written adaptation of Boccaccio's masterpiece,

The Decameron.

Superb reading for student and layman alike.

ISBN 0-916379-37-X 241pp. $50.00

29.

ALIENATION IN GIUSEPPE BERTO

Giacomo A. Striuli

A most comprehensive study of alienation in Giuseppe Berto (1914-1978), the popular but controversial Italian author whose artistic endeavors include fiction, journalism, play writing, and cinematography. "A valuable, scholarly tool for the study of this contemporary author."

Santo L. Arico,

Italica.

ISBN 0-916379-30-2 96pp. Bibliography $56.50

30.

IBERIAN PASTORAL CHARACTERS

Barbara Mujica

An in-depth study of the Spanish pastoral romance from its Italian and Portuguese precedents through its demise in the early sixteenth century. Dr. Mujica examines the process of maturation in the art of character development that contributes to the transformation of the genre from simple romance to a form that more closely resembles the modern novel. Dr. Mujica demonstrates that Spanish pastoral characters evolve from the allegorical to the concrete, from the decorative to the substantive, as the role of free will increases in the genre. "[This book] consti-tutes a successful revaluation of the pastoral that leads to its greater appreciation."

Anthony J. Crdenas, Hispania. "Mujica aporta un filn de estudios que conviene tener en cuenta para conocer mejor la compleja literatura espaola de los Siglos de Oro y romper clichs seculares."Francisco Lpez Estrada, nsula. "Mujica's analyses are interesting and useful."John A. Jones, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. "Mujica mantiene su anlisis en un equilibrio laudable."Pilar Fernndez-Caadas Greenwood,

Cuadernos de ALDEEU.

ISBN 0-916379-17-S 261pp. $53.00

31.

"EL LTIMO GODO" AND THE DYNAMICS OF THE URDRAMA

Susan Niehoff McCrary

Preface by John E. Keller

A figural and typological study of Lope's important historical drama. "A fresh and vital interpretation of an unfortunately half-forgotten play."

John E. Keller, University of Kentucky. "[McCrary] has opened the way to a real and more profound comprehension of the complexity of Lope's historical vision in his dramas."Thomas E. Case,

Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-36-1 116pp. Index $57.50

32. EN TORNO AL HOMBRE Y A SUS MONSTRUOS: ENSAYOS CRTICOS SOBRE LA NOVELSTICA DE CARLOS ROJAS

Cecilia Castro Lee and C. Christopher Soufas, Jr., eds.

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism,

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time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions. "Una valiosa aportacin a la bibliografa del insigne novelista: un

collage literario muy digno de Carlos Rojas."Concha Alborg, Hispanic Review. "This collection of critical essays is a timely addition to the current state of Rojas' studies."Margaret E. W. Jones,

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

ISBN 0-916379-38-8 xvii+183pp. Bibliography. [out of print]

33.

MOUNT ZI0N FIELD

J. Thomas O'Connell

Novelistic fiction about the relationship and interaction of men projected against the background of the civil rights movement in the south of the United States. Detailed characterization and setting description and intriguing plot; historically and culturally relevant. Excellent reading.

ISBN 0-916379-39-6 101pp. $54.50

34.

PORTRAIT OF LOZANA: THE LUSTY ANDALUSIAN WOMAN

Francisco Delicado

Translation, introduction, and notes by Bruno M. Damiani

"La aparicin de esta traduccin va a ser muy til a los investigadores angloparlantes, especialmente los que quieren incluir esta obra en estudios de tipo comparativo.... Hay que aplaudir la labor del profesor Damiani en esta traduccin; seguramente le cost ms trabajo hacerla que le cost a Delicado escribir el original."

Thomas Deveny, Cuadernos de ALDEEU. "A very important and highly recommendable translation by a known scholar devoted to this early picaresque novel."Lawrence H. Klibbe,

Modern Language Studies.

ISBN 0-916379-41-8 vii+301pp. $55.50

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OUT OF BOUNDS

Elizabeth Sullam

Preface by Michael G. Cooke

A collection of sixty poems touching on the essence of existence: life, joy, sorrow, death. "Here is poetry, with the heft that comes from a gift for catching in flight a particular person, a place, an event, an object."

Michael G. Cooke,

Yale University.

ISBN 0-916379-40-X xii+116pp. $53.50

36.

IL "MODUS DIGRESSIVUS" NELLA "DIVINA COMMEDIA"

Sergio Corsi

Original study on the usefulness of the

digressivus, one of the modi tractandi in Dantes Commedia, seen as a calculated, challenging, and significant feature of the text. This book shows how well integrated the digressions are into Dantes discourse, both from rhetorical (dispositio and elocutio) and poetical (themes and fabula) points of view. "The subject is most welcome."Marianne Shapiro, Italica. "Professor Corsi has earned the congratulations of all students of these perennially fascinating texts."Steven Botterill,

Romanische Forschungen.

ISBN 0-916379-46-9 201pp. Index $58.75

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LECTURAS (DEL TEMPRANO RENACIMIENTO A VALLE INCLN) 13

Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce

Some of the themes studied in depth with originality and erudition: the non-Castilian Spanish Renaissance of 1350;

romances fronterizos, fuller background and new dates; Estebanillo Gonzlez, beyond the picaresque; Juan Valera, summa artis; structure and Carlismo in the Episodios nacionales of Galds; the Carlismo of Valle-lncln confirming the deformation of Spain and extraordinary concept of Don Juan. "The range and depth of Avalle-Arces contributions make this volume a welcome addition to literary investigation and a model for further study."Sharon Ghertman Dahlgren,

Modern Language Studies.

ISBN 0-916379-43-4 139pp. Index. [out of print]

38.

LAS NOVELAS DE UNAMUNO

Rosendo Daz Peterson

This book represents a new in-depth study of the main novels and the artistry of Miguel de Unamuno. The author argues convincingly that many of the interpretations applied to Unamunos novels are no longer valid, forcing us to reconsider the whole approach to the Rector of Salamanca. By submitting Unamuno's novels to a detailed textual analysis and comparing them with the rest of Don Miguels work, Daz-Peterson places them within a perspective which allows the reader to perceive in a definitive manner their thought and artistry, emphasizing the role of scholasticism in all of Unamunos novels. "Una obra crtica de gran profundidad y de ineludible utilidad por sus aportaciones documentadas y bien analizadas."

La N. Uriarte Rebandi,

Letras Peninsulares.

ISBN 0-916379-44-2 104pp. [out of print]

39.

SYNTAXE COMPARATIVE FRANAIS-ANGLAIS

Jeanne Ambrose

Written in French, this book provides an analysis of parts of French syntax from the point of view of transformational linguistics. The book is based on recent research in that field. This method gives new insight into traditional matters and treats several topics which have never been discussed in traditional grammars. This book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level and should be read by all teachers of the French language. The text is accompanied by exercises which involve the application of the theory. "Cet ouvrage a le mrite de donner un aperu trs clair de la version actuelle de la thorie transformationnelle et de son application au domaine contrastif. Les enseignants apprcieront galement les nombreux exercices contenus dans l'ouvrage."

Sylviane Granger, Centre d'tudes Anglaises U. C. L.,

Cahiers de l'lnstitut de Linguistique de Louvaine.

ISBN 0-916379-42-6 123pp. Index. $59.50

40.

LA SERRANILLA ESPAOLA

Nancy Marino

A model source study and an outstanding contribution to a better understanding and a greater appreciation of the

serranilla, one of the most interesting expressions of medieval lyric poetry. "Scholars will find Marinos analysis and discussion of the final stage of the development of the serranilla interesting and worthwhile."James F. Burke,

Hispanic Review.

ISBN 0-916379-45-0 153pp. Appendix. Index. $59.50

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CONTRARY VISIONS

Carolyn Kreiter-Kurylo

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Preface by Peter Klappert

"It is in a Blakean sense of Contraries that Carolyn Kreiter-Kurylo titles her first book

Contrary Visions... The people in a number of these poems are deaf or blind or infirm, but the poet knows the world is no less various and intense when the eye is lightless or the ear mute, and she intuits how the senses may complement and supplement each other... Kreiter-Kurylo's poems proclaim the beauty and abundance of this worldof memory, history, art and music, of outcasts and exemplars and the fragile, natural economies they inhabitand as they do so, quietly they celebrate themselves. They are their own best source of wonder...."Peter Klappert, George Mason University. Award Winner, Yale Series of Younger Poets. "The concern in these poems with the visual, with how artists see, is obvious and praiseworthy, but what strikes me even more forcefully is the variety of tones and sound effects that are available to this poet, whose ear is as keen as her eye. There is plenty of intelligent pleasure in this collection."

Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Winner.

ISBN 0-916379-47-7 xvii+102pp. $54.50

42.

RECONQUISTA Y LITERATURA MEDIEVAL

Giorgio Perissinotto

This study is a novel approach and significant contribution to the always challenging relationship between historical events and their representation in literature. The author argues forcefully and lucidly that the concept of Reconquest is not a post facto reflection of literary historians, but is very much present in the texts he studies (

Poema de Mio Cid, Poema de Fernn Gonzlez, Mocedades de Rodrigo

). By submitting the literature to a close textual analysis, he is able to validate the thematic value of the Reconquest in Medieval Spanish literature.

ISBN 0-916379-48-5 127pp. $59.50

43.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HEART PLACE

Rick Wilson

Foreword by Richard Bausch

Winner of the David Lloyd Kreeger Creativity Award (1988) and the George Mason University Poetry Prize (1976), Brother Rick Wilson, T.O.R., presents here a collection of his finest creative writingpoems of family, love, suffering and memory. His poems are vivid, intelligent, musical, and intimate. "Sound is wonderfully wedded to sense here... This is a book which yields up in richness what I most long for when I pick up a book of poems: vision; experience; travel in the world as another soul views it."

Richard Bausch. O. Henry Award; PEN/ Faulkner Award Citation.

ISBN 0-916379-51-5 63pp. [out of print]

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FEMININE CONCERNS IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH FICTION BY WOMEN

Roberto C. Manteiga, Carolyn Galerstein,

and Kathleen McNerney, eds.

This book addresses a critical need in modern day literary criticism. While the literary work of contemporary Spanish male writers has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for that of their female counterparts. The eleven articles in this collectionthe first of its kind to be published in Englishdeal specifically with the social and psychological

needs of women as reflected in the works of several contemporary Spanish women writers. ". . . well written, well researched, and thoughtfully articulated essays."Francesca Colecchia,

Crtica Hispnica.

ISBN 0-916379-49-3 186pp. Bibliography [out of print]15

45.

A CONTRAPUNTAL METHOD FOR ANALYZING SPANISH LITERATURE

Pierre L. Ullman

This volume demonstrates how literary critics seeking to establish a structure for certain works of Spanish literature can classify their symbols according to the first two essays of Northrop Frye's

Anatomy of Criticism. The present study essays the method with two episodes from Don Quixote, Lope de Vega's El caballero de Olmedo, Gallego's "Oda a la muerte de la Duquesa de Fras," Zorillas Don Juan Tenorio, Galds' Torquemada en la hoguera, Clarns "Adis, Cordera!," Palacio Valds Jos, Valle-lncln's "Rosarito," and two vignettes from Juan Ramn Jimnez' Platero y yo. "The book under review will be of value to anyone studying the titles listed above. Ullman's interpretations are too powerful to be ignored by any scholar researching a work he studies here."Stephen Miller,

Hispanic Review.

ISBN 0-916379-52-3 260pp. [out of print]

46.

SPANISH GRAMMAR AND CULTURE THROUGH PROVERBS

Richard D. Woods

Over 3500 proverbs comprise this collection for teachers and students of Spanish who wish to pursue grammar through the delightful medium of folk wisdom. These maxims, arranged by twenty categories of grammar, are immediately retrievable through a detailed index. Furthermore, a bonus feature is highlighted cognates, that is, words susceptible to instant recognition and exact translation from Spanish to English for easy vocabulary development. "Appreciative of the volume's useful and accessible arrangement, I am compelled to conclude that 'un libro bueno no tiene precio."

Bart L. Lewis,

Scolas Bulletin.

ISBN 0-916379-53-1 xvi+108pp. Indexes. Bibliography. [out of print]

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THE LEGEND OF BERNARDO DEL CARPI0: FROM CHRONICLE TO DRAMA

David G. Burton

Preface by John Lihani

Comedia de la libertad de Espaa por Bernardo del Carpio,

a play written in 1579 by Juan de la Cueva, is based upon events in the life of the legendary hero of the Spanish Middle Ages. Professor Burton demonstrates in this first complete study of the play that Cueva goes beyond the mere presentation of Bernardo del Carpio and his victory over Charlemagne and the French army at Roncesvalles. The study is important in the criticism of the early Spanish Theater because it shows that Cueva imbued his play with many levels of meaning, as the exultation of a national hero, as a political allegory of Philip lI's attempt to add Portugal to the Spanish crown, as a triumph of virtue over vice, and, at its heart, as a statement of faith in which forgiveness and the promise of redemption follow sin and repentance. "Burton deserves thanks for his interesting analysis of Cueva's style. Future Bernardo studies will have to take this work into consideration."Anthony J. Crdenas,

Journal of Hispanic Philology.

ISBN 0-916379-54-X 150pp. $50.00

48.

PIRANDELLISM AND SAMUEL BECKETT'S PLAYS

Godwin Okebaram Uwah

Thorough presentation of Pirandello's concepts of drama, reality, stage innovation, and parallels with the theater of Samuel Beckett.

ISBN 0-916379-55-8 145pp. $58.0016

49.

ITALO-HISPANIC LITERARY RELATIONS

J. Hel Hernndez, ed.

This collection of comparative essays re-examines and discovers new literary links between Italy, Spain, and Latin America which will provide the reader with a better understanding of the meaning, significance, and literary value of the works examined. Among the co-authors and their essays are: Nancy D'Antuono on

commedia dell'arte in Spain; Giulio Massano on Italian influences in the genesis of the pcaro;

Luigi Imperiale on Aretino and Francisco Delicado; Mario Aste on Hispanic-Sardinian writers. In addition, this collection also includes two Italo-Latin American essays by Vincenzo Bolletino and Galo Acevedo-Vaca.

ISBN 0-916379-56-6 150pp. $53.00

50.

STUDIES IN HONOR OF ELIAS RIVERS

Bruno M. Damiani and Ruth El Saffar, eds.

Former students of the distinguished professor and scholar provide here a collection of thought-provoking studies touching on a variety of topics, from secular poetry and pastoral prose to

Don Quixote and mysticism. "These essays, contributed by fifteen of Elias Rivers' students, are a fitting tribute to a teacher capable of awakening interests and inspiring careers."Eric W Naylor,

Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-32-0 200pp. $50.00

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. DISCOURSE STUDIES IN HONOR OF JAMES L. KINNEAVY

Rosalind J . Gabin, ed.

Fifteen new essays on the history and theory of rhetoric, the art of composition, discourse education over history, academic writing programs, ethics and language, rhetoric and literature, the evangelical movement and American advertising, etc.. A fitting tribute to the distinguished career of James L Kinneavy, author of

A Theory of Discourse and

The Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith.

ISBN 0-916379-57-4 245pp. $69.50

52.

TEXTUAL HISTORY AND THE "DIVINE COMEDY"

John Guzzardo

This book examines the

Commedia as a text, set in a discursive space, which can only be interpreted in terms of the other texts that it absorbs and transforms. It is only in the simultaneous reading of these voices that the voice of the Commedia exists. Texts such as the Bible, the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, the Thebaid and the Commedia itself, coalesce into a textual "history" which must be examined in retrospect in order to interpret the "events" of the poet's text. Cantos studied include: Inferno XX, Purgatorio XXI, and Inferno

XIII, V, and XXVI.

ISBN 0-916379-58 2 150pp. Index. $50.50

53.

CIRCLING HOME

Cheryl Brown Rush

Ms. Rushs poetry both enlightens and sustains as it explores the past and anticipates the future. By taking uncompromising risks, she makes startling connections between love and death, loss and victory, and what she accomplishes with her poetry has been compared to what Eugene ONeill did in the theatre: an in-depth exploration and re-evaluation of the much loved myths of the American family and American Dream. As a descendent of the original Mormon pioneers and child of the West, she knows her subject matter intimately. She

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questions what values we should choose to propel us safely into the twenty-first century and by peeling away accepted layers of hypocrisy, she captures intense pain and ecstasy with both clarity and passion. "Her poems are marked by acute observation.... Penetrating insight presented in clear and compelling language."

Senator Eugene McCarthy.

ISBN 0-916379-59-0 85pp. $52.50

54.

CLASSICAL MYTH AND THE "POLIFEMO" OF GNGORA

Melinda Lehrer

Topics included in this monograph are the classical predecessors to the

Polifemo, Carrillos "Fbula de Acis y Galatea," and Gngoras unique contribution, the Acis-Galatea interlude. The author brilliantly shows how Gngora created an alternate plot of images, contrasts, and tensions in the Polifemo, a major work which was profoundly related to his life and the period in which he lived. "The comparative aspect of Lehrer's study is...a valuable addition to the criticism of this most important poem."Ted E. McVay, Jr.,

Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-60-4 130pp. $59.50

55.

THE GENERATION OF 98: INTELLECTUAL POLITICIANS

Anne Thompson

This book shows the importance of key figures of the Generation of 1898, their political writings and activities, and how they contributed to the government and history of present-day Spain. The significance of the study is that it shows how Miguel de Unamuno, Jos Ortega y Gasset, and Ramiro de Maeztu did not just write about philosophy but how they stepped into the political arena and became active participants in the historical event of their time.

ISBN 0-916379-61-2 150pp. Bibliography. Index. [out of print]

56.

THE LITURGICAL CONTEXT OF EARLY EUROPEAN DRAMA

Salvatore Paterno

Preface by Lawrence H. Klibbe

"This book can be interestingly and profitably read not only by an academic audience but also by a general public for an understanding and appreciation of two bedrocks, drama and liturgy, a twentieth-century culture."

Lawrence H. Klibbe, New York University.

"A chapter on coronation rituals will attract special interest among historians."Journal of Medieval History.

ISBN 0-916379-62-0 158pp. Bibliography. $53.50

57. LITERATURA Y POLTlCA: EL "LIBRO DE LOS ESTADOS" Y EL "LIBRO DE LAS ARMAS" DE DON JUAN MANUEL

Mara Cecilia Ruiz

Prlogo de Diego Cataln

This new book on don Juan Manuel shows how these two works are important not only for constituting excellent examples of the literary traditions to which they belong, but also for being don Juan Manuel's most political books. "Cecilia Ruiz ha sabido...salir al encuentro de la persona, identificarse con el orgullo y la sonrisa irnica de don Juan, hijo del infante don Manuel, [y] analizar paso a paso cmo el mayor omme que seor ouiesse castellano de la primera mitad del s. XIV construye dos de sus obras ms comprometidas, y lo que revela y lo que encubre con su extraordinaria estrategia literaria."

Diego Cataln, University of California, San Diego.18

ISBN 0-916379-63-9 xvi+136pp. Index. $57.50

58. PRVOSTS MENTORS: THE MASTER-PUPIL RELATIONSHIP IN THE MAJOR NOVELS OF THE ABB PRVOST

James P. Gilroy

This study focuses on Prvost's flue major fictional works, written mostly during the 1730s, his most prolific period of novel writing. A special feature of Prvosts treatment of the mentor-pupil theme is his sympathy and admiration for women, who reveal more sensitivity and insight than the male characters both as teachers and as students. "Gil-roy's monograph is well documented and competently written. He provides many intelligent restatements of important elements of the common fund of critical thought surrounding Prvosts novels, which may be useful to new readers."

Alan J. Singerman, French Review.

ISBN 0-916379-69-8 113pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.95

59.

A CRITICAL EDITION OF JUAN BAUTISTA DIAMANTE'S "LA REINA MARA ESTUARDA"

Michael G. Paulson and Tamara lvarez-Detrell

Diamantes

Reina Mara Estuarda traces the tragic misfortunes of Mary Queen of Scots from her arrival in England until her death. The value of the present edition is not only the availability of this inaccessible play in a readable format, but also its efforts to rehabilitate Diamante, to demonstrate the value of this comedia

and to enable the His-panist to consult the writings of one of Caldern's significant contemporaries.

ISBN 0-916379-64-7 233pp. Appendices. Bibliography. $54.50

60.

LIKE TAXES: MARCHING THROUGH GAUL

David Craig

Preface by Howard McCord

"

Like Taxes, by David Craig, is an impressive book. In an age dominated by the secular and characterized by the pretentious and trivial, we are fortunate to have a book so rooted in authentic experience, and serious concern. Craig is eager for the fullness of the religious experience, but he does not let himself be deceived by the superficially religious. He is a subtle enough theologian to know that God hides in strange places, and reveals Himself as He wills, not as mortals might imagine. The best way to encounter Him is to get on with your lifedriving a cab, talking with friends, eating supperand staying as alert as the hunter is for the deer. These are the hunter's poems."

Howard McCord.

ISBN 0-916379-65-6 96pp. $51.50

61.

LOS REFRANES EN EL "QUIJOTE": TEXTO Y CONTEXTO

M. Cecilia Colombi

Prlogo de Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce

"La profesora Cecilia Colombi estudia con ciencia y celo la panormica que se abre al seguir la hilada de afirmaciones transidas de humanismo. ... Todo esto lo hace Cecilia Colombi desde la perspectiva adquirida con sus slidos conocimientos de Lingstica, entretejidos con una cuidadosa lectura de los textos cervantinos.... Es de placentera lectura el estudio de la profesora Colombi, quien, al estudiar, con inteligencia y mtodo, el funcionamiento de los refranes

en el Quijote nos recuerda, asimismo, algunos de los ms hermosos valores tradicionales de nuestro idioma."

Juan Bautista Aualle-Arce, University of California, Santa Barbara.19

ISBN 0-916379-66-3 x+142pp. Appendix. Bibliography. $50.50

62.

LA MSTlCA CIUDAD DE DIOS (1670)

Edition and study by Rev. Augustine M. Esposito, O.S.A.

The book introduces readers to literary links between this seventeenth-century prose of Sor Mara de Jess de Agreda and other Spanish Baroque masterpieces. The author reexamines the original text and discovers significant dimensions regarding its historical, religious, and literary importance. His research of the novelesque form and "dialogical principles" operative in

La mstica ciudad de Dios

provides convincing evidence of substantive prose literature.

ISBN 0-916379-67-1 92pp. $56.50

63.

FROM VERSE TO PROSE: THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT LEGEND IN

FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY

Salvatore Calomino

This monograph examines a fifteenth-century German prose redaction of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend. Through a comparison with contemporary versions of the story, the text edited here is shown to be an original contribution to the corpus of fifteenth-century hagiographic literature. A discussion of innovations in the prose

Barlaam and Josaphat

text further emphasizes differences from earlier poetic versions of the legend. Through an expansion of liturgical references and corresponding deletion of any secular commentary, the prose reviser has effectively adapted his material to a fifteenth-century clerical audience.

ISBN 0-916379-68-X 215pp. Bibliography. $57.50

64.

WORKS OF LOVE? REFLECTION ON "WORKS OF LOVE"

Gene Fendt

In writing on Kierkegaard an author should consideras Kierkegaard did, not only his purpose in writing, but the purposes of writingwhich may contradict him. Gene Fendt offers a polyvocalic reading of

Works of Love, grounded in a post-structuralist theory of signs, leadingas a matter of literary and psychological, if not ontological, courseto

Fear and Trembling.

ISBN 0-916379-70-1 67pp. $57.50

65.

LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA IN THE TWO HESPERIAS: AN ESSAY IN LITERARY AND

Michael Zappala

This important diachronic study of the life and works of Lucian of Samosata investigates the varied images of the Sophist from Syria from late Antiquity to the seventeenth-century. Using sources in Patristic literature, Byzantine glosses, the Neo-Latin satire of the Quattrocento, the

Vitae Luciani, and Golden Age texts, Zappala demonstrates how the writings of Lucian are fragmented into a series of "authors": the historiographer, the writer of fantasy, the moralist, the atheist, the stylist. The study illustrates the dynamic relationship between a fixed text and the cultural translation which "unfixes" that text and spins it out onto surprising, paradoxical recreations. Both in its sources and its treatment, this work is a groundbreaking study which illuminates previously unstudied areas of the continuing mutation of Classical literature in the European heritage. "El estudio de Michael O. Zappala viene a llenar un vaco en la historia de las relaciones culturales entre la tradicin griega, la italiana renacentista y la espaola."Victoriana Roncero Lpez, Cuadernos de ALDEEU.

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ISBN 0-916379-71-X ix+380pp. $59.50

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REMEMBERING ROSARIO

Oscar Bonifaz

Myralyn F. Allwood, ed. and trans.

Preface by Oscar Bonifaz

Foreword by Edward D. Terry

Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) is one of Spanish America's most distinguished and multifaceted writers.

Remembering Rosario provides an intimate glimpse into the life and works of this intensely Mexican writer whose universality speaks to the minds and hearts of readers everywhere. In addition to previously unpublished and untranslated poetry, the volume contains an introductory essay, the author's preface to the English edition, a foreword by Edward D. Terry, a memorial poem by Jaime Sabines, and an extensive biblio-graphy of Castellanos criticism. "A useful attempt to illuminate corners of the life of the Mexican poet."Julian Palley,

Hispania.

ISBN 0-916379-72-8 68pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Photos. [out of print]

67.

OTHER VOICES: ESSAYS ON ITALIAN REGIONAL CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

John Staulo, ed.

A collection of six original and brilliantly-written studies on the linguistic, cultural, and literary contributions of Italian regional writings. Recommended for students of Italian, comparative literature, folklore.

ISBN 0-916379-73-6 148pp. $55.50

68.

GRAZIA DELEDDA: ETHNIC NOVELIST

Mario Aste

In this most authoritative study of Nobel Prize winner, Grazia Deledda, Professor Aste sheds new light on the life and work of the famed Sardinian writer. A scrupulous analysis of the socio-linguistic, cultural, literary and philosophical dimensions of Deledda and Sardinian traditions makes this the best and most complete work ever written on Deledda.

ISBN 0-916379-74-4 102pp. Bibliography. $58.50

69.

THE TREE SURGEON'S GIFT

Edward C. Lynskey

Foreword by Fred Chappell

"Edward Lynskey has given the force of his fine talent, and the strong faith of his poetry, to the people of this world... And the poems bountifully reward his readers."

Fred Chappell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "It is good to have these poems. Lynskey is well worth reading, and the best poems in this volume leave the reader looking forward to the next."O. B. Hardison, Small Press Review. "The title poems reveal Lynskey's gift in what he does bestseeing beauty in the ugly, putting the job, the ordinary work, within a context of wonder and ritual."Shelby Stephenson, The Pilot

, North Carolina.

ISBN 0-916379-75-2 58pp. $52.5021

70.

EL IDEALISMO SINTTICO DE JUAN VALERA

Henry Thurston-Griswold

Prlogo de Lee Fontanella

"Thurston-Griswolds book on Juan Valera lends fresh credence to traditionalist art and criticism of Spains early modern period, while it also depicts Valera as a modern esthetician. In contradiction to the critics who see discrepancies between Valeras critical preaching and his novelistic practice, Thurston-Griswold argues a tight linkage between the two. In the development of this critical argument, he searches for a common denominator for the novels: an esthetic which is based on a persistent theme of love and an insistent love ethic."

Lee Fontanella, University of Texas, Austin. "... a carefully crafted study."Teresia Taylor, Hispania

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ISBN 0-916379-76-0 200pp. $54 50

71.

LAYING WAYS

Mechthild Cranston

Preface by Germaine Bre

"A familiar imageryfree of conscious symbolismis woven into the fabric of these texts: beaches, shells, ships, tides keenly observed; the play of light as day passes into night, or from night to day; as winter moues toward spring and spring to summer and autumn. Places like Key West, or Prousts fictional Combray, appear side by side: motifs, among others, in a tapestry peopled with human figures encountered along the way of the we, the elusive lovers who, wiser than Dantes Paolo and Francesca, will read on and on. Love is at the center of the poet's itinerary. One feels the presence of a keen and unflinching eye within the text, and withal an I gentle and compassionate in a deeply humane way.

Laying Ways is an appealing and charming book with which it is, I feel, an honor and a pleasure to be associated."

Germaine Bre, Wake Forest University.

ISBN 0-916379-77-9 75pp. Photograph. $56.50

72.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CHARACTERIZATION

R. A. Kerr

A collection of ten essays that examine the techniques of characterization and the interrelationship of character with other narrative components in Mario Vargas Llosa's fiction from

Los jefes to El hablador.

Essays deal either with individual novels or suggest recurring patterns or modes of characterization in several works. The critical focus of the collection is eclectic, incorporating elements from reader-response theories, archetypal criticism, point-of-view theories, structuralism, semiotics, stylistics, rhetoric, onomastics, and psychology. With an introduction.

ISBN 0-916379-78-7 171pp. Index. $53.50

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PRINCIPIOS Y FINES DEL "QUIJOTE"

Eduardo Urbina

A study of Cervantes narrative modes in

Don Quijote: irony, parody and the grotesque, written by a foremost Cervantine scholar. Cervantine irony, whose origins can be found in medieval romance, represents the basic narrative principle serving the ends of parody. Its goal is the creation of a fiction at once comic and serious. The present volume is original in its focus, well written and documented, and a major contribution to Spanish Golden Age studies. "Urbina should be thanked for his thoroughness. His prose is a pleasure to read; his bibliography is pertinent and very useful; his presentation of the material is we organized and clear. This is a book that brings together a difficult set of topic and analyzes them convincingly. It is valuable both as an essay and as reference work."Julio Baena,

South Atlantic Review.

ISBN 0-916379-79-5 210pp. [out of print]22

74.

FERNANDO VILLALN: EL POETA Y SU OBRA

Pilar Moyano

Prlogo de Luis Mongui

Spanish literary critics and poets of the stature of Juan Ramn Jimnez, Gerardo Diego, Rafael Alberti and Pedro Salinas, have noted repeatedly the importance of Fernando Villaln's work, and the originality and significance of his poetry. The present book is the first in-depth study of Villalns literary production. It examines how the extraordinary popularity Villaln enjoyed as a person has to a great extent overshadowed his work, and separates, finally, the myth relative to Villalns personality and life-style from historical reality. "Una buena aportacin a los estudios en torno a Villaln ... libro completo, ameno, y documentado."

Francisco Javier Dez de Revenga, Romance Quarterly

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ISBN 0-916379-80-9 230pp. $55.50

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"LA CELESTINA": A FEMINIST READING OF THE "CARPE DIEM" THEME

Diane Hartunian

Preface by Barbara Mujica

This book, which offers the first feminist reading of the "carpe diem" theme in Fernando de Rojas masterpiece, reveals a positive and liberating portrayal of female characters. The application of certain contemporary French feminist theories such as those of Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, elucidates Rojas "deconstruction" process, which breaks with patriarchal attitudes towards women. "This new, provocative feminist approach to

La Celestina is sure to elicit passionate reactions. Whether or not you agree with Hartunian's premise, you will enjoy this lively, unconventional book. Diane Hartunian makes us rethink our notions on La Celestina."

Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University.

ISBN 0-916379-81-7 150pp. $55.50

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SOR JUANA INS DE LA CRUZ: AMOR, POESA, SOLEDUMBRE

Victoria Urbano

Edicin y prlogo de Adelaida Lpez de Martnez

This is a study of the interaction between biographical experience and literary performance. A superb critical reading of Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, showing the Mexican writer as a champion of women's intellectual rights and thus a feminist avant la lettre. "Un magistral estudio relativo a la sensibilidad de Sor Juana."

M. Hernndez Snchez Barba, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. "Highly readable, well-researched, and persuasive."Bart L. Lewis, Hispania

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ISBN 0-916379-82-5 200pp. Photograph. [out of print]

77. EL PAPEL DEL LECTOR EN LA NOVELA MEXICANA CONTEMPORNEA: JOS EMILIO PACHECO Y SALVADOR ELIZONDO

Magda Graniela-Rodrguez

This text discusses the essential features of the contemporary Mexican novel as presented by semioticians, hermeneutists, phenomenologists, rhetoricians, sociologists, psychologists, as well as deconstructionists. Furthermore, the book contributes to the understanding of Mexican and Spanish-American Literature by reinterpreting its evolution from the reader's role perspective. This volume proposes the concepts of "The Novel of the Reader," which allows the critic to argue that the restructuring of the relationship author-text-reader is one of the basic traits of Latin American literary expression during the sixties. "The critic is to be commended for attempting to bring a major current in contemporary literary theory to bear on appropriately chosen material."

Beth E. Jorgensen, Hispanic Review

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ISBN 0-916379-83-3 200pp. $56.50

78.

EL PRIMER GARCA MRQUEZ: UN ESTUDIO DE SU PERIODISMO DE 1948-1955

Robert L. Sims

This study breaks new ground in Garca Mrquez studies by focusing on the authors journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how Garca Mrquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian authors writing. This study shows that Garca Mrquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his writing. This study opens new critical channels for the study of his fiction by establishing its solid link with his journalism. "An important contribution that helps fill a gap in contemporary studies of Garca Mrquez."

Daniel F. Chamberlain, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispnicos

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ISBN 0-916379-84-1 220pp. $58 00

79.

POET, MYSTIC, MODERN HERO: FERNANDO RIELO PARDAL

Zelda Irene Brooks

The most authoritative study of one of Spains leading philosophers whose

Teora del Quijote

has received world-wide acclaim. In the present volume, Professor Brooks gives us a penetrating insight into the poetical and mystical qualities of the man and his work.

ISBN 0-916379-85-X 200pp. $59.50

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LA CELESTINA

Edicin, introduccin y notas de Bruno M. Damiani

A carefully edited text of Fernando de Rojas masterpiece based on the Valencia 1514 edition with ample notes to clarify contextual, historical and linguistic difficulties. The introduction provides a brief history of the text, the problem of authorship, bio-bibliographical information on Rojas and the

Celestina

as well as a useful commentary on the special nature of the Spanish Renaissance, the social and ideological intention of the novel, and its dialogue and style. Excellent for classroom use.

ISBN 0-916379-86-8 302pp. $55.00

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THE POET'S MYTH OF FERNN GONZLEZ

Jean P. Keller

A scrupulous examination of the historical and cultural background of the thirteenth-century epic, a study of its structure and a scholarly explanation of the major episodes of

Fernn Gonzlez. "... a significant addition to the secondary literature on the poem."David Hook, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

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ISBN 0-916379-87-6 168pp. Bibliography. $57.50

82.

CARLOS ALBERTO TRUJILLO: UNA VOZ POTICA DE AMRICA DEL SUR

Zelda Irene Brooks

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."

ISBN 0-916379-88-4 125pp. $59.5024

83. LE PHNOMNE DE CONSTRUCTION ET DE DESTRUCTION DANS "LE SONGE" DE DU BELLAY

Maksoud Feghali

Preface by Michael J. Giordano

"Feghali's research is timely and mature... In a clear and convincing manner, Feghali shows that the reader of Songe will observe a dissonant narrative voice that wavers between intention and rhetoric, moral and practice, and the simultaneous affirmation and denial of narrative responsibility."

Michael Giordano, Wayne State University.

ISBN 0-916379-89-2 150pp. Bibliography. $59.50

84.

EL CONTEXTO DRAMTICO DE "LA LOZANA ANDALUZA"

Louis Imperiale, Preface by Marco De Marinis

"Amplio y riguroso estudio sobre

La Lozana Andaluza. Impecable articulacin de un complejo instrumental interdisciplinario."Marco De Marinis, Universit degli Studi di Macerata. "Gracias a la profunda labor de Imperiale se nos abre otra cortina en el gran teatro del mundo de la Lozana para poder calibrar nuevas dimensiones de la singularidad artstica del retrato delicadiano."Bruno M. Damiani, The Catholic University of America. "This work is rooted in narrative, dramatic and linguistic theory [which is] deep and solid."Joseph Ricapito, Hispanic Review

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ISBN 0-916379-90-6 291pp. Bibliography. $59.50

85. FASCISMO Y FICCION EN ITALIA: CMO LOS NOVELISTAS ITALIANOS EL RGIMEN DE MUSSOLINI

Alberto Traldi

Thought-provoking study of the impact of Fascism on Italian literature. Excellent political and historical perspective on World War ll, propaganda myths of the regime; satire and surrealism; anti-Semitism; and the Renaissance. "Ci troviamo di fronte ad un grande sforzo indagativo, riassuntivo e informativo."

Franco Di Carlo,

Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana.

ISBN 0-916379-91-4 233pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.50

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NAISSANCES/BIRTHS

Jules Supervielle

Philip Cranston, ed. and trans.

The Uruguayan-born twentieth-century French poet, Jules Supervielle, admired by Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Paul Celan and Richard Howard, here appears for the first time in a bilingual French-English edition of an entire workin a project authorized and encouraged by Gallimard and the Supervielle family.

Naissances provides an epitomea sampling and a summing upof much that is fascinating in Supervielle: traditional and free verse poemslyric, dramatic and narrativeexpressing many of his obsessive themes (angoisse, gravitations,

metamorphoses, births, loss, exile, death).

ISBN 0-916379-92-2 99pp. $55.00

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JIMENA: A WOMAN IN SPANISH LITERATURE

Marjorie Ratcliffe

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A rigorous examination of the treatment of Jimena from the

Cantar de Mo Cid

to Renaissance, Romantic, and modern adaptations of the story of the Cid. Presents a picture of Jimena that is more complete and revealing than any other study of the character. Provocative and informative literary, cultural, historical, and social interpretations. Annotated.

ISBN 0-916379-94-9 250pp. Bibliography. $63.50

88.

EN EL SIGLO DE ORO. ESTUDIOS Y TEXTOS DE LITERATURA UREA

Vctor Infantes

Comprehensive study of major literary genres of the Spanish Golden Age. Didactic, theoretical and referential aspects of poetry, drama, and prose. A collection of brilliantly-written essays and texts. "Nos encontramos ante doce trabajos luminosos, fruto de una erudicin y una entrega poco comunes."

Jos Manuel Lpez de Abiada, NOTAS: Literatura espaola: historia y crtica

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ISBN 0-916379-93-0 255pp. $59.50

89.

SOFA CASANOVA (1862-1958): SPANISH WOMAN POET, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR

Ofelia L. Alayeto

Preface by Janet Prez

Poet, journalist of world wars and the Russian Revolution, prolific novelist, translator, playwright, respected society figure: Sofa Casanova intrigued and influenced the Spanish reading public for over fifty years. Sofa Casanovas unique achievements should have drawn considerable critical and scholarly notice. Yet today her life and works remain unexamined or ignored. It is the purpose of this book, researched in Spain and Poland, to reintroduce Sofa Casanova to the scholarly and general public.

ISBN 0-916379-95-7 200pp. Bibliography. Appendices. $54.50

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LITERATURA Y PERIODISMO EN EL FIN DE SIGLO 1880-1907

Mara Pilar Celma Valero

A comprehensive study of the development of major literary journals over a generation in turn-of-the-century Spain. Includes introduction, a critical review of 20 journals (100 pp), and bibliography (30651 items).

ISBN 84-334-8301-3 898pp. Bibliography. Index. $85.50

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ESTRUCTURAS IMAGINARIAS EN LA POESA

Mara Rubio Martn

This book postulates an original and systematic poetics of the imagination that synthesizes various modern theories of textuality, semantics, syntax, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, myth, and anthropology. Among the critics discussed are Bachelard, Mauron, and Durand.

ISBN 84-334-8302-1 192pp. Bibliography. $57.50

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LOS FORMALISTAS RUSOS Y LA TEORA DE LOS GNEROS LITERARIOS

Mercedes Rodrguez Pequeo

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An analysis of the concept of genres in relation to formalist theory. The first part distinguishes theoretical and historical approaches to genres. The second considers the major Russian critics' understanding of genre formation of verse and prose in dramatic, lyrical, and narrative modes.

ISBN 84-334-8303-X 121pp. Bibliography. $53.50

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ASPECTOS DEL TALLER POTICO DE JAIME GIL DE BIEDMA

Gonzalo Corona Marzol

This is a complete study of the creative work of contemporary Spanish poet and critic Gil de Biedma as published from 1965 to 1975. It focuses on the notion of the "poetry of experience" in terms of the Anglo-Saxon Romantic tradition and of the author's confessional mode.

ISBN 84-334-8304-8 141pp. Bibliography. [out of print]

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CMO LEER A JUAN RAMN JIMNEZ

Isabel Paraso Almansa

Critical introduction to one of modern Spain's greatest poets. Includes a detailed summary of the author's life and works, systematic analyses of the early

Diario de un poeta recin casado and late Animal de fondo, and comentarios de texto of passages from Platero y yo and

Jardines lejanos.

ISBN 84-334-0801-1 162pp. Bibliography. [out of print]

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CMO LEER A LEANDRO FERNNDEZ DE MORATN

Rosala Fernndez Cabezn

A critical introduction to the major playwright of eighteenth-century Spain. Includes a summary of the author's life and works, and analysis of the plot, themes, characters, and dramatic techniques in

El s de las nias and La comedia nueva, with a comentario de texto

of the latter.

ISBN 84-334-0801-1 116 pp. Bibliography. [out of print]

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CMO LEER A BLAS DE OTERO

Jos ngel Ascunce Arrieta

Critical introduction with a summary of the modern Spanish poets life and works, analyses of major writings,

comentarios de texto.

[out of print]

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CMO LEER A JULIO CORTZAR

Alicia H. Puleo

Critical introduction with a summary of the Argentinian novelists life and works, analyses of major writings,

comentarios de texto.

[out of print]

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CMO LEER "LA CELESTINA"

Mara Eugenia Lacarra Lanz

Critical introduction with summary of Rojas authorship and the works evolution, analysis of major aspects,

comentarios de texto.

[out of print]

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99. CMO LEER EL "LAZARILLO"

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Francisco Garrote Prez

A critical introduction to the first Renaissance picaresque novel with a summary, analysis of major aspects,

comentarios de texto.

[out of print]

100.

MIRACLES, DUELS AND CIDE HAMETES MOORISH DISSENT

Juergen Hahn

A study of narrative and ideological functions of the Moorish narrator in

Don Quijote. It uses narratology and epistemology to argue that Cide Hamete represents key aspects of Arabic learning that are incorporated into Cervantes work and affect the development of the modern novel. "Estudio breve y muy jugoso ... no puede negarse la sugestin y simpata que despierta este concentrado librito en el nimo del lector."Alberto Snchez, Anales Cervantinos

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ISBN 0-916379-96-5 50pp. Index. $52.50

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IN LANGUAGE AND IN LOVE: MARGUERITE DURAS: THE UNSPEAKABLE

Mechthild Cranston, ed.

This collection of eight critical essays on the modern French novelist (selected from a session devoted to her at the 1991 MLA meeting) employs contemporary theory to examine "the unspeakable" in relation to postmodern (and classical) issues of desire and language: textuality, selfhood, femininity, psychoanalysis, madness, ontology, and mythology.

ISBN 0-916379-97-3 160pp. Bibliography. $56.75

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REDUCTIONISM IN DRAMA AND THE THEATER: THE CASE OF SAMUEL BECKETT

Gerhard Hauck

A detailed examination of Beckett's dramas based on reductionist models in the arts and sciences. Various experimental aspects of composition and production are shown to reflect Becketts search for a minimal theater of silence and inaction, as well as his epistemological uncertainty.

ISBN 0-916379-98-1 230pp. Appendices. Bibliography. $59.50

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POESA, SOCIEDAD Y CULTURA: DILOGOS Y RETRATOS DEL PER COLONIAL

Marta Bermdez Gallegos

Prlogo de Maureen Ahern

This study applies to texts of sixteenth-century Per contemporary semiotic theory and interdisciplinary approaches to cultural history in order to trace the development of a colonial cultural discourse. Among the issues discussed are dialogics, polyphony, intertexts, and metatexts.

ISBN 0-916379-99-X 189pp. Bibliography. $59.50

104.

TRACTADO DE VIIOS E VIRTUDES

Cleveland Johnson, ed.

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This represents the first critical edition of a fourteenth-century Castilian version of Iacobo de Benavento's thirteenth-century

Viridarium consolationis.

A comprehensive introductory study (76pp.) serves to document the texts provenance, compare major versions, and analyze the homiletic form and ethical content. It includes an extensive glossary (32pp.).

ISBN 0-916379-50-7 220pp. Study. Glossary. Bibliography. $59.00

105.

GIANTS IN THEIR FIELD: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NOBEL PRIZES IN LITERATURE

Ralph Gunther

A complete guide to Nobel Prizes in literature from Sully-Prudhomme to Derek Walcott (1901-1992), which can appeal to all readers as a source of documented facts and interesting anecdotes. It contains year-by-year summaries of literary events, parallel lives of laureates, concise biographies, lists of major works, and extensive tables in appendices (32pp.). "Brillante estudio ... con una documentacin amplsima ... interesante e instructiva lectura, un instrumento de trabajo y un libro de consulta til para los comparistas, investigadores, docentes y estudiantes universitarios."

Louis Imperiale, Quaderni Ibero-Americani

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ISBN 1-882528-01-8 538pp. Appendices. Bibliography. $69.50

106.

INTRA-HISTORIA IN MIGUEL DE UNAMUNOS NOVELS: A CONTINUAL PRESENCE

Peggy Whitten Watson

This study of the modern Spanish writer and philosopher Unamuno focuses on his concept of

intra-historia, which is central to understanding the evolution of essayist into novelist. Among the works studied are En torno al casticismo, Paz en la guerra, Niebla, and San Manuel Bueno. These show the metaphorical and ideological aspects of

intra-historia.

ISBN 1-882528-00-X 138pp. Bibliography. $59.50

107.

MANUEL DAZ RODRGUEZ: EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS OF THE STYLIST

Marianna Merritt Matteson

This book offers a stylistic analysis of an early-twentieth-century Venezuelan writer known for his travel accounts, stories, novels, and essays. It concentrates on three novels:

dolos rotos, Sangre patricidia, and Peregrina. It discusses contexts (criollismo and modernismo)

, summarizes plots, and examines sense impressions, imagery, and syntactic devices.

ISBN 1-882528-02-6 101pp. Tables. Bibliography. $55.00

108.

BOTTICELLIS NEOPLATONIC IMAGES

Liana de Girolami Cheney

This is a revised edition of the authors 1985 study, now out of print, which has been republished in response to the great interest of its subject matter, Botticelli, and of its critical approach, a humanistic analysis of the cultural contexts of Renaissance painting. Among the aspects discussed are the artists evolution, Medici patronage, Neoplatonism, and ways of interpreting mythology, allegory, and iconography in art.

ISBN 1-882528-03-4 204pp. 11 Illustrations. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $59.50

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LA POESA FEMENINA ACTUAL DE SUDAMRICA 29

Franklin Proao

A study of women poets from South America writing in the last two decades. It includes critical analyses of poetry from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Per, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The central issues discussed are feminine self-definition, protests against injustice, new socio-political perspectives, and new literary voices.

ISBN 1-882528-0-2 420pp. Bibliography. $59.50

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. CENSORSHIP AND ART IN PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT LIMAPEDRO DE PERALTA BARNUEVOS "DILOGO DE LOS MUERTOS": LA CAUSA ACADMICA

Jerry M. Williams, ed. and trans.

This is the first translation and critical edition of Peralta's work. The

Dilogo

, an allegorical satire, has challenged scholars for centuries; it represents a critique of pre-Enlightenment academies and a defense of artistic freedom. The study focuses on issues of colonial discourse and status, literary convention and censorship, social tradition and crisis.

ISBN 1-882528-06-9 220pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.50

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. MARA GREVER: POETA Y COMPOSITORA

Mara Luisa Rodrguez Lee

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of this prolific Mexican poet-composer of the early twentieth century. It analyzes in depth the relation of literature to music in twenty-five compositions. Also examined is Grever's development of a feminine voice and international career in the male-dominated music publishing world of New York and Mexico.

ISBN 1-882528-05-0 175pp. Discography. Bibliography. $54.50

112.

EL DESDEADO MS FIRME

Leonor de Meneses

Eds. Judith A Whitenack and Gwyn Campbell

This is the first modern edition and critical study of a dramatic courtly tale from 1655 by a forgotten woman writer of Spains Golden Age. The extensive introduction and notes serve to restore the work to the literary history of its period and to relate it to contemporary tales by Lope de Vega, Mara de Zayas, and other masters of fiction after Cervantes. "This edition is of interest to students of Spanish Golden Age literature, womens studies, and cultural studies."

Carmen Chaves Tesser, Hispania

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ISBN 1-882528-07-7 150pp. Bibliography. $59.50

113.

ENRICO ANNIBALE BUTTI: THE PREDICAMENT OF THE MINOR WRITER

Susan Briziarelli

A re-evaluation of the works by this novelist, dramatist, and critic of turn-of-the-century Milan. The issue of Buttis place in literary history leads to a critical definition of the minor writer in relation to his public.

ISBN 1-882528-08-5 160pp. Bibliography. $58.50

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ARTE Y MUSICA EN LAS NOVELAS DE BLASCO IBAEZ

Aida Trau

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A conceptualization of an interdisciplinary sign which combines painting, music, and literature is presented in seven of Blasco Ibaezs novels.

ISBN 1-882528-09-03 305pp. Bibliography. $59.50

115.

EL IMPACTO DEL HUMANISMO EN EL NUEVO MUNDO

Eds. Bruno Damiani, Benjamin Rodrguez, et al.

This volume contains the Proceedings of an NEH-sponsored seminar on the above topic. The book presents the lectures by Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce, Jorge E. Gracia, Francisco Miranda, Jos Rabasa, nineteen essays written by participating faculty, and twelve summaries presented by other scholars.

ISBN 1-882528-10-7 vi + 307pp. $75.00

116.

THEY BUILT UTOPIA (THE JESUIT MISSIONS IN PARAGUAY): 1610-1768

Frederick J. Reiter

The present study, brilliantly written and scrupulously documented, examines the spiritual conquest of the southern American continent, as well as the political, historical, and social ramificacions of such a conquest. An indispensable research tool of interest to the specialist and the general reader alike.

ISBN 1-882528-11-5 x + 401 pp. Maps. Photographs. Documents. Index. $75.00

117.

THE "SECRETO DE LOS SECRETOS": A CASTILIAN VERSION. CRITICAL EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

Philip Jones, ed.

An authoritative study of the history and content of the famed didactic work with manuscript description and meticulous transcription of text. A must for Medieval scholars and students.

ISBN 1-882528-12-3 ix + 111pp. Bibliography $59.50

118.

LUMILE ITALIA IN DANTE ALIGHIERI

Vicenzo Tripodi

A thorough and scholarly interpretation of the description of Italy in the works of Dante. A cogent review of Dantes criticism on the subject is followed by extensive chapters on the varied, intricate, and symbolic uses of "umilit," "superbia," and "magnanimit." Brilliant exposition of a most engaging topic. Well written and amply documented.

ISBN 1-882528-13-1 360pp. $69.50

119.

OMBRE E LUCI

Vicenzo Tripodi

An aspiring collection of original poems on hermeneutical, metaphysical, and existential aspects of the human experience. Profoundly moving and thought-provoking. Written in Italian.

ISBN 1-882528-14-x 125pp. $62.50 31

120.

LIGHT IMAGERY IN THE "ROMANCERO"

Patricia Pogal

This book examines the origin of the medieval Spanish concept of light and the poetic function which luminous imagery serves. It concludes with an investigation of the traditional element (radiance) in the balladry of three Spanish poets: Lope de Vega, the Duque de Rivas, and Federico Garca Lorca.

ISBN 1-882528-16-8 160pp. $59.50

121.

PRIMITIVES, PATRIARCHY, AND THE PICARESQUE IN VICENTE BLASCO

IBAEZS "CAAS Y BARRO"

Christopher Anderson

A study that challenges many traditional ideas about "Caas y barro" and re-evaluates it as a complex, many layered fabric informed by sources both personal and literary in origin. This book is significant in that it re(dis)covers the novels female characters and views them within the context of life in a male-dominated society and their reactions to the codes they inherit with it and in that it raises questions about the books touted objectivity, especially in those sections of the novel that deal with women.

ISBN 1-882528-16-6 xi + 186pp. $65.00

122.

SANTAS, REINAS, MRTIRES Y CORTESANAS: EL TRATAMIENTO DE LA MUJER EN DIAMANTE

Mary Parker

In this innovative and comprehensive study, Parker brings to light the scope of Diamantes treatment of a variety of female characters in several of his most significant works. A must for scholars interested in this important yet often overlooked Golden Age dramatist. "With this study, Mary Parker fills a void in the critical bibliography of Juan Bautista Diamante . . . [and it] will be of interest not only to Diamante scholars but also to those interested in the characterization of women in Golden Age theater."

De Lys Osmond,

Hispania. Text in Spanish.

ISBN 1-882528-17-4 200pp. $69.95

123.

EL MUNDO COMO VOLUNTAD Y REPRESENTACIN: BORGES Y SCHOPENHAUER

Ana Sierra

A highly original study on the relationship between the aesthetic theory of Schopenhauer and Borgess fictions, this book analyzes several essays and short stories in order to reveal facets of the aesthetic experience. The first part broadly outlines some of the principal ideas of El mundo como voluntad y representacin, as a background to the aesthetic theory: the concept of perception; the oneiric character of reality; the different meanings of the term will; and the relationship between will and intellect, among others. The rest of the book analyzes how Schopenhauers theories transform Borges discourse in a sort of palimpsest of the origin of the artistic work. "a highlyvaluable and useful reference book."

Harley D. Oberhelman, Hispania.

Text in Spanish.

ISBN 1-882525-18-2 200pp. $69.95

124.

LHUMEUR NOIRE, MLANCOLE, CRITURE ET PENSE EN ESPAGNE AU XVIe ET XVIIe SICLE

Christine Orobitg

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This superb book explains the importance of melancholy in the early modern society of the Golden Age of Spain. This is an interdisciplinary approach by one of the best young specialists of Spanish literature in France. Orobitg uses methodology from a variety of disciplines and will prove useful for those interested in Spanish literature, comparative literature, psychoanalysis, and medicine. Text in French.

ISBN 1-57309-073-5 200pp. [out of print]

125.

BARTOLOM BERMEJO: THE MAN, HIS ART AND HIS TIMES

Judith Berg-Sobre

Bartolom de Crdenas, known as "el Bermejo" (fl. 1468-1495) was the foremost Hispanic painter of his century, and one of the few artists of his generation to master the technique of oil glazing and adapt it to the demands of the Hispanic market. During his fascinating career Bermejo sometimes drew on the local "art scene" and produced altarpieces of astounding quality. This monograph examines the artists career in the various cities in which he worked: Valencia, Daroca, Zaragoza, and Barcelona.

ISBN 1-57309-063-8 320pp. [out of print]

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HISTORIOLOGY, RESEARCH AND DIDACTICS: ELABORATION AND TRANSMISSION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

Jos Manuel de Bernardo Ares

Based on his extensive teaching and research experiences, as well as his rigorous analysis of historical scholarship, Bernardo Aress study sets historical knowledge against the general framework of scientific knowledge. Supported by a thorough definition of the concept of history, Historiology, Research and Didactics focuses on the basic epistemological and methodological questions involved in the study of history and provides a unique analysis of the didactics of history. Text in Spanish.

ISBN 1-883255-87-2 175pp. [out of print]

127. THE ARIAS DVILA FAMILY OF SEGOVIA: BETWEEN THE SYNAGOGUE AND THECHURCH

David M. Gitlitz

In this remarkable, lucid, and thorough investigation, Gitlitz portrays a prominent Christian/Jewish family of late fifteenth-century Spain, a time in which systematic persecution of Jewish converts to Christianity led to the founding of the Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews. Gitlitzs study of the colorful Arias family, which included bishops and rabbis, soldiers and merchants, royal counselors and nuns and tavern keepers, details textbook cases of successful and failed assimilation. It is an important contribution towards understanding how real people struggled to maintain their identity in politically and religiously dangerous times, pulled from one side by the synagogue and the other by the church. Text in Spanish.

ISBN 1-57309-039-5 146pp. [out of print]

128.

ARISTOTLE AND ARISTOTELIANISM IN MEDIEVAL MUSLIM, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

Husain Kassim

This work is a major contribution to understanding the revival of Aristotelian thought in Europe through the contribution of Islamic scholars as well as their Jewish and Christian colleagues. Kassim discusses the influence of

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Aristotle in Muslim speculative thought and the emergence of a Neo-Aristotelian school in Crdoba and other Muslim centers in Spain and the transmission of philosophic ideas via Jewish and Christian translators, clergy, scholars, and musicians. Kassim draws valuable parallels between the re-emergence of Aristotelian thought from the East via Constantinople into Italy and its emergence from the South via Spain into France and the Low Countries.

ISBN 1-57292-046-7 256pp. [out of print]

129. ESTUDIOS EN HONOR DE JANET PREZ: EL SUJETO FEMENINO EN ESCRITORAS HISPNICAS

Susana Cavallo, Luis Jimnez, and Oralia Preble-Niemi, eds.

This book explores the question of female identity and subjectivity through a series of articles on Spanish and Latin American women writers. Collaborators to this commemorative volume include such internationally known scholars such as Randolph Pope, Eunice Myers, Mara Salgado, Mara-Elena Bravo, etc. "[This volume] affords the opportunity to read some fine articles that shed light on the work of various Hispanic women writers."

Kathleen M. Glenn, Revista de Estudios Hispnicos

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ISBN 1-882528-19-0 200pp. $69.95

130.

ESPAOL PARA LOS NEGOCIOS: ESTUDIOS DE CASOS

Adaptados y editados por Irene Mizrahi y Gregory B. Kaplan

In this highly innovative book intended for classroom use, Mizrahi and Kaplan present eight "Casos" which are designed to help students gain a practical knowledge of some of the strategies used and problems faced by actual companies in the Spanish speaking business world. Each "Caso" is followed by "Trminos de gerencia," which provide explanations in Spanish of the key terms used in the "Caso," "Preguntas," which concern the text of the "Caso" and "Temas para discutir o escribir," which are intended to stimulate class discussion. The second part of the book, consisting of ten "Casos cortos," offers the student opportunities to prepare oral presentations in order to solve a variety problems faced by different types of companies. A thorough Spanish-English vocabulary complements the "Casos" and "Casos Cortos." Text in Spanish.

ISBN 1-882528-20-4 131 pp. Vocabulary. [out of print]

131.

BEYOND THE BOOK. MARGUERITE DURAS: "INFANS"

Mechthild Cranston

Preface by Germaine Bre

Close analyses of some of Marguerite Duras early works (Le Marin de Gibraltar, Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia, Le Square) followed by readings of Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs and Le Douleur. "The texts chosen by Cranston are particularly challenging and are read by her in the light of Duras own statements concerning the nature of the literary endeavor," writes Germaine Bre in her Preface. "Cranston explores the many levels of linguistic play and resonance, the ambiguities of Duras ... Cranstons own cultural memory is particularly rich and crosses the frontiers of separate linguistic frames."

ISBN 1-882528-21-2 140pp. $59.00

132.

THE SEMIOTICS OF A BOURGEOIS SOCIETY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE AGUAFUERTES PORTEAS BY ROBERTO ARLT

Victoria Martinez

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As an exciting addition to the several collections of Arlts essays, this study offers a new perspective through its examination of the language of the essays and the semiotic codes that provide insight into Arlts opinions on porteo social structure, including the place of women within that structure. Through its literary analysis, this book opens the possibilities for further comparison of Arlts articles to his fiction. The addendum contains previously unedited essays from

El Mundo.

ISBN 1-882528-22-0 198pp. $69.95

133.

AUTODESCUBRIMIENTO Y AUTODOMINIO DE COLN A CALDERN:

DISCURSOS RENACENTISTAS DE AUTORIDAD Y EXPERIENCIA

(INTERPRETACIONES FENOMENOLGICAS Y SOCIOSEMITICAS)

Roberto Gonzlez-Casanovas

This work examines the cultural discourses of authority and experience (in their historical, religious, and literary aspects) that emerge in the Spanish Golden Age as a result of the new world order of an expanded Christendom, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and an evolving Christian humanism. The opening and closing chapters develop a critical model based on dialogical interpretations of ideology, typology, and narratology, which is then related to Spanish Golden Age culture and discourse. The eight main chapters treat a representative selection of travels, meditations, devotional lyrics, novels, stories, prologues, philosophical dramas, and allegorical plays by such major authors as Columbus, Santa Teresa de Jess, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Quevedo, Caldern, and sor Juana Ins de la Cruz.

ISBN 1-882528-23-9 170pp. Bibliography. Index. $69.95

134.

IMPERIAL HISTORIES FROM ALFONSO X TO INCA GARCILASO: REVISIONIST MYTHS OF RECONQUEST AND CONQUEST

Roberto Gonzlez-Casanovas

This study situates medieval, renaissance, and colonial Spanish chronicles about the Reconquest of Iberia and Conquest of America in comparative cultural contexts of Iberian expansion. The books purpose is not to survey or compare the chronicles themselves in terms of discrete traditions, contents, or forms, but rather to construct a critical model of national-imperial historiography as a discourse of cultural authority and reception. These issues are examined in relation to the authorial-editorial frames in works from Alfonso X of Castile and James I of Aragon to Columbus, Corts, Cabeza de Vaca, Las Casas, Daz del Castillo, and Inca Garcilaso; they are accompanied by parallel readings of Portuguese, French, and Italian works by Barcelos, Joinville, Compagni, and Cames.

ISBN 1-882528-24-7 186pp. Bibliography. Index. $69.95

135. CANCIONES ENTRE EL ALMA Y EL ESPOSO

OF JUAN DE LA CRUZ: A HERMENEUTICAL INTERPRETATION

David Brian Perrin

This book is a methodological study which constructs a hermeneutical framework for an interpretation of the poem commonly known as the "Cntico espiritual" of Juan de la Cruz. In constructing a hermeneutical framework for interpretation, David Perrin is suggesting not a new and original interpretation of the poem, but rather, a theoretical framework (Global Hermeneutical Method) within which a hermeneutical interpretation can take place.

ISBN 1-57309-095-6 430pp. Bibliography. Index. [out of print]

136. FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD: THE "OLD" AND "NEW SELF" OF JOHN OF THE CROSS

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David Brian Perrin

This book is a study of Johns attitude towards the world in which this loving journey of the transformation from the "old self" to the "new self" takes place. John knows that it is in "this world" that the journey of transformation takes place, in whatever way God works that transformation.

ISBN 1-57309-146-4 124pp. Bibliography. Index. [out of print]

137.

TEXTO HBRIDO: ENTRE FICCIN E INFORMACIN PERIODISMO O LITERATURA?

Juan J. Pindado

This book treats such topics as genres, ideological features, and objective "editorializing" conditions and demonstrates persuasively the characteristics of the journalistic articles written by the main Latin American literary authors in the newspaper

El Pas (Madrid). A corpus of journalistic collaborations is scrutinized in a comprehensive interdisciplinary context by Professor Pindado. His effort has been focused on analyzing the nature, ambiguities, and precisions of this type of narrative discourse

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ISBN 1-882528-26-3 iii+149pp. $69.95

138.

SELECTED PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISPANIC HUMOR

Paul W. Seaver, Jr., ed. and intro.

The essays selected for inclusion in this volume derive from the first international conference solely dedicated to the study of Hispanic humor, which took place September 29-30, 1995, in Philadelphia, PA. The essays deal with manifestations of humor in literature, film, cartoons, linguistics, art, and popular culture, and treat themes from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. The scope of this collection affirms the important role of humor in Hispanic culture, a topic which had been previously been under appreciated in Hispanic studies

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ISBN 1-882528-27-1 xv+163pp. $69.95

139. THE READER IN LUIS GOYTISOLOS ANTAGONA TETRALOGY: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE COMMUNICATION

Kevin E. Teegarden

This study of the four installments comprising Luis Goytisolos

Antagona tetralogyRecuento (1973), Los verdes de mayo hasta el mar (1976), La clera de Aquiles (1979), and Teora del conocimiento (1981)examines the means by which these works of fiction, despite their structurally and linguistically complex discourse, seek to make themselves intelligible to the traditional reader. This reader-response approach to Antagona demonstrates how the work, notwithstanding its efforts to elaborate an innovative prose that would supersede the tenets of (neo)realism that characterized Spanish fiction from the 1940s to the 1960s, reaches out to the traditional reader and ultimately affirms the power of language and literature as vehicles for understanding oneself and the world

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ISBN 1-88258-28-X 211pp. $69.95

140. AFRODITA EN EL TRPICO: EROTISMO Y LA CONSTRUCCIN DEL SUJETO FEMENINO EN OBRAS DE AUTORAS CENTROAMERICANAS

Oralia Preble-Niemi

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This collection of essays investigates a new and relevant phenomenon in the writings of Central American women writers of the 20th Century: the uninhibited approach to the theme of eroticism. The sixteen scholars included in the work examine the presence of the topic in this literature and the manner in which it serves to construct the feminine subject. Several of the articles discuss the revolutionary nature of eroticism in womens literature. This revolution is analyzed in the altered nature of fictional, personal relationships and domestic settings, as well as in the political realm. The articles bring different critical approaches to bear on the works of authors such as Gloconda Belli, Jacinta Escudos, Gloria Guardia, Ana Istar, Luz Mndez de la Vega, Michele Najlis, etc. "Este trabajo es, sin lugar a dudas, imprescindible para los que se interesan en el tema, y fuente obligada de referencia para los que quieran estudiar a fondo la produccin potica de las mujeres centroamericanas."

Lourdes Rojas, Revista de Folologa Hispnica. "e sumo inters particularmente en el mbito frecuentemente soslayado de la poesa."Leah Fonder-Solano, Letras Femeninas

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ISBN 1-882528-29-8 xi+264pp. $69.95

141.

EL DISCURSO DE LOS PRLOGOS DEL SIGLO DE ORO: LA RETRICA DE LA REPRESENTACIN

Diana Alvarez-Amell. Preface by Antonio Cao

This study is a timely rereading of the prologues of three influential Golden Age Spanish novels:

Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzmn de Alfarache, and Don Quijote.

By addressing the literary issues raised in these very distinct and different prologues, this study places them within a literary tradition while analyzing how these topoi are transformed when deployed in the formation of a new literary form. The study is divided into four parts, while the introduction analyzes how different theoretical schools of the last decades have grappled with the problem of explaining how literary significance is actually achieved, taking into account the complex dynamic set off in the interrelationship among the author, the text, and the reader. Preface by Antonio Cao.

ISBN 1-882528-30-1 179pp.+Bibliography $69.95

142.

THE TRANSFORMING TEXT: A STUDY OF LUIS DE GNGORAS SOLEDADES

Robert John McCaw

In this study the author shows that, because of its formal complexities and peculiarities, the

Soledades does indeed communicate a well-defined message, and that this message is utterly compatible with seventeenth-century Counter-Reformation philosophy. McCaws studyan explication de texte based on the poems literary, iconographic, and philosophical intertextsdemonstrates that the Soledades

nor only communicates a worldview of metamorphosis and mutability, of material and spiritual transformation, but also promotes a code of personal conduct that is grounded in the pastoral values of modesty and humility.

ISBN 1-882528-32-8 200 pp. $69.95

143. HUMANITIES AND THE HEALTH SCIENCESA COLLABORATIVE PROJECT FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND CURRICULAR REVISION: A PUERTO RICAN EXPERIENCE

Edited by Leonides Santos y Vargas, Jorge Ferrer, and Bruno M. Damiani. Prologue by Bruno M. Damiani

This volume contains the Proceedings of a three-year NEH-sponsored seminar on bioethics, held at the University of Puerto Rico during the summers of 1998-2000. This is one of the finest collections of interdisciplinary studies covering the areas of philosophy, history, theology, literature, and the behavioral sciences. A distinguished international panel of scholars, including Edmund Pellegrino, Diego Gracia Guilln, Javier Gafo, Samuel Banks, and Joanne Trautman, among others, present their penetrating research in a lucid and engaging style.

ISBN 1-882528-33-6 250 pp. $89.9537

144.

THE MYTH OF REHABILITATION

Paul A. Jones

While working with prison systems, work release programs, mental hospitals, and alternative settings in the public schools, it has become clear to this author that the almost universally accepted idea of rehabilitating criminal offenders is basically falsea myth. The author argues that we need to stop wasting time and money on current forms of rehabilitating criminals and adopt less-traditional methods.

ISBN 1-882528-34-4 105 pp. $49.95

145. LOMBRE DE LA COUPURE: A STUDY OF THE SHADOW METAPHOR IN HENRI BOSCOS TEXTS

Mylne J. Catel

Stories of lost shadows culminate in Romantic Europe with Chamissos

Peter Schlemihl linking them to the Faustian tradition and triggering a renewed interest in the already popular theme. Imitations and sophistications of Peters strange adventure are to be found in numerous shadow authors, including Andersen, Poe, Gilson, and, more recently, Henri Bosco. Catels study is anchored in the context of the renewal of signs through shadow reflections.

Redirecting traditional Jungian shadow interpretations, Catel departs from a feminist perspective in order to connect shadow tales to the traditional patriarchal myths and more particularly the androgyne archetype.

ISBN 1-882528-35-2 200 pp. $69.95

146. LA CONCLUSIN DEL AMADS DE GAULA: LAS SERGAS DE ESPLANDIN DE GARCI RODRGUEZ DE MONTALVO

Eloy R. Gonzlez Argelles

The

Amads de Gaula, the most important of all Spanish chivalric texts, has been known to readers through the recasting of Garci Rodrguez de Montalvo, who also penned his own (for the most part) conclusion to the work, the Sergas de Esplandin. While the intentions of the original Amads may have been quite different from those of Montalvo, he adopted and adapted it as part of an overall plan. In this study Gonzlez takes side with those scholars who have argued that both works must be read as part of the same roman fleuve in order to ascertain what this plan was. The author probes deeply into Montalvos efforts to sustain the interest of his reader while adhering to the narrative model of the Amads. Gonzlezs analysis of the Sergas leads him to a thorough examination of its literary techniques, plot construction, the moralizing interspersed throughout the text, and the functions of main and secondary characters, including the auctor,

Montalvos fictional alter-ego.

ISBN 1-882528-36-0 276 pp. $69.95

147. WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS AND THE FAIRY TALE TRADITION

Mara Elena Solio

Although the three authors studied, Ana Mara Matute, Carmen Martn Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the

novela rosa and the Hollywood womens picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and childrens literature, Solio studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solios book opens with a chapter that traces the historical development of the fairy tale genre, examines their didactic intent, and critiques the images of women in fairy tales. The second chapter explores the manners by which fairy tales were used as a tool for indoctrination during the formative years of the three authors under consideration. These introductory chapters are followed by individual chapters devoted to Martn Gaite, Matute,

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and Tusquets in which Solio explores the connections between the literature these authors published for children and the novels they penned for an adult readership.

ISBN 1-882528-37-9 200 pp. $69.95

148. MYTH AND MEANING: A PARADIGMATIC ANALYSIS OF GALDSS FORTUNATA Y JACINTA

Edith Moss Jackson

This work is a symbolic study of Benito Prez Galdss masterful novel,

Fortunata y Jacinta (1887). It is the first book to apply the totalizing body of Claude Lvi-Strausss anthropological structuralism to analyze the fictive model society encoded in this novel. Jackson discovers that the results of narrative techniques in Fortunata y Jacinta

reflect the implied authors theoretical move from a mimetic mirroring of society to the presentation of an image of life that is consistent with Galdss critiques of the excessive formalism of the external society of 19th-century Madrid.

ISBN 1-882528-38-7 200 pp. $69.95

149. TONES/COUNTERTONES: A BILINGUAL EDITION: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, ADAPTATIONS, IMITATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF SHORT POETIC TEXTS FROM THE LATIN, FRENCH, SPANISH, AND GERMAN

Philip Cranston

Tones/Countertones proposes formal verse translations of a large selection of well-known (and less well-known) poetry, drawn from ten centuries and five languages: Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and German. Included are short poems and excerpts from long poems by, among others, Vergil, Horace, Dante, Petrarch, Gil Vicente, Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Goethe, Foscolo, Leopardi, Musset, Baudelaire, Bcquer, Mallarm, Rimbaud, Rilke, Apollinaire, Supervielle, and Char. A thirteen-page introduction lays out, in some detail, the translators methods and procedures, referring specifically to texts found in this volume and arguing that (despite reservations or even strong objections by critics and poets like Yves Bonnefoy) a poems form is as essential as its content and is, in fact, essential to its content. In an "Afterword," Roger Asselineau, a published poet and professor emeritus of the Sorbonne, writes: "Tones/Countertones, offering a broad sampling of Western literatures of diverse periods, is . . . in every respect remarkable: at once translation and poetry."

ISBN 1-882528-39-5 176 pp., Index, Bibliography $69.95

150. THE MAGIC ZONE: SKETCHES OF THE NOBEL LAUREATES

Ralph Gunther

The present volume introduces the reader to a wide range of information about the men and women who have won Nobel Prizes. Excerpts from their life histories, from their achievements in the sciences and the arts, are interspersed with an array of anecdotes and chance occurrences which make for highly entertaining reading. The national anthems of three countries are the creations of Nobel laureates. While in office, the presidents of six countries were awarded Nobel prizes. It will attract attention that among the Nobel laureates one can find astronomers, aircraft pilots, performers of music, philosophers, revolutionaries, inventors, art collectors, mountaineers; not to mention the occasional gold digger, terrorist, lumberjack, fruit picker, and explorer of unchartered territories. It was a Nobel laureate who first addressed Mohandas Gandhi as "Mahatma" (Great Soul), anticipating the role that the future leader of the passive resistance movement would play on the Indian subcontinent. It was a Nobel laureate who identified and isolated the chemical species in coffee; that is to say, the species that give coffee its flavor and aroma. Between 1901 and 2002, more than seven hundred people were awarded Nobel Prizes. Covering a time span of 102 years, the book contains more than two hundred well-researched sketches and the notion that if history is the essence of many biographies, the biographies of the Nobel laureates along can throw a prominent light on the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.

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ISBN 1-882528-40-9 279 pp., Appendices, Bibliography $89.50

151.

PROTOFEMINISMO, EROTISMO Y COMIDA EN "LA LOZANA ANDALUZA"

Linnette Fourquet-Reed

Prlogo de Luigi Imperiale

With a grounding in the current theoretical understanding of Renaissance feminism, this work presents an examination of Francisco Delicados profeminist position in the context of what are currently described as individualist and relational models. The individualist model proposes an autonomy of women in relation to men, law and politics, while the relational explores what women are and do in contrast to men. Delicados text offers the possibility of invoking both models simultaneously.

ISBN 1-882528-41-7 180pp. $69.95

152.

LA EXPERIENCIA POTICA Y LA EXPERIENCIA MSTICA EN LA POESA

DE SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ

Carlos M. Andrs Gil

Using the theory of orality, this book shows how the poems were composed with the techniques of oral tradition; and the oral character of this poetry helps in establishing the uniqueness of the experience induced by the poems. This book is an original and yet attentive reading of the poetic texts using an interdisciplinary approach (philosophical, philological and literary). It represents a major contribution to the study of the poetry of John of the Cross: shattering, and yet rigorous and faithful to the text.

ISBN 1-882528-42-5 149pp. $69.95

153.

STUDIES IN HONOR OF DENAH LIDA

Edited by Mary G. Berg and Lanin A. Gyurko

This volume contains several outstanding scholarly contributions written by some of the leading critics in the field of Hispanic literature. Essential reference material.

ISBN 1-882528-43-3 300pp. $75.00

154.

DESENGAO AND SALVATION IN "GUZMN DE ALFARACHE"

Charmaine McMahon

In Spains monumental novel of roguery, Guzmn de Alfarache, the interaction of the moral digressions and the picaresque exploits is presented as a literary technique that reflects the socio-ethical polemic undermining seventeenth century Spanish society. The psychological role of the narrator-protagonist is explored in the interpretation of socio-cultural symbols and myths leading up to Spains unhappy "enlightenment". The picaros confession is presented as secular, rather than religious, and is associated with his journey to make sense out of the world. This defines the motives and effects of baroque "desengao" in the "Guzmn" in order to facilitate a more complete understanding of its moral-didactic aim.

ISBN 1-882528-44-1 180pp. $69.95

155.

LA POSIE DE LUCETTE DESVIGNES--THE POETRY OF LUCETTE DESVIGNES

A BILINGUAL

EDITION Jerry L. Curtis40

This is the first bilingual collection of Desvignes poetry and as such, it provides a fresh glimpse of her poetic insights to both French and Anglophone readers. Desvignes poetry resonates in a variety of tonalits within this varied collection that will become obvious to the reader : the classical dignity of

The Portal of the Lionesses, the ironic, meditative, and emotional lyricism voiced inScreams in the Night, the themes of lost love and passing time and death apparent in My Heart, Little by Little the Night is Falling, the cryptic, yet insightful descriptions of 105 miniatures of painter Michel Dufour in The Indian Newspaper, and the modulations of tone found in the Diverse Poetry

that ends the collection.

ISBN : 1-882528-45-X VIII + 214pp. $69.95

156.

EL DIAGNSTICO DE LA HUMANIDAD POR MATEO ALEMN :

EL DISCURSO MDICO DEL

GUZMN DE ALFARACHE

Francisco Ramrez Santacruz

Prlogo de Francisco Mrquez Villanueva

This book examines how medical language provided Alemn with an extraordinary linguistic tool that made the emergence of the modern novel possible. Mateo Alemn disclosed to subsequent generations of writers, and in particular to Cervantes, the possibilities of novelistic medical discourse in the area of psychology, politics, and even religion. Through recourse to the medico-philosophical tradition of Juan Luis Vives and Huarte de San Juan, Alemn fictionalizes the intricate relationship between the soul and the body, consolidating, before the creation of don Quijote, the mental illness of a literary character as the driving force of the modern novel, and offering by extension a medical allegory of a sick society.

ISBN : 1-882528-46-8 270pp. $ 69.95

157.

THE WRITER IN THE LANDSCAPE: AUTHORIAL SELF-REPRESENTATION

AND LITERARY FORM IN THE LANDSCAPE WRITINGS OF "UNAMUNO" AND

"AZORN"

Mary Ruth Strzeszewski

The figure of the intellectual emerged in Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Azorn (Jos Martnez Ruiz) and Miguel de Unamuno explored the critical and creative possibilities of this new role in their writings

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This comparative study of these authors prose writings on landscape focuses on the literary personae of the artist-intellectual that both Azorn and Unamuno cultivated and on their innovative use of the article form. The principal body of the study is dedicated to each authors extension of the narrative of literary self-creation beyond the boundaries of the novel in the flexible, literary form of the article, Strzeszewskis reading of these sui generis writings should contribute to a greater appreciation of their innovative character.

ISBN : 1-882528-47-6 168pp. $ 69.95

158.

LIFTING THE OBSIDIAN MASK :THE ARTISTIC VISION OF CARLOS FUENTES

Lanin A. Gyurko

This volume is the only study to encompass all of Fuentes writings, including short stories, novels, theatre and essays, from his earliest short stories of the mythic and fantastic, Los das enmascarados, to his unique and enigmatic autobiographical dictionary En esto creo (2002), and his most significant narrative in the twenty-first century, La Silla del guila (2003). Designed for the students of Latin American Literature as a comprehensive guidebook, for enthusiasts of Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, and specialists in Latin American Literature, Lifting the Obsidian Mask provides a highly readable, illuminating and invaluable exploration of Fuentes complex and uncompromising, paradoxical, and fascinating art.

ISBN : 1-882528-48-4 433pp. $ 75.00

159. PICCOLOMINI EN IBERIA -- INFLUENCIAS ITALIANAS EN EL GNESIS DE LA LITERATURA SENTIMENTAL ESPAOLA

Jaime Leaos

This volume offers a distinct interpretation of the genesis of one of the most fascinating genres of Spanish medieval literature, the fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental novel. This work examines the seminal importance of Historia de duobus amantibus, a work by Eneas Silvio Piccolomini, later known as Pope Pius II, in the development of the novel genre in Spain which originates with the acclaimed piece by Juan Rodrguez del Padrn: Siervo libre de amor.

By comparing seven of the main sentimental novels to the Historia de duobus amantibus, Leaos provides scholars with ample schorlarship on the subject. His innovative efforts also outline the main events of the fifteenth-century, which helped to pave the road to disseminate the genre. Leaoss work is extensive and his lucid study will benefit scholars and graduate students interested in Piccolomini and the history of the sentimental novel.

ISBN : 1-882528-49-2 200pp. $ 69.95

160. LA POESA CREACIONISTA DE GERARDO DIEGO

Samuel M. Porrata

In purporting a wider and more encompassing view of Creacionismo, Porrata convinces the reader that this literary movement, while maintaining its artistic integrity, also allowed for the personalized and varying poetic styles of Gerardo Diego. The originality of the present work lies in Porratas perceptive study of Gerardo Diegos religiosity which allows the poet to conceive of his poetry as a continuation of Gods creative act through literary expression. This study "represents a significant contribution to literary criticism and theory because it approaches, in a methodical, objective and balanced manner, the hotly debated issues regarding Creacionismos radical and revolutionary independence from all previous artistic form and technique," Salvatore Poeta, scholar and literary critic. Useful reference volume for undergraduate and graduate students as well as research scholars of contemporary Spanish literature.

ISBN : 1-882528-50-6 200pp. $ 69.95

161. PERUS INQUISITION ON TRIAL: THE VINDICATION OF ANA DE CASTRO. LA INQUISICIN PERUANA EN TELA DE JUICIO: LA VINDICACIN DE ANA DE CASTRO.

Jerry M. Williams

The distinguished professor and scholar Jerry M. Williams, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, West Chester University, offers us yet another outstanding contribution to our understanding of inquisitorial practices in the New World and one of its most celebrated victims, a Judaizer, Mara Francisca Ana de Castro.

Professor Williams scrupulously examines archival records and analyzes relevant scholarly contributions to show how the drama of the Inquisition in Lima affected the lives of citizens who were prosecuted for a range of alleged and actual crimes against society, the public good, the Church and the State. An indispensable addition to the collection development of any College, University or Public Library.

ISBN : 1-882528-52-2 XVIII + 157. Illustrations $ 69.95

162. LES AMIS INCONNUS / UNKNOWN FRIENDS

A BILINGUAL EDITION Jules Supervielle

Translation by Philip Cranston

The Uruguayan-born twentieth-century French poet, Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) here appears (after Naissances/Births, Scripta Humanistica # 86) in a second bilingual edition of an entire work by Philip Cranston.

Les amis inconnus

/Unknown Friends provides a deeper look into the physical and phychic universe created by Superviellethrough some of his most memorable, most haunting poems.

ISBN : 1-882528-53-0 XIII + 217 pp. $ 69.95

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* = copublication with Ediciones Jcar of Madrid

** = copublication with Ediciones Jcar of Madrid in preparation

= published in conjunction with International Scholars Publications

= published in conjunction with Grafiletras Ltda.

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