The Theatre of Naturalism

Philip Beitchman

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 185
• The impact of naturalism, a literary approach invented by Zola and especially significant in the field of the novel through his American «disciples» C... Lees meer

Venezuela Heroica

Eduardo Blanco

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 241
• For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely ann... Lees meer

Facets of a Princess

Michael G Paulson

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 58
• Facets of a Princess is a novel approach to Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves . Unlike previous critical studies, Facets does not limit it... Lees meer

George Eliot and George Sand

Daniel Vitaglione

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 13
• A long overdue comparison of the two most famous women novelists of the nineteenth century, this interesting study compares Eliot and Sand, their reli... Lees meer

Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre

Mary Efrosini Gregory

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 197
• Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre examines how these five theorists recognized that searching for self in an idea... Lees meer

Haïti après le tremblement de terre

• Hardcover | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 236
• En parallèle à la construction historique d'Haïti entant que pays indépendant, la littérature haïtienne s'est montrée dynamique depuis plus de deux si... Lees meer

La femme dans le monde imaginaire de Georges Bernanos

Astrid Heyer

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 49
• La portée de l'oeuvre de Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) serait impensable sans la grande place accordée à la femme. A travers une présentation stricteme... Lees meer

Le bonheur chez la femme colettienne

Zeina Tamer Schlenoff

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 41
• Cette étude analyse quatre romans de Colette: La Vagabonde publié en 1910; L'Entrave , 1913; Chéri , 1920; et La Fin de Chéri , 1926. Zeina Tamer Schl... Lees meer

Writing Tangier

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 169
• Writing Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions includ... Lees meer

Roland Barthes et l'éthique de la fiction

Christian Martin

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 115
• Sémiologue, critique, essayiste, théoricien, écrivain, intellectuel, romancier? En installant d'emblée sa parole au coeur vertigineux de l'écriture, R... Lees meer

Sade in His Own Name

Philippe Seminet

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 128
• This book aims to situate the much-ignored public Marquis de Sade, author of eleven stories collected into four volumes under the title Les Crimes de ... Lees meer

Los agravios de la letra

Jacqueline Álvarez-Ogbesor

• Hardcover | Spaans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 244
• Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales... Lees meer

Versatilidad Y Unidad Estética En Guillermo Valencia a la Luz del Simbolismo Francés

Luis Guillermo Bejarano

• Hardcover | Spaans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 85
• Con el fin de examinar la obra poética de Guillermo Valencia dentro del contexto de las tendencias literarias de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del X... Lees meer

Les visages de l'autre

Ana Maria Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 37
• Examine la première étape de la carrière d'écrivain de M. Yourcenar. On y trouvera une relecture de trois oeuvres, à travers lesquelles l'académicienn... Lees meer

Architectural Structure in the «Lais» of Marie de France

Margaret Boland

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 21
• The twelfth-century lays of Marie de France are among the most popular of all medieval works and are a primary source of Arthurian material. For the f... Lees meer

Barbey d'Aurevilly et le fantastique

François-Xavier Eygun

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 9
• Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly est un auteur qui reflète le XIXe siècle et ses courants littéraires. Toutefois c'est par le fantastique qu'il se distingue e... Lees meer

Montaigne, or the Anguished Soul

William J Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 29
• Pierre Leschemelle has written a provocative study of Montaigne, one that follows the essayist's clear command that we bring a strong psychological fo... Lees meer

Memory in My Hands

Ruth Katz Crispin

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 171
• Pedro Salinas (1892-1951), one of the greatest modern poets of any country, is unquestionably the preeminent love poet of twentieth-century Spain. Mem... Lees meer

Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 40
• This work offers a comprehensive examination of Miguel Delibes as a social critic who subtly questions, decenters, and demythifies the Francoist mythi... Lees meer

The Reception of the Picaresque in the French, English, and German Traditions

Ellen Turner Gutierrez

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 18
• The reception of the Picaresque in the French, English, and German Traditions is a metacritical study of the picaresque as it has been perceived in th... Lees meer

L'inscription de l'oral et de l'écrit dans le théâtre de Tristan Tzara

Katherine Papachristos

• Paperback | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 69
• Cette étude consiste en l'approche ethno-anthropologique de la dramaturgie avant-gardiste, dans ses qualités orale, graphique et écrite. L'auteur reme... Lees meer

Eduardo Mendoza

• Hardcover | Engels, Spaans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 112
• This critical anthology on the novels and other work of Eduardo Mendoza is the very first collection of scholarly essays to be published solely on thi... Lees meer

Gautier, au carrefour de l'âme romantique et décadente

Mercedes Montoro Araque

• Hardcover | Frans | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 254
• Interpréter l'oeuvre d'un auteur comme Théophile Gautier s'avère certes, une tâche ardue, car les travaux critiques sur lui se sont multipliés au fil ... Lees meer

Paradigms of Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures | nr. 64
• The first collective study in English of the novels of Patrick Modiano (b. 1945), these essays approach the question of memory - and its interaction w... Lees meer