[PDF] The Allegorical Impulse In The Works Of Julien Gracq eBook

Author : Carol J. Murphy
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
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This text focuses on the role of history in Julien Gracq's novels, Le Rivage Des Syrtes and Un Balcon En Foret, and in his critical essays. It draws on theories of allegory, textuality and history in its analysis of the interplay of fictional and factual history in Gracq's writings.

Author : John Perivolaris
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807892725

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This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael S¡nchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of S¡nchez's work in relation to

Author : Alice Fiola Berry
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
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Published in two parts in 1548 and 1552, Le Quart Livre is Rabelais's last book of certain authenticity and his most difficult and mysterious work. In it, Pantagruel and Panurge undertake a sea voyage and a quest for "the word of the Divine Bottle," but the islands they visit along the way are inhabited by strange beings whose nature and physiognomy defy natural categories. Expressing the elderly writer's despair at the failure of all his dreams as a young humanist, the voyage traces the last phase of the heroic quest, the cycle of old age and death. It is a descent into the underworld, but one that is undertaken hopefully, for the Quart Livre continues the search for a wife and for paternity begun in the Tiers Livre. Ultimately, all of these strivings may be associated with the writer-physician who faces misfortunes in order to cure them. In the end, the Quart Livre affirms the healing power of wine, laughter, and words.

Author : Hoyt Rogers
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
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The transformation of Late Petrarchism from earlier stages reflects a profound shift in cultural values--a 'crisis of the Renaissance' that generated new perspectives in poetic theory and practice. Broadly, this book identifies a distinctive 'poetics of inconstancy' that came to the fore at the end of the sixteenth century and pervaded the love verse of the age. At the same time, as a study based on the inductive method, the book takes as its point of departure a single poet: Etienne Durand. Because of his frequently anthologized 'Stances a l'Inconstance,' Durand is often singled out as 'the poet of inconstancy.' This study, however, identifies the theme of universal change as a hallmark of Durand's contemporaries as well--a signal of a stylistic revolution that heralded the end of Renaissance verse.

Author : James Crenshaw Shepard
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
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This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry. He then turns to Tristan's works, examining the poems contained in the Plaintes d'Acante et autres ouvres, Les Amours, La Lyre, and the Vers heroiques; his religious poetry; La Renomme; and his recently discovered poems. Shepard reveals Tristan's amatory poetry to be mannerist and his heroic and religious poetry to be baroque. Many poems, however, contain elements of both styles. This supports Frank J. Warnke's theory that Baroque is the period style, with mannerism and baroque being two aspects of the period. Shepard also uncovers a baroque dompte style--the toned-down baroque that Helmut Hatzfeld and others argue characterized French classicism--in some of Tristan's heroic and religious poetry.

Author : Marie Lathers
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
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Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve Future, a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her life to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.

Author : Amalia Gladhart
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Drawing on contemporary debates surrounding performance, gender and latin American studies, this book examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. It explores the work of individual playwrights such as Vicente Lenero, and topics including ritual game playing.