Studies in Romance Philology and Literature
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Salvator Rosa in French Literature
Author : James Patty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813171938
Book Description
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-century Anglo-American Literature
Author : George Monteiro
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813132709
Book Description
The Romance Languages
Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521281393
Book Description
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.
Studies in Romance Philology and Literature
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Romance philology
ISBN :
Book Description
Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics
Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110394332
Book Description
The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.
Miracles of Our Lady
Author : Gonzalo de Berceo
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813181542
Book Description
Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages. Milagros de Nuestra Sehora, a collection of such stories by the Spanish secular priest Gonzalo de Berceo, is a premier example of this genre; it is also regarded as one of the four most important texts of medieval Spain. Difficulties in translating this work have made it unavailable in English except in fragments; now Spanish-language scholars Richard Terry Mount and Annette Grant Cash have made the entire work accessible to English readers for the first time. Berceo's miracle tales use the verse form cuaderna via (fourfold way) of fully rhymed quatrains—which Berceo may even have invented—and are told in the language of the common man. They were written to be read aloud, most likely to an audience of pilgrims, and are an outstanding example of oral religious narrative. The total work comprises twenty-five miracles, preceded by a renowned Introduction that celebrates the Virgin in rich symbolic allegory. Mount and Cash's translation is highly readable, yet it retains the original meaning and captures Berceo's colloquial style and medieval nuances. An introduction placing the miracles in their medieval context and a bibliography complement the text.
Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages
Author : Konstanze Jungbluth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110317737
Book Description
Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.
Manual of Romance Languages in the Media
Author : Kristina Bedijs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110314754
Book Description
This manual provides an extensive overview of the importance and use of Romance languages in the media, both in a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its chapters discuss language in television and the new media, the language of advertising, or special cases such as translation platforms or subtitling. Separate chapters are dedicated to minority languages and smaller varieties such as Galician and Picard, and to methodological approaches such as linguistic discourse analysis and writing process research.
The Danger of Romance
Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 022654043X
Book Description
The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.
