Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of Harvard University

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Below is a list of in-print works in this collection, presented in series order or publication order as applicable.

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Cover: Image and Theme: Studies in Modern French Fiction: Bernanos, Malraux, Sarraute, Gide, Martin Du Gard

Image and Theme: Studies in Modern French Fiction: Bernanos, Malraux, Sarraute, Gide, Martin Du Gard

Frohock, W. M.

These five monographs, with an introduction by W. M. Frohock, utilize recent advances in image-study and thematics to explore previously uninvestigated aspects of the works of five important French novelists. Viewed together, the individual monographs present variations on a systematic approach to the close study of French fiction.

Cover: Travelers in Disguise: Narratives of Eastern Travel by Poggio Bracciolini and Ludovico de Varthema

Travelers in Disguise: Narratives of Eastern Travel by Poggio Bracciolini and Ludovico de Varthema

Bracciolini, Poggio
Varthema, Ludovico di
Jones, John Winter

Cover: Art Inscribed: Essays on Ekphrasis in Spanish Golden Age Poetry

Art Inscribed: Essays on Ekphrasis in Spanish Golden Age Poetry

Bergmann, Emilie L.

Emilie Bergmann discusses the poetic tradition of ekphrasis, the description of visual works of art, from Garcilaso de la Vega to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Dr. Bergmann demonstrates that ekphrasis exposes the boundaries between the arts and the limitations of artistic imitation, while using that limitation as a source for poetic wit.

Cover: The Dramatic Craftsmanship of Moreto

The Dramatic Craftsmanship of Moreto

Casa, Frank P.

Cover: L’univers theatral de Corneille: Paradoxe et subtilite heroiques

L’univers theatral de Corneille: Paradoxe et subtilite heroiques

Goulet, A. S.-M.

In the plays of Corneille, paradox constitutes a major unifying force—both as an essential element in the complex moral and psychological makeup of Corneille’s heroes and heroines, and as the mainspring of his dramatic technique. This penetrating study, written in French, presents new insights into the work and genius of Corneille.

Cover: A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet

A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet

Naish, Camille

This is the first formalist study of the provocative French writer Jean Genet, treating both his major and more obscure texts. Camille Naish’s study insightfully discusses previous critical responses to Genet, examines Genet’s relationship with Cocteau and the Surrealists, and finally takes an original look at humor and parody in this unusual writer.

Cover: Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height

Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height

Redenbarger, Wayne J.

This generative phonological study brings together for the first time an exhaustive treatment of the Portuguese data relating to changes in vowel height and the several descriptive frameworks and distinctive feature systems available for their codification.

Cover: Les Esprits

Les Esprits

de Larivey, Pierre
Stone, Donald

This is the first critical edition of Pierre de Larivey’s Les Esprits. In his introduction, Donald Stone discusses how Les Esprits itself is indebted to Lorenzino de Medici’s L’Aridosio and raises some interesting questions about the morality of French Renaissance comedy and the period’s conception of the genre.

Cover: Fernan Mendez Pinto: Comedia Famosa en dos Partes

Fernan Mendez Pinto: Comedia Famosa en dos Partes

Gómez, Antonio Enríquez

The editors of this volume emphasize the play’s debt to Fernão Mendes Pinto whose prose epic (the Peregrinaçam) on the Portuguese presence in South, East, and Insular Asia inspired the Spanish work. Their introductory studies explain the play’s understandable yet false attribution to Lope de Vega and prove authorship by Antonio Enríquez Gómez.

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