Verlaine

A E Carter

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary ... Lees meer

Dressed to Kill

Elizabeth Rhodes

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet ano... Lees meer

Sapphic Fathers

Gretchen Schultz

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, R... Lees meer

The Persistence of Presence

Bradley J Nelson

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in t... Lees meer

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

Cheryl Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France... Lees meer

The Triumphant Juan Rana

Peter E Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Juan Rana was the most famous buffoon of his time. An actor working during the years 1617-1672, he achieved a status similar to that of the Italian Ha... Lees meer

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Baudelaire

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of co... Lees meer

The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900

A E Carter

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fring... Lees meer

Forms of Modernity

Rachel Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does o... Lees meer

Outrageous Juan Rana Entremeses

Peter E Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Juan Rana, the most famous actor of the Spanish Golden Age, enjoyed a long and successful career from 1617 to 1672. Over fifty entremeses - interludes... Lees meer

Marginal Subjects

Akiko Tsuchiya

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive... Lees meer

The Writing in the Stars

Rodney Williamson

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Born in Mexico City in 1914, writer, poet, and diplomat Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, eight years before his death in 1998. ... Lees meer

Embodying Pessoa

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is distinguished by having been written and published unde... Lees meer

Transnational Cervantes

William Childers

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles ... Lees meer

Telling Anxiety

Jennifer Willging

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• In Telling Anxiety , Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French. Lees meer

Myth of the Silent Woman

Suellen Diaconoff

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle ... Lees meer

The Growth of a la Recherche Du Temps Perdu

Anthony R Pugh

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• For forty years, scholars have had access to a vast array of documents that reveal the stages by which a few modest episodes grew into the vast and co... Lees meer

Crispin Ier

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française d... Lees meer

Postcolonial Counterpoint

Farid Laroussi

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the h... Lees meer

Minority Literatures and Modernism

William Calin

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• A quiet renaissance has been unfolding in certain parts of Europe - a renaissance of literature written in minority languages. In this book, William C... Lees meer

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

Cheryl Krueger

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France... Lees meer

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England

William Calin

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlud... Lees meer

Discourses of Poverty

Anne Cruz

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• In this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary ... Lees meer

Jacques Chessex

David Bond

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a col... Lees meer