This work traces the history of Mexican literary academies and societies from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Academias y Sociedades Literarias de México (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 18) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Sánchez, José M.

History & Criticism

UNC Department of Romance Studies

Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness account of a true historian and naturalist, and is the source of some of Europe's first descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Americas. Stoudemire offers comprehensive introductory material on the author of the text and its writing, drawing not only on the original text, but the excellent work of Enrique Alvarez Lopez, a naturalist who has published excellent versions of the Natural History in modern Spanish. This leads Stoudemire's English version to be a beautiful rendition that is both accurate and readable. It presents the heart of Oviedo's work without the interminable unpunctuated sentences of the original, and as such is an excellent introduction to both the Chronicle as a genre, and to Oviedo's oeuvre.

Natural History of the West Indies (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 32)

This volume is composed of fifteen essays on Hispanic subjects by scholars from the United States and abroad, and it was presented to Professor Adams in his seventieth year.

Hispanic Studies in Honor of Nicholson B. Adams (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)

This tale, preserved in Arsenal MS 3150, was first published by Professor Sargent in 1963 in mimeographed form. This is a charming story, well suited for reading in a Middle French course.

Le Livre du Roy Rambaux de Frise (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 69) (French Edition)

This volume contains twenty-one essays by former students, colleagues, and distinguished scholars throughout the United States, presented in honor of Professor Wiley's sixty-fifth birthday.

Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 72)

Two anonymous French publications indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the decaying status and some new uses of the legend, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern styles and ways of thought.

Sermon Joyeux and Polemic: Two Sixteenth-Century Applications of the Legend of the Fifteen Signs (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 73)

Heist, William W.

The Lay of Guingamor: A Study (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 76)

Sturm, Sara

Coleman begins his book with the following supposition: that Luis Cernuda was a poet whose primary impulse in his art was the suppression of the subjective and the consequent objectivization of poetry.

Other Voices: A Study of the Late Poetry of Luis Cernuda (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 81)

Coleman, Alexander

This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the use and effect of opium and hashish. Later chapters analyze the influence on the works of various writers of the period, particularly Baudelaire.

The Artificial Paradises in French Literature (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 84)

Mickel, Emanuel J.

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut's important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies an acrostic connecting the earlier Dit de la Marguerite and Complainte VI with the crusader Pierre of Cyprus; and he established a probable historical framework for the three poems.

The Marguerite Poetry of Guillaume de Machaut (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 87)

Wimsatt, James I.

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