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Calderón y el Barroco
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 165.00Amadei-Pulice examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands of Calderon merged dramatic poetry with visual and auditory effects (comedia de teatro). The author places the Spanish baroque theater within the wider context of a revolution in the theory of representation, signs, and meanings... more...
Discurso retórico y mundo pastoral en la 'Égloga segunda' de Garcilaso
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 158.00Estructura del Martín Fierro
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 180.00Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two... more...
Gustave Flaubert, critique
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 98.00Identity and Ideology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00The bourgeois drama of "serious genre" was one of the major innovative literary forms of the French Enlightenment, but it has been largely excluded from the canon today. In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot... more...
Imitación y transformación
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 158.00Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 158.00Lorca, una escritura en trance
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 165.00Lorca's poetry is founded upon a complex symbolical system of recurring motifs. This book analyses a number of those motifs as poetic signs through a contextual reading of Libro de poemas (1921) and Diván del Tamarit (1940) as the initial and final stages of Lorca's career. The sexual and religious crisis voiced in Libro de poemas achieves... more...
Mirages de la farce
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant... more...









