Moore, Fabienne(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
In 1799 Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) published an equivocal exotic, sentimentalist, and epic novel La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina set in Ceylon. Likely pressured by his brother Napoléon Bonaparte, Lucien quickly ...
Moore, Fabienne(University of Nebraska Press, 2018)
Where does Spain fit on the post-revolutionary map? Contemporary Spain remains marginalized at the periphery of European civilization, as if deemed not yet ready, like its colonies, to put Enlightenment ideals into practice. ...
Wacks, David A.(Revista de Poética Medieval, 2015)
There is very little manuscript evidence of the popular (non-courtly) literature of al-Andalus. For this reason it is difficult to assess its importance for the development of Castilian literature, and more broadly, for ...
Wacks, David A.(Wayne State University Press, 2015)
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I ...
By examining nearly sixty works, Fabienne Moore traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some Eighteenth-Century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a ...
"Il saggio studia la disaffezione alla scrittura autobiografica in prima persona in forme che in maniera sia pure diversa manifestano la comune tendenza «oggettivante» a trasformare l'io in un Sé come un altro, come direbbe ...
The book examines the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity by focusing on some selected texts from Plato, the Bible and Augustine. Then it studies the emergence of the literary notion ...