Author: WB Swanson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055743503X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A uncompromising ride through how one swipe of Calisto's hand changes so many lives, including her own. She wanted one thing, risked her own life to get it, she ended up with something very different. The rest of her world were left experiencing the wake from her decisions. Her new plan becomes intermixed with intrigue and changes that are unscheduled and it adds up to one question for her, who did it and who is going to be dead?
Author: Ricardo Castells
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004506829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance, theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that we have come to associate with the modern novel.
Author: E. Michael Gerli
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442642556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how this work straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force. Gerli's analysis draws on a wide range of Celestina scholarship but is unique in its use of modern literary and psychoanalytic theory to confront the problematic links between literature and life. Explorations of influence of desire on knowledge, action, and lived experience connect the work to seismic shifts in the culture of early modern Europe. Engaging and original, 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire takes a fresh look at the timeless work's widespread appeal and enduring popularity.
Author: Bethany-Kris
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
ISBN: 1988197139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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They’re not star-crossed—they’re impossible. Calisto Donati is what every made man in the mafia should be, and then he broke his oath for a woman that wasn’t his. Their secrets and games are deadly, but as hard as he tries to stay away from his boss’s new bride, the universe seems determined to keep bringing them back together. Trapped in a marriage that leaves Emma heartbroken and lonely, he’s often the only one left to pick up the pieces of what remains of a once vibrant woman. Maybe his self-control would be better if he didn’t know the monster his uncle truly is—after all, Affonso Donati was the first hard lesson about life that Calisto had to learn. These are the secrets of the Donati Bloodlines—where everything, even love, is a lie. But how far will they go to keep it that way? Note: TW for miscarriage, child loss, and DV.
Author: Howard B. Norland
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803233379
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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A time of great changes after nearly a century of foreign wars and civil strife, the Tudor era witnessed a significant transformation of dramatic art. Medieval traditions were modified by the forces of humanism and the Reformation, and a renewed interest in classical models inspired experimentation. Howard B. Norland examines Tudor plays performed between 1485 and 1558, a time when drama reached beyond local, popular, and religious contexts to treat more varied and more secular concerns, culminating in the emergence of comedy and tragedy as major genres. The theater also imported dramas from the Continent, adapting them to English tastes. After establishing the popular dramatic traditions of fifteenth-century Britain, Norland discusses the critical interpretation of the Latin plays of Terence studied in the schools and the views of influential authors such as Erasmus, Vives, and More about what drama should be and do. The heart of the book is its in-depth analyses of individual plays. Norland examines the secularization of the morality play in Skelton's Magnificence, Bale's King John, Respublica, and Redford's Wit and Science and he traces the changes in comic form from Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres through Calisto and Melebea and Johan Johan to Udall's Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle. The final section examines the first tragedies written in England: Watson's Absolom, Christopherson's Jephthah, and Grimald's Archipropheta. Howard B. Norland is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His articles have appeared in Genre, Sixteenth Century Journal, Fifteenth Century Studies, Comparative Drama, and Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Author: Ricardo Castells
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Fernando de Rojas' Celestina opens with a conversation between Calisto and Melibea which has puzzled literary scholars. The author of this study supports the view that the scene represents Calisto's dream about his beloved Melibea and examines subsequent works to reach a greater understanding.
Author: Bethany-Kris
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
ISBN: 1988197333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 991
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The secrets within the bloodlines of this family are deadly ... Emma Sorrento went from a carefree, young woman one day, to the paid-for bride of a mafia boss the next. She had been groomed for this life and position, but she didn't even realize it until it was too late. Promised to a man she despised, and stuck in a world where her desires and happiness are of little importance, she quickly learned to keep quiet and stay pretty. That is how she survives, even when life deals her devastating blow after blow, determined to knock her down for good. Until one day, a man with black eyes, a black soul, and a blacker heart wakes her up again. He's dangerous. He's all parts bad. He's also her husband's nephew, and she should know better. Calisto Donati gives Emma every single reason to live. And maybe die, too. They were never star-crossed. They were always impossible. Donati Bloodlines: The Complete Trilogy follows the story of Emma and Calisto through three full-length novels, to a final Happily Ever After. It also includes a 20k companion novella to the trilogy titled Behind the Bloodlines.
Author: Ivy A. Corfis
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 1855661519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004349324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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In A Companion to Celestina, Enrique Fernandez brings together twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions on the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, popularly known as Celestina (c. 1499) written by leading experts who summarize, evaluate and expand on previous studies. The resulting chapters offer the non-specialist an overview of Celestina studies. Those who already know the field will find state of the art studies filled with new insights that elaborate on or depart from the well-established currents of criticism. Celestina's creation and sources, the parody of religious and erudite traditions, the treatment of magic, prostitution, the celestinesca and picaresque genre, the translations into other languages as well as the adaptations into the visual arts (engravings, paintings, films) are some of the topics included in this companion. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Raúl Álvarez Moreno, Consolación Baranda, Ted L. Bergman, Patrizia Botta, José Luis Canet, Fernando Cantalapiedra, Ricardo Castells, Ivy Corfis, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Enrique Fernandez, José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Ryan D. Giles, Yolanda Iglesias, Gustavo Illades Aguiar, Kathleen V. Kish, Bienvenido Morros Mestres, Devid Paolini, Antonio Pérez Romero, Amaranta Saguar García, Connie Scarborough, Joseph T. Snow, and Enriqueta Zafra.
