... new book projects: Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest , edited with Lois Parkinson Zamora (forthcoming), and American Neobaroques: Twentieth-Century Cycles of Rearticulation . “The Future Is Entirely Fabulous”: The Baroque Genealogy of Latin America’s...

...Doris Sommer © 1996 University of Washington 1996 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America Doris Sommer Latin American literatures...

...Francine Masiello © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America’s Fin de Siglo Francine Masiello ossip and public opinion come to play a distinguished role in GLatin American narrative of the lastJin de siglo. The gossip colum- nist...

...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...

...Don Cameron Allen Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 LATIN LITERATURE By DONCAMERON ALLEN I Progress is a sort of tightly wound spring; from time to time an adjustment of a governor permits...

...Francis Lee Utley By Eleanor Kellogg Heningham. Published by the author: New York, 1939. Pp. 83. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS An Early Latin Debate of the Body and Soul: Preserved in MS Royal 7 A 111 in the British Museum...

... and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Pp. xiv + 206. $4.00. New World Literature: Tradition and Revolt in Latin America. By ARTURO TORRES-RIOSECO.Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1949. Pp. v + 250. $3.75. Rub& Dario : Antologia Poe‘tica...

...Monika Kaup Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America . By Arellano Jerónimo . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2015 . xxxii + 210 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Magical Realism...

...John J. Parry REVIEWS Geoflrey of Moamouth and the Late Latin Chroniclers, 1300-1500. By LAURAKEELER. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of Cali- fornia Publications in English, Volume 17, Number 1, 1946. Pp. viii + 152. $1.75. This is the fourth...

...Georges May James Hutton. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1946. Pp. xi + 822. $5.00. Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 REVIEWS The Greek Anthology in France and in the Latin Writers of The Netherlands to the Year 1800. By JAMES...

...George W. Umphrey 240 Reviews The Epic of Latin-American Literature. By ARTUROTORRES- RfosEco. New York : Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 279. $2.25. Those of us acquainted with the many articles and books of Pro- fessor Torres-Rioseco have...

... RefEexive Verbs: Latin, Old French, Modern French. By ANNA GRANVILLEHATCHER. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1942. (The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, XLIII.) Pp. 213. $1.25. Miss Hatcher presents, as her title promised, pictures...

... MLQ June 2008 The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi + 420 pp. In The Inordinate Eye Lois Parkinson Zamora examines a selection of twentieth- century Latin American fiction under...

... to be framed as a choice between symbolic economy (Casanova's “universal” literary capital) and political economy (the focus of many Latin Americanist scholars on hegemonic constructions of modernity). Yet the unique circumstances of Mundial —published in Paris by Spanish America's most famous poet, composed...

.... The syllogism is connected to early modern art forms that Enlightenment critics considered excessively complicated or absurdly confusing. Focusing on the emergence of baroque logic in Neo-Latin rhetoric and English poetics, this article traces the development of increasingly outlandish rhetorical practices...

..., especially Latin, to the study of literature in the vernacular. By examining the complex reticulations of disciplinarity and publicness over a contested author in an institutional site at the periphery of the global network that was the British Empire, this essay questions prevailing periodizations...

...) with endings, phrases, and syntax of another language, usually Latin or Greek, to create a comic or burlesque effect. Although there are earlier examples, macaronics in this strict sense became fashionable, and acquired their name, in Italy in the late fif- teenth and early sixteenth centuries...

..., but with less fervor and with less consciousness of a firm and well-de- fined purpose. Henry Felton and Anthony Blackwall were the most painstaking apologists for the classics in the early eighteenth century. Felton, in addition to pointing out the ethical value of the greatest Latin and Greek...

..., scholars have not always been as explicit in respect to Otfrid’s purpose and prospective audi- ence. Upon examination of certain lines of the text, Hermann Frankel has observed that it seems very likely that Otfrid wrote for the reader who had before him the Latin text in addition to the Old High...

... on subjects ranging from literary and cultural themes to poetry and prose in Latin America. The volume is divided into four sections. In the first part, “Temas literarios,” the author has included essays devoted to specific writers and to subjects of a more general nature, for example...