...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...William Egginton The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi + 420 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 William Egginton is professor of German and Romance languages...

... the material world in order to gather objects for future display” (51). Impeccably researched in all areas of expertise, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America is a sophisticated study that models the kinds of innovative readings that new emotions-based and object-oriented theories...

... 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...

...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...

...John J. Parry Laura Keeler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in English, Volume 17, Number 1, 1946. Pp. viii + 152. $1.75. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 REVIEWS Geoflrey of Moamouth and the Late Latin...

..., 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...) 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...

... who had before him the Latin text in addition to the Old High Ger- man poem. Frankel has suggested, therefore, a more detailed exami- nation and comparison of the Gospel Harmony with its Vulgate sources with a view to formulating certain hypotheses respecting the purpose of Otfrid’s poem...

... 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...