This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history ...

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillén's Aire nuestro .

Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis , written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteenth-century ...

Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. ...

The Transnational "Good Life" is an ethnographic study of the founding and maintenance of social organizations by emigrants from Ecuador in politically ...

In Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga, readers learn that the term “Hogwild” was an outrageous ideology—that a loosely organized confederation ...

The first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional ...

Written in 1986, Bettie Sellers’s book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing ...

The North Carolina Mountains—Boone, Sugar Mountain, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock—was a whole new Appalachian world opening before the eyes of ...

Beginning with his installation as chancellor on University Day, 2000, James Moeser started each academic year with a major address in which he outlined ...