Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

The Dictionnaire Etymologique Roman (DERom) presents the first attempt at etymologizing the ancestral vocabulary of the Romance languages since the publication of Meyer-Lubke's REW. Deviating from practices commonly accepted and applied in etymological research, the DERom adopts a method that has so far, due to the extensive documentation of written Latin, been dismissed as being little viable for Romance Studies: the comparative analysis of grammar, used to reconstruct proto-Romance lexemes. This volume contains some 250 articles, written and revised by 40 specialists in Romance...

The nine volumes containing the proceedings of this conference (with over 450 contributions) provide a comprehensive picture of research being done in the field of Romance Language Studies at the end of the 20th century. The papers are divided into nine sections covering the central sectors of Romance studies: history of linguistics; diachronic linguistics; dialectoloy, language geography and sociolinguistics; lexicology and lexicography, onomastics; theory and practice of scholarly editing; morphology and syntax; semantics and pragmatics; rhetorics, semiotics, stylistics; language...

In The Hiddenness of the World, French poet Gerard Martin addresses humanity's longing for a rebirth of wonder in a world frighteningly commercial, technological, and environmentally destructive. Martin's almost mystical approach draws attention to minute details of the natural world as secret mirrors of the sacred. Bertrand Mathieu's translation gives Martin the vivaciousness he gave another French poet--Rimbaud

Gerard Martin has published poetry in France as well as numerous critical articles about Rimbaud and others.

Bertrand Mathieu is the translator...

The volume of the "OEuvres Completes de Benjamin Constant," which marks the starting point of this important publication, contains all the material relating to "The Hundred Days," the most controversial episode in the career of Benjamin Constant, the politician. After having cricised Napoleon very severely in the press during the march on Paris, Constant rallied to the support of the Emperor on his return to power. He then agreed to work on the publication of the "Acte Additionnel aux Constitutions de l'Empire." Following the battle of Waterloo, Constant felt bound to offer an explanation...