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Spatial Frameworks in "Los Siete Libros de La Diana" by Jorge de Montemayor
The study concludes that by his dramatic portrayal of Renaissance humanistic philosophy and through his literary style of deliberately alternating prose and verse and skillfully employing rhetorical devices, Montemayor has created a novel in which the three settings or spaces have protagonic roles that influence characterization, advance the plot, and support the representation of social and ideological philosophies.
Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction, producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation. Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over generic classification, Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance analyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in rema...
Gladiators
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America, History and Life
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Mayday
The “definitive” book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War (Kirkus Reviews). On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether, in an effort to save the meeting, to admit to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev—and the world—that he had secretly ordered Powers’s flight, or to claim that the CIA could take such a significant step without his approval. In rich and fascinating detail, Mayday explores the years of U-2 flights, which Eisenhower deemed “an act of war,” the US government’s misconcei...
