It may well be the sheer virtuosity of its writing that has deprived English audiences hitherto of an opportunity to appreciate Los cuernos de Don Friolera . This comic masterpiece by Spain's most innovative modern dramatist provides a provocatively sardonic treatment of marital infidelity and honourable revenge.

Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, presents an excellent and unique introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature, exploring how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, Hebert-Leiter examination includes the fiction of Kate Chopin and Ernest Gaines, James Lee Burkes Dave Robicheaux detective novels, and additional writings by Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and others. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians path towards assimilation. Combining her study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history, the author offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by the Acadians, who came to be known as Cajuns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

"In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--Jacket.

“It’s time for the world to feel the fire of a Dark Elf’s heart." Shaken and scarred from their deadly encounter with the Dark Elves, Mara and Silmanus embark on a journey south to the Dark Elf kingdom, Vanaria, in an effort to halt whatever plot the Dark Elves have set in motion. Accompanied only by a group of trusted friends, they will have to rely on skill, wits, and shaky alliances if they are to overcome the inescapable dangers and grievous trials of their quest. “You’re a pirate,” Mara said flatly. “And you’re an outlaw,” Calixta retorted. Meanwhile, after their harrowing escape from the Dark Elf cells, Jeddo, Amber, and their fellow escaped prisoners wait restlessly in Fort Vanguard to warn the Fire Dwarves of Pyradia about the Dark Elves and to rescue a friend left behind. But the horrors of the Dark Elf prisons have yet to fade, a grim reality Amber and Jeddo must face as a series of unforeseeable events pushes them down a path they do not want to travel. Jeddo’s stomach started to twist as he realized what had to be done, bile burning its way up his throat behind his pounding heart. As the pieces of the Dark Elves' deadly puzzle finally click into place, a desperate race to stop their cataclysmic plan begins. The four adventurers will be pushed to their limits as they are forced to take the fate of Aeternerras into their hands. And if they fail, the world will burn.

Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.