"Ramón Menéndez Pidal: The Practice and Politics of Philology in Twentieth-Century Spain," by Steven Hess
Table of Contents
Preface...9
1 Biography...11
2 Menéndez Pidal and Romance Linguistics...75
3 Menéndez Pidal and Medieval Spanish Literature...133
4 Menéndez Pidal and the History of Spain...195
5 Menéndez Pidal on Early Modern Spanish Literature and as Dean of the Literary Establishment...235
6 Menéndez Pidal and the Madrid School of Spanish Philology...271
Notes...319
Selected Bibliography...363
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Steven Hess received the Ph.D. from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures, with a specialization in Spanish linguistics. His career as professor of Spanish and general linguistics has been spent at New York University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Long Island University. Dr. Hess has published articles and book reviews on Medieval Spanish, and, following an earlier monograph on Menéndez Pidal, he has sketched the legacies of Dámaso Alonso and Tomás Navarro Tomás.
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