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Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz
Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro
Actas selectas del XVI Congreso Internacional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Aprovechar las enseñanzas de la Historia, recurrir al pasado remoto o reciente para mostrar en sus héroes, recreados por el teatro, su dimensión arquetípica y modélica, tales son los propósitos de la dramatización de la materia histórica durante el Siglo de Oro español. La Historia no sólo...
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature
The Architectural Void
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced...
The Task of the Cleric
Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools...
Literature of Crisis
Spain's Engagement with Liquid Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events has been powerful and abundant. The literature...
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity
Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges...
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en literatura y cine postdictatorial
Eltit, Fuguet, "Johnny cien pesos" de Graef-Marino y "Machuca"de Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado de Pinochet como opresivo...
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater...
Front Lines
Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship....
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers...
LOS CUATRO LIBROS DE CONFUCIO, Confucio y Mencio, Colección La Crítica Literaria por el célebre crítico literario Juan Bautista Bergua, Ediciones Ibéricas
Confucio y Mencio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Traducido, prologado y anotado por Juan Bautista Bergua. El Gran Estudio, La Doctrina del Medio, Comentarios Filosóficos, y El Libro de Mencio. La doctrina de Confucio: Filosofía, Moral y Política de la China.
El canon de la filosofía confuciana lo componen Los Cuatro Libros de Confucio...
Language, Identity and Urban Space
The Language Use of Latin American Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
As the first translator of Plato’s complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works were regularly read, quoted, and referenced,...
Modernism and the New Spain
Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse...