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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both...
Exorcism and Its Texts
Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics...
Topographies of Fascism
Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing – essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs – represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed...
The Spanish Arcadia
Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political...
Pícaro and Cortesano
Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
In this book on the relationship between pícaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centered on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of...
Imperial Tapestries
Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530–1647
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs’s recent call for considerations of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, it explores the ways in which some of the most significant...
by Marsha S. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
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...
Cervantes
Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures...
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium
The Ends of Spanish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity examines how diverse manifestations of otherness coalesce in the cultural response to shifting perceptions of identity in Spain as well as the broader context of globalization at the turn of the millennium. Engaging issues...
Knowing Subjects
Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study-cognitive cultural studies-to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time. Simerka analyzes works by Cervantes and Gracían, as well...
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
by Mary E Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity,...
Beyond Sight
Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).
The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian...
by Jane Davison
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty years, nine novels, nine plays, two travelogues, and copious criticism, O’Brien rebelled against the narrow nationalism...