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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent...
Imaginarios jacobeos entre Europa y América
Coordinación adjunta a la edición: Jimena Hernández Alcalá
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Doce estudios y cinco cuadernos de imágenes analizan en perspectiva interdisciplinar formas literarias, artísticas y populares de la recepción de los mitos jacobeos en Iberoamérica, tanto en las ciudades como en el ámbito rural. Suponen una original contribución a la antropología cultural de...
The Prison of Love
Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.
In The Prison of Love,...
Songs of a Friend
Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More...
by Jessica Knauss
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have...
Inscribed Power
Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection...
Dressed to Kill
Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction...
Fortunata et Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Composé de quatre parties, le roman intitulé Fortunata et Jacinta. Histoire de deux femmes mariées, fut publié en 1886-1887. Il est considéré comme le chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain espagnol Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920).
Une...
The Epic of Juan Latino
Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).
Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s...
by Judith G. Caballero, Erin Alice Cowling, Ronna Feit
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanish Comedias. The chapters in this collection bring different approaches and perspectives that intersection between feminism and cultural studies while they also critically deconstruct the European representation of Amerindian women.
Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel
Revisiting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory...
Writing Teresa
The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s...
Narrating the Postcolonial Nation
Mapping Angola and Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way...
by Marianne Sturman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
CliffsNotes on Don Quixote looks into...