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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the...

Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation...

Cervantes in Perspective brings together original essays on Miguel de Cervantes´s life and literature written by nine significant Cervantes scholars. Readers and scholars of Early Modern Spanish literature will find a discussion of current theories of fiction, the latest analyses of individual texts,...

The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez...

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures,...

For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and...

A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can...

Miguel de Cervantes es, sin lugar a dudas, el escritor más célebre de habla hispana. Su obra se enmarca en el contexto del Siglo de Oro español, el momento de máximo esplendor de las artes en España que tiene lugar desde finales del siglo XV hasta mediados del XVII. Con su tratamiento original...

The key to professional success in Brazil is understanding Brazilians. But how do you understand an unfamiliar culture? Seasoned cross-cultural trainers Orlando R. Kelm and David A. Victor use Victor’s groundbreaking approach of evaluating a culture’s language, environment, social organization, context,...

Omar Allibhoy is the new face of Spanish cooking: he’s charismatic, effusive, passionate and wants to bring Spanish food to the people of the UK. Tapas Revolution is the breakthrough book on simple Spanish cookery. Using everyday storecupboard ingredients, Omar offers a new take on the classic...

Verpassen Sie nicht Holen Sie sich das Hörbuch! Spanisch: El Ultimo Poema Spanisch Lernen Für Anfänger, Compact  Lernkrimi Spanisch, Spanisch grammatik, Geschrieben von Mariana Ferrer.

El libro de entretenimiento más original de la literatura universal inicia y culmina un nuevo género: la novela moderna. Unamuno se entregó a retratar, exaltar y hasta venerar la figura del Hidalgo. Con una extraña mezcla de admiración y animadversión hacia Cervantes, Unamuno tomando el Quijote...

José María Gabriel y Galán fue un poeta español en castellano y dialecto extremeño. El presente libro incluye los poemarios siguientes: Castellanas (1902) Extremeñas (1902) Campesinas (1904) Nuevas Castellanas (1905) Religiosas (1906)