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Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and Italy’s...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.
The book’s topic is the question of how communities...
Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history...
Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia...
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida
Back to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...
Cultural Hermeneutics
Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno...
Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels
Rewriting the Matriarchal Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent? What if she discovered that her mother, Metis,—first wife of Zeus and 'wiser than all gods and mortal men,' according to Hesiod—was swallowed...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays...
Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
Genre Fusion
A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that...
Striking Their Modern Pose
Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations that equate female passion for finery...