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Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction
Essays on Contemporary Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores the...
Transcending Textuality
Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions...
by Richard Sperber
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll. Walking through London, Paris, and Berlin entailed engagements with the latest modernity. Thought-provoking, exhilarating, and at times terrifying: flanerie adjusted to and documented...
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
by Jon Kortazar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Basque literature is unknown because of the language in which it is written. It is a "small literature" that has, however, experienced major development, both in terms of production and reading, since the 1970s. This book describes the changes in this literary system, taking into account...
In Pursuit of Poem Shadows
Pureza Cantelo's Second Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Born in the small Extremaduran town of Moraleja in 1946, Spanish poet Pureza Canelo, at the age of twenty-five, published her first collections of poetry, Celda verde and Lugar comon (winner of the 1970 Adonais Prize). By 1979, she had settled upon an understanding of her own aesthetic evolvement,...
Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”
Through an inventive and original...
Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares
Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares*: Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours* offers a fresh approach to the Novelas ejemplares (1613) of Cervantes in which the twelve novelas are not analyzed individually nor on the basis of generic definitions but rather from a thematic perspective. In this way,...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain
The Social Construction of Maternity in the Works of Lucía Etxebarria
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria’s fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society. Traditional expectations for women as mothers persist despite the fact that they no longer match Spain’s cultural and economic reality....
My Havana
The Musical City of Carlos Varela
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varela...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as...
Between Distant Modernities
Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation...
Neo-Stoicism and Skepticism in Part One of Don Quijote
Removing the Authority of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the authority of the romances of chivalry, which was a popular genre during his time. It also explains why his strategy, which would have been instantly recognizable during the period, is no longer effective:...