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by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
by Slav N. Gratchev
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book is the first scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from the angle of dialogism and polyphony. To begin with, although Mikhail Bakhtin considered Dostoevsky the “creator of a polyphonic novel,” we believe that the first elements of polyphony can be observed in Cervantes’ Don Quixote....
Writing by Ear
Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour...
by Ph. D Newmark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1956
The primary aim of the Dictionary of Spanish Literature is to serve as a convenient reference work for American students of Spanish and Spanish American literature. The treatment is concise, factual and objective, the endeavor being to present a maximum of data with a modicum of critical commentary,...
Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain
Modernity and Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The so-called “Silver Age” of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility, and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of...
Forth and Back
Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975–1995)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain’s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyzes the translation “boom” of U.S. literature that marked literary production in Spain after...
Aprender portugués - Texto paralelo | Fácil de leer | Fácil de escuchar - CURSO EN AUDIO n.º 3
FÁCIL DE LEER | FÁCIL DE ESCUCHAR, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
LECTURAS FÁCILES: PORTUGUÉS - CURSO EN AUDIO N.º 3
FÁCIL DE ESCUCHAR, FÁCIL DE LEER, FÁCIL DE APRENDER
Lo último en cursos de aprendizaje de idiomas.
¿Tiene nivel de principiante en portugués o necesita refrescar sus conocimientos del idioma? ¿Desea no solo hablar...
Soccer in Spain
Politics, Literature, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world. Perhaps nowhere can this be seen more prominently than in Spain, which has surged to the forefront of the world’s most popular sport. The national team has won the last two...
José de Acostas «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical...
Sacred Realism
Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.
Textual Agency
Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political,...
Ambiguous Antidotes
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius’ Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice,...