Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
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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...
Imperial Tapestries
Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530–1647
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs’s recent call for considerations of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, it explores the ways in which some of the most significant...
by Marsha S. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic...
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium
The Ends of Spanish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity examines how diverse manifestations of otherness coalesce in the cultural response to shifting perceptions of identity in Spain as well as the broader context of globalization at the turn of the millennium. Engaging issues...
Knowing Subjects
Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Knowing Subjects, Barbara Simerka uses an emergent field of literary study-cognitive cultural studies-to delineate new ways of looking at early modern Spanish literature and to analyze cognition and social identity in Spain at the time. Simerka analyzes works by Cervantes and Gracían, as well...
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.
Jorge Semprún
Memorys Long Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Jorge Semprún is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his political activities. Although Semprún’s work derives from his incarceration in Buchenwald and...
Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain
Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1931
How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Americas seeks to answer this question by examining how novels, plays and short stories imagined and contested core notions about enlightened...
Made In Spain
Recipes and stories from my country and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
'Gorgeous recipes for a great cause.' Nigella Lawson
'If you buy one cookbook this year: get this one.' YOU Magazine
'One book I've loved this year is Made in Spain by Miriam Gonzalez Durantez. It's not just about the food and the recipes, you get an idea of what life is like, you get...
Spaniards in Mauthausen
Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical,...
Spanish Literature: A Collection of Essays
From Origins to 1700 (Volume Two)
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2000
Covering Spanish Literature from Origins to the 1700s. First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
"Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was the most prolific and influential woman writer of late nineteenth-century Spain," write the editors of this volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Contending with the critical literary, cultural, and social issues of the period,...
A Dream of Arcadia
Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The dream of “progress” that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement,...
La pasión esclava
Alianzas masoquistas en La Regenta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2017
La pasión esclava aborda la discursividad masoquista en La Regenta (1884-1885) de Leopoldo Alas, Clarín, como una estrategia subversiva de dominio y sumisión mediante la cual se rebaten los fundamentos del pensamiento liberal sobre la educación, la agencia y la libertad del sujeto moderno. Frente...