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A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Diadorim (Grande sertão : veredas), l’unique roman de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), est publié en 1956, dix ans après ses débuts en prose avec les contes novateurs de Sagarana. Une fiche de lecture spécialement...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Siècle des Lumières est certainement le livre le plus abouti de l’écrivain cubain Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980). On apprend à la fin du roman qu’il a été écrit entre 1956 et 1958, dans différents lieux (la Guadeloupe,...

This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as...

Like the fame of Pardo-Bazán, the reputation of Campoamor has suffered a rapid decline. The renown of the poet was flimsier and more ephermal than that of Spain's most notable woman writer. It contained more enthusiasm and less respect. Most of his prose works and many of his dramas died young, whereas...

In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience even more than its original medieval one. This essay examines the lyrics and the miniatures of these songs...

Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's dramatic characters are psychic entities made up...

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come...

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel,...

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century...

Updated for 2015, Words, is one book in the Britannica Discovery Library Series that is correlated to national curriculum standards. The Britannica Discovery Library is a charming, lavishly illustrated 12-volume set of "concepts and values" books specifically created for young learners ages three to...

The award-winning food writer offers “a series of traditional and experimental dishes fit for a feast . . . will steer any tapas novice in the right direction” (Food & Wine). Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern...

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary Travel Amazon Best Book of November (2016): Cookbooks, Food and Wine Financial Times Best Books of 2017: Food and Travel "Goulding is pioneering a new...

Learn all about Mexico's rich heritage in this delightful cookbook. In this ebook there is plenty of useful information about Mexico's cultural elegance, as well as a comprehensive range of the countries best loved dishes. Sample the unique flavours and enjoy the rich tapestry of a great country, through the food carefully gathered in this book.