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Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater
Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud’s seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated...
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia
Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether...
Cúrate
Authentic Spanish Food from an American Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The vibrant flavors of Spain brought into the American home kitchen by a young lauded chef and founder of one of America's most acclaimed new restaurants
Katie Button debuts her first cookbook ever as a peek inside the kitchen of her award-winning restaurant, Cúrate. This cookbook features...
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Recipes and Traditions from the Verdant Hills of the Basque Country to the Coastal Waters of Andalucia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From the craggy Catalan coastline to the undulating, red-soiled hills of Andalucía, the diversity of the Spanish countryside is without rival. Its cuisine directly reflects this landscape, with each region celebrating its own ingredients and culinary traditions. In Spain, long-time Barcelona resident...
Exotic Nation
Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts...
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...
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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...