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Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
Av Margarita Zamora, P. E. Russell m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
916 kr
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The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan …
Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Juan De Grimaldi as Impresario and Government Agent
Av David Thatcher Gies, Herbert S. Klein
Häftad, 2005
692 kr
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The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. As impresario and stage director, he trained actors in the new style of declamation, made …
The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón
Av Anthony J. Cascardi, Herbert S. Klein
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its …
Muslims Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia
Societies in Symbiosis
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Professor Burns' research into previously untapped archival sources reveals the tensions and …
Seneca and Celestina
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499), which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe. The author considers the importance attached to Senecan thought in the oral, scholarly …
Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain
A Platonist Critique and Some Picaresque Replies
Av B. W. Ife
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines the connection between the objections posed to …
Sur
A Study of the Argentine Literary Journal and its Role in the Development of a Culture, 1931-1970
Av John King
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the story, while the contributions of other major …
Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Making of a Novelist
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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At the end of the nineteenth century Emilia Pardo Bazán was Spain's leading woman novelist and short story writer, and also a critic, journalist and fierce campaigner for women's rights. This book examines Pardo Bazán's growth into maturity as a novelist during the late 1880s and the 1890s. …
Calderón in the German Lands and the Low Countries
His Reception and Influence, 1654-1980
Häftad, 2009
824 kr
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This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. The high quality of the German critical and philosophical tradition has led to a far greater appreciation of Calderón outside than inside his native Spain, and it is in …
The Theatre of Valle-Inclan
Av John Lyon
Häftad, 2009
617 kr
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This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic techniques and a heightened dramatic …
Poverty and Welfare in Habsburg Spain
Av Linda Martz
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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In this book Linda Martz explores the major developments in the theory and practice of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and determines how far Spanish attitudes to poverty compared with those of other countries in western Europe. This scholarly and lucid exploration of …
The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Francisco de Quevedo was known throughout seventeenth-century Europe as the author of two Spanish best-sellers, the picaresque novel El buscón, and the satirical Sueños. Thoroughly Baroque in style, the poems share many traits with the metaphysical poetry of Quevedo's English contemporaries. His …
Response to Revolution
Imperial Spain and the Spanish American Revolutions, 1810-1840
Häftad, 2009
714 kr
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This book examines the Spanish response, military, economic and social, to the anti-imperial revolutions of Latin America in the early nineteenth century. History has for the most part concentrated on the heroic careers of the great liberators of America: but what did Spaniards themselves think of …
The Architecture of Conquest
Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535-1635
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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The Architecture of Conquest deals with the practice and ideology of colonial architecture in Latin America, referring particularly to the Viceroyalty of Peru during the period 1535-1635. Colonial building has generally been regarded as being merely a provincial reflection of mainstream European …
Gabriel García Márquez
New Readings
Av Bernard McGuirk, Richard Cardwell
Häftad, 2009
677 kr
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This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel García Márquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Apart from extending critical appreciation of his work to an English-reading public, its principal objective is to reflect the …
Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in Celestina
Häftad, 2009
622 kr
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The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the world's classics. In this important study, Dorothy Sherman Severin investigates how Fernando de Rojas' work in dialogue, which parodies earlier genres, is a precursor of the modern novel. In Celestina, the hero Calisto parodies …
An Introduction to the Politics and Philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This book provides a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset (1183-1955), author of the widely read The Revolt of the Masses. Dr Dobson divides his study into sections devoted to Ortega's political thinking and to his philosophy, rooting these in …
So Far from Heaven
David Alfaro Siqueiros' The March of Humanity and Mexican Revolutionary Politics
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Between 1964 and 1971, the Mexican mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros produced The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos in Mexico City, his last major project and the largest mural in the world. This illustrated book mounts a careful study of the painting, which it sees as marking the …
Keepers of the City
The Corregidores of Isabella I of Castile (1474-1504)
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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The corregidores were Castilian royal officials who functioned as mayors and superior judges in the provinces, cities, towns, and villages they were sent to oversee. At the head of urban militias they took part in the War of Succession and the Granada War. The corregidores thus had significant …
The Strife of Tongues
Fray Luis de Leon and the Golden Age of Spain
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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Fray Luis de León (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in …
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555
Av A. Saunders
Häftad, 2010
823 kr
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This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the Portuguese brought Europe into contact with black Africa and originated the Atlantic slave-trade. Portugal was the first European society to have …
The Krausist Movement and Ideological Change in Spain, 1854-1874
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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This is a definitive study of a major intellectual movement of nineteenth-century Spain. The 'harmonic rationalism' of the German Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), a philosophy dedicated to an ideal of universal brotherhood, had an unexpectedly powerful influence upon Spanish history, …
Curia and Cortes in León and Castile 1072-1295
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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In the twelfth century, curia regis was the name given to the assembly, whether in England, France or the kingdoms of Spain, which helped the monarch to govern. In its largest form, such an assembly consisted of members of the royal family, royal household officials and the lay and ecclesiastical …
The Novels of Julio Cortazar
Av Steven Boldy
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Julio Cortázar is one of the best-known successful Latin American writers. His work has been widely translated and this 1980 book is a clear and detailed study of his four major novels. Steven Boldy recognises the complexity, the 'nerve centres of contradiction and tension' of Cortázar's novels, …
The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón
Av Anthony J. Cascardi, Herbert S. Klein
Inbunden, 1984
1872 kr
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This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its …
The Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Point of View
Av Francisco Rico, P. E. Russell m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
654 kr
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The Spanish picaresque novel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not only a major genre in its own right; it was a decisive influence on the subsequent literature of Spain and the development of the modern European novel. When first published Professor Rico's book broke new ground by …
The Fall of Natural Man
The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
Häftad, 1987
406 kr
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This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human …
Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Juan De Grimaldi as Impresario and Government Agent
Inbunden, 1988
1761 kr
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The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. As impresario and stage director, he trained actors in the new style of declamation, made …
Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
Av Margarita Zamora, P. E. Russell m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1966 kr
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The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan …
The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia
Inbunden, 1991
1777 kr
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This 1991 book describes the history of peasants in Catalonia, the wealthiest and politically dominant part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon, between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It focuses on the period from 1000 to 1300, when free peasants who had held property under favourable frontier …
