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No Pasarán: Art, Literature and the Civil War
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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The six essays collected in this volume are a selection from a number of papers which were given at a one-day colloquium on 'Art, Literature and the Spanish Civil War' which was held in Westfield College on 18 July 1986, preciselyfifty years to the day after Franco's military coup in the Canary …
Companion to Magical Realism
Av Stephen M Hart, Wen-Chin Ouyang
Häftad, 2010
345 kr
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A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin …
Casiodoro de Reina
Spanish Reformer of the Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 1975
385 kr
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Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Qur'an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79
Inbunden, 1982
1253 kr
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ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLanguage of the TextsTapsirThe TextsGlossaryPhotographs of the TextsBibliography and Abbreviations
Libro de Buen Amor Studies
Häftad, 1970
414 kr
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Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have thrilled and perplexed readers, and its influence continues to be reflected in modern letters.
God's Obvious Design
Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988 including 'The Account of Francisco de Cuéllar'
Av P. Gallagher, D W Cruickshank
Inbunden, 1990
1357 kr
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A distinguished group of specialists examine afresh issues of particular concern to historians of the Spanish Armada. In particular they look at the contemporary Spanish view of Philip II's imperialism (Watson); at the compositionand equipping of the fleet (Martin, Thompson, O'Donnell); at the …
La Práctica escénica cortesana: de la época del Emperador a la de Felipe III
Häftad, 1991
685 kr
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A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain.Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the …
Una Poética de la Oscuridad
La recepción crítica de las 'Soledades' en el siglo XVII
Inbunden, 1994
1440 kr
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An account of the critical reception of Góngora's Soledad primerain the 17c.Luis de Góngora completed the first version of his Soledad primera in the spring of 1613. Immediately his poem became the centre of a vigorous literary polemic. The writings of his detractors and of his supporters marked …
White Ink
Essays on twentieth-century feminine fiction in Spain and Latin America
Inbunden, 1993
1440 kr
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Essays on motifs employed in women's novels from Spain and Latin America between 1936 and the present.An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs - the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble -in a selection of representative …
El Arte epistolar en el Renacimiento español
Inbunden, 1997
1287 kr
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A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain.The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de …
Calderón: Estructura y Ejemplaridad
Av Robert Pring-Mill, Nigel Griffin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1440 kr
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Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary.Dr Pring-Mill is one of the most eminent Calderón scholars, and this volume demonstrates the development of his critical thinking over a period of some forty years. The essays, collected in one volume for the first time, and …
Poetry of Luis Cernuda
Order in a World of Chaos
Inbunden, 1999
1424 kr
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A study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963).The works of the twentieth-century Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) are characterised by their fragmentary and disunified nature, with a wide range of complexities and contradictions. Concentrating on the well-known La realidad y …
Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity
Inbunden, 2000
447 kr
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A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts.This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Lope's theatre, which will affect the way in which the comedia in general is read. It spans Lope's literary career, discussing (pseudo-)historical, tragic and …
Trickster-Function in the Theatre of García Lorca
Av Sarah Wright
Inbunden, 2000
1440 kr
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An important contribution to the understanding of the theatrical output of major figure of Spanish literary canon.Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, this book uses the image of the trickster to argue for a fresh and original reading of García Lorca's plays, highlighting …
Cervantes' Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda
A Study of Genre
Inbunden, 2001
1424 kr
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A study which highights the ironic intrusion of novelistic elements in Persiles y Sigismunda, subverting its categorization as pure romance fiction.The lengthy Byzantine romance Persiles y Sigismunda, which Cervantes completed only days before his death in 1616, has conventionally been considered a …
New Galdós Studies
Essays in Memory of John Varey
Inbunden, 2003
1424 kr
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The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of these new studies.The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of New Galdós Studies, offered in memory of John Varey, author of Galdós Studies, …
Reading for the Stage: Calderón and his Contemporaries
Av Isaac Benabu
Inbunden, 2002
1440 kr
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Approaches to the playtext applied to the works of Calderon and his contemporaries.The focus of this book falls less on performance and more on how the playtext may be approached from a theatrical viewpoint. In the theatre, the playtext, addressed traditionally to the theatre professional rather …
Companion to Catalan Literature
Av Arthur Terry
Inbunden, 2003
988 kr
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The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day.This book is the only one of its kind in English. Part literary history, part literary criticism, it is above all a personal assessment of a rich and important body of work …
Dramatic World of Valle-Inclan
Av Robert Lima
Inbunden, 2003
1499 kr
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Valle-Inclan considered as actor, director and playwright, with bibliography of his plays.Daring, innovative, controversial, often satirical, a dramatist ahead of his time, Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was one of Spain's 'Generation of 1898', and an influence on such later movements as the …
Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema
Inbunden, 2004
1440 kr
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New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory.New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. In her survey of the history of Spanish cinema in the …
Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos
Häftad, 2004
343 kr
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Interviews, with contextual critical material, with nine celebrated contemporary Hispanic novelists.Nine of today's most celebrated Hispanic writers reveal themselves and their concerns, and how the latter are reflected in their work. The writers are Ricardo Piglia, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Juan José …
Companion to Latin American Film
Inbunden, 2004
1327 kr
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A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates there. This Companion traces its development from the mid …
Carpentier's Baroque Fiction
Returning Medusa's Gaze
Inbunden, 2004
1424 kr
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Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction.This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours …
Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture
Jaime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides
Av Robert Ruz
Inbunden, 2005
1440 kr
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The first book-length study of modern Peruvian narrative and its resurgence in the 1990s, focussing on Jaime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides.This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the late 1990s. Talk-show host Jaime Bayly's seven …
Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares
Av Stephen Boyd
Inbunden, 2005
1513 kr
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This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.This edited volume of fourteen …
Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist
Av Anja Louis
Inbunden, 2005
1152 kr
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This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932).This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of …
Gothic Fiction of Adelaida García Morales
Haunting Words
Inbunden, 2006
1440 kr
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By highlighting features common to the Gothic classics and the works of Adelaida García Morales, this monograph aims to put the Gothic on the map in Hispanic Studies.The Gothic as a literary mode extending well beyond its first proponents in eighteenth-century England is well established in English …
El cuerpo vestido y la construcción de la identidad en las narrativas autobiográficas del Siglo de Oro
Av Encarnación Juárez Almendros
Inbunden, 2006
1440 kr
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El papel de las ropas en la construcción de la identidad en neuve autobiografías ficticias e históricas del Siglo de Oro.Este libro examina el significativo papel de las ropas y de los adornos corporales en la construcción de la identidad en nueve autobiografías ficticias e históricas del Siglo de …
Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2006
1290 kr
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The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially in respect of racial and …
