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Tournier Elementaire
Inbunden, 1994
541 kr
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Michel Tournier, member of the Acadimie Goncourt and one of the most influential French writers of the post-Nouveau roman period, stresses the crucial interrelationship that exists between myth and literature. It is the writer's duty, he states, to keep myths alive by continually renewing and …
Duns Scotus, Metaphysician
Av William A. Frank, Allan B. Wolter
Häftad, 1995
277 kr
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Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of metaphysics. A careful and detailed study of his argument for the existence of God and the theory of knowledge that makes this possible …
Golden Age Comedia
Text, Theory and Performance
Av Charles Ganelin, Charles; Mancing Ganelin
Häftad, 2003
338 kr
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Drawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on research conducted in Spanish archives, this pioneering group of English-speaking scholars offers a new treatment of familiar material. The editors yoke together widely varying critical practices, …
Calderon Y Las Quimeras De La Culpa
Alegoria, Seduccion Y Resistencia En Cinco Autos Sacramentales
Inbunden, 1997
620 kr
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is generally acknowledged to be the master author of autos sacramentales, one-act pageant plays that usually dramatize the myths of the Fall and Redemption. Since the auto was supervised by both the church and the state, it is typically held to be an art form …
Fictions Du Scandale
Corps Femine Et Realisme Romanesque Au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle
Inbunden, 1998
402 kr
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According to Rogers, the nineteenth century was incapable of managing the feminine question and preferred to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transformed into fiction. Thus women were saddled with the role of scapegoat.
Vidas Impropias
Transformaciones Del Sujeto Femenino En La Narrativa Espanola Contemporanea
Inbunden, 1999
402 kr
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Through the analysis of six Spanish novels, one for each decade from the 1940s through the 1990s, Rodríguez proposes a new concept of the novel of feminine development and emphasizes the importance of the voicing of women's sentiments, passions, desires, and opinions that have not been expressed …
Pleasure of Writing
Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini
Av Ada Testaferri, Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
402 kr
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One of contemporary Italy's best-known writers, Dacia Maraini has often been a figure of controversy as author and as cultural critic. Though she is recipient of numerous literary awards, Maraini's work has not received the sustained critical attention commensurable with its stature. Working and …
Constructing the Criollo Archive
Subjects of Knowledge in the ""Bibliotheca Mexicana"" and the ""Rusticano Mexicana
Inbunden, 2000
360 kr
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This book constitutes an attempt to theorize the process of the emergence, in eighteenth-century New Spain, of a position of intellectual subjectivity differentiated from that established by the regime of Spanish imperial authority. The principal concern has been to trace how certain groups of …
Falsehood Disguised
Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld
Häftad, 1999
416 kr
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Falsehood Disguised analyzes La Rochefoucauld's ideas on truth and falsehood in the context of his views on self-love, on the passions, and on vice and virtue. It also explores his views on the subject in relation to what he sees as the extremely fragile foundations of the social contract. It …
(a)wry Views
Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque
Inbunden, 2001
688 kr
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The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and …
Narrative Transformations from L'Astree to Le Berger Extravagant
Inbunden, 2002
730 kr
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In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree and Charles Sorel's Le Berger extravagant, the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. By analyzing the literary conventions shared by both works, Hinds traces the …
Great Chiasmus
Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno
Häftad, 2003
313 kr
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In The Great Chiasmus, Olson explores the use of the grammatical figure called the chiasmus in the work of Miguel de Unamuno. The chiasmus, a reversal in the order of words or parts of speech in parallel phrases, appears on a variety of levels, from brief microstructures (""blanca como la nieve y …
Orientalismo En El Modernismo Hispanoamericano
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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Orientalismo en el modernismohispanoamericano, de Araceli Tinajero,es un novedoso estudio que analiza el modernismo en Latinoamérica desde unaperspectiva fresca y original. Lo que hace a este texto único es su enfoque enlas representaciones de las imágenes, los artefactos culturales y el …
Psyche of Feminism
Sand, Colette, Sarraute
Häftad, 2003
329 kr
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The Psyche of Feminism argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. After reviewing the relation between feminism and psychoanalysis and arguing for the centrality of psychoanalysis to feminist thought, the study offers an analysis of two …
La Tradicion Manuscrita De Los Suenos De Quevedo Y La Primera Edicion
Häftad, 2005
511 kr
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Francisco de Quevedo, the Spanish poet and satirist whose books were by far the most widely read in Spain in the 17 th century, died unaware that his genius had created modern satire in Spanish, and that for the ensuing five centuries, as we now know, his name would be a household word wherever …
Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain
Rojas and Delicado
Häftad, 2005
580 kr
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Rojas's Celestina (1499) is perhaps the second greatest work of Spanish literature, right after Don Quixote, and Delicado sought to surpass it with La Lozana andaluza (1530), an important precedent of the picaresque novel. Both works were written during the height of the Inquisition, when the only …
Gender Discourse and Desire in the 20th Century Brazilian Womens' Literature
Häftad, 2004
673 kr
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This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, …
La Espada, El Rayo Y La Pluma
Quevedo Y Los Campos Literario Y De Poder
Häftad, 2005
563 kr
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This text explores the literary, cultural and political relationships of Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), one of the major writers of the Spanish Golden Age. It establishes the birth and development of the first Spanish literary field circa 1600, then focuses on the relationship between the …
Through Strangers' Eyes
Fictional Foreigners in Old Regime France
Häftad, 2005
563 kr
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In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished showing naive outsiders who come to Europe and are amazed at what they see. Foreign travelers first setfoot in Europe in the sixteenth century and are memorably present in Montaigne's essay Des Cannibales. The genre was made popularin France by …
Under Arturo's Star
The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante
Av Stefania Lucamante, Sharon Wood m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
563 kr
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Elsa Morante has long been recognized internationally as one of the most significant and innovative writers of twentieth-century Italy; nonetheless, there has to date been no full-length study in English dedicated to her work. This collection of twelve essays offers the first comprehensive …
Aesthetics of Equilibrium
The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mario De Andrade
Häftad, 2006
867 kr
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Aesthetics of Equilibrium is the first book-length comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mario de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). Willis offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, …
Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature
Av Sarah Gordon
Häftad, 2006
563 kr
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Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature focuses on the intersection of food and humor across several medieval narrative genres. This book is a part of the Purdue Studies in Romance Literature Series.
Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo
Av Isabel Roche
Häftad, 2006
526 kr
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While Victor Hugo's lasting appeal as a novelist can in large part be attributed to the unforgettable characters that he created, character has been paradoxically the most criticized and least understood element of his fiction. Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo provides readers …
Radical Theatricality
Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage
Häftad, 2006
526 kr
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Radical Theatricality argues that our narrow search for extant medieval play scripts depends entirely on a definition of theater far more literary than performative. This literary definition pushes aside some of our best evidence of Spain's medieval performance traditions precisely because this …
Return of the Moor
Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan Immigration
Häftad, 2008
563 kr
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With the intense economic development and accelerated modernization experienced by Spain since the 1970s, and especially following its entrance into the European Economic Community in 1986, the country has undergone a rapid inversion in migratory patterns. After being an exporter of economic …
Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares
Globilization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative
Häftad, 2007
563 kr
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Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and …
Writing Identity
The Politics of Afro-Brazilian Literature
Häftad, 2007
563 kr
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In the late 1970s, Brazil was experiencing the return to democracy through a gradual political opening and the re-birth of its civil society. Writing Identity examines the intricate connections between artistic production and political action. It centers on the politics of the black movement and …
Naciones Intelectuales
Las Fundaciones De La Modernidad Literaria Mexicana (1917-1959)
Häftad, 2009
563 kr
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In Naciones intelectuales, Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado explores the processes and works that laid the foundations of a new literary modernity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. Focusing on a period that goes from the signing of the Constitution in 1917 to the death of Alfonso Reyes in 1959, …
Indios En Escena
La Representacion Del Amerindio En El Teatro Del Siglo De Oro
Häftad, 2009
505 kr
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Indios en escena engages both the Baroque and Colonial fields of Hispanism in order to reevaluate fourteen major plays of Spanish Golden Age literature from a social-historical perspective. Castillo argues that these plays portray Amerindians not in their 'otherness' but as subjects of empire. It …
History, Violence and the Hyperreal
Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel
Häftad, 2010
580 kr
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What does literature reveal about a country s changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kathryn Everly, this question is applied to the contemporary novel in Spain. In the process, similarities emerge among novels that embrace apparent differences in style, structure, …
