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Cultural Politics of Tel Quel
Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement
Häftad, 1996
618 kr
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Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Quel quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France. During the following two decades Tel Quel published the best in French intellectual thought and writing, …
Don Juan and the Point of Honor
Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition
Inbunden, 1992
861 kr
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In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. On the one hand, it might be argued that Don Juan threatens society, since he is supposedly an agent of social anarchy. On the other hand, given his …
Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press
Inbunden, 1999
1258 kr
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How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture.Charnon-Deutsch …
At the Margins of the Renaissance
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
Inbunden, 2003
943 kr
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Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up …
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2003
810 kr
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The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and …
Adventures in Paradox
Don Quixote and the Western Tradition
Häftad, 2003
691 kr
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Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth …
Poetics of Empire in the Indies
Prophecy and Imitation in “La Araucana” and “Os Lusíadas”
Häftad, 2000
639 kr
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In The Poetics of Empire in the Indies, James Nicolopulos investigates literary representations of sixteenth-century Iberian colonialism and imperialism by analyzing Alonso de Ercilla’s "La Araucana," a narrative poem that recounts the initial phases of the Spanish conquest of Chile in the …
Stages of Desire
The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater
Av Michael Kidd
Häftad, 1999
588 kr
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Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with plots or characters derived from the Greco-Roman tradition, Michael Kidd …
Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age
Häftad, 1997
618 kr
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Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban society. During this period, Spanish culture came to be dominated by the tension between an old regime of traditional values—honor, lineage, purity of …
Refiguring the Hero
From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderón
Av Dian Fox
Häftad, 1991
547 kr
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Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of then-contempory ideas about heroism.The Spanish dramatists Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, near contemporaries of Shakespeare, are hailed by Hispanists as …
Allegories of Kingship
Calderón and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition
Av Stephen Rupp
Häftad, 1995
533 kr
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This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing secular dramas (comedias) and religious plays (autos sacramentales), Stephen …
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2003
606 kr
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The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and …
Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision
Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in “Celestina”
Häftad, 2001
606 kr
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The late medieval masterpiece Celestina has long been the focus of controversy, over both its authorship and the apparent contradictions and inconsistencies within its plot. Scholars trace the publication of Celestina to 1499, when Fernando de Rojas supposedly discovered the first act and completed …
Grotesque Purgatory
A Study of Cervantes's Don Quixote, Part II
Häftad, 1996
468 kr
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Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote is a diptych, the first part of which was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. Focusing almost entirely on the novel's second part, Henry W. Sullivan is the first critic to offer a systematic account of Don Quixote's passage from madness to sanity. Sullivan …
Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men
Häftad, 2000
606 kr
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María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her …
Medieval Spanish Epic
Mythic Roots and Ritual Language
Häftad, 1998
606 kr
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This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by …
Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet
An Adventure in Multiculturalism
Häftad, 2000
606 kr
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Despite Eduardo Manet's impressive accomplishments extending over half a century, this extraordinarily talented Cuban-French author remains relatively unknown in the United States. Phyllis Zatlin's book is the first to examine the multifaceted career of this dynamic bilingual writer. Playwright and …
Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in “Celestina”
Häftad, 2001
606 kr
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The plot of the late-medieval Spanish work Celestina (1499) centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the fascinating character of their intermediary, Celestina. In this ground-breaking rereading of the play, James F. Burke offers a new interpretation of the characters' actions by …
At the Margins of the Renaissance
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
Häftad, 2003
588 kr
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Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up …
Don Juan and the Point of Honor
Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition
Häftad, 2013
817 kr
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In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. On the one hand, it might be argued that Don Juan threatens society, since he is supposedly an agent of social anarchy. On the other hand, given his …
