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Cover of Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions...
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by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history...
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Cultural Hermeneutics

Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

by Mario Valdes
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno...
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Transcending Textuality

Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print

by Ariadna García-Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011

In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions...
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Cognitive Disability Aesthetics

Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference

by Benjamin Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
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by Jon Kortazar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Basque literature is unknown because of the language in which it is written. It is a "small literature" that has, however, experienced major development, both in terms of production and reading, since the 1970s. This book describes the changes in this literary system, taking into account...
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Food Matters

Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain

by Carolyn A. Nadeau
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.” Through an inventive and original...
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Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares

Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours

by William H. Clamurro
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015

Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares*: Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours* offers a fresh approach to the Novelas ejemplares (1613) of Cervantes in which the twelve novelas are not analyzed individually nor on the basis of generic definitions but rather from a thematic perspective. In this way,...
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My Havana

The Musical City of Carlos Varela

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varela...
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Between Distant Modernities

Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South

by Brittany Powell Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation...
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Neo-Stoicism and Skepticism in Part One of Don Quijote

Removing the Authority of a Genre

by Daniel Lorca
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the authority of the romances of chivalry, which was a popular genre during his time. It also explains why his strategy, which would have been instantly recognizable during the period, is no longer effective:...
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by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011

What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...
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Writing by Ear

Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

by Marilia Librandi
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour...
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Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain

Modernity and Mass Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

The so-called “Silver Age” of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility, and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of...
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