University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Haunted Greece and Rome
Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective...
Woven on the Loom of Time
Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de América Latina I and II, which are widely used in college Spanish courses. But Anderson-Imbert is also a noted creative writer, whose use of "magical realism" helped...
John Wayne’s World
Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In a film career that spanned five decades, John Wayne became a U.S. icon of heroic individualism and rugged masculinity. His widespread popularity, however, was not limited to the United States: he was beloved among moviegoers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. In John Wayne’s World, Russell...
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Cuba’s José Lezama Lima became the most controversial figure in the flowering of the Latin American novel with the 1966 publication of Paradiso. Hailed as a seminal writer of breathtaking originality by Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Lezama was also attacked by the Castro regime...
Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca
Perlimplin, Yerma, Blood Wedding
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's dramatic characters are psychic entities made up...
Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity
The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Modernism was the major Spanish American literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Leader of that influential movement was Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan now recognized as one of the most important Hispanic poets of all time. Like the Romantics in England and the Symbolists...
by Virginia Higginbotham
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
During the years since his death, Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known twentieth-century poet and playwright, has generally been considered a writer of tragedy. Three of his major plays are fatalistic stories of suffering and death, and his poetry is filled with dread. Yet most of Lorca's dramatic...
The Art of Life
Studies in American Autobiographical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Autobiographical literature especially reveals the processes by which writers convert their own historical experience into fictional form and suggests how literary forms function in life. This volume defines an original theory of autobiographical writing and provides intriguing analyses of major American...
Surrealism in Greece
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a way of responding to the extremely unstable political situation in their country. Despite producing...
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining...
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that...
The Invisible Tent
The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2913
This critical evaluation of Ford Madox Ford's "novels of war, which are also novels about peace," is made in a most delightful manner. Based on a thorough knowledge of the novelist, it is enriched by keen perception and delicate taste and is couched in an informal, highly readable style.Ambrose Gordon,...
The Compensations of War
The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers—Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley—Bowerman longed to “see the show.” He was glad to learn that...
The Astonishment of Words
An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
One, two! one, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Un deux, un deux, par le milieu, Le glaive vorpal fait pat-à-pan! La bête défaite, avec sa tête, Il rentre gallomphant. Eins, Zwei! Eins, Zwei! Und durch und...