Portuguese category: 983 books
The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age
A Literature of Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study...
The Poetics of Piracy
Emulating Spain in English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow,...
The Moral Tales
Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1988
Now, for the first time, the stories of Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas have been translated into English. This is an important collection from a writer who is remembered as a master story-teller.
by Harry Sieber
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre. It begins by discriminating between the literature of roguery and the picaresque in particular before discussing the origins of the genre in Spain and tracing its development into Europe. The book concludes with a brief...
Género, nación y literatura
Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y española
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Lugar de Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega se ha ganado duro, y ella todavía no ha recibido el reconocimiento que se merece. En Género , Nación y literatura : Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y española , Carmen Pereira -Muro estudia la obra y personalidad de...
by Ronald Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1940
Like the fame of Pardo-Bazán, the reputation of Campoamor has suffered a rapid decline. The renown of the poet was flimsier and more ephermal than that of Spain's most notable woman writer. It contained more enthusiasm and less respect. Most of his prose works and many of his dramas died young, whereas...
Adventures in Paradox
Don Quixote and the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
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...
Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater
Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud’s seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated...
by Jessica Knauss
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience even more than its original medieval one. This essay examines the lyrics and the miniatures of these songs...
by E. Michael Gerli
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli...
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...
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia
Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether...
by James F. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2000
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 analyzing...
Don Quixote
The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come...