Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
Inscribed Power
Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection...
Dressed to Kill
Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction...
Writing Teresa
The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s...
'Lector Ludens'
The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.
Viajeros, diplomáticos y exiliados
Escritores hispanoamericanos en España (19141939) Vol. III
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Tras un largo desencuentro con los países hispanoamericanos desde las luchas independentistas, hubo en España un período de intensa actividad americanista en el que se fortalecieron los lazos culturales entre ambas orillas: fue el comprendido entre fines del siglo XIX – unos años marcados por...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Este conjunto de artículos se centra en los textos de la autora española Clara Janés. Es fruto de un encuentro entre investigadores europeos y norte-americanos, especialistas de su extensa obra. El eje escogido es el de la dialéctica entre verdades y secretos que impregna más o menos abiertamente...
by Eduardo Tasis Moratinos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Tomás Segovia y Angelina Muñiz pertenecen a un grupo de escritores conocidos como los «Hispanomexicanos». La mayoría de los estudios sobre esta generación se han centrado en el papel que el exilio juega en los primeros años de su producción y han dejado de lado el papel que éste juega más...
Catalan Food
Culture and Flavors from the Mediterranean: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Catalan cuisine authority Daniel Olivella serves historical narratives alongside 80 carefully curated Spanish food recipes, like tapas, paella, and seafood, that are simple and fresh.
In proud, vibrant Catalonia, food is what brings people together—whether neighbors, family, or visitors....
Inventing High and Low
Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Why, then, does the opposition persist? In this book Sieburth questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish...
En torno a haber
Construcciones, usos y variación desde el latín hasta la actualidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Este volumen constituye la primera monografía que aborda el haz entero de construcciones en las que, a lo largo de la historia, ha participado el auxiliar más conocido del español, HABERE > haber. Catorce especialistas de universidades europeas y americanas trazan, desde muy diversas ópticas...
Caballero noble desbaratado
Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A las narraciones en primera persona del pasado no siempre les viene bien el nombre de autobiografías. En los siglos anteriores a la definición del género, quienes escribían la historia de sus vidas con frecuencia utilizaban como modelo para sus narraciones los textos que gozaban de mayor prestigio,...
After Translation
The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.
After...