Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel
Revisiting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory...
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900
Blood Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found...
Let's Cook Spanish, A Family Cookbook
Vamos a Cocinar Espanol, Recetas Para Toda la Familia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Introduce your family to the art of Spanish cuisine with this highly engaging cookbook. Not only will it bring you closer together as a family, but it will teach your child a valuable hobby and get them interested in Spanish culture. "A tavola non si invecchia." Or, "At the table with...
by Monika Linton
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2016, Spectator ‘The definitive book about the food of Spain’ Rose Prince Brindisa, the renowned Spanish fine food import company, has become a byword for excellent Spanish food. Brindisa:The True Food of Spain is the ultimate in contemporary Spanish cooking, including classic...
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,...
by Stephen Lean
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
The aim of this book is simple: to introduce you to the preparation, cooking and serving of the traditional tapas recipes of Spain. There are hundreds of so-called 'tapas' recipe books out there but many of them are just collections of various recipes for small appetisers - to the author's mind this...
by Maria Odete Sousa
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
This is a book of traditional recipes for modern people. Based on the typical portuguese gastronomy and inspired by the author's childhood, this book aims not only to convey the legacy of a valuable heritage but also to adapt it to the present days. The recipes from north to south of Portugal...
Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia...
The Spanish Arcadia
Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political...
Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic
Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
From notions of art for art’s sake to committed poetry, it may seem that poets cannot achieve reconciliation between the politics and poetry. However, among committed Communist poets of the 20th century of the Spanish-speaking world, three poets stand out as examples of a search to bring together...
Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth
From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Harkema argues for the prominent...
by Malcolm Coxall
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Spanish cuisine is extraordinarily varied, intertwined as it is with the country's amazing history, and its cultural and geographical diversity. Every Spanish recipe has its own story! But Spanish traditional baking is in a league of its own. Spanish bakery has it all - from flat bread made on campfires...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the...
The Adventures of Fat Rice
Recipes from the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macau: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
With 100 recipes, this is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau—an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways—as seen through the lens of the cult favorite Chicago restaurant, Fat Rice.
An hour’s ferry ride from Hong Kong,...