Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
In Her Words
Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry,...
El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
A Modern and Critical Edition- Edited by Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most successful and celebrated...
by Jo Labanyi
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in...
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...
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)
A Discourse of Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.
Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial...
Charcutería
The Soul of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Charcutería: The Soul of Spain is the first book to introduce authentic Spanish butchering and meat-curing techniques to the American market. Included are more than 100 traditional Spanish recipes, straightforward illustrations providing easy-to-follow steps for amateur and professional butchers,...
by Chefs Secret Vault
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Spanish foods can really make a tasty change in the boring routine of what's for dinner. We have hand selected 20 Best of the Best and most inviting Spanish recipes like Canary Island Red Mojo Sauce, Maria's Paella, Beef Tenderloin Asturias, Winter Gazpacho, Basque Cake, Spanish Squash,...
by Victoria Twead
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Back in 2004, I nagged poor, long-suffering Joe into relocating to a tiny, remote mountain village in Andalucía, and my passion for Spanish food began. When I was writing 'Chickens', I wanted to include a few recipes given to me by the village ladies. However, I wanted more. What a stroke...
Urbanism and Urbanity
The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845–1925)
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the literary means by which the social options available to modern Spanish bourgeois citizens were discursively constructed, occasionally before and often concomitantly to their production...
Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels
Rewriting the Matriarchal Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent? What if she discovered that her mother, Metis,—first wife of Zeus and 'wiser than all gods and mortal men,' according to Hesiod—was swallowed...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Este volumen reúne las intervenciones del conversatorio “Los futuros de Fernando Pessoa” (octubre de 2011), actividad que congregó a Ani Bustamante, Julio del Valle, Jerónimo Pizarro y Jorge Wiesse en la Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Perú). Además de estos textos críticos, se incluyen...