Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
Imagined Truths
Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism. Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches...
Vozes femininas de África
Poesia e Prosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 19, 2014
A idea do presente volume nasceu durante o VIII Congresso de Lusitanistas da Alemanha, em 2009, em Munique, na seção intitulada Escritoras da África Lusófona. Este volume apresenta os primeiros resultados dos estudos desses discursos literários multi-facetados das autoras africanas de língua...
Made in Spain
Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Americans have fallen in love with Spanish food in recent years, and no one has done more to play matchmaker than the award-winning chef José Andrés.
In this irresistible companion volume to his public television show Made in Spain, José reminds us—in the most alluring and delicious way—that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since Franco’s dictatorship? What are the dynamics...
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the...
The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968
José María Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Spanish Literary Generation of 1968: José Maria Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix serves multiple purposes. Most importantly, it is an overview of an important moment in Spanish literary history that is connected to an extremely important moment in world history, 1968, as well as...
by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the...
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...
They Need Nothing
Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how...
Tapas
A Taste of Spain in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A classic Spanish cookbook from José Andrés, a humanitarian, James Beard Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
Tapas are Spain's gift to the world of great cooking: a fresh and fun way to eat with friends and family—and easy to make...
Barrafina
A Spanish Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
'Possibly the best Spanish cookbook ever' Rachel Cooke, Observer Food Monthly
'Barrafina is a tapas bar and the best of its kind . . . the food is fantastic' Giles Coren, The Times
When Sam and Eddie Hart opened Barrafina, their no-reservations tapas bar and restaurant in London's Soho,...
Rick Stein's Spain: 140 new recipes inspired by my journey off the beaten track
140 new recipes inspired by my journey off the beaten track
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
***'***I've wanted to make a series in Spain for a long time. I love Spanish food, I've been going there since I was a young boy - but until quite recently I don't think people really took the food seriously. Thanks to a handful of really dedicated Spanish chefs and a growing enthusiasm for its rugged...
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds
A Philosophy of Painting
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive...
Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and Italy’s...