Spanish category: 1851 books
by Talen Ortz
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Swahili is a language spoken in Eastern Africa, especially in Tanzania, Kenya, and Zanzibar. The purpose of 'Say Hello in Swahili' book is to bring out a nuanced reading to the beginning learners of Kiswahili. It aims at making learners of Kiswahili language hide the fact that they are new...
The Hidden Reflection
Hermenèia and Rewriting in 19th Century Italian Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book presents and analyses twelve different writings from 19th century Italian literature on the topic of translation. With the exception of their original publication and some earlier reissues, these texts have never been republished in the 20th or 21st centuries and have remained in the shadows...
by Angelos Georgakis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
An easy way of helping yourself learn a new language is by watching a film with subtitles both in English and in the language you’re trying to learn.
Learning through films is a very powerful method as it involves images, sounds, and emotions. The visual content is engaging and helps comprehension...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Este volumen recoge varios estudios que reflejan las últimas tendencias en la investigación lingüística teórica y aplicada desde diversas perspectivas enmarcadas en las distintas subdisciplinas lingüísticas, a saber: Análisis del discurso, Sintaxis, Semántica, Lingüística de corpus o Pragmática,...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.
The book’s topic is the question of how communities...
Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history...
Cultural Hermeneutics
Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno...
Transcending Textuality
Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions...
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
by Jon Kortazar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Basque literature is unknown because of the language in which it is written. It is a "small literature" that has, however, experienced major development, both in terms of production and reading, since the 1970s. This book describes the changes in this literary system, taking into account...
Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”
Through an inventive and original...