Spanish Portuguese category: 605 books
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater...
Front Lines
Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship....
Language, Identity and Urban Space
The Language Use of Latin American Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both...
Cervantes
Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures...
by Keith Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Rubén Darío (1867-1916) of Nicaragua was the leader of the important Latin American literary movement known as Modernism. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Latin American literature, and the volume of writings devoted to his work since 1884 is perhaps greater than that on any other...
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...