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José de Acostas «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical...
Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz
Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature
The Architectural Void
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced...
The Task of the Cleric
Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools...
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity
Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges...
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en literatura y cine postdictatorial
Eltit, Fuguet, "Johnny cien pesos" de Graef-Marino y "Machuca"de Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado de Pinochet como opresivo...
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers...
by Mary E Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity,...
Beyond Sight
Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).
The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian...
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
Developments
Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary production of the twentieth century:...
by Kay Plunkett-Hogge
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Tapas and sherry bars are everywhere: Berlin, London, LA, Paris, Munich. Now it's time to bring the trend home and serve this glorious marriage of flavours to friends. In A Sherry & A Little Plate of Tapas Kay Plunkett-Hogge tells the story of tapas and its beloved companion, sherry, and offers 80...
by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Georges Hérelle
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Extrait : La moisson tirait à sa fin, dans la grande estancia argentine appelée « La Nationale ». Les hommes, venus de tous côtés pour faire la récolte évitaient de s’entasser dans les maisons des ouvriers et dans les dépendances...
by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Georges Hérelle
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Extrait : La moisson tirait à sa fin, dans la grande estancia argentine appelée « La Nationale ». Les hommes, venus de tous côtés pour faire la récolte évitaient de s’entasser dans les maisons des ouvriers et dans les dépendances...