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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent...
Songs of a Friend
Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More...
by Jessica Knauss
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have...
Fortunata et Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Composé de quatre parties, le roman intitulé Fortunata et Jacinta. Histoire de deux femmes mariées, fut publié en 1886-1887. Il est considéré comme le chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain espagnol Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920).
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The Epic of Juan Latino
Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).
Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s...
Narrating the Postcolonial Nation
Mapping Angola and Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way...
by Marianne Sturman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
CliffsNotes on Don Quixote looks into...
by Malcolm Coxall
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The Axarquia is a small, remarkable corner of Andalucía in Spain. It has witnessed some of the most culturally cataclysmic events of the last 40,000 years of European history, such as the arrival of the first modern human beings in Europe, the invasion of the Phoenicians, Byzantines, Romans,...
by Felix Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
11 easy to cook recepies to make at home and enjoy with friends.easy preparation and method style recepies that I grew up with and that I still cook today.Timeless recepies that will outlast time itself.
La Régente de Clarín
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Les deux tomes de ce roman de Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (1852-1901), dit Clarín, furent publiés respectivement en 1884 et en 1885. La Régente et Fortunata et Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós sont les deux meilleurs romans...
Beyond Human
Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have been central to the organization of knowledge since precolonial times. The legacies of colonialism and the continuance of indigenous cultures makes the...
Tapas
Our 100 top recipes presented in one cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Little all-rounders! Tapas have a firmly established place in Spain's culinary culture - as an aperitif with a glass of wine, as bar snacks, or as part of a rich and varied choice of dishes for the evening meal. Tapas also stand for a love of life, colour and character, and uninhibited conviviality,...
Seven Faces
Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1996
Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian...
Speaking the Postcolonial Nation
Interviews with Writers from Angola and Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of the intellectual elite in the...