Spanish Portuguese category: 605 books
by Victoria Twead
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Back in 2004, I nagged poor, long-suffering Joe into relocating to a tiny, remote mountain village in Andalucía, and my passion for Spanish food began. When I was writing 'Chickens', I wanted to include a few recipes given to me by the village ladies. However, I wanted more. What a stroke...
Urbanism and Urbanity
The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845–1925)
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Through the study of more than twenty novels produced in Spain from the 1840s to the 1920s, this book explores the literary means by which the social options available to modern Spanish bourgeois citizens were discursively constructed, occasionally before and often concomitantly to their production...
Mother & Myth in Spanish Novels
Rewriting the Matriarchal Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent? What if she discovered that her mother, Metis,—first wife of Zeus and 'wiser than all gods and mortal men,' according to Hesiod—was swallowed...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Este volumen reúne las intervenciones del conversatorio “Los futuros de Fernando Pessoa” (octubre de 2011), actividad que congregó a Ani Bustamante, Julio del Valle, Jerónimo Pizarro y Jorge Wiesse en la Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Perú). Además de estos textos críticos, se incluyen...
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...