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  • Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century

    Modernity and Beyond

    by Andrew Debicki ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Poetry Of Discovery

    The Spanish Generation of 1956-1971

    by Andrew Debicki ...
    A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Cabañero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel González; Manuel Mantero; Claudio Rodríguez; Carlos Sahagún; and José Angel Valente.Although each of ... Read more

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  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Charles Rossman, Alan Warren Friedman ...
    The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels have been translated into English, this is the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Juan Rulfo

    by Steven Boldy, Steven Boldy ...
    Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Wars and within the interlinking currents of specifically national ... Read more

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  • In the Light of Contradiction

    Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca

    by Roberta Ann Quance ...
    In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • María Zambrano

    A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment

    by Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    María Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the Enlightenment. Having spent forty-five years in exile, the relevance of this Spanish Republican ... Read more

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  • Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest

    by Cathy L. Jrade ...
    Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, ... Read more

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  • The Voice of the Masters

    Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

    by Roberto González Echevarría ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is ... Read more

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  • José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision

    A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works

    by Gustavo Pellón ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Cuba’s José Lezama Lima became the most controversial figure in the flowering of the Latin American novel with the 1966 publication of Paradiso. Hailed as a seminal writer of breathtaking originality by Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Lezama was also attacked by the Castro regime and others for his stylistic obscurity, erotic descriptions, and violation of literary norms. ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cursilería

    Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain

    by Noël Valis ...
    Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as ... Read more

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  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    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 urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $61.99 USD