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  • Golden Tongues

    Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles

    by Luis Alfaro, Boni B. Alvarez, Madhuri Shekar, Mary Lyon Kamitaki, Julie Taiwo Quarles, Lina Patel, June Carryl ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    A first-of-its-kind anthology that explores adaptations of 17th-century Hispanic comedia within contemporary Los Angeles theater.Performed outdoors for audiences of all classes and genders, comedias questioned orthodox ideologies and power systems of the 17th-century Hispanic world: 400 years later, these stories are still being used to call for change, but within modern-day America.Golden Tongues ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Theater of Lockdown

    Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

    by Barbara Fuchs, William C. Boles, Anja Hartl ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances
    Offering one of the first scholarly examinations of digital and distanced performance since the global shutdown of theaters in March 2020, Barbara Fuchs provides both a record of the changes and a framework for thinking through theater's transformation.Though born of necessity, recent productions offer a new world of practice, from multi-platform plays on Zoom, WhatsApp, and Instagram, to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Romance

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Knowing Fictions

    Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Knowing Fictions

    Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson

    Laureations

    by Leonard Barkan, Frances Dolan, Heather Dubrow, Edwin M. Duval, Margaret Ferguson, Barbara Fuchs, Patricia Fumerton, Andrew Hadfield, Patricia Clare Ingham, Andrew McRae, Shannon Miller, James Nohrnberg, Michael O'Connell ...
    This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary careerism, and studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also medieval literary texts, ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja"

    Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-Garcia, Aaron J. Ilika ...
    Since its publication in 1561, an anonymous tale of love, friendship, and chivalry has captivated readers in Spain and across Europe. "The Abencerraje" tells of the Moorish knight Abindarráez, whose plans to wed are interrupted when he is taken prisoner by Christian knights. His captor, a Spanish governor, befriends and admires the Moorish knight, ultimately releasing him to marry his beloved. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja"

    Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-Garcia, Aaron J. Ilika ...
    Since its publication in 1561, an anonymous tale of love, friendship, and chivalry has captivated readers in Spain and across Europe. "The Abencerraje" tells of the Moorish knight Abindarráez, whose plans to wed are interrupted when he is taken prisoner by Christian knights. His captor, a Spanish governor, befriends and admires the Moorish knight, ultimately releasing him to marry his beloved. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

    by Emily Weissbourd, Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe

    From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700

    by Barbara Fuchs, Mercedes García-Arenal ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Piracy

    Emulating Spain in English Literature

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny ... Read more

    $35.99 USD