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  • A Brief History of the Spanish Language

    by David A. Pharies ...
    "As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of 'linguistic myths' about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar." — ChoiceSince its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language's Latin roots to its present-day forms, ... Read more

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  • Teresa, My Love

    An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Julia Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites and ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

    by Steven Boldy ...
    Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English orSpanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays of the forties and fifties, especially Ficciones and El Aleph, to be his most significant works, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Figuring the Feminine

    The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature

    by Jill Ross ...
    Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • Teresa of Avila

    Doctor of the Soul

    by Dr Peter Tyler ...
    Following the success of John of the Cross (Continuum 2010) and Return to the Mystical (Continuum 2011), Dr Peter Tyler completes his 'mystical trilogy' with a penetrating analysis of the life, work and context of St Teresa of Avila – this most popular and influential of all saints.To coincide with her anniversary year in 2015 he presents an accessible volume on the saint including the background ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Is the Inter-Religious Dialogue Impossible?

    The thinking of Benedictus XVI and Ramon Llull´s view of the inter-religious dialogue

    by Bernardo Veiga ...
    Series series Diálogo Inter-Religioso
    Quando a imprensa européia discute intensamente o prólogo escrito por Joseph Ratzinger ao último livro de Marcelo Pera; intelectual e político italiano; intitulado Perché dobbiamo dirci cristiani; recém publicado pela editorial Mondadori; resulta muito oportuno este trabalho que o leitor tem agora em suas mãos. Com efeito; no referido prólogo; Joseph Ratzinger; afirma que o diálogo inter-religioso ... Read more

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  • The Laughter of the Saints

    Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

    by Ryan D. Giles ...
    Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.The first full ... Read more

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  • Deu-lles o que merecian: Violence in the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by Jessica Knauss ...
    In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience even more than its original medieval one. This essay examines the lyrics and the miniatures of these songs in order to show how they illustrate the balance of power in thirteenth-century Spain. The role of ... Read more

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