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  • Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

    Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder

    by Jennifer Smith, Akiko Tsuchiya, Christine Arkinstall, Roberta Johnson, Susan M McKenna, Linda Willem, Denise DuPont, Rogelia Lily Ibarra, Neus Carbonell, Jo Labanyi0, Margot Versteeg1 ...
    This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Galdos

    by Jo Labanyi ...
    Series series Modern Literatures In Perspective
    Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period. Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-rangting introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Modern Literatures in Spain

    by Jo Labanyi, Luisa Elena Delgado, Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, Mari Jose Olaziregi ...
    Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures – Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque – from the eighteenth century to the present.Engaging critically with ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Spanish Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jo Labanyi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as 'Spanish ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mothers and Shadows

    by Marta Traba ...
    Translated by Jo Labanyi ...
    Acclaim for Mothers and Shadows:"In the silence after her death, her novel, full of voices as passionate as her own, is particularly precious ... The end of the story is wrenching; it invades the reader's space as the confrontational Dolores has invaded the falsely secure space of Irene, making it unsafe and real." The Village Voice"A high pitch of emotional intensity is sustained throughout." ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Companion to Spanish Cinema

    Edited by Jo Labanyi, Tatjana Pavlović ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives.Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays and original research by top international scholars from a variety of theoretical, ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

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  • Modern Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Practicing Mind

    Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life ? Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

    by Thomas M. Sterner ...
    Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If wed given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, wed never have learned to walk, tie our shoes, or ride a bike. So why, as adults, do we often throw in the towel when at first we dont succeed? Modern lifes technological speed, habitual multitasking, and promises of instant gratification dont help. But in his study of how we learn ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    A selection of prose by "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century . . . as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino" ( The Washington Post Book World).Building on the wonderful Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, which was acclaimed by Booklist as "a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century," translator Richard Zenith has now edited and translated ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadow of the Wind

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    Translated by Lucia Graves ...
    Series series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
    "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind**. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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