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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “megan devirgilis”
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  • The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature

    A Critical Anthology of Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century Gothic-Inspired Tales

    Edited by Megan DeVirgilis ...
    Series series Gothic Originals
    This book exposes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hispanic authors broke from European and American Gothic models to contend with their own anxieties over modernity and rising first-wave feminisms. The result was a trend of sympathetic female vampires, predating comparable Anglo and European representations by several decades. In its analysis of the female vampire in Hispanic literature, the ... Read more

    $42.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas

    Edited by Megan DeVirgilis, Sandra García Gutiérrez ...
    This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined Gothic conventions, the book delves into the intersection of gender, culture, and fear. It highlights how themes such as domestic abuse, alienation, and death have been transformed over time, with ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema

    Screening Loss

    by Erica Joan Dymond, Aspen Taylor Ballas, Megan DeVirgilis, Racheal Harris, Lindsey Scott, Rebecca L. Willoughby, Andrija Filipovic, Michael Brown, Andrew Grossman, Todd K. Platts0 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the theme of grief as it is represented in both indie and mainstream films, including works such as Jennifer Kent's watershed film The Babadook, Juan Antonio Bayona's award-sweeping El orfanato, Ari Aster ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion

    by Marta Savigliano ...
    What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango's travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo. The author is an Argentinean political theorist and a dance professor at the University of California at Riverside. She uses ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Hilaire Kallendorf ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature

    by Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
    The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature traces the aesthetic and political development of the Gothic genre in Colombia. Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez shows how, in the hands of Colombian writers and filmmakers, Gothic tropes are taken to their extremes to reflect particularly Colombian issues, like the ongoing armed conflict in the country since the 1950s as various left wing guerillas, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The House of the Spirits with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, a sweeping narrative which chronicles the lives of three generations of the Trueba-del Valle family. As the members of this family grow older, fall in love, develop their own political ... Read more

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  • The Outward Path

    The Wisdom of the Aztecs

    by Sebastian Purcell ...
    A practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live.During the twilight decades of their empire, the learned ones among the Aztec filled numerous volumes with philosophical and ethical thought in testimony recorded by Spanish priests. However, these have been largely overlooked and Westerners often see Aztec culture as a matter for history, anthropology, and archaeology—not ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Frida Kahlo

    by Gannit Ankori ...
    Series Book 50 - Critical Lives
    Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was 22; he was 43. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who ‘dabbles in art’, she went on to produce brilliant paintings, but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Neobaroque in the Americas

    Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

    by Monika Kaup ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the ... Read more

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  • This I Believe

    An A to Z of a Life

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions.Arranged alphabetically from “Amore” to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD