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  • Inscribing Pilgrimage

    The Camino de Santiago and the Literary Imaginary

    by Rachel Schmidt, Martha García, Anne J. Cruz ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Inscribing Pilgrimage uncovers the diverse, multilingual literary tradition surrounding the Camino de Santiago, one of the three most prominent routes of Christian pilgrimage, which guides travelers across Europe to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Focusing mainly on literature about pilgrims and their journeys, including references to visual art and music, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Framing a Revolution

    Narrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War

    by Rachel Schmidt ...
    Rhetorical contests about how to frame a war run alongside many armed conflicts. With the rise of internet access, social media, and cyber operations, these propaganda battles have a wider audience than ever before. Yet, such framing contests have attracted little attention in scholarly literature. What are the effects of gendered and strategic framing in civil war? How do different types of ... Read more

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  • Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

    by Michael Eskin, Michael Everson, Victor Fet, Norbert Francis, Melissa Garr, David Gorman, Grant Hamilton, Ilya Kalinin, Basil Lvoff0, Alexander Markov1, Steven Mills2, Eric Naiman3, Annie Van den Oever4, Holger Pötzsch5, Rachel Schmidt6, Serguei Oushakine7, Dr. or Professor Slav Gratchev8 ...
    This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world—the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and China—in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Don Quixote

    The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

    by Eduardo Urbina, Bruce R. Burningham, Emilio Martínez Mata, Ricardo Castells, Rachel Schmidt, Stephen Hessel, S. Alleyn Smythe, J. A. Garrido Ardila, Victor Fet, Steven Ritz-Barr, Fernando González Moreno, Tatevik Gyulamiryan, William Childers, Margarita Marinova, Scott Pollard, Jonathan Wade, Roy H. Williams ...
    This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Forms of Modernity

    Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel

    by Rachel Schmidt ...
    It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Lectures on Don Quixote

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel ... Read more

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  • Food Matters

    Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain

    by Carolyn A. Nadeau ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”Through an inventive and original engagement with this text, Carolyn A. Nadeau explores the shifts in Spain’s cultural and gastronomic history. ... Read more

    $56.19 USD

  • Don Quixote Among the Saracens

    A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres

    by Frederick A. de Armas ...
    The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Narrating the Postcolonial Nation

    Mapping Angola and Mozambique

    Edited by Ana Mafalda Leite, Hilary Owen, Rita Chaves, Livia Apa ...
    Series Book 2 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other. The volume is oriented by three broad themes: the role of ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

    Edited by Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins ...
    Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars, all of which are focused on elucidating the Enlightenment and its characteristic manifestations in the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Terms of Response

    Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory

    by Robert Montgomery ...
    This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges Dumézil to be fundamental to the belief systems of widely distributed Indo-European peoples, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Idle Fictions

    The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934, Expanded edition

    by Gustavo Pérez Firmat ...
    The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class ... Read more

    $22.29 USD