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  • A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

    by Xon de Ros, Jessamy Harvey, Joanna Evans, Joyce Tolliver, Laura Lonsdale, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Louise M Haywood, Professor Margaret R Greer, Maria Ana Beatriz Masera Cerutti, Mónica Bolufer Peruga0, Nieves Baranda1, Geraldine Hazbun3, Roberta Quance4, Rosanna Cantavella5, Susan Kirkpatrick6, Alexander W Samson7, Professor Andrew M. Beresford8, Carmen Fracchia9, Frances Lannon0, Georgina Dopico-Black1, Helena Buffery2 ...
    After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In the Light of Contradiction

    Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca

    by Roberta Ann Quance ...
    In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

    by María Mercedes Andrade, Kelly Austin, Shelley Garrigan, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Fernando Pérez, Andrew Reynolds, Javier Uriarte, Olga Vilella ...
    From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

    by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater ... Read more

    $61.99 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

    $19.49 USD

  • The Complete Poetry

    A Bilingual Edition

    by César Vallejo ...
    This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • 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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