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This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the world of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), one of the most fascinating and complex figures in European literary modernism and the avant-garde. Raised in South Africa and writing much of his literary...

Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a...

Distinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are...

The first major work of literature written in Catalan and arguably the first European novel. The Romance of Evast and Blaquerna is a novel in which Ramon Llull rebelled against secular literature of chivalry and the court in general, which was so...

Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's...

Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain's own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in...

“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and...

In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535 from the neighborhood of ruined Carthage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251966Author Katarzyna BeilinFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Although seven volumes of his poetry are available in Spanish, the work of Angel Gonzalez has not been widely translated into English. This bilingual edition, introduced by the poet, presents selections from Palabra sobre palabra (Word upon Word), his...

Cambridge Assessment International Education promociona este recurso para respaldar totalmente la programacion didatica del examen de 2022.Este curso ofrece un enfoque por temas que guia al estudiante por medio de practicos consejos y claras...

A masterpiece of ethnographic observation on seventeenth-century Spain. While mysteries remain in her biography, Madame d'Aulnoy's tremendous literary talent is finally being rediscovered. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d'Aulnoy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820470931Author L. A. MurilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 390g

Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most...

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814950367Author Zavier JepsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Jw ChoicesPublisher Jw ChoicesWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

How were Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures depicted in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography during the Rif War and what did this portrayal reveal about conflicting visions of Spanish identity? Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934768921Author Luis Velez de GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint StockceroPublisher StockceroWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of...

Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), an influential journalist, socio-political activist, and a key literary figure in the cultural ferment of pre-war Madrid, is currently being rediscovered, having languished in a long and regrettable oblivion during the...

A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of `The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide range of...

First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de VillagrÁ, Mexican-born captain under...

Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernandez unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.The terms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461755Author Claire LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 250g

Universally proclaimed as the most important Spanish playwright of the last half of the twentieth century, Antonio Buero Vallejo was deemed by a Madrid theater critic to be the greatest author of theater since Calderon de la Barca. This book explores ten...

Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernandez unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence on the Catholic Church in the New World. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252949Author Jose Luis VenegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880013680Author Norman Thomas Di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254059Author Juan J Colomina-AlminanaFormat PaperbackImprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838753781Author Julie JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256763Author Jodie ParysFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the works of...

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523688Author Antonio TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880029Author Melanie HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322914Author Sizen YiacoupFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973250Author Anatole FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357977326Author Gustave FlaubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541605Author Dorothee BoulangerFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 13mm