Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre (Continuum Shakespeare Studies)
by Keith Gregor
Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best and known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20...
Literatura Hispanoamericana Colonial (Hispanistische Studien,, #29)
by Zamir Bechara
El libro se propone basicamente presentar una panoramica de la produccion poetica de la Nueva Granada de los siglos XVII al XVIII. Para ello se centra no solo en ciertas personalidades y en su obra respectiva, sino tambien en el estudio de algunos temas literario-sociales, cuya comprension es imprescindible para contextualizar a los poetas tratados. Los temas en cuestion son: el criollismo, la fiesta, la poesia artificiosa, el trasmundo y el motivo de los bodegones literarios, todos ellos enmarc...
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)
by Daymond Turner
Published in 1966, this bibliography of Oviedo went far toward advancing factual knowledge about the life and works of a great writer who explored early sixteenth-century America and commented upon its flora and fauna and aboriginal Indian life.
La Imprenta y Las Letras En La Espana Romantica (Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics, #21)
by Lee Fontanella
Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century, as well as the first foreign correspondent for the Spanish press to be based in London. This book argues for the importance that his relationship with England had on both his intellectual trajectory and on the culture and politics of Spain during this time. Particular attention is devoted to Maeztu's London period (1905-1919), which provides a fascinatinginsight into how Spaniards of the time p...
Pablo Neruda (Modern Critical Views S., Series 2)
Each volume in this series contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom that places the author and the commentaries in context. The books aim to give critical portraits of the most important writers of modern Spain and Latin America.
El Dilema de La Nostalgia En La Peosia de Alberti (Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics, #10)
by Barbara Dale May
"Comedia" in the Age of Calderon (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, v. 70, No. 1.)
A "festschrift" in honour of Sir Albert Sloman, Gilmour Professor of Spanish in the University of Liverpool (1953-62) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex (1962-87), this volume contains a lengthy introduction about Sloman and thirteen specialist contributions on themes concerning drama in the time of Spain's most famous Golden-Age playwright, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Dramatists considered at length include Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Cubillo de Aragon, Jimenez de Enciso and Cald...
El Angel del Hogar (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)
by Bridget A. Aldaraca
Bridget Aldaraca breaks new ground in the study of women, ideology, and the realist novel. Her book explores the ideology of domestic life in Spain as it relates to changing concepts of the family, women's roles in society, the division of social space into private and public spheres, and attitudes toward conspicuous consumption, sexuality, mental illness, and other social themes. Aldaraca begins by examining texts from the time of the Spanish Counter-Reformation through the Spanish Enlightenme...
El Ni O Diablo (Ediciones Criticas - Juan de La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs)
by Luis Velez de Guevara
Civilisation and Authenticity (Latin America, #25) (Latin America: Interdisciplinary Studies, #25)
by Eugenia Demuro
The question "What is Latin America?" has been at the heart of writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this belies is the inherent question "What is Latin America compared to Europe?" This book lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin Americanist discourse through some of the continent's most influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Jose Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz,...
The Anthology in Portugal
by Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, Margarida Vale de Gato, and Maria de Sampaio
Following on from Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta's The Anthology in Portugal: A New Approach to the History of Portuguese Literature (2007), these new essays explore further the issues of reception, translation and canonicity. The three authors have produced complementary studies that focus on the role of anthologies in promoting international literary exchange, evaluate the relationship between the literary canon and literature at the margins, and flag up the importance of cover art in conditio...
The Cultural Legacy of Maria Zambrano (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, #24)
The Poetry and Poetics of Cesar Vallejo
Der Avantgardismus Ramon Gomez de la Sernas (Analecta Romanica, #29)
by Ronald Daus
This book breaks new ground in considering the nature and function of anthologies of poetry and short stories in twentieth-century Portugal. It tackles the main theoretical issues, identifies a significant body of critical writing on the relationship between anthologies, literary history and the canon, and proposes an approach that might be designated Descriptive Anthology Studies. The author aims to achieve a full understanding of the role of anthologies in the literary polysystem. Moreover, th...
Mexican Travel Writing (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, #9)
by Thea Pitman
This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then...
Perceptions Of Magic In Medieval Spanish Literature
by Jennifer M. Corry
Magic often offered an explanation for the inexplicable in the ancient world. In the Middle Ages, as society progressed and Christianity proliferated, it became difficult to accept both magical and Christian tenets. Christianity developed its own brand of magic, politicians found accusations of magical practice and witchcraft useful, and the image of the Devil and hell inspired much fear. The concept of witchcraft developed during the late Middle Ages where, in some countries such as Germany, a...