Spanish & Portuguese 22

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the E……続きを見る

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational……続きを見る

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This bo……続きを見る

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that goes beyond the printed codex? This book is an atte……続きを見る

La violencia en el continente americano desde el río Bravo a las Malvinas. ¿Una semilla latente? nos acerca a diferentes manifestaciones literarias alrededor de la violencia que surgen de la producc……続きを見る

El reinado de Carlos II (1665-1700) se ha visto como un periodo decadente en lo social y cultural. La situación fue, en realidad, mucho más compleja, necesitada por tanto de una aproximación más ate……続きを見る

This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today’s "fake news." Parker Ar……続きを見る

Este libro reúne a investigadores de varios países y propone una serie de asedios a un fenómeno muy notorio de las letras áureas: la polémica en torno a los poemas mayores de Luis de Góngora. Sin li……続きを見る

A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621)……続きを見る

The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. T……続きを見る

Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional entre as partes da obra, ilustrado. Formato Epub3. *** Lançamento da 1. Edição Setembro/2015 - Texto revisado e conforme novo acordo ortográfico de ……続きを見る

Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional (índice ativo) entre as partes da obra, ilustrado. Formato Epub3. *** Lançamento da 1. Edição Setembro/2015 - Texto revisado e conforme novo acordo ……続きを見る

Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional (índice ativo) entre as partes da obra, ilustrado. Formato Epub3. *** Lançamento da 1. Edição Setembro/2015 - Texto revisado e conforme novo acordo ……続きを見る

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As……続きを見る

Miguel de Cervantes es, sin lugar a dudas, el escritor más célebre de habla hispana. Su obra se enmarca en el contexto del Siglo de Oro español, el momento de máximo esplendor de las artes en España……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide! Miguel de Cervan……続きを見る

In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience eve……続きを見る

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 r……続きを見る

In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised and yet remains connected to the clas……続きを見る

Feted by his contemporaries, Federico García Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936: poet, playwright, political martyr, gay icon, champion of women, defender of the oppressed. This b……続きを見る

Este libro analiza un corpus de textos épicos y propagandísticos que se escriben en las fronteras del imperio español en el siglo XVI. Examina la representación del conflicto religioso en Inglaterra……続きを見る

Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 chronicles the rise of one of the modern world's first black classical actors, as he ascended from an impoverished childhood in New York City to a career as ……続きを見る

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious……続きを見る

As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cul……続きを見る

Inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion of constellation, this book draws on theories of Latin American modernity to investigate the Spanish literary Baroque and its repetitions as a historical-cultura……続きを見る

An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the ut……続きを見る

For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took ……続きを見る

Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as entertaining propaganda that channelled the emotions and beliefs of the masses into mechanisms for social control. This book questions such……続きを見る

Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize This book examines how anxieties about colonial power and national identity are reflected in Spanish literature, journalism, and pho……続きを見る

Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing ……続きを見る