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Mimesis and Empireby Barbara Fuchs; Stephen Orgel
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 35.00Explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The author considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy. more...
Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spainby Joan F. Cammarata
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95''The questions and approaches . . . really get my respect by the way they are argued. Some of these essays will spark controversy as to method; all of them will make changes in the way we teach the Spanish classics and in what classics we do teach. more...
Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticismby Antonio Gómez-Moriana
University of Minnesota Press 1993; US$ 70.50Gómez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazirillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina?s Don Juan play, and Columbus?s Diary. more...
Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spainby Silvia L. Lopez; Jenaro Talens; Dario Villanueva
University of Minnesota Press 1990; US$ 57.00Offers a sampling of Spanish critical work in literary theory and cultural studies. more...
De Spaanse Gouden Eeuw in honderd sonnettenby Dolf Verspoor
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 29.25Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gabriel Bocángel, Calderón de la Barca en natuurlijk Francisco de Quevedo, het is maar een greep uit de meesterdichters van wie werk in De Spaanse Gouden Eeuw in honderd sonnetten is opgenomen. Nijhoffprijswinnaar Dolf Verspoor nam van in totaal dertig bekende en minder bekende auteurs uit de Spaanse renaissance en barok herdichtingen op. Naast vele nieuwe vertalingen,waaraan Verspoor tot het eind van zijn leven heeft gewerkt, bevat de bundel zijn twee eerdere bundels sonnetten van Quevedo. Het geheel biedt een doorsnede van de poëzie van begin zestiende tot eind zeventiende eeuw die zowel recht doet aan de klassieke kwaliteit als aan de eigentijdse invalshoeken: even vaak als deze sonnetten persoonlijk zijn, zijn ze... more...
The Theater of Truthby William Egginton
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 55.00The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. more...
Postmodernity in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Cultureby Yaw Agawu-Kakraba
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 85.00Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture attempts a concise approach to the question of postmodernity in Spain since the advent of democracy. more...
Roles de género y cambio social en la Literatura española del siglo XXby Pilar Nieva-de la Paz
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 88.20La relevancia que tiene actualmente en nuestras sociedades el avance de la igualdad de género justifica la necesidad de indagar en los procesos históricos y culturales que dan cuenta de cómo ha transcurrido el avance de las mujeres en su camino hacia la emancipación. Los ensayos publicados en este volumen muestran la relevancia de la recreación literaria de los roles de género en la configuración de la sociedad española a lo largo del siglo XX. Los cambios y permanencias en la definición de la identidad femenina son objeto de reflexión por parte de reconocidos especialistas en el ámbito de los Estudios de Género y el Hispanismo internacional. Se abordan en ellos cuestiones fundamentales... more...
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experienceby Benjamin Fraser
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2011; US$ 69.99Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products?from urban plans and short writing on the urban expereince during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even te apperance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent videogames. more...
The Changing Spanish Familyby Tiffany Trotman
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 55.00Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A decline in the dominance of extended families, the upswing in single-parent households, and an increase in the number of working mothers have all transformed what it means to be a "Spanish family." Many factors have prompted this change, including the end of Franco's dictatorship, the liberalization of society, economic reforms, Spanish feminism, and recent Socialist constitutional reforms recognizing the rights of same-sex partners. This collection of essays examines how authors, filmmakers and playwrights are engaging with changes to Spanish culture, exploring the very redefining of Spanish... more...









