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Rewriting the Italian Novella in Counter-Reformation Spainby Carmen R. Rabell
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 85.00As they reshaped the Italian novella during the Counter-Reformation, Spanish narrators labelled their texts as exemplary. However, critics have usually agreed that there is a contradiction between the morals preached in the narrative frames, prologues and sententiae of Spanish novellas and the content of the plots. Rabell sees this ambiguity as a result of the use of the rhetoric of the fictitious case: Spanish novellas rewrite the Italian genre with the specific purpose of either challenging or validating the rules and regulations of Counter-Reformation Spain. more...
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...
R.S.Thomasby Christopher Morgan
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95Christopher Morgan writes with critical insight on the poet R.S. Thomas. This text recontextualizes and reinterprets the poet's themes of self, nature and the search for deity and investigates Thomas's preoccupation with the philosophical and practical implications of science and technology. more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novelby Harriet Turner; Adelaida López de Martínez
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00Contributors to this volume examine the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, offers a survey of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it. 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...
Isabel Rulesby Barbara F. Weissberger
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 75.00As queen of Spain, Isabel I of Castile (Isabella the Catholic) laid the foundations for its emergence as the largest empire the West has ever known. This is the first book to examine the formation of the queen?s image, focusing on strategies used to cope with the dissonance created by the combination of her gender and her patriarchal political program. more...
Covert Gesturesby Vincent Barletta
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 60.00Covert Gestures reveals how the traditional Islamic narratives of the moriscos both shaped and encoded a wide range of covert social activity characterized by a profound and persistent concern with time and temporality. Using a unique blend of literary analysis, linguistic anthropology, and phenomenological philosophy, Vincent Barletta explores the narratives as testimonials of past human experiences and discovers in them evidence of community resistance. more...
Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic Worldby Jerry Hoeg; Kevin S. Larsen
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion. The relations between science and literature have been and continue to be central to understanding Hispanic civilization and culture. In spite of this, "Science, Literature, and Film in the Spanish-Speaking World" is the first and only book to treat this new and dynamic field from an Hispanic perspective. This unique volume opens the door to an entirely new focus in the study of Hispanic literature and culture. 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...