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  • Following Franco

    Spanish culture and politics in transition

    by Duncan Wheeler ...
    The transition to democracy that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 was once hailed as a model of political transformation. But since the 2008 financial crisis it has come under intense scrutiny. Today, a growing divide exists between advocates of the Transition and those who see it as the source of Spain’s current socio-political bankruptcy. This book revisits the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

    The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen

    by Duncan Wheeler ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Calderón de la Barca

    by Professor Ignacio Arellano, Dr Oliver Noble Wood, Professor Santiago Fernández Mosquera, Ritchie Robertson, Duncan Wheeler, Professor Don Cruickshank, Jeremy Robbins, Dr Alejandro Garcia Reidy, Jeremy Lawrance, Colin Thompson, Professor Margaret R Greer, Dr Isabel Hernando ...
    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 playwright for much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

    Edited by Duncan Wheeler, Fernando Canet ...
    Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns – including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre and stardom in a transnational age – this reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012 brings leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

    $440.99 USD

  • Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World

    Prose, Photography, Film

    Edited by Nuala Finnegan, Dylan Brennan ...
    Series series Legenda
    Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire interest worldwide. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Lorca After Life

    by Noel Valis ...
    A reflection on Federico García Lorca’s life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world“A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca’s execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one.”—Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt UniversityThere is something fundamentally unfinished ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-century Mexican Literary Canon

    by Sarah E. L. Bowskill ...
    "The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation. Reviewers found what they were looking for in Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes's El indio (1935) for example, but not in Consuelo Delgados's Yo tambien, Adelita (1936). This groundbreaking study provides a fresh perspective on ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Catalonia

    Rebel Politics in Spain

    by Raphael Minder ...
    Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of force, Catalonia's governing politicians turned secessionist ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Octavio Paz

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

    $18.99 USD