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  • The Discourse of Flanerie in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Texts

    by Richard Sperber ...
    Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin have shown that flanerie is anything but an aimless stroll. Walking through London, Paris, and Berlin entailed engagements with the latest modernity. Thought-provoking, exhilarating, and at times terrifying: flanerie adjusted to and documented the mobility of modernity, its aesthetic possibilities and social risks. Antonio Muñoz Molina is ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Intertextual Exoticism

    Oceania and Colonial Loss in Early Twentieth-Century German Literature

    by Dr. or Prof. Richard Sperber ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces.Many readers are familiar with late ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • Don Quixote (Zongo Classics)

    by Miguel de Cervantes ...
    This is the story that a Nobel Prize Committee survey of one hundred of the world's best writers named "the greatest book of all time." DON QUIXOTE is the biggest-selling book of fiction ever written. It has sold more than 500 million copies. "There is nothing more profound or powerful than this piece of fiction. It is still the finest and greatest expression of human thought, the most bitter ... Read more

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  • They Need Nothing

    Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period

    by Robert Richmond Ellis ...
    The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and ... Read more

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  • Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth

    From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'

    by Leslie J. Harkema ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Harkema argues for the prominent role played by Miguel de Unamuno—as a poet, essayist, and public figure—in Spanish writers’ response to ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Parables of Coercion

    Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

    by Seth Kimmel ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but ... Read more

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  • Imperial Lyric

    New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain

    by Leah Middlebrook ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings of representative poems by eight Peninsular writers, Imperial Lyric demonstrates that the lyric ... Read more

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  • José Bergamín

    A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936

    by Nigel Dennis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This book represents the first attempt to come to terms with that work.Professor Dennis's study focuses on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders

    Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain

    by Raquel Vega-Durán ...
    Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and Africa. In the last twenty-five years, Spain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women

    by Sarah Leggott ...
    Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual and collective past. It discusses the different narrative models and strategies used in these ... Read more

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  • Constructing Spain

    The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003

    by Nathan Richardson ...
    Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially ... Read more

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  • Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504)

    A Discourse of Negotiation

    by Evelina Guzauskyte ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants.Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain. Instead, she argues that they were the result of the collisions ... Read more

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