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“simone pinet”

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  • The Task of the Cleric

    Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia

    by Simone Pinet ...
    Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political expansion.In The ... Read more

    $56.19 USD

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    A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    by Doyle Greene ...
    Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s. Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the "Wrestling Women," these low-budget ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Cultural Hermeneutics

    Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

    by Mario Valdes ...
    In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno and Ricoeur shared in their hermeneutic studies was a theory of interpretation in which the meaning of ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Epic of Juan Latino

    Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain

    by Elizabeth Wright ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his ... Read more

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  • Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power

    Empire’s Individuals

    by Daniel F. Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Barrios to Burbs

    The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class

    by Jody Vallejo ...
    Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbs offers a new understanding of the Mexican American ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • 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

    $69.19 USD

  • River of Hope

    Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands

    by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez ...
    In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation to state power, and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders neither ... Read more

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  • Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

    Edited by Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins ...
    Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars, all of which are focused on elucidating the Enlightenment and its characteristic manifestations in the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • After Translation

    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

    by Ignacio Infante ...
    Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Migration-Trust Networks

    Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration

    by Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal ...
    In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into the ways in which social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities and differences in networks for this group compared with other immigrants, and she identifies ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Inventing High and Low

    Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain

    by Stephanie Sieburth ...
    Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Why, then, does the opposition persist? In this book Sieburth questions the terms of this perennial debate and uncovers the deep cultural, economic, and psychological tensions that lead each ... Read more

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