Unromantic Spain
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Unromantic Spain
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Author : Mario Praz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Unromantic Spain written by Mario Praz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Spain categories.
The Culture Of Cursiler A
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Author : Noël Valis
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-16
The Culture Of Cursiler A written by Noël Valis and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-16 with Social Science categories.
Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture. Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to argue that cursilería has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Spain. The Spain of this era, popularly viewed as the European power most resistant to economic and social modernization, is characterized by Valis as suffering from nostalgia for a bygone, romanticized society that structured itself on strict class delineations. With the development of an economic middle class during the latter half of the nineteenth century, these designations began to break down, and individuals across all levels of the middle class exaggerated their own social status in an attempt to protect their cultural capital. While the resulting manifestations of cursilería were often provincial, indeed backward, the concept was—and still is—closely associated with a sense of home. Ultimately, Valis shows how cursilería embodied the disparity between old ways and new, and how in its awkward manners, airs of pretension, and graceless anxieties it represents Spain's uneasy surrender to the forces of modernity. The Culture of Cursilería will interest students and scholars of Latin America, cultural studies, Spanish literature, and modernity.
The Alhambra
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Author : Robert Irwin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-06
The Alhambra written by Robert Irwin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Architecture categories.
The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have survived since the Middle Ages and has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure.
Here And Beyond
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Author : LIT Verlag
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Release Date : 2022-01-09
Here And Beyond written by LIT Verlag and has been published by LIT Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The chapters included in this volume examine a number of modern and contemporary travel and mobility narratives produced in the different languages of Iberia, whether they offer accounts of Iberia itself or portray other geographical or human contexts. Illustrating the diversity of forms characteristic of travel writing, the texts discussed in the book feature representations of travel and mobility as presented in novels, films and other literary and cultural manifestations such as comics, plays and journalistic chronicles. Additionally, the volume incorporates a section of creative responses to the tropes of travel and mobility by contemporary Iberian authors in English translation. Thus, the book provides critical accounts of and creative insights into a tradition that has produced canonical texts, but also unorthodox, complex and challenging narratives, particularly in more recent times. Dr Helena Buffery is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College Cork (Ireland). Dr Sergi Mainer is Teaching Fellow in Spanish at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). Dr David Miranda-Barreiro is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Bangor University (Wales). Dr Martín Veiga is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College Cork (Ireland) and Director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies./i>
A Comparative History Of Literatures In The Iberian Peninsula
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Author : Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010
A Comparative History Of Literatures In The Iberian Peninsula written by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda."A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
Anglo American Hispanists And The Spanish Civil War
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Author : S. Faber
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-08-04
Anglo American Hispanists And The Spanish Civil War written by S. Faber and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-04 with History categories.
In this book, Faber assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life's work.
El Nica And Don Antonio
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Author : Edward Loomis
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2000-11-16
El Nica And Don Antonio written by Edward Loomis and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-16 with Poetry categories.
The book gathers the work of two eminent writers with a view to making a window on Spain and Latin America as they were at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. These were two very different writers; but they knew and admired each other's writing. The Nicaraguan was a little older (born in 1967, while A.M. was born in 1875), and since he got an early start as a writer, his work was available to Machado. They belong together partly because they are so very different--together they give an idea of what was happening in the literary and intellectual worlds of Spain and Latin America. Included here are "Colloquy of the Centaurs" and "Epistle", two long poems by Daro; and "The Land of Alvargonzalez", by Machado, perhaps his best known work, and his longest in the poetic form. The translations are from Spanish into English free verse, which is rather nicely adapted to this purpose, being noticeably not prose, yet not heavily burdened with prosodic enterprises. The attempt is to offer some good things by these authors, thus encouraging readers to take up the originals, which are very nice, very nice.
A Companion To Hemingway S Death In The Afternoon
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Author : Miriam B. Mandel
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2009
A Companion To Hemingway S Death In The Afternoon written by Miriam B. Mandel and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Collections categories.
New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim for his short stories and novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he now risked his career by switching from fiction to nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from exotic and romantic settings to the tough world of theSpanish bullring, a world that might seem frightening and even repellant to those who do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed, a state of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new ground by applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough, balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with: the composition, reception, and sources of Death in the Afternoon; cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and paratextual matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience, and the literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors to the volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype of Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate that Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular national art, discusses matters of universal concern. Contributors: Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony Brand, Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon. MiriamB. Mandel teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv University.
The Bit Between My Teeth
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Author : Edmund Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2019-11-12
The Bit Between My Teeth written by Edmund Wilson and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 collects Edmund Wilson's masterful essays written during a fifteen year span. Originally published in leading periodicals like the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker, this collection features literary criticism, essays, and reviews by Wilson on F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, James Branch Cabell, Marquis de Sade, and more.
The Cultural Moment In Tourism
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Author : Laurajane Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012
The Cultural Moment In Tourism written by Laurajane Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume provides a theoretical and empirical account of what it means to be a cultural tourist and a creative and affective user of heritage itself, by exploring the interactions of people with places, spaces and different ways of life.