Pepetela and the MPLA

Phillip Rothwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 36
• Angola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monum... Lees meer

Bodies of Disorder

Katharine Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 26
• Discourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterilit... Lees meer

Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet

Gisèle Earle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 31
• Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and s... Lees meer

The Modern Spanish Canon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 28
• In recent years, interdisciplinary and comparative outlooks, greatly facilitated by the advent of new technologies, have transformed the discipline of... Lees meer

From Doubt to Unbelief

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 42
• This volume delves into the question of how, in an Iberian world apparently far removed from the battlegrounds of modernity and secularisation, doubt ... Lees meer

The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 27
• Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel ( the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and gener... Lees meer

St Teresa of Ávila

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 19
• At a time when women were effectively silenced in church, St Teresa of Ávila (1515-82) represents an extraordinary exception. Early struggles with her... Lees meer

Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis

Luis Castellví Laukamp

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 38
• Analyses of early modern Latin American literature have often portrayed it either as a continuation of the Iberian tradition, or as a reaction against... Lees meer

Catalan Narrative 1875-2015

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 16
• Since 1714 Catalan culture has had a troubled relationship with the Spanish state, which sometimes tolerated and sometimes repressed it. Nevertheless ... Lees meer

Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature

Paul Humphrey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 12
• African-derived religious traditions like Santería and Vodou have long been a site of political, cultural and social resistance in the Caribbean. Thro... Lees meer

(Un)veiling Bodies

Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 20
• Documentary plays an essential role in the struggles over memories of Latin America's dictatorial pasts. Ever since Chile's military coup of 11 Septem... Lees meer

Contemporary Galician Women Writers

Catherine Barbour

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 39
• Galician literature has historically played an integral role in the consolidation of Galician identity. Yet female novelists writing in Galician have ... Lees meer

Catalan Narrative 1875-2015

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 16
• Since 1714 Catalan culture has had a troubled relationship with the Spanish state, which sometimes tolerated and sometimes repressed it. Nevertheless ... Lees meer

Novels of Carmen Laforet

Caragh Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 29
• Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 1921 - Madrid 2004) was one of Spain's most significant writers of the post-civil war period. Her debut novel Nada (1945) wo... Lees meer

Memory and Utopia

Manus O'Dwyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 44
• Lauded by many as one of twentieth-century Spain's greatest poets, José Ángel Valente (1929-2000) remains one of the defining, if at times divisive, f... Lees meer

José Saramago

Mark Sabine

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 23
• Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaime... Lees meer

Pepetela and the MPLA

Phillip Rothwell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 36
• Angola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monum... Lees meer

The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 27
• Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel ( the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and gener... Lees meer

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Jade Boyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 54
• Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of... Lees meer

Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia

Zeljko Jovanovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 41
• In the twentieth century, various Sephardic authors from the former Yugoslavia took upon themselves the task of revitalising different forms of Judeo-... Lees meer

José Saramago

Mark Sabine

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 23
• Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaime... Lees meer

The Cultural Legacy of María Zambrano

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 24
• The philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991) is one of the foremost Spanish intellectuals of the twentieth century. A disciple of Ortega y Gasset, she t... Lees meer

Cortázar and Music

Nicholas Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 25
• Music pervades the work of the Argentine author Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). From the classical strains of a Mozart string quartet to Carlos Gardel's i... Lees meer

Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet

Gisèle Earle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 31
• Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and s... Lees meer