At the Margins of the Renaissance

Giancarlo Maiorino

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• Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces th... Lees meer

Don Juan and the Point of Honor

James Mandrell

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• In Don Juan and the Point of Honor , James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. On ... Lees meer

Stages of Desire

Michael Kidd

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• Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of select... Lees meer

The Poetics of Empire in the Indies

James Nicolopulos

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• In The Poetics of Empire in the Indies , James Nicolopulos investigates literary representations of sixteenth-century Iberian colonialism and imperial... Lees meer

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Anthony J Cascardi

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• Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban soc... Lees meer

Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in "Celestina"

James F Burke

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• The plot of the late-medieval Spanish work Celestina (1499) centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the fascinating character of thei... Lees meer

Unfinished Revolutions

Robert T. Denomme, Roland H. Simon

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• These essays illustrate the theme of "unfinished revolution" in modern France from a variety of historical perspectives, all showing how the Revolutio... Lees meer

Allegories of Kingship

Stephen Rupp

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• This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), the major dramatist of the mi... Lees meer

Unfinished Revolutions

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• These essays illustrate the theme of "unfinished revolution" in modern France from a variety of historical perspectives, all showing how the Revolutio... Lees meer

The Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet

Phyllis Zatlin

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• Despite Eduardo Manet's impressive accomplishments extending over half a century, this extraordinarily talented Cuban-French author remains relatively... Lees meer

Discourses of Empire

Barbara Simerka

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• The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign... Lees meer

Refiguring the Hero

Dian Fox

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• Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of then-contempory idea... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel

Danielle Marx-Scouras

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• Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Que l quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversi... Lees meer

Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision

Ricardo Castells

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• The late medieval masterpiece Celestina has long been the focus of controversy, over both its authorship and the apparent contradictions and inconsist... Lees meer

Adventures in Paradox

Charles D Presberg

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• Cervantes's Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursu... Lees meer

Grotesque Purgatory

Henry Sullivan

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• Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote is a diptych, the first part of which was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. Focusing almost entirely on th... Lees meer

Medieval Spanish Epic

Thomas Montgomery

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• This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the or... Lees meer

Spanish Comedy and Historical Contexts in the 1620s

William R. Blue

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• This work covers 20 Spanish plays of the 1620s, looking at their historical and cultural contexts. The book examines how the plays encourage a new und... Lees meer

Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men

Margaret Greer

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• María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), wh... Lees meer