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  • - Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
    av Hilaire Kallendorf
    903,-

    In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.

  • av Enrique Fernandez
    801,-

    This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.

  • - A Discourse of Negotiation
    av Evelina Guzauskyte
    1 004,-

    In this fascinating book, Evelina Guzauskyte 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.

  • - Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
    av Margaret Boyle
    373 - 598,-

    In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.

  • - Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror
    av Stephanie Sieburth
    514,-

    Stephanie Sieburth's Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime's dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

  • av Susan Byrne
    373,-

    Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.

  • av Mary Barnard
    817,-

    These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads.

  • - Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
    av Nil Santianez
    830,-

    Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing - essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs - represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.

  • av Anthony J. Cascardi
    444,-

    Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers.

  • av Susan Byrne
    1 065,-

    In Ficino in Spain, Susan Byrne uses textual and bibliographic evidence to show the pervasive impact of Ficino's writings and translations on the Spanish Renaissance.

  • av Enrique Fernandez
    763,-

    Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self.

  • - Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    av Robert Patrick Newcomb
    797,-

    Robert Patrick Newcomb's Iberianism and Crisis examines how prominent peninsular essay writers and public intellectuals who were active around the turn of the twentieth century looked to Iberianism to address a succession of political, economic, and social crises that shook the Spanish and Portuguese states to their foundations.

  • - Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
    av Jessica A. Boon
    797,-

    Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an 'embodied soul' for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.

  • - Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain
    av Faith S. Harden
    819,-

    Arms and Letters is the first study in English dedicated to the literary and cultural analysis of early modern Spanish military autobiographical texts.

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    480,-

    A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, territories of Span, and the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia, from the eighteenth century to the present day.

  • - The Life and Times of Infante Manuel of Castile
    av Richard Kinkade
    1 195,-

    This highly original biography of Infante Manuel offers an intriguing and alternative perspective on one of the most turbulent eras of medieval Spain.

  • - Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature
    av Ryan D. Giles
    1 041,-

    In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain.

  • - Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
     
    1 028,-

    A surfeit of tropes about love exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes. This book provides a pioneering look at the rich array of ways in which Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic.

  • - Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination
    av William R. Viestenz
    1 065,-

    Using Franco's Spain and la Espana sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity's own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.

  • - Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
    av Javier Irigoyen-Garcia
    1 090,-

    Irigoyen-Garcia provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.

  • - Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean
    av Paul Michael Johnson
    691,-

    By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author's writing and the Mediterranean region at large.

  • av David A. Wacks
    651,-

    Medieval Iberian authors adapted French crusader culture to give voice to their own reality, shaped by domestic military conflict with Islam and an obsession with the conversion of subject Muslims and Jews.

  • - History and Representation
     
    1 209,-

    Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain's unique relationship to this turbulent historical period.

  • - Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
     
    1 275,-

    Written by the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, the essays in Imagined Truths provide an analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.

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    378,-

    This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

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    770,-

    This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

  • - Literary and Musical Interludes
    av Nelson R. Orringer
    1 312,-

    Lorca in Tune with Falla is the first book to trace Lorca's impact on Falla's music, and Falla's influence on Lorca's writings.

  • - Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition
    av Sarah Thomas
    1 053,-

    Examining films from several genres by key directors of the Transition, Inhabiting the In-Between explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles.

  • - Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015
    av Sara J. Brenneis
    480 - 969,-

    By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.

  • - From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
    av Leslie J. Harkema
    837,-

    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.

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