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  • Jesuit Education at the Crossroads

    Discussions on Contemporary Jesuit Primary and Secondary Schools in North and Latin America

    by Joseph Fichter, Luiz Fernando Klein, Charles Beirne, María del Socorro Gutiérrez, John Swope, Juan Luis Orozco, Vincent Duminuco, Pablo Sada, Claude Pavur, John O’Malley, Cristóbal Madero, Daniel Araneda, Cristián Cox, Encarna Rodríguez, Kristin Ross Cully, Jorge Radic, Esteban Ocampo, Sajit Kabadi, Camilo Arciniegas Pradilla, Jose Bento da Silva, Jorge Enrique Vargas, Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, Dennis Shirley ...
    The Jesuit educational tradition has existed for more than 450 years, and today, there are more than 150 Jesuit primary and secondary schools in North and Latin America. Jesuit Education at the Crossroads tackles the lack of research on these schools by bringing together scattered studies and asking experts on the issues about the current challenges for Jesuit education. The landscape pictured by ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • The Refracted Muse

    Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain

    by Enrique García Santo-Tomás ...
    Translated by Vincent Barletta ...
    Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo ... Read more

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    STATE AND REVOLUTION, THE

    by MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU ...
    Narrated by VINCENT WILKINS ...

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    4 hours 9 min

    This work was written by Lenin on the eve of the triumph of the Russian Revolution. In it, he developed the practical bases of the dictatorship of the proletariat, denouncing what he understood as the fraudulent character of bourgeois democracy and exposing the conditions for the extinction of the State and all forms of oppression. ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Juan Rulfo

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    Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero Wars and within the interlinking currents of specifically national ... Read more

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  • Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

    by Rubén Darío ...
    Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry*.* Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and ... Read more

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  • Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts

    by Rolando Pérez ...
    Series Book 53 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría, René Prieto, Gustavo Guerrero, and other reputable scholars. Missing, however, from what is ... Read more

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  • Inca Garcilaso and Contemporary World-Making

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén, Christian Fernández ...
    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a ... Read more

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  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

    Edited by Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, Manuel Delgado Morales ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies. ... Read more

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  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the ... Read more

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