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  • Critical Approaches to Rubén Darío

    by Keith Ellis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Rubén Darío (1867-1916) of Nicaragua was the leader of the important Latin American literary movement known as Modernism. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Latin American literature, and the volume of writings devoted to his work since 1884 is perhaps greater than that on any other writer in the history of Spanish American literature. The celebration in 1967 of the centenary of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • All the Good Pilgrims

    Tales of the Camino de Santiago

    by Robert Ward ...
    Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de Santiago, Ward fell in love with the pace, landscape, history, art, and romance of this old pilgrimage path. Above all, however, Ward fell in love with the people ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blindness by José Saramago (Book Analysis)

    Complete Summary and Book Analysis

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Blindness tells the story of a group of people who, for some unknown reason, suddenly lose their sight. They are all sent to an asylum where the inmates quickly turn to violence and force to get what they want. As tensions grow and people become increasingly dehumanised, everybody wants to escape. But without knowing ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz

    Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes

    by Michelle Reichert ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    Chrétien de Troyes uses repeated references to Spain throughout his romances; despite past suggestions that they contain Mozarabic and Islamic themes and motifs, these references have never been commented upon. The book will demonstrate that these allusions to Spain occur at key moments in the romances, and are often coupled with linguistic riddles which serve as roadmaps to the manner in which ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • In Her Words

    Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes

    by Margaret H. Persin, Jasmina Arsova, Mark Bajus, Catherine G. Bellver, Douglas K. Benson, Brenda Cappuccio, Elena Castro, Carys Evans-Corrales, Salvador J. Fajardo, Mary Makris, Martha LaFollette Miller, Sharon Keefe Ugalde, Reyes Vila-Belda, John C. Wilcox ...
    During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Cultural Hermeneutics

    Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

    by Mario Valdes ...
    In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno and Ricoeur shared in their hermeneutic studies was a theory of interpretation in which the meaning of ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

    by Mary E Barnard ...
    Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Modernism and the New Spain

    Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

    by Gayle Rogers ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse for interwar literary modernism and for new conceptions of cosmopolitanism. Drawing on works in a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Miguel de Cervantes

    The father of Don Quixote

    by 50Minutes ...
    Series series Art & Literature
    Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide!Miguel de Cervantes is often considered to be the greatest Spanish-language writer of all time, and continues to inspire writers over 400 years after his death. He is best known for his monumental novel Don Quixote, but ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en literatura y cine postdictatorial

    Eltit, Fuguet, "Johnny cien pesos" de Graef-Marino y "Machuca"de Wood

    by Moisés Park ...
    Series Book 228 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado de Pinochet como opresivo y traumático, están directamente ligados a la construcción de una cultura de consumo y explotación ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Magellan Fallacy

    Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

    by Adam Lifshey ...
    Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa.The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centers and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through archival research and comparative ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD