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Melancholy Void - Lyric And Masculinity In The Age Of Gongora

by Felipe Valencia

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 Felipe Valencia examines the construction of lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sings of and perpetrates symbolic violence against the feminine and the female beloved in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.
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Docu-Fictions Of War - U.S. Interventionism In Film And Literature

by Tatiana Prorokova

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 Argues that war fiction offers a kind of history that both documents its subjects and provides a snapshot of the cultural representation of the United States' most recent military involvements. Tatiana Prorokova covers a largely neglected body of cinematic and literary texts to open a fresh analysis of cultural texts on war.
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The Glass Globe - Poems

by Margaret Gibson

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 With The Glass Globe, poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her late husband's Alzheimer's disease. In this new collection, she blends elegies of personal bereavement with elegies for the earth during the ongoing global crisis wrought by climate change.
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Women, Witchcraft, And The Inquisition In Spain And The New World

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 Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects’ social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.
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Women, Witchcraft, And The Inquisition In Spain And The New World

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 Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. The collection gathers scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.
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Millennial Cervantes - New Currents In Cervantes Studies

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 Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in order to showcase their cutting-edge work within a cultural studies frame that encompasses everything from ekphrasis to philosophy, from sexuality to Cold War political satire, and from the culinary arts to the digital humanities.Millennial Cervantes is divided into three sets of essays-conceptually organized around thematic and methodological lines that move outward in a series of concentric circles. The first group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in his original contexts, features essays that bring new insights to these texts within the primary context of early modern Iberian culture. The second group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in comparative contexts, features essays that examine Cervantess works in conjunction with those of the English-speaking world, both seventeenth- and twentieth-century. The third group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in wider cultural contexts, examines Cervantess works-principally Don Quixote-as points of departure for other cultural products and wider intellectual debates. This collection articulates the state of Cervantes studies in the first two decades of the new millennium as we move further into a century that promises both unimagined technological advances and the concomitant cultural changes that will naturally adhere to this new technology, whatever it may be.
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Talking Books With Mario Vargas Llosa - A Retrospective

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 This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa's visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.
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Geographies Of Urban Female Labor And Nationhood In Spanish Culture, 1880-1975

by Mar Soria

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 Mar Soria presents an innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films. Drawing from nation-building theories, the work of feminist geographers, and ideas about the construction of the marginal subject in society, Soria examines how working women were perceived as Other in Spain from 1880 to 1975. By studying the representation of these marginalized individuals in a diverse array of cultural artifacts, Soria contends that urban women workers symbolized the desires and anxieties of a nation caught between traditional values and rapidly shifting socioeconomic forces. Specifically, the representation of urban female work became a mode of reinforcing and contesting dominant discourses of gender, class, space, and nationhood in critical moments after 1880, when social and economic upheavals resulted in fears of impending national instability. Through these cultural artifacts Spaniards wrestled with the unresolved contradictions in the gender and class ideologies used to construct and maintain the national imaginary. ? Whether for reasons of inattention or disregard of issues surrounding class dynamics, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary and cultural critics have assumed that working women played only a minimal role in the development of Spain as a modern nation. As a result, relatively few critics have investigated cultural narratives of female labor during this period. Soria demonstrates that without considering the role working women played in the construction and modernization of Spain, our understanding of Spanish culture and life at that time remains incomplete.
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Geographies Of Urban Female Labor And Nationhood In Spanish Culture, 1880-1975

by Mar Soria

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 Mar Soria presents an innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films. Drawing from nation-building theories, the work of feminist geographers, and ideas about the construction of the marginal subject in society, Soria examines how working women were perceived as Other in Spain from 1880 to 1975. By studying the representation of these marginalized individuals in a diverse array of cultural artifacts, Soria contends that urban women workers symbolized the desires and anxieties of a nation caught between traditional values and rapidly shifting socioeconomic forces. Specifically, the representation of urban female work became a mode of reinforcing and contesting dominant discourses of gender, class, space, and nationhood in critical moments after 1880, when social and economic upheavals resulted in fears of impending national instability. Through these cultural artifacts Spaniards wrestled with the unresolved contradictions in the gender and class ideologies used to construct and maintain the national imaginary. ? Whether for reasons of inattention or disregard of issues surrounding class dynamics, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary and cultural critics have assumed that working women played only a minimal role in the development of Spain as a modern nation. As a result, relatively few critics have investigated cultural narratives of female labor during this period. Soria demonstrates that without considering the role working women played in the construction and modernization of Spain, our understanding of Spanish culture and life at that time remains incomplete.
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Supernatural Sublime - The Wondrous Ineffability Of The Everyday In Films From Mexico And Spain

by Claudia Schaefer e Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez

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 Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation.
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Supernatural Sublime - The Wondrous Ineffability Of The Everyday In Films From Mexico And Spain

by Claudia Schaefer e Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez

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 Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation.
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Caught Between The Lines - Captives, Frontiers, And National Identity In Argentine Literature And Art

by Carlos Riobo

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 Examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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Image Of Elizabeth I In Early Modern Spain

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 Explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign.
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Paradoxes Of Stasis - Literature, Politics, And Thought In Francoist Spain

by Tatjana Gajic

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 Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regimes supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajic analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajic argues that the combination of Francoisms long duration and the uncertainty surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regimes politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres-legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir-Gajic examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the Francoist era in the context of the regimes attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers critiques of Francoisms endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.
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Hearing Voices - Aurality And New Spanish Sound Culture In Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

by Sarah Finley

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 Takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz (1648/51-95). Hearing Voices highlights the importance of sound and - in most cases - its relationship with gender in Sor Juana's work and early modern culture.
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Hercules And The King Of Portugal - Icons Of Masculinity And Nation In Calderon'S Spain

by Dian Fox-Hindley

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 Investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.
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Caught Between The Lines - Captives, Frontiers, And National Identity In Argentine Literature And Art

by Carlos Riobo

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 Examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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Hercules And The King Of Portugal - Icons Of Masculinity And Nation In Calderon'S Spain

by Dian Fox-Hindley

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.
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Hearing Voices - Aurality And New Spanish Sound Culture In Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

by Sarah Finley

50,79€ + 10% CARD

 Takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz (1648/51-95). Hearing Voices highlights the importance of sound and - in most cases - its relationship with gender in Sor Juana's work and early modern culture.
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Paradoxes Of Stasis - Literature, Politics, And Thought In Francoist Spain

by Tatjana Gajic

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers following the Spanish Civil War: the regimes supporters and its opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajic analyzes the internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajic argues that the combination of Francoisms long duration and the uncertainty surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in the regimes politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of genres-legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir-Gajic examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the Francoist era in the context of the regimes attempts at reform and consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers critiques of Francoisms endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.
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Image Of Elizabeth I In Early Modern Spain

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 Explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign.
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Wildlife Of Nebraska - A Natural History

by Paul A. Johnsgard

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Paradoxes Of Stasis - Literature, Politics, And Thought In Francoist Spain

by Tatjana Gajic

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Society Women And Enlightened Charity In Spain - The Junta De Damas De Honor Y Merito, 1787-1823

by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, Gloria Espigado Tocino, Gloria Franco Rubio, Maria Victoria Lopez-Cordon Cortezo, Monica Bolufer Peruga, Monica Burguera Lopez e Paloma Fernandez Quintanilla

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 In original essays drawn, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Merito, founded in 1787, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.
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