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  • - Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    av Robert Patrick Newcomb
    815

    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.

  • av Catherine Infante
    495

    The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

  • av Jean Dangler
    1 095

    In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler proposes a combination of network theory by Manuel Castells and World-Systems Analysis as devised by Immanuel Wallerstein to show how network and system principles can be employed to conceptualize and analyze nonmodern Iberia.

  • - Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750
     
    775

    Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).

  • - Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia
    av Javier Irigoyen-Garcia
    789

    In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society.

  • - Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960-1975
    av Jorge Perez
    1 175

    In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

  • - Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
    av Elizabeth Wright
    695

    In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).

  • - Cervantes and the Literature of War
    av Stephen Rupp
    665

    In Cervantes and the Literature of War, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare.

  • av Christine Arkinstall
    1 135

    Arkinstall's study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the central role of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century democracy in Spain.

  • - A Discourse of Negotiation
    av Evelina Guzauskyte
    1 135

    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
    395 - 615

    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
    575,-

    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
    395,-

    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 E. Barnard
    829

    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
    845

    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 Enrique Fernandez
    775

    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.

  • - From Miguel de Unamuno to 'La Joven Literatura'
    av Leslie J. Harkema
    855

    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.

  • - Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
    av Jessica A. Boon
    815

    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
    935

    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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    515

    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
    1 219,-

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

  • - Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
    av Hilaire Kallendorf
    925

    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.

  • - Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
     
    1 165

    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.

  • - Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
    av Javier Irigoyen-Garcia
    1 229

    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
    709

    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
    665

    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
     
    1 235

    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
     
    1 799

    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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    419

    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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    789

    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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