A New History Of Spanish Literature

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574297
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.

Author : Richard E. Chandler
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117354
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of Spanish Literature written by Richard E. Chandler and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, A New History of Spanish Literature has been a much-used resource for generations of students. The book has now been completely revised and updated to include extensive discussion of Spanish literature of the past thirty years. Richard E. Chandler and Kessel Schwartz, both longtime students of the literature, write authoritatively about every Spanish literary work of consequence. From the earliest extant writings though the literature of the 1980s, they draw on the latest scholarship. Unlike most literary histories, this one treats each genre fully in its own section, thus making it easy for the reader to follow the development of poetry, the drama, the novel, other prose fiction, and nonfiction prose. Students of the first edition have found this method particularly useful. However, this approach does not preclude study of the literature by period. A full index easily enables the reader to find all references to any individual author or book. Another noteworthy feature of the book, and one omitted from many books of this kind, is the comprehensive attention the authors accord nonfiction prose, including, for example, essays, philosophy, literary criticism, politics, and historiography. Encyclopedic in scope yet concise and eminently readable, the revised edition of A New History of Spanish Literature bids fair to be the standard reference well into the next century.

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521806183
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature written by David T. Gies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 551 pages
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Download or read book A New History of Spanish Literature written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199208050
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Jo Labanyi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the rich literary history of Spain which resonates with contemporary debates on transnationalism and cultural diversity. It introduces readers to the ways in which Spanish literature has been read in and outside Spain explaining misconceptions, outlining insights of scholarship and suggesting new readings.

Author : Chris Perriam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198715177
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s written by Chris Perriam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s explores the diversity of some sixty years of imaginative writing by Spaniards, its interactions with Spain's peculiarly dramatic history since the end of its Civil War, and its wider thematic significance. It covers the famous and canonical texts of the most recent in Modern Spanish literature but also explores areas less well-known outside Spain (essays and editorials, queer narrative, new poetry, comics, and texts of the militant and reactionary Right). More space than is usual in literary histories is allowed for commentary on famous texts, but the book also makes room for the marginalized and for socially contextualized explorations of the interconnectedness of various forms of writing. The overall structure is not chronological but thematic, dealing with abstract and topical issues such as silence, the family, or realism.

Author : George Ticknor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Spanish Literature written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Cervantes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981288
Total Pages : 513 pages
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Download or read book Conquistadores written by Fernando Cervantes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.

Author : George Ticknor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book History of Spanish Literature written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book A New History of Spanish Literature written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: