Cervantes The Golden Age And The Battle For Cultural Identity In 20th Century Spain

Author : Ana María G. Laguna
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150137494X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain written by Ana María G. Laguna and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward, democratic future. In exploring the complex understanding of the multifaceted event that is modernity, the life story and literary opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires a new significance, given the weight of the author in the poetic and political endeavors of those Spanish left-wing reformists who believed they could shape a new Spanish society. By recovering their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, of incipient and full Spanish modernities, Ana María G. Laguna establishes a more balanced understanding of both the modern and early modern periods and casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in Golden Age literature and studies. This book ultimately serves as a vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.

Author : R. K. Britton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845198626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain written by R. K. Britton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a reading of Don Quixote to argue that this work was more than just hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belongs to a "subversive tradition" which constantly questioned the aims and standards of the imperial nation state that Counter-reformation Spain had become from the point of view of Renaissance humanism. In response to censorship run largely by the Inquisition, writers became adept at camouflaging heterodox ideas. Ironically, Cervantes' success in avoiding the attention of the censor by concealing his criticisms beneath irony and humour was so effective that even some twentieth-century scholars have maintained Don Quixote is a brilliantly funny book but no more. R.K. Britton draws on scholarship--including ideas on cultural authority and studies on the way Don Quixote addresses history, truth, writing, law, and gender--and engages with the same issues as Cervantes did.

Author : George Mariscal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728490
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contradictory Subjects written by George Mariscal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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 : Luis Francisco Martinez Montes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788494938115
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spain, a Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826506046
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gallant Spaniard written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish Golden Age literature, including in the corpus of Miguel de Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don Quixote, but until now not a single English version of his play The Gallant Spaniard. Although Cervantes’s dramatic works have always attracted less attention than his narrative fiction, there has been significant critical interest in this play in recent years, due in no small part to its unique portrayal of Christian-Muslim relations. Critics have argued persuasively about the value of The Gallant Spaniard in the service of a more general understanding of Cervantes in his last years, specifically in regard to his views on this cultural divide. This edition, translated by Philip Krummrich, consists of a critical introduction and a full verse translation of the play with notes.

Author : Manuel Durán
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cervantes (WAS) written by Manuel Durán and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography: p. 185-186. An analysis of Cervantes' life and works showing their interrelationship.

Author : Daniel Eisenberg
Publisher : Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romances of Chivalry in the Spanish Golden Age written by Daniel Eisenberg and published by Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eisenberg's book dealing with the Spanish Romances of chivalry, the most popular fiction of the Spanish Renaissance, and the preferred reading of Don Quijote, is finally back in print. Originally published in 1982, this important work has been out of print for a number of years. "Dan Eisenberg's work is our best source of knowledge about the Spanish romances of chivalry." -Sydney P. Cravens Texas Tech University "Daniel Eisenberg tiene un profundo conocimiento de los secretos de los libros de caballermas." -Martmn de Riquer Real Academia Espaqola

Author : Sidney Donnell
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755136
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminizing the Enemy written by Sidney Donnell and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donnell engages gender theory and cultural studies in order to shed light on cross-dressing- a common though poorly understood practice- in plays performed in Spain and Colonial Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author shows how certain naturalized assumptions about masculinity and femininity are unmasked through the cross-dressed performance of works attributed to Lope de Rueda, Morales, Lope de Vega, Monroy y Silva, and Calderon.

Author : John G. Weiger
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Valencian Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age written by John G. Weiger and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: