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Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 1
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 4
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 2
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 3
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 5
Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe
This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical, for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context. Echoing scholars from a wide-range of disciplines who recognize the uncertainty of the nature of the self, these essays question the notion of the autonomous self and the attendant idea of continuous identity unfolding in a unified personality. Instea...
Peeping Through the Holes
The essays presented in this book focus on Psycho, both the novel by Robert Bloch (1950) and the film by Alfred Hitchcock (1960). Therefore, the different approaches range from film studies to literary criticism. Norman Bates has become an icon of the late twentieth century horror genre, and the movie set the basis for later cinematic developments. Over 50 years after the release of the book and the movie it inspired, new readings, revisions and adaptations of the domestic tragedy of Norman Bates and his mother are still being produced, as recently as Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchock in 2012. Now the curtains (either on the stage or in the bathroom) are about to open and a most peculiar house – with its silhouette and endorsement of doom – is waiting up on the hill. No cameras or pencils are allowed; you’re invited to a ritual that only your eyes will view and your imagination will embody. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here … at least not until it overcomes you.
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Honourable murderers
Este libro explora la presencia y función del concepto del honor en cuatro obras dramáticas del periodo moderno: los tres «dramas de honor» de Calderón de la Barca y el Othello shakespeariano. A través de un análisis histórico de la evolución de la noción de honor el libro sugiere que este concepto constituye el principio que articula dramática e ideológicamente los cuatro textos, para lo cual analiza las distintas formas en las que estas obras muestran diversos tratamientos del honor en su dramatización de aspectos relacionados con el poder, el racismo, el patriarcado y la violencia. La metodología empleada incluye la semiótica cultural de Lotman, aspectos de antropología cultural, y estrategias de lectura basadas en el neo-historicismo y el materialismo cultural.
El bisturí inglés
El bisturí inglés. Literatura de viajes e hispanismo en lengua inglesa reúne diversos estudios realizados por algunos de los más prestigiosos investigadores y especialistas. Comienza con una amplia introducción sobre el papel que estos autores tuvieron y tiene, en la valoración de lo español en el extranjero. Le siguen estudios sobre el carácter de los españoles, Andalucía en las guerras napoleónicas, el comienzo de la famosa “leyenda negra” y la relación entre curiosidad y conocimiento en los viajeros que vienen a España. La cuestión de las viajeras inglesas y la opinión que se tiene sobre las mujeres españolas aparecen en otros dos capítulos. Síguese la descripción de la provincia de Jaén durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, y acaba el libro con algo tan actual como antiguo: los “expatriates” en España.
