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Envisioning the Americas: Latina/O Theatre & Performance
Envisioning the Americas: Latina/o Theatre & Performance gathers five plays by five of the US' most daring Latina/o dramatists: Migdalia Cruz, John Jesurun, Oliver Mayer, Alejandro Morales, and Anne Garcia-Romero. With a preface by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and multiple award-winning playwright Jose Rivera, edited with an introduction by Caridad Svich. A sensual, provocative collection destined to stir things up theatrically in American theatre. Cigarettes and Moby-Dick by Migdalia Cruz Liz One by John Jesurun Dias y Flores by Oliver Mayer Marea by Alejandro Morales and Land of Benjamin Franklin by Anne Garcia-Romero Introduced and Edited by Caridad Svich
Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era /Cuentos espa¤oles del Romanticismo
These twelve classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the 1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic era, they remain popular with readers of every generation. Featured authors include "Fernán Caballero," Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Mariano José de Larra, Enrique Gil y Carrasco, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. This dual-language edition features an informative introduction and ample footnotes, making it not only a pleasure to read but also a valuable learning and teaching aid for students and teachers of Spanish literature. Together with Dover's Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century, it offers a wide-ranging survey of an important literary age.
Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords
One of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, etc. by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English.
State Crisis in Fragile Democracies
This book develops a new political-institutional explanation of South America's 'two lefts' and the divergent fates of the region's democratic regimes.
The Passion of Music and Dance
The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include flamenco, tango and rebetika -- and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional experiences most closely associated with women. In drawing those experiences out of female practice, they defined, objectified, and turned them into strategies of domination, the deepest impact of which was felt, ironically, by modern women.In bridging anthropology, sociology, cultural, media, body and gender studies, this book broadens the base of theory which has ignored the transnational world of Latin and Mediterranean popular culture and makes a powerful statement about the intersection of nationalism, sexuality, identity and authenticity.
Islands and Chains
The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and are separated via movement (thus forming instances of discontinuous constituents). Resumptive chains are thus akin to the well-known stranding analysis of quantifier float. A taxonomy of islands is developed that crucially ties barriers for movement to agreement possibilities. The stranding of a resumptive pronoun is shown to limit the role of agreement for the moving element, thereby allowing a chain to be formed across an island.
Terra coutada
Terra coutada tiña que publicada xa nos anos cincuenta, pero non puido aparecer daquela polo tema que trata, un episodio biográfico relacionado coa Guerra Civil. Pasados anos desde entón, non resulta difícil imaxinar a importancia que para a prosa galega daquel tempo puido ter esta novela. O lector non deixará de apreciar, con todo, os valores literarios e non simplemente circunstanciais que posúe, empezando polo vigor do estilo, axustado e vivo, sen inteferencia retóricas, e rematando polo excelente pulso narrativo con que o autor nos guía ao longo da narración.
