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El correo de Napoleón Bonaparte
“Cuando el honor y la voluntad del deber cumplido están\r\npor encima de los intereses de todo un pueblo...”\r\nTimoteo no puede dormir. Harto de dar vueltas sobre sí\r\nmismo, se levanta de la cama y descubre que una misteriosa\r\nberlina sin conductor se detiene frente a su casa. Intrigado, se\r\nasoma a su interior y lo que descubre le dejará atónito...\r\nEste es el enigmático comienzo de la novela que Fernando\r\nGarcía de la Cuesta ha confeccionado con sumo esmero, donde la\r\nficción de la propia trama enlazará con el hecho real en el que\r\nestá basada, que no es otro que el establecimiento del cuartel\r\ngeneral del ejército aliado, comandado por el general Wellington,\r\nen el municipio de Boecillo, tras la batalla de Los Arapiles (1812),\r\ncuando la Guerra de la Independencia está empezando a dar sus\r\núltimos coletazos.\r\nSe trata de una novela coral, homenaje a los habitantes de\r\nBoecillo, que se convierten, por mor del argumento, en los\r\npersonajes que protagonizan y desarrollan la trama.\r\nEste relato constituye una interesante mirada a la historia\r\ny a las costumbres del Boecillo de principios del siglo XIX.
Los encuentros de Wellington
Luisa Vargas García, “La Luisa”, es una célebre y hermosa prostituta, amante del Comandante Gobernador General de Valladolid, Simón Camille Dufresse. Entre sábanas le sustrae información, que posteriormente comunica a tres amigos de Buezillo. Por azar de la vida, es obligada a unirse a un complot bajo el amparo del Ministro Joseph Fouché, Ministro del Interior francés, encaminado a matar a Sir Arthur Wellesley, duque de Wellington. La Luisa, joven muy bella y atractiva, en un encuentro premeditado fascina a Wellington de tal manera que le da un status de “mujer de compañía”. A partir de ese instante los atentados contra Wellington se suceden, sin que en ninguno de ellos haya...
Dead Men Telling Tales
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political...
Dystopias of Infamy
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.
Writing Teresa
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.
Countercurrents
In their readings of texts, the authors address the topics of theory, narrative, aesthetics, the idea of the text, and of specific moments in cultural history. The chapters cover a range of authors: Plato, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Chariteo, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Kleist, Gode, Edith Wharton, Pirandello, Kafka, Sartre, Saint-John Perse, Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson. They also deal with philosophers: Peirce, Nietzsche, Saussure, Husserl, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Heidegger, Jakobson, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. The book opens up our relationships to the past and the usefulness or otherwise of the metaphors we use in our attempt to understand and participate in it. Although Countercurrents deals diversely with literary periods, authors, and critics, it speaks within the civilized and civilizing universe of our language and the texts we create. Running beneath the antihumanistic flotilla that skims the surface of texts for theory, the authors plumb for treasures from the ocean's floor.
Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.
Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
Arguably the most influential work to emerge from Spain's Golden Age, Don Quixote laid the groundwork for the Western literary canon and remains one of its major achievements.
