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A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina.
Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature. Frank A. Domínguez offers here an introduction to Manrique's poetry and the first book-length study of him in English in fifty years. After presenting the biographical and historical context of Manrique's poetry, Domínguez examines the poet's love lyrics, describing the large fund of commonplaces and forms that Manrique's verses share with those of other poets of his age. Manrique's highly stylized language and parallel verse structures express the obsession of the lover with the beloved. Moreover, his attention to parallel construe the world's greatest. In treatin...
How many composers, songwriters and lyricists wrote music in the twentieth century?? Who were they?? This first edition identifies more than 14,000 people who did so, and all are listed in this eBook alphabetically along with a hyperlink to their Wikipedia biographical data. Performers of blues, folk, jazz, rock & roll and R&B are included by default. PLEASE NOTE: THE HYPERLINKS IN THIS BOOK ONLY FUNCTION ON GOOGLE PLAY aka THE 'FLOWING' VERSION. The hyperlinks in this book DO NOT CURRENTLY FUNCTION on the GOOGLE BOOKS ' FIXED' version.
This is a story of fate, hope, destiny, and self- realizations, uncovered while spending time in Cuba. I never envisioned that I would be drawn into something so deep, contrived and infinitely larger than I could ever have imagined.Here in Havana, at the Corner of Sanja y Soledad, I was staring at what felt like another crossroad. A place that might define the here and now, or a future yet to unfold. I wondered, why now?My diluted ideals or expectations of love, had been so off track. The love, I was made to witness was beautiful. It wasn't demanding, contrived, or measured. What I saw, was shared; giving, warm, and tender. It was unspoken yet loud, it was offered freely and reciprocated sel...
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