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Global Milton and Visual Art
Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64 supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors...
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico. Punctuated with elaborate ritual offerings dedicated to the forces responsible for rain, seeds, crop fertility, and the well-being of all people, these pilgrimages are the highest and most elaborate form of Nahua devotion and reveal a sophisticated religious philosophy that places human beings in intimate contact with what Westerners call the forces of nature. Alan and Pamela Sandstrom document them for the younger Nahua generation, who live in a world where many are lured away...
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Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and bestselling authors, this book maps vivid and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high and the low, and the political and the cultural. Christopher Conway shows that beneath the diversity of the New World there was a deeper structure of shared patterns of cultural creation and meaning. Whether it be the ways that people of refinement from different countries used the same rules of etiquette, or ...
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Masculinidades en la ficción infantil y juvenil: Espana y America latina
Las diferentes investigaciones que conforman este libro representan aportaciones originales sobre diferentes formatos de ficción infantojuvenil en España y América Latina. Se exploran las transformaciones de la cultura y cómo estas han afectado la representación de la masculinidad y la socialización de los niños y jóvenes. Se trata de un volumen que se erige como una herramienta indispensable sobre la temática, que no agota las vías de estudio, sino que representa una iluminadora plataforma para desarrollar más dilatadamente los abordajes adoptados. La diversidad de enfoques y análisis en torno a la ficción para niños y jóvenes se suma a los de cada vez más numerosos y divers...
Relectura de la colección de dibujos del Institutense Felipe S. Gutiérrez
A socio-historic and interpretive study of the art of Mexican painter Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez (1824-1904).
