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Modernism and the New Spain
Drawing on transnational literary studies, periodical studies, translation studies, and comparative literary history, Modernism and the New Spain illuminates why Spain has remained a problematic space on the scholarly map of international modernisms.
The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. In it, Ortega critiques a populist deformation of democracy by the rise of a “mass mentality” characterized by selfishness, a lack of curiosity, and a general indifference to the opinions and attitudes of others. However, as Brendon Westler makes clear, we need to look beyond Ortega’s arguments about populism and democracy in his most famous work to recover the philosopher’s expansive political outlook and to identify his valuable contributions to the history and advancement of liberalism. Westler’s book reconstructs Ortega’s p...
Modernas, cultas y profesionales
El libro es un reconocimiento textual y visual de la presencia y relevancia de las mujeres académicas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, cuyo distrito universitario comprendía las provincias de Zaragoza, Huesca, Teruel, Logroño, Soria y Navarra. Capítulo a capítulo, traza biografías personales o colectivas de las tituladas en Derecho, Filosofía, Ciencias, Medicina, Magisterio, Enfermería, Matronas, Practicantas, y Terapia Ocupacional. Las trayectorias profesionales analizadas muestran dos grandes modelos: cultas amas de casa, esposas y madres de familia o modernas profesionales diseminadas por toda España y fuera de ella. Historiográficamente considerado, este libro es un buen modelo para otras instituciones, puesto que la Universidad de Zaragoza es la primera en ofrecer su genealogía femenina.
Traspasar fronteras
El interés recíproco de España y Alemania por la literatura, la historia o la cultura del otro país tiene una larga tradición, tal y como ponen de manifiesto numerosas publicaciones en dichos ámbitos. Las bases históricas de esta relación científica hispano-alemana se presentan ahora por primera vez en toda su dimensión en este catálogo de la exposición organizada por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), en cooperación con el Deutcher Akademischer Dienst (DAAD), donde se ofrece una panorámica del desarrollo de la cooperación científica entre los dos países, que conmemora el centenario de la fundación en el año 1919 de las primeras instituciones, la Residencia de Estudiantes, el Centro de Estudios Históricos así como el Instituto de Ciencias Físico-Naturales y las relaciones de Alemania con estos centros.
Archer M. Huntington
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This organization, which served as a bridge between artists in Spain and wealthy patrons in the States, was the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and passion for Spanish culture for Huntington, one he would grapple with throughout his public and intellectual life. In Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America, Patricia Fernández Lorenzo offers, for the first time in English, a complete biography of Huntington, tracing his enthusiasm for Spain and the arts from his childhood, to his marriage to sculptor Anna Hyatt and his crisis of conscience in the wake of the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing heavily from Archer’s correspondence and from Anna Hyatt Huntington’s papers, housed at Syracuse University, Fernández Lorenzo offers a full, deeply human portrait of one of the great patrons of Spanish art, giving a comprehensive look at Huntington’s role in defining Hispanicism in the United States.
Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.
Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth
In Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura, Leslie J. Harkema analyzes the literature of the modernist period in Spain in light of the emergence of youth culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Harkema argues for the prominent role played by Miguel de Unamuno--as a poet, essayist, and public figure--in Spanish writers' response to this phenomenon. She demonstrates how early twentieth-century Spanish literature participated in the glorification of adolescence and questioning of Bildung seen elsewhere in European modernism, in ways that were not only aesthetic but also political. Harkema critically re-examines the relationship between Unamuno and several Spanish writers associated with the so-called Generation of 1927 (known as at the time as "la joven literatura" or "the young literature"). By situating this period within the wider framework of European modernism, Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth brings to light the central role that the early twentieth century's re-imagining of adolescence and youth played in the development of literary modernism in Spain.
Mujeres para la historia
Antonina Rodrigo recoge en este libro las voces de 14 mujeres luchadoras en diversos campos de la vida pública que, sumadas conjuntamente, sustentan, en gran parte, el auge del progreso femenino. Ellas fueron las pioneras del cambio más importante que se está plasmando en los primeros años del siglo XX. En sus páginas viven dos actrices y una bailarina (María Casares, Margarita Xirgu y Antonia Mercé, la Argentina), cuatro políticas (Victoria Kent, Margarita Nelken, Federica Montseny y Dolores Ibárruri, la Pasionaria), una periodista (María Morales), una maestra y miliciana (Enriqueta Otero Blanco), una pintora (María Blanchard) y cuatro universitarias con dedicación a la literatu...
