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Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Fashioning Womanhood and Making Modernity in Galdós's La desheredada -- Chapter Two: What Is a Man of Fashion? Manuel Pez and the Dandy in Galdós's La de Bringas -- Chapter Three: Fashion and Feminity in Pardo Bazán's Insolación -- Chapter Four: The Sartorial Charm of the Modern Man in Pardo Bazán's Insolación -- Chapter Five: Dressing the New Woman in Picón's Dulce y sabrosa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book -- About the Author.
In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction. Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer played a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of "blood novels," Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood’s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, Blood Novels attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race. Critically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood as a critical analytic tool that not only sheds new light on Spanish realism but, more broadly, challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in Spain.
Dandyism's queerness, both in the traditional sense of its strangeness and oddness regarding conventionality and in the contemporary sense of resisting and contesting imprisoning gender and sexual labels, including homosexuality, underscores reading Machado and his poetry differently. Given the poet's fondness for the visual arts, as well as the pictorial quality of his verse, the image of the museum functions as an appropriate phenomenological space where to house, organize, categorize and display Machado's diverse poetry in order to examine and analyze the desires of this dandy period."--Jacket.
Lorca's Drawings and Poems focuses on the act of reading Lorca's drawn or written texts and how the reading of one genre can inform the reading of another. Throughout the study, poetry and drawings from every period of Lorca's career are examined. Selected drawings are interpreted; next, poems contemporary to those drawings are analyzed in their light. In chapter 1, a common poetics is extracted from Lorca's comments about his drawings and writing and placed in the context of the literary and artistic movements of his day. The evolution of the literary criticism that examines Lorca's drawings is traced and reviewed. Lorca's texts are examined from varying perspectives in the chapters that fo...
This book covers the biotechnology of all the major fruit and nut species. Since the very successful first edition of this book in 2004, there has been rapid progress for many fruit and nut species in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation, especially for citrus and papaya. This book covers both these cutting-edge technologies and regeneration pathways, protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis, ploidy manipulation techniques that have been applied to a wider range of species. Three crop species, Diospyros kaki (persimmon), Punica granatum (pomegranate) and Eriobotrya japonica (loquat) are included for the first time. The chapters are organized by plant family to make it easier to make comparisons and exploitation of work with related species. Each chapter discusses the plant family and the related wild species for 38 crop species, and has colour illustrations. It is essential for scientists and post graduate students who are engaged in the improvement of fruit, nut and plantation crops.
Duende y Duelos : the Andalusian spirit in the Lorca settings / Anthony Gilbert -- An interplay of passion and spirit : The nightingale's to blame / Richard E. McGregor -- Images in sound : movement, harmony and colour in the early music / Philip Rupprecht -- Myth and narrative in 3 for Icarus / Edward Venn -- Sound, sense and syntax : the Emily Dickinson settings / Steph Power -- Piano music / Stephen Gutman -- Redefining the cello's voice : musical agency in feet of clay / Rebecca Thumpston -- Performance and reflections : Holt's music for oboe and cor anglais / Melinda Maxwell -- Shaking the bars : the yellow wallpaper / Steph Power -- Listening to the river's road : stance, texture and space in the concertos / David Beard -- Orchestral works in performance / Thierry Fischer -- Oblique themes and still centres : a conversation between / Julia Bardsley and Simon Holt -- Sketching and idea-gathering / Simon Speare -- Art, conceptualism and politics in Holt's music / David Charlton
This groundbreaking book reframes five hundred years of western Nicaraguan history by giving gender and sexuality the attention they deserve. Victoria González-Rivera decenters nationalist narratives of triumphant mestizaje and argues that western Nicaragua's LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous one. In this expansive history, González-Rivera documents connections between Indigeneity, local commerce, and femininity (cis and trans), demonstrating the long history of LGBTQIA+ Nicaraguans. She sheds light on historical events, such as Andres Caballero's 1536 burning at the stake for sodomy. González-Rivera discusses how elite efforts after independence to "modernize" open-air markets led to increased surveillance of LGBTQIA+ working-class individuals. She also examines the 1960s and the Somoza dictatorship, when another wave of persecution emerged, targeting working-class gay men and trans women, leading to a more stringent anti-sodomy law. The centuries prior to the post-1990 political movement for greater LGBTQIA+ rights demonstrate that, far from being marginal, LGBTQIA+ Nicaraguans have been active in every area of society for hundreds of years.
Examines the importance of Pierrot, as an image of marginality and failure and a symbol of hidden sexuality, in García Lorca's imagery and literary and personal life.
"This book discusses rewritings of the Mexican colonia to question present-day realities of marginality and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities. Critics examine literature and films produced in and around Mexico since 2000to broaden our understanding beyond the theories of the new historical novel and upend the notion of the novel as the sole re-creative genre"--