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The Culture of Cursilería
Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture. Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to argue that cursilería has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth- ...
Fractured Frontiers
A comparative study of "inner" and "territorial" forms of literary exile under Nazism and Francoism, proposing an integrative model of exile that emphasizes common approaches and themes rather than division.
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.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume, the focus is placed on images (Section 1), genres (Section 2), forms of mediation (Section 3), and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added, in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history, search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies, and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
"A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda."A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
La fabrique de l'écrivain
La fabrique de l'écrivain retrace la formation littéraire de Ramén Gômez de la Serna, auteur réputé inclassable précisément parce que les origines de son oeuvre sont méconnues. Contrairement à l'idée reçue selon laquelle Ramon serait devenu écrivain par génération spontanée, cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la façon dont il devint le centre d'un réseau, à l'enjeu des rencontres qui ramenèrent à occuper cette position, aux admirations et aux modèles qu'il n'a pas toujours reconnus, préférant diffuser de lui une image unique de créateur visionnaire et précurseur des avant-gardes en Espagne. La formule du succès ramonien, la gregueria, naît dans le cadre des années dix, une décennie longtemps plongée dans l'oubli historiographique, qui est pourtant un creuset où les héritages du siècle passé se décantent et où naissent de nouvelles formes littéraires. La prose ramonienne s'inscrit dans cette modernité lato sensu, offrant à un public de plus en plus large son écriture singulière.
Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from Spain and Portugal.
Lo que aprendí de los otros
Estas memorias de Félix Carrasquer recrean la infancia en un pueblo de Aragón de principios del siglo XX, el descubrimiento del papel emancipador de la educación en la Barcelona de los años veinte, la ilusión de la II República, el drama de la guerra civil y del exilio, la dureza de las cárceles de Franco y la difícil recuperación de las libertades tras la dictadura. Lo que aprendí de los otros es una crónica del compromiso de un libertario aragonés con la educación y la sociedad. Y una fuente imprescindible para interpretar la pedagogía libertaria. Coedición con Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, Instituto de Estudios Turolenses y Gobierno de Aragón
Un mundo de novela. Lecturas de narrativa española e hispanoamericana
Tres décadas de lecturas de narrativa española e hispanoamericana se reúnen en esta obra de Toni Montesinos, el crítico literario más prolífico en nuestro país de lo que llevamos de siglo. Tras una extensa introducción donde se cuestiona de modo implacable la censura de hoy en día y lo woke, la banalización del libro como producto o la falta de autoexigencia artística de tantos escritores, se ofrece un compendio de interpretaciones literarias que abarcan desde Fernando de Rojas hasta narradores actuales. Así, a partir de textos de variado enfoque —ensayos, reseñas o entrevistas—, Un mundo de novela invita a descubrir o releer a casi setenta autores hispanos, ya clásicos o llamados a serlo en el futuro.
