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The Anthology in Portugal
This book breaks new ground in considering the nature and function of anthologies of poetry and short stories in twentieth-century Portugal. It tackles the main theoretical issues, identifies a significant body of critical writing on the relationship between anthologies, literary history and the canon, and proposes an approach that might be designated Descriptive Anthology Studies. The author aims to achieve a full understanding of the role of anthologies in the literary polysystem. Moreover, this study considers anthologies published in Portugal in the early years of the twentieth-century, the influential figures who made them, the works they selected, and who read them. It also focuses on ...
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- ...
Lorca After Life
A reflection on Federico García Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one."--Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Noël Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously re-imagined since his death. Lorca's execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet's afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people's poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets' society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet's biography.
Mis Investigaciones... y Algo Más
CAMAGÜEYANOS ILUSTRES: Tula en dos tiempos; Flora Díaz Parrado; Abelardo Chapellí Marín; Mariano Aramburu y Machado; Luis Pichardo Loret de Mola; El Padre Gonfaus; La bala de ébano. UN BURGUES EXTRAORDINARIO: EMILIO BACARDÍ MOREAU. ENRIQUE VILLUENDAS Y DE LA TORRE. TRES FIGURA CUBANO-ESPAÑOLAS DE RELIEVE: Manuel Mur Oti; Ramón Rodríguez Correa; Teodoro Guerrero y Pallarés. Talentos cubanos y cubano-españoles; toda la información obtenida en Santiago de Cuba, entre los años 1964 y 1968 sobre el ilustre creador del ron Bacardí; la reproducción literal del Diario de Campaña de 1896 de Enrique Villuendas... y mucho más...
The Poem and the Insect
This book is an extension of Dr. Spooner's previous work on the interplay of insect processes and human culture as discussed in The Metaphysics of Insect Life (ISP, 1995). It continues the application of the literary, philosophical, and scientific methods employed there to the main currents in the evolution of modern Hispanic literature.
The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature
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Madrid on the move
Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. Rather than shifting the loci of modernity from Paris or London to Madrid, this book decentres the concept and explains the modern experience as part of a more fluid, global phenomenon. Meanings of the modern were not only dictated by linguistic authorities and urban technocrats; they were discussed, lived, and constructed on a daily basis. Cultural actors and audiences displayed an acute awareness of what being modern entailed and explored the links between the local and the global, two concepts and contexts that were being conceived and perceived as inseparable.
Transformaciones y necesidades contemporáneas de las territorialidades rurales afrocolombianas
Durante los últimos años, los derechos territoriales de la población afrocolombiana se han visto obstaculizados por factores como la concentración de la tierra, el uso inapropiado del suelo, los conflictos de manejo y uso de las tierras, así como las afectaciones del conflicto armado interno, que reducen y deterioran el hábitat, motivando, en algunos casos, su abandono y consecuente hacinamiento en pequeñas áreas territoriales. Consciente de la subsistencia de estos problemas, las diversas organizaciones del pueblo afrocolombiano, y de manera discontinua el Estado colombiano, han buscado establecer condiciones materiales para el reconocimiento efectivo de los derechos territoriales d...
