Editing is by nature an interpretive practice, framed by the editor's circumstances mediating between the author's or text's 'authority, ' the contingencies of numerous institutions of literary and cultural production, and a variety of expectations that arise from the specific social and historical conditions of the readers.
Editing is by nature an interpretive practice, framed by the editor's circumstances mediating between the author's or text's 'authority, ' the conting...
The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism.
The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines th...
Required reading for those interested in Latin American identity. Authors recognize difficulty of the pregnancy of the moment - globalization and diaspora - in which the topic is being discussed. In the introduction, Chanady offers an excellent historical review of the topic. Essays by Enrique Duss
Required reading for those interested in Latin American identity. Authors recognize difficulty of the pregnancy of the moment - globalization and dias...
Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This volume offers a sample of Spanish critical work in literary theory and cultural studies. Like all critical histories, Spain's is political: Philology dominated the critical scene during the Franco years, and after Franco, this hegemony has been contested by semiotics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and...
Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavai...
"Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature. This text addresses the connection between literary representation and everyday life, examining the context in which the Picaresque mode developed.
"Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature. This text add...
Essays study sexuality in several literary and cultural manifestations in the Hispanic world on both sides of the Atlantic from the Golden Age in Spain to the present. Examines sexuality in Don Quijote and watercolors painted by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and his brother. Various essays also examine La
Essays study sexuality in several literary and cultural manifestations in the Hispanic world on both sides of the Atlantic from the Golden Age in Spai...
Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher.
In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracian, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Gracian is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom.
The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracian's writings in our own day, when the importance of rhetoric as a discipline necessary to manage public life is indisputable. Wide-ranging in focus,...
Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher.
In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the...
Isolated by the repressions and censorship of Franco's regime, Spanish cinema developed distinctive style and content from the 1930s to the 1970s, largely without reference to its international counterparts. Through a series of close readings of films made in the Republican period under Franco and more recently under socialism, contributors here seek to present a clearer picture of Spanish national cinema.
Isolated by the repressions and censorship of Franco's regime, Spanish cinema developed distinctive style and content from the 1930s to the 1970s, lar...
