Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.
The book covers these major areas:
Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation.
Language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities.
Bibliographic...
Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and ...
Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. Each entry explores the significance of gay and lesbian themes in a particular author's writings and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
The figures included have a professed gay identity, or have written on gay or lesbian themes in either a positive or negative way, or have authored works in which a gay...
Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alpha...
This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural references, as well as words and phrases not found in standard bilingual dictionaries used in the US. Emphasis is on major 20th-century writers, while important works from colonial and 19th-century literature as also included. The diverse selections of Literature Hispanoamericana will enable...
This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literatur...
In about 120 articles ranging from one page to several, describes the writer's background, Jewish heritage, education, career, type of writing, popular and scholarly responses, and Jewish themes in the writing. They also include primary and secondary bibliographies. Most of the writers are from Arge
In about 120 articles ranging from one page to several, describes the writer's background, Jewish heritage, education, career, type of writing, popula...
Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the real, and provides a...
Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cite...
By blending personal memoir and critical analysis, Voices of the Survivors explores cultural and human responses to the violence of political repression and social disintegration perpetrated in Argentina during the so called Dirty War of the late '70s and early '80s. Central to the theoretical and critical corpus is the work of scholars writing in response to the historical trauma of the Holocaust (Adorno, La Capra, Shoshana Felman), which posed questions regarding social trauma, the links between mourning and memory, and the role of artistic creation and its value as testimony. The book...
By blending personal memoir and critical analysis, Voices of the Survivors explores cultural and human responses to the violence of political repressi...
This collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining the parameters of these identities and who are concerned with how those identities interact with the dominate ones articulated by a hegemonic Anglo society in the United States.
This collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoe...
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...
In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights into the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time periods.
In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights i...
