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A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. This innovative study...

How many cassette tapes do you still own? In one hundred years, how many TikTok videos or Instagram posts will still be accessible? Yet much of today's news and mass culture is produced and...

The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity. This book examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, all...

Domus estudia la representaci?n de la casa nobiliaria urbana en la narrativa corta y el teatro del siglo XVII en Espa?a. Analiza aspectos materiales y simb?licos del terreno premoderno de lo...

Focusses on the years that E?a de Queir?s lived in Paris and shows how the periodicals he conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian and American publications. E?a de Queir?s' work has...

El papel de las ropas en la construcci?n de la identidad en neuve autobiograf?as ficticias e hist?ricas del Siglo de Oro. Este libro examina el significativo papel de las ropas y de los adornos...

Nuevas perspectivas sobre etnicidad, g?nero, subjetividad europea, y construcci?n de geograf?as coloniales. El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos se apoya en trabajos recientes sobre el...

Este libro delinea el papel del ni?o en el cine argentino de la post-dictadura. Interprets the allegorical role of the child character in Argentine cinema of the post-dictatorship era. Este libro...

Este libro es el primero en examinar lo radicalmente nuevo y desafiante Teatro P?nico, un grupo de obras compuestas por Arrabal entre 1957 y 1966, en el apogeo del movimiento avant-garde. ENGLISH...

Este libro consiste en la edici?n de 188 cartas in?ditas que, desde 1906 hasta 1970, Pilar de Zubiaurre escribi? y mayormente recibi? de numerosos intelectuales y artistas del ?mbito hisp?nico, desde...

The continuing importance of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American culture. The Hispanic Baroque is a Janus-faced phenomenon, one of its faces peering at the sunset of feudalism, the other at the...

Un trabajo que estudia la compleja relaci?n entre exilio y literatura en la Argentina durante un per?odo de profundos cambios sociales y pol?ticos. A work that studies the complex relationship...

A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory. This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorca's poetry and the first to concentrate entirely on self-consciousness, a subject which it sees...

Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has generated...

A distinguished group of specialists examine afresh issues of particular concern to historians of the Spanish Armada. In particular they look at the contemporary Spanish view of Philip II's...

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba. This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting...

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo. An important but often...

A thorough examination of the making of, transmission, and scholarly engagement with one of the most famous poems in the Spanish language. Completed shortly before Jorge Manrique's death in 1479, the...

Este libro explora la representaci?n de la mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), prominente l?der anarquista espa?ola en las d?cadas de 1920 y 1930. This book explores the...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special...

Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic...

New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in...

Un an?lisis de la obra po?tica de Lope de Vega revela c?mo amold? su propio personaje "Lope" para adecuarse, generalmente con ?xito, a los cambios de su entorno. La obra po?tica de Lope de Vega se...

Este volumen de estudios, que contiene art?culos escritos por algunos de los m?s prestigiosos siglodoristas en el ?mbito internacional, ofrece un an?lisis abarcador de las formas po?ticas del Siglo...

Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition. This work engages with a broader...

La edici?n que aqu? se presenta se basa en el estudio cuidadoso de los dos ?nicos ejemplares que quedan del impreso de 1514. Va acompa?ada de una introducci?n novedosa, de numerosas notas a pie de...

The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst...

An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula. Medieval Iberia was rich in sociolinguistic and cultural diversity. This volume explores the culture, history,...

Una nueva edici?n de la primera historia sistem?tica del teatro en Espa?a. Esta nueva edici?n de las Memorias cronol?gicas de Jos? Antonio de Armona ofrece por primera vez un an?lisis pormenorizado...

Este libro re?ne las ?ltimas investigaciones de los m?ximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultiv? todos los g?neros literarios. Contains the latest research by...