Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Exemplary novels
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Exemplary Novels
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Romances of Chivalry in the Spanish Golden Age
Author: Daniel EisenbergPublisher: Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 208
Book Description
Eisenberg's book dealing with the Spanish Romances of chivalry, the most popular fiction of the Spanish Renaissance, and the preferred reading of Don Quijote, is finally back in print. Originally published in 1982, this important work has been out of print for a number of years. "Dan Eisenberg's work is our best source of knowledge about the Spanish romances of chivalry." -Sydney P. Cravens Texas Tech University "Daniel Eisenberg tiene un profundo conocimiento de los secretos de los libros de caballermas." -Martmn de Riquer Real Academia Espaqola
History of Spanish Literature
Author: George TicknorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
History of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Author: Francesca BregoliPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the interactions of Jews with outside culture and the impact of state reforms on the corporate Jewish community. Working from a vast array of previously untapped archival and literary sources, Francesca Bregoli combines cultural analysis with a study of institutional developments to investigate Jewish responses to Enlightenment thought and politics, as well as non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, through an exploration of Jewish-Christian cultural exchange, sites of sociability, and reformist policies. Mediterranean Enlightenment shows that Livornese Jewish scholars engaged with Enlightenment ideals and aspired to contribute to society at large without weakening the boundaries of traditional Jewish life. By arguing that the privileged status of Livorno Jewry had conservative rather than liberalizing effects, it also challenges the notion that economic utility facilitates Jewish integration, nuancing received wisdom about processes of emancipation in Europe.
Reasons of State
Author: Alejo CarpentierPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. García Márquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State, hailed as the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.
Cigarrales de Toledo
Author: Tirso de MolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Said Armesto, Victor, 1873-1914
Languages : es
Pages : 402
Book Description
Dance for Me When I Die
Author: Cristian AlarcónPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 147800441X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Víctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires's shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die—first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time—Cristian Alarcón tells the story and legacy of Frente's life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente's friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thieves and drug dealers, and having immersed himself in Frente's neighborhood for eighteen months, Alarcón captures the world of the urban poor in all of its complexity and humanity.