Author: D. P. M. O.Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 314
Book Description
Las Noches de invierno, ó, Biblioteca escogida de historias, anécdotas, novelas, cuentos, chistes y agudezas ...
Author: D. P. M. O.Las noches de invierno
Author: Las Noches de invierno, ó Biblioteca escogida de historias, anecdotas, novelas, cuentos, chistes y agudezas, &a. &a
Author: Las noches de invierno, o Biblioteca escogida de historias, anecdotas, novelas, cuentos, chistes y agudezas, fabulas y ficciones mitologicas ... Por D. P.M.O.
Author: Pedro Maria OliveLas noches de invierno
Author: Las noches de invierno ó Biblioteca escogida de historias, anectotas, novelas, cuentos, chistes y agudezas ...
Author: Las noches de invierno ó Biblioteca escogida de historias, anécdotas, novelas, cuentos ...
Author: Pedro María de OlivéPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 400
Book Description
Prospecto de subscripcion á una nueva obra intitulada: Las noches de invierno, ó Biblioteca completa y escogida de historias, anécdotas, rasgos de heroismo, de virtud y humanidad, novelas, cuentos, chistes y agudezas, sentencias y máximas filosóficas, fábulas y ficciones mitológicas, aventuras de hadas y encantadoras, relaciones de viages, descripciones de paises, y costumbres singulares y raras, maravillas y particularidades admirables de la naturaleza y del arte ...
Author: Glocal Ireland
Author: Juan F. Elices AgudoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144383100X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The transformations undergone by Ireland in the last decades have relocated the country within that liminal space of the local and the global. The country of the deeply-rooted rural traditions, the severely religious impositions and the fragile economic system became in the 1990s a world referent due to its unprecedented and impressive growth. However, the emergence of the so-called Celtic Tiger and the recognition that Ireland had become one of the most globalised nations in the Western world met a dramatic downfall that has left the country (pre)occupied with matters concerning its re-positioning and re-definition within a wider European framework. The cultural and artistic productivity of this nation has also moved away from the topical insularity of the past, adopting more transnational and universal subjects, at the same time that it has struggled to retain its genuine values and its own signs of identity. For, in Ireland, the more this global progress has grown to be unavoidable, the more evocatively the local has befallen. Therefore, the editors of this volume contend that the global and the local should be understood not as opposed concepts but as two ends of a continuum of interaction. Within this state of affairs, this volume comprises a series of articles that revolve around the issue of glocality in Irish literature, culture and cinema in order to disentangle the complexities that underlie this concept and which are inextricably related to the drastic changes undertaken by Ireland in the years before and after the economic boom and posterior bailout.
The Forbidden
Author: Benito Pérez GaldósPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380777X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Benito Pérez Galdós, considered Spain’s most important novelist after Cervantes, wrote 77 novels, several works of theater and a number of other tomes during his lifetime (1843–1920). His works have been translated into all major languages of the world, and many of his most highly regarded novels, those of the contemporary period, have been translated into English two, three and even four times over. Of the few “contemporary novels” of Galdós that until now have not come to light in English, The Forbidden is certainly among the most noteworthy. The story line concerns a wealthy philanderer, José María Bueno de Guzmán, who attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He is successful with the first, Eloísa, a grasping materialist who falls deeply in love with him. Then he rejects her in order to attempt to seduce the youngest, Camila. Meanwhile, the third, the pseudo-intellectual María Juana, jealous, seduces José María. But it is Camila, healthy, impetuous and wild, who resists his temptations and holds our attention. The novelist and critic Leopoldo Alas, Galdós’s contemporary, calls her “the most feminine, graceful, lively female character that any modern novelist has painted.” As a naturalistic study, in the manner of Balzac in particular, principal characters of Galdós’s other novels (El doctor Centeno, La de Bringas, La familia de León Roch) become fleetingly visible in The Forbidden. In addition, the entire Bueno de Guzmán family gives evidence of the naturalistic emphasis on heredity: they all display certain physical or mental disorders. Eloísa has a morbid fear of feathers, María Juana often feels that she has a tiny piece of cloth caught in her teeth, José María suffers bouts of depression, an uncle is a kleptomaniac, one of the relatives writes letters to himself, etc. At the same time, this novel shows the foibles of Spanish society where status is determined by one’s associates, by the wearing of finery, and by living on borrowed money. In their history of Spanish literature, Chandler and Schwartz call Galdós “the greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and the only one who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with great novelists like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoievsky.” The Forbidden, written at the height of the author’s creative powers, is a major work and its publication for an English-speaking audience is long overdue.