Author: Galen Brokaw Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 081650072X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 313
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Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.
Author: Melanie Henry Publisher: MHRA ISBN: 1781880026 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 182
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The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic offers a comprehensive analysis of all eight of Cervantes's Ocho comedias (published 1615), moving beyond conventional anti-Lope approaches to Cervantine dramatic practise in order to identify what, indeed, his theatre promotes. Considered on its own aesthetic terms, but also taking into account ontological and socio-cultural concerns, this study compels a re-assessment of Cervantes's drama and conflates any monolithic interpretations which do not allow for the textual interplay of contradictory and conflicting discourses which inform it. Cervantes's complex and polyvalent representation of freedom underpins such an approach; a concept which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Investigation of this topic reveals not only Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical convention, but his preoccupation with the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modern Spanish world. Cervantes's comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to dominant contemporary Spanish ideologies and more orthodox artistic imaginings. Ultimately, The Signifying Self seeks to recuperate the Ocho comedias as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon and will be of interest and benefit to those scholars who work on Cervantes and indeed on early modern Spanish theatre in general.
Author: Amy K. Kaminsky Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816619467 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 524
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An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.
Author: Dagoberto Gilb Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826341266 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 548
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Gilb has created more than a literary anthology--this is a mosaic of the cultural and historical stories of Texas Mexican writers, musicians, and artists.
Author: Silke-Maria Weineck Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1628920785 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 219
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Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association. Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from its integration of law, body, and affect-in the affirmative model of fatherhood, the biological father, the legal father, and the father who protects and nurtures his children are one and the same, and in a complex system of mutual interdependence, the father of the family is symbolically linked to the paternal gods of monotheism and the paternal ruler of the monarchic state. If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck traces both the tensions and various strategies to resolve them through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical texts in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she demonstrates both the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the most important symbol of political power. A long history of fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as seemingly disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist, to produce a stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western tradition.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1409090582 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 177
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Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Velazquez and the creator of Don Juan. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain.
Author: Ellen Marie McCracken Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 0826347606 Category : Mexican American authors Languages : en Pages : 472
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The year 2010 will mark the centenary of writer, historian, and preservationist Fray Angélico Chávez's birth, and this volume will serve as a fitting tribute.
Author: W.E.B. Griffin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110121533X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 440
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A key DEA agent has been kidnapped by drugrunners. As much as the news angers Presidential Agent Castillo, he thinks there’s no way he could get permission to rescue the man. But Castillo’s wrong—the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to bring back the agent...anything except get caught.
Author: Galen Brokaw
Author: Melanie Henry
Author: Amy K. Kaminsky
Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Author: Silke-Maria Weineck
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Author: Ellen Marie McCracken
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca