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  • by Enrique Fernandez
    £56.49

    This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.

  • by Christine Arkinstall
    £44.49

    The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

  • by Esther Fernández
    £53.49

    Miguel de Cervantes's experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes's prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production.Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook's notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernndez and Adrienne L. Martn argue that Cervantes's omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

  • by Jennifer Nagtegaal
    £56.49

    Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world.

  • by Ignacio Infante
    £44.49

    This book illuminates the history of experimental poetics in relation to the legacy of Iberian colonialism in the early twentieth century.

  • by Julia H. Chang
    £49.99

  • by Mercedes Blanco, Emiro Mart&65533 & nez-Osorio
    £53.49

    This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.

  • by Julia Dominguez
    £47.49

    The work of Miguel de Cervantes - one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe - is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes's world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity.Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes's Don Quixote. It acknowledges Cervantes's transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Domnguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy.Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes's famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author's lifetime.

  • by Dale Shuger
    £56.49

    The Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic spaces.Proposing a new reading of early modern Spanish mysticism, God Made Word traces the struggles over the representation of interiorized spiritual union - the tension between making it known and conveying its unknowability - far beyond the usual canon of mystic literature. Dale Shuger combines a study of genres that have traditionally been the object of literary study, including poetry, theatre, and autobiography, with a language-based analysis of other areas that have largely been studied by historians and theologians. Arguing that these generic separations grew out of an increasing preoccupation with the cultivation and control of interiorized spirituality, God Made Word shows that by tracing certain mystic representations we come to understand the emergence of different discursive rules and expectations for a wide range of representations of the ineffable.

  • by Olga Sendra Ferrer
    £38.49

    Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s.Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones - those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization.In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.

  • - Food and Etiquette
     
    £47.49

    This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.

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    £53.49

    The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.

  • - The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain
    by Mary E. Barnard
    £31.99

    A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 - a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.

  • - Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia
    by Henry Berlin
    £49.99

    Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.

  • - Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793-1879
    by Adrian Shubert
    £62.49

    The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain's modern history.

  • - Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain
    by Faith S. Harden
    £48.49

    Arms and Letters is the first study in English dedicated to the literary and cultural analysis of early modern Spanish military autobiographical texts.

  • by Francisco Fernandez de Alba
    £41.99

    Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid explores changes in urban planning, narratives of sexual and gender identity, recreational drug use, and fashion design during the seventies.

  • - Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015
    by Sara J. Brenneis
    £33.99

    By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.

  • - Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
    by Margaret Boyle
    £26.49 - 45.49

    In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.

  • - Food Discourse in Franco Spain
    by Lara Anderson
    £45.49

    This highly original book addresses the understudied connection between food and authoritarian control during the Franco regime.

  • - History and Representation
     
    £89.49

    Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain's unique relationship to this turbulent historical period.

  • - Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings
    by Jill Robbins
    £41.99

    Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, with poetry taking a unique role in reflecting new political and cultural realities.

  • by David A. Wacks
    £48.49

    Medieval Iberian authors adapted French crusader culture to give voice to their own reality, shaped by domestic military conflict with Islam and an obsession with the conversion of subject Muslims and Jews.

  • - Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
     
    £60.99

    A surfeit of tropes about love exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes. This book provides a pioneering look at the rich array of ways in which Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic.

  • - Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
     
    £65.49

    Written by the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, the essays in Imagined Truths provide an analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.

  • - Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain
     
    £52.99

    Deploying diverse theoretical approaches - from history, memory, and emotion to urban ecology, feminism, queer studies, intermediality, and visual culture - this volume explores contemporary Spain's vibrant, diverse, socially-invested, and longstanding comics culture.

  • - Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction
    by Diana Aramburu
    £56.49

    This book examines representations of the female body in the early phases of contemporary Spanish crime literature.

  • - Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition
    by Sarah Thomas
    £56.49

    Examining films from several genres by key directors of the Transition, Inhabiting the In-Between explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles.

  • - The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain
    by Rosilie Hernandez
    £58.99

    Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination - sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions - as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.

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