The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture
Author: David T. Gies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521574297

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
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Alix Ingber offers a collection of English translations of sonnets written by Spanish poets during the Golden Age of Spanish literature, from the early 16th century to the late 17th century. The sonnets are arranged alphabetically by the name of the poet. Ingber provides the Spanish version, as well as the English translation. The poets include Lope de Vega, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes, Hernando de Acuna, and more.

Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Margaret T. Hodgen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0812206711

Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.

Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Author: Hilaire Kallendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2010-06
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ISBN: 0199810834

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

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Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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Total Pages: 1548
Release: 1990
Genre: Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Comparative Literature East and West

Comparative Literature East and West
Author: Cornelia Niekus Moore
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780824812478

This collection of papers inaugurates a new series which will present work from a two-year study at the U. of Hawaii. The research addresses commonalities and differences in topics and methodology, changing values, and the portrayal of the self in different cultures. No index. Annotation copyright B