A Companion to Catalan Literature

A Companion to Catalan Literature
Author: Arthur Terry
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781855662063

The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day.

A Taste of Barcelona

A Taste of Barcelona
Author: H. Rosi Song
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1538107848

Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef Ferran Adrià of the famed elBulli, soon to be reborn as elBulli1846. Barcelona is a city that attracts millions of visitors in search of art and culinary experiences while cookery apprentices from around the world arrive looking to perfect their skills and expand their gastronomic horizon. The city offers an unequaled combination of restaurants, chefs, restauranteurs, media and local government initiatives to help those who arrive seeking an extraordinary culinary experience. But how has the city established itself as a global culinary referent while becoming synonymous with cutting-edge cuisine? This book narrates Barcelona’s urban and culinary development from the Middle Ages to the present, tracing the origins and the growth of the culinary prestige of this part of Catalonia. Barcelona has been a cosmopolitan center since the 1700s because of its location and busy port. The city has always been well supplied with food, and its residents built a strong culinary tradition enlivened by its contact with other cuisines and novel products afforded by its geographic location and the people who migrated to the area. With literature, painting, music and architecture, cooking has been a crucial activity in creating and maintaining a Catalan identity. Past, present and future visitors of the city will find a fascinating history of the unforgettable culinary importance of one of the most popular cities of Spain.

The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella

The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella
Author: Joan Rois de Corella
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9027266646

Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)
Author: Alejandro Coroleu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443861057

With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

Tirant Lo Blanc

Tirant Lo Blanc
Author: Josep María Sola-Solé
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1993
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

"Held in October 1991, under the sponsorship of the Center for Catalan Studies at The Catholic University of America"--P. [4] of cover.

The Encyclopedia of the Novel

The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Author: Peter Melville Logan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 803
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 111877907X

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

The Literature of Spain and Latin America

The Literature of Spain and Latin America
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615302298

From the whimsical idealism of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, Spanish-language literature has substantially enriched the global literary canon. This volume examines the vibrant prose and dynamic range of both Spanish and Latin American authors, whose narratives are informed as much by their imaginations as the turbulent histories of these native lands. Influenced by a plethora of diverse cultures, these tales truly tell a global story.