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  • Quixotic Quests

    Salvador Dalí’s First Illustrated Don Quixote

    by Daniel Holcombe ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Salvador Dalí illustrated Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for the first time while living in exile in the United States in the 1940s, collaborating with Random House to produce a special edition that was published in 1946. Quixotic Quests examines the material history of this 1946 edition by bridging art history, book history, literature, and narratology, while exploring Dalí’s role as its ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bodies beyond Labels

    Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain

    Edited by Daniel Holcombe, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions.Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century

    Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model

    by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Elizabeth Holcombe, Ann E. Austin, Andrea G. Trice, William T. Mallon, Arleen Arnsparger, Joanna Drivalas, Malcolm Brown0, KerryAnn O'Meara1, Lauren DeCrosta2, Richard Allan Gillman3, Nancy Hensel4, David A. Salomon5, William Plater6, R. Eugene Rice7, Leslie Gonzalez8, Aimee LaPointe Terosky9 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. Today, the majority of faculty positions are part-time or limited-term appointments, a radical change that has resulted more from circumstance than from thoughtful planning. As colleges and universities evolve to meet the changing demands of society, how might their leaders design viable ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Queer Rebels

    Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels

    by Łukasz Smuga ...
    Translated by Patrycja Poniatowska ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
    Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with ... Read more

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  • To Embody the Marvelous

    The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain

    by Esther Fernández ...
    Winner of the Vern Williamsen Comedia Book Prize, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2023Winner of the Nancy Staub Award, UNIMA-USA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette), 2023In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

    by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

    by Lloyd Davies ...
    Series series Iberian & Latin American Studies
    This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of madness and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Federico García Lorca

    by Maria M. Delgado ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond.This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to his emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Why Translation Matters

    by Edith Grossman ...

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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