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Author : Eduardo Mendoza
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Release Date : 1986
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015020693597
Pages : 406 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download La ciudad de los prodigios in PDF Full Online Free by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La novela es una crónica sobre 50 años de la historia de Barcelona
Author : Eamonn J. Rodgers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 9780415131872
Pages : 614 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (187 downloads)
Download Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture in PDF Full Online Free by Eamonn J. Rodgers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into the exciting cultural and political features of contemporary Spain. Including Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country, coverage spans from 1939 to the present.
Author : Stewart King
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 1855661160
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (566 downloads)
Download Escribir la catalanidad in PDF Full Online Free by Stewart King and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by Terenci Moix, Francisco Candel, Ignasi Riera, Montserrat Roig, Juan Marsé, Ramon Pallicé, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, among others, the author demonstrates that such writers share similar preoccupations and points of view and also engage in a complex literary and cultural dialogue that cuts across the established linguistic divisions that characterise cultural politics in Catalonia. The Catalan literary establishment's exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness' ischallenged and the author proposes redefining traditional understandings of Catalan literature to take into account texts produced by all members of Catalan society. Stewart King is a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Monash University, Australia.
Author : Edgar Illas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-10
ISBN 10 : 9781781387924
Pages : 255 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (792 downloads)
Download Thinking Barcelona in PDF Full Online Free by Edgar Illas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ideological work that redefined Barcelona in the 1980s and adapted it to a new economy of tourism, culture and services. It examines political speeches/scripts of the 1992 Olympic Games ceremonies; architect Oriol Bohigas's urban renewal; and fictions by Quim Monzó, Francisco Casavella, Eduardo Mendoza and Sergi Pàmies.
Author : Eugeni Osácar Marzal
Publisher : Diëresis
Release Date : 2013-10-10
ISBN 10 : 9788494143847
Pages : 329 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (384 downloads)
Download Barcelona Movie Walks in PDF Full Online Free by Eugeni Osácar Marzal and published by Diëresis. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a star-struck holiday in Barcelona in the footsteps of Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Robert de Niro, Scarlett Johansson and many more. Make your visit to Barcelona a film-star experience: see the locations of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Biutiful, All About My Mother and more than 90 other films by directors such as Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Steven Soderbergh. Discover the parts of Barcelona immortalized by filmmakers and find out lots of interesting facts about the favourite places of the stars. Every chapter begins with a presentation: you will find detailed and interesting information about films of a certain genre shot in Barcelona, or about a specific director or film. You can find more info about the shoots and then re-live stories on the routes. This book also includes QR codes for mobile access to exclusive Internet maps including all the information and spots selected by the author. With the QR codes, you will have all the information you need, directly from the book to your smartphone! Barcelona is on the big screen – Lights, camera, action!
Author : César Domínguez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-10-20
ISBN 10 : 9789027266910
Pages : 765 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (691 downloads)
Download A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula in PDF Full Online Free by César Domínguez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume, the focus is placed on images (Section 1), genres (Section 2), forms of mediation (Section 3), and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added, in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history, search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies, and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-17
ISBN 10 : 9781137549112
Pages : 863 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (911 downloads)
Download The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City in PDF Full Online Free by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.
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Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9780313337703
Pages : 1294 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (77 downloads)
Download World Literature in Spanish: G-Q in PDF Full Online Free by and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe.
Author : J. A. Garrido Ardila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-19
ISBN 10 : 9781316298541
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (854 downloads)
Download The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature in PDF Full Online Free by J. A. Garrido Ardila and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
ISBN 10 : 9789004483224
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (322 downloads)
Download Disremembering the Dictatorship in PDF Full Online Free by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions. Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.
Author : Germán Bleiberg
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0313287325
Pages : 1806 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (328 downloads)
Download Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula in PDF Full Online Free by Germán Bleiberg and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by more than 90 experts, this two-volume dictionary includes representatives from all major peninsular literatures: Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. The rich history of the literary achievements in the Iberian Peninula--from historial to dramatic--can now be enjoyed by both European and American researchers. Spanning centuries, all literary titles have been followed in the text with a published translation or a literal rendering of the original. Virtually all entries have been composed by noted scholars and are complemented wherever possible by bibliographies of primary texts and selected critical studies as well as existing English translations of primary texts.
Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781438487502
Pages : 303 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (75 downloads)
Download Barcelona, City of Comics in PDF Full Online Free by Benjamin Fraser and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe’s most notable global cities.
Author : Stefania Lucamante
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 0838642020
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (864 downloads)
Download Italy and the Bourgeoisie in PDF Full Online Free by Stefania Lucamante and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian bourgeoisie appear to be living through a period of self-evaluation. This collection examines what is "essentially Italian" in the development of the bourgeoisie, starting with the role of the individual in post-unification Italy. Members of the bourgeoisie were Italy's ruling class while the country underwent drastic political, economic, and social transformations during major historical eras and events, such as the two World Wars, the Fascist ventennio, the colonial enterprises of the Mussolini regime, the Racial Laws and the Holocaust, and domestic terrorism. The role of the bourgeoisie as indicator, inspiration, and conscience in current pop and high culture is also examined.
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Author : Maureen Ihrie
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2011-10-20
ISBN 10 : 9780313080838
Pages : 1294 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (83 downloads)
Download World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia [3 volumes] in PDF Full Online Free by Maureen Ihrie and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. • Contains roughly 850 A–Z entries related to Spanish-language literature and related topics throughout the world, from the Middle Ages up to the present day • Includes contributions from nearly 200 scholars from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia • Provides bibliographies containing major English-language print reference works, free electronic sources with peer-reviewed information, major academic websites, and well-established electronic journals • Contains an extended glossary of literary and cultural terms such as "subaltern" and basic cultural features of Hispanic society, such as "el barrio" and "Negrismo" • Includes a chronological appendix containing entries organized by date
Author : Ronald Schwartz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2008-09-05
ISBN 10 : 9781461696612
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (661 downloads)
Download Great Spanish Films Since 1950 in PDF Full Online Free by Ronald Schwartz and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it began, modern Spanish cinema was under strict censorship, forced to conform to the ideological demands of the Nationalist regime. In 1950, the New Spanish Cinema was born as a protest over General Francisco Franco's policies: a new series of directors and films began to move away from the conformist line to offer a bold brand of Spanish realism. In the 1950s and early 1960s, filmmakers such as Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, and Luis Buñuel expressed a liberal image of Spain to the world in such films as Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist), Bienvenido Señor Marshall (Welcome Mr. Marshall), and Viridiana. The emergence of new directors continued into the sixties and seventies with Carlos Saura, José Luis Borau, Víctor Erice, and others. After Franco's death in 1975, censorship was abolished and films openly explored such formerly taboo subjects as sexuality, drugs, the church, the army, and the Civil War. The Spanish cinema was no longer escapist and entertaining but, at long last, mirrored the society it depicted. While established directors like Saura, Bardem, and Berlanga continued to produce distinguished work, the "new wave" of Spanish cinema included brilliant films by the likes of Montxo Armendáriz (Tasio), Fernando Trueba (First Work), Imanol Uribe (The Death of Mikel), and Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). In the last couple of decades, exciting works by established filmmakers and newcomers alike continue to be produced, including Alejandro Amenábar's Thesis, José Luis Garcí's The Grandfather, and Almodóvar's Talk to Her and Volver. In Great Spanish Films Since 1950, Ronald Schwartz presents a compendium of outstanding Spanish films from the pre-Francoist era through the Spanish New Wave of the 80's and 90's and into the present day. Schwartz provides background, plot, and commentaries of key films from six decades of Spanish cinema. In addition to identifying
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1992
ISBN 10 : UCAL:B4502916
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Literary Review in PDF Full Online Free by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international journal of contemporary writing.
Author : Bernard P. E. Bentley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9781855661769
Pages : 534 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (176 downloads)
Download A Companion to Spanish Cinema in PDF Full Online Free by Bernard P. E. Bentley and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a detailed chronological account of the history of Spanish cinema.
