Language & Literature
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Calderon: Life's A Dream [Paperback]
Michael Kidd (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780856688959
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P Hispanic Texts
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams."
That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in ... .... Learn More -
Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts [Hardback]
Steffen Dix (Editor); Jerónimo Pizarro (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540791
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and i... .... Learn More -
Valera: Commander Mendoza [Hardback]
Robert Fedorchek (Editor);Susan McKenna (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780856688591
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. ... .... Learn More -
Valera: Commander Mendoza [Paperback]
Robert Fedorchek (Editor); Susan McKenna (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780856688584
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. ... .... Learn More -
Buero Vallejo: In the Burning Darkness [Hardback]
Philip G. Johnston (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780856688386
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P Hispanic Texts
Arguably Spain's leading playwright of the twentieth century, Antonio Buero-Vallejo published thirty original plays. In the Burning Darkness was the first play he wrote. The seminal, and lasting, significance of this play was confirmed when an ... .... Learn More -
Buero Vallejo: In the Burning Darkness [Paperback]
Philip G. Johnston (Editor)
£15.00ISBN: 9780856688430
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P Hispanic Texts
Arguably Spain's leading playwright of the twentieth century, Antonio Buero-Vallejo published thirty original plays. In the Burning Darkness was the first play he wrote. The seminal, and lasting, significance of this play was confirmed when an ... .... Learn More -
Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero and I [Hardback]
Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780856688348
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1956 winner of the Nobel Prize, published Platero and I in 1914. Like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , Platero and I is a book not only for children, but for adults a... .... Learn More -
Machado de Assis's Philosopher or Dog?: From Serial to Book Form [Hardback]
Ana Claudia Suriani Da Silva (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540456
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The great Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) published five of his nine novels as feuilletons in daily newspapers or fortnightly women's magazines. How were the structure and themes of those novels entangled with this ... .... Learn More -
In the Light of Contradiction: Desire in the Poetry of Federico García Lorca [Hardback]
Roberta Ann Quance (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540449
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Can... .... Learn More -
Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction [Hardback]
José Luis Venegas (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540463
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) has been recognized as a central model for the Spanish American 'New Narrative'. Joyce's linguistic and technical influence became the unequivocal sign that literature in Spanish America had definitively abandoned ... .... Learn More