Hispanic Studies
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A History of Peruvian Literature [Hardback]
James Higgins (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780905205359
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Peru, which in this century has produced world-renowned novelists of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas, and poets such as the avant-garde CésarVallejo, possesses a distinctive and varied literary culture of great intrin... .... Learn More -
The Structured World of Jorge Guillen: A Study of Cantico and Clamor [Hardback]
E. Matthews (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205236
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
In this study of the work of Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), an important twentieth-century Spanish poet, Dr Matthews argues that his vision of the world as an ordered harmonious unity is echoed in the structural symmetry of his work. Close analysis... .... Learn More -
The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis: A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro [Hardback]
John Gledson (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780905205199
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the nineteenth century. Dom Casmurro (1899) is one of his most important works. Its narrator, Bento, who is als... .... Learn More -
Galdos's Novel of the Historical Imagination: A Study of the Contemporary Novels [Hardback]
Peter A. Bly (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780905205144
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific novelist, and ranks with Balzac and Dickens as a chronicler of nineteenth-century society. His 46 historical novels (the episodios nacionales) dealt with the major events of Spa... .... Learn More
