Language & Literature
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The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature [Hardback]
Lesley Wylie (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946250
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s c... .... Learn More -
The Sound of Culture [Paperback]
Louis Chude-Sokei (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819575777
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent n... .... Learn More -
Selected Writings of César Vallejo [Hardback]
César Vallejo (Author); Joseph Mulligan (Editor)
£29.50ISBN: 9780819574848
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and... .... Learn More -
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction [Paperback]
Rachel Haywood Ferreira (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819570826
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science ... .... Learn More -
Aesop's Fables: With a Life of Aesop [Hardback]
John E. Keller (Author); L. Clark Keating (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813118123
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Repr... .... Learn More -
Lorca's Late Poetry: A Critical Survey [Hardback]
Andrew A. Anderson (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780905205786
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Federico García Lorca (1898-1938), is often thought of as a fine lyric poet of the 1920s who then developed into one of Spain's greatest playwrights (1931-36). But other aspects of Lorca's literary career are equally significant: the earlier t... .... Learn More -
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
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