The Grotesque Sthetic In Spanish Literature From The Golden Age To Modernism

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Paul Ilie
Publisher : Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
Release : 2009
File : 310 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105124125761


The Early Modern Grotesque

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The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Liam Semler
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-10-26
File : 325 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429684784


Garc A Lorca At The Edge Of Surrealism

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García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico García Lorca (1898–1936). In contrast to the idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader André Breton, which focus on the marvelous, automatic creative processes, and sublimated depictions of reality, Lorca’s surrealist impulse follows a trajectory more in line with the theories of French intellectuals such as Georges Bataille (1897–1962), who was expelled from Breton’s authoritative group. Bataille critiques the lofty goals and ideals of Bretonian surrealism in the pages of the cultural and anthropological review Documents (1929–1930) in terms of a dissident surrealist ethno-poetics. This brand of the surreal underscores the prevalence of the bleak or darker aspects of reality: crisis, primitive sacrifice, the death drive, and the violent representation of existence portrayed through formless base matter such as blood, excrement, and fragmented bodies. The present study demonstrates that Bataille’s theoretical and poetic expositions, including those dealing with l’informe (the formless) and the somber emptiness of the void, engage the trauma and anxiety of surrealist expression in Spain, particularly with reference to the anguish, desire, and death that figure so prominently in Spanish texts of the 1920s and 1930s often qualified as “surrealist.” Drawing extensively on the theoretical, cultural, and poetic texts of the period, García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism offers the first book-length consideration of Bataille’s thinking within the Spanish context, examined through the work of Lorca, a singular proponent of what is here referred to as a dissident Spanish surrealism. By reading Lorca’s “surrealist” texts (including Poetaen Nueva York,Viaje a la luna, and El público) through the Bataillean lens, this volume both amplifies our understanding of the poetry and drama of one of the most important Spanish writers of the twentieth century and expands our perspective of what surrealism in Spain means.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : David F. Richter
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release : 2014-10-15
File : 313 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781611485769


The History Of Modern Spain

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The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries, the book innovatively combines a strong and clear political narrative with chapters exploring a wide range of thematic topics, such as gender, family and sexuality, nations and nationalism, empire, environment, religion, migrations and Spain in world history. The volume includes a series of biographical sketches of influential Spaniards from intellectual, cultural, economic and political spheres which provides an interesting, alternative way into understanding the last 220 years of Spanish history. The History of Modern Spain also has a glossary, a chronology and a further reading list. This is essential reading for all students of the modern history of Spain.

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Genre : History
Author : Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2017-12-14
File : 505 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781472592002


A Writer S Reality

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In this book, Vargas Llosa invites readers to enter into his confidence as he unravels six of his own novels and two other works of fundamental importance to him. Vargas Llosa's native Peru, the setting and character of much of his fiction, is at the centre of his piece on "The Chronicles of the Birth of Peru" - the powerful account of the discovery and conquest of Peru by the Spaniards - which Vargas Llosa describes as "novels disguised as history". In other chapters, Vargas Llosa tells how his method of writing has evolved, discusses his attraction to Sartre's work and his days at military school, describes what it was like at nine to see the ocean for the first time, and explains the process of changing the dead language of "soap operas" (as in his own "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter") into the living language of serious art. He also relates why "The War of the End of the World" is his personal favourite among his novels. Throughout A Writer's Reality, Vargas Llosa focusses on what he sees as a central metaphor for the writer's task - to transform lies into truth.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Release : 2013-04-04
File : 187 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780571303267


The Writers Directory

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Genre : Authors, American
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Release : 2013
File : 690 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822037943222


Current Contents

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Author : Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia)
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Release : 1998
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 01633155


Dissertation Abstracts International

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Genre : Dissertations, Academic
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Release : 2002
File : 604 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105112755413


Cr Tica Hisp Nica

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Genre : Latin American literature
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Release : 2012
File : 312 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822041008558


Dissertations In Hispanic Languages And Literatures 1967 1977

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Genre : Catalan philology
Author : James R. Chatham
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Release : 1970
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000006040798