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Book Amado amo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosa Montero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Amado amo written by Rosa Montero and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cesar Miranda tries to survive the frenzied competition of the business world.

Book Good Novels  Better Management

Download or read book Good Novels Better Management written by B. Czarniawska-Joerges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As many novelists have had personal experience of working in organizations, their work combines introspective insight with analytical skill.

Book Women and Work

Download or read book Women and Work written by Liz Sperling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that, globally, more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever. As such, the possibility that an age of post-feminism has been reached, in which battles for women’s basic rights have largely been won, is implied. This book, based on research across academic disciplines, challenges such claims. Using women and work as the basis analysis, the authors consider whether such things as flexible working, equal opportunities initiatives and even contemporary conceptions of citizenship are universally beneficial to women. The book presents research ranging from issues of immigrant sex-workers in Japan to the implementation of EU equality policies and raises the ironic question that, as the global economy increasingly depends on women, could a growing but uneasy alliance be developing between capitalism and feminism?

Book Bel  n Gopegui

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hayley Rabanal
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1855662337
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Bel n Gopegui written by Hayley Rabanal and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belén Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. Gopegui's social commitments find expression in her concern for solidarity and collective projects. These become more radical over time in response to a disenchantment with the evolution of the left in Spain and to the global impact of the capitalist economic system, giving rise to increasingly interventionist narrative strategies. The core theme of solidarity is explored in relation to the collective experience of Spain's largely consensualdemocratic transition and to the apparent erosion of collective goals in post-transition society. Gopegui's discourse of solidarity is examined through engagement with theorists of advanced modernity, including Ulrich Beck's 'risksociety' model and various contemporary reflections on the concept of solidarity. Centred on Gopegui's first four novels, the study situates analysis of these within the perspective of her later works and illuminates her artisticand intellectual trajectory by drawing on an extensive array of her non-fiction writings and personal interviews, one of which is published here for the first time. Hayley Rabanal is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Book Textual Liberation  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Textual Liberation Routledge Revivals written by Helena Forsas-Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts. The contributors emphasize the wider contexts- political, social, economic- in which the texts were produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey, and consider a range of genres, including the novel, poetry, drama, essays, and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography with special emphasis on material available in English. A stimulating introduction to the development of European feminist writing, Textual Liberation will be an invaluable resource for students of women’s literature, women’s studies, and feminism.

Book La Espada de La Luz

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. René García V.
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012-07
  • ISBN : 1463328761
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book La Espada de La Luz written by D. René García V. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Qué sucedería si el mundo llega a una era en la cual la tecnología ha evolucionado tanto, que la humanidad es despojada de toda conciencia? Si la guerra estallara entre los países destruyendo cada vez más el único hogar que posee el ser humano, si el hombre abandona lo único inmortal que posee se convierte en un ser maldito. Los demonios escaparon del infierno gracias a la maldad que el ser humano había creado, los ángeles intentaron intervenir pero tras siglos de interminable lucha se han extinto y han dejado al hombre solo en la guerra con el legado del conocimiento divino, que el ser humano no tardo en comprender, pues es su verdadera naturaleza. 600 años pasaron y el mundo lentamente regresa a su antiguo esplendor; los bosques regresan a cubrir las tierras, el agua se purifica nuevamente, la lluvia que una vez fue imbebible cae y trae esperanza a las alma de quienes encontraron una vida en las grandes ciudades estado, las capitales que fueron creadas por los arcángeles. La guerra es un arte que el hombre perfecciono durante milenios, ahora que se enfrenta en desventaja frente un enemigo ciego por la sed de sangre, la última esperanza se encuentra en una joven llamada Anna Loralieth, quien ha encontrado el camino que los guiara a la última pieza del enigma atrás de los ángeles. La espada creada por Uriel, la espada de la luz. Inicia una nueva cruzada para salvar a al mundo del señor de la oscuridad.

Book Spain is Different

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Knickerbocker
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2021-12-15
  • ISBN : 1786838133
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Spain is Different written by Dale Knickerbocker and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone world and those from Spain, in which scientific explanations of events coexist with biblically-inspired plots, characters and imagery. This is the first book-length study of either science-fictional novels or apocalyptic literature in that country, analysing six such works between 1990 and 2005. Within a theoretical framework that includes critical and genre theories, archetypal criticism, and biblical scholarship, the book explains this phenomenon as a result of three historical factors: the ‘Two Spains’, Spanish ‘difference’, and the ‘Pact of Silence’, a tacit agreement that made justice and accountability impossible in the name of a peaceful transition to democracy. It repressed any processing of the historical trauma experienced during the Civil War and dictatorship, trauma that manifests itself symbolically in these fictions.

Book 501 Essential Spanish Verbs

Download or read book 501 Essential Spanish Verbs written by Pablo Garcia Loaeza and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbs are the backbone of any language, and if you can't conjugate them, you can't communicate. This compilation of more than 500 common verbs helps beginners as well as the most advanced Spanish students. Each page focuses on an individual verb, presenting full conjugations of multiple tenses, plus several sentences that illustrate common usage. This book is equally suitable as a classroom text or as a guide to independent study.

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel written by Harriet Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.

Book White Ink

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen M. Hart
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781855660311
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book White Ink written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs -- the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble --in a selection of representative women's novels from Spain and Latin America written between 1936 and the present. STEPHEN M. HART is Reader in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London.

Book Spanish Women s Writing 1849 1996

Download or read book Spanish Women s Writing 1849 1996 written by Catherine Davies and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until the present day. Professor Davies places the major authors within the changing political, cultural and economic context of women's lives over the past century-and-a-half -- with particular attention to women's accounts of female subjectivity in relation to the Spanish nation-state, government politics, and the women's liberation movement.

Book Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses

Download or read book Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses written by Folke Josephson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.

Book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture written by Professor Eamonn Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays offering in-depth treatment of major issues. Culture is defined in its broadest sense. Entries include: *Antonio Gaudí * science * Antonio Banderas * golf * dance * education * politics * racism * urbanization This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in Spanish culture. It provides essential cultural context for students of Spanish, European History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

Book Who s Who in Contemporary Women s Writing

Download or read book Who s Who in Contemporary Women s Writing written by Jane Eldridge Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.

Book Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish

Download or read book Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish written by Carolina Figueras Bates and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse, which set of linguistic strategies evidentiality makes explicit, what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres, and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire, invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular, this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions, and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, and Psychology.

Book Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium

Download or read book Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium written by Jessica A. Folkart and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality—identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but simultaneously both and neither—caused by encounters with otherness while negotiating identity in contemporary Spain. Examining how identity and alterity are parleyed through the cultural concerns of historical memory, gender roles, sex, religion, nationalism, and immigration, this study demonstrates how fictional representations of reality converge in a common structure wherein the end is not the end, but rather an edge, a liminal ground. On the border between two identities, the end materializes as an ephemeral limit that delineates and differentiates, yet also adjoins and approximates. In exploring the ends of Spanish fiction—both their structure and their intentionality—Liminal Fiction maps the edge as a constitutive component of narrative and identity in texts by Najat El Hachmi, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Javier Marías, Rosa Montero, and Manuel Rivas. In their representation of identity on the edge, these fictions enact and embody the liminal not as simply a transitional and transient mode but as the structuring principle of identification in contemporary Spain.

Book A New History of Spanish Writing  1939 to the 1990s

Download or read book A New History of Spanish Writing 1939 to the 1990s written by Chris Perriam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s explores the diversity of some sixty years of imaginative writing by Spaniards, its interactions with Spain's peculiarly dramatic history since the end of its Civil War, and its wider thematic significance. It covers the famous and canonical texts of the most recent in Modern Spanish literature but also explores areas less well-known outside Spain (essays and editorials, queer narrative, new poetry, comics, and texts of the militant and reactionary Right). More space than is usual in literary histories is allowed for commentary on famous texts, but the book also makes room for the marginalized and for socially contextualized explorations of the interconnectedness of various forms of writing. The overall structure is not chronological but thematic, dealing with abstract and topical issues such as silence, the family, or realism.