Download or read book P jaro Verde Y Otros Cuentos written by Juan Valera and published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Bird and Other Tales / El pajaro verde y otros cuentos brings together, in English translation and in the original castellano, nine works that identify Juan Valera as an authentic fairy-tale/fantasy writer, a fictional chronicler of two legendary Spanish historical personages, and a tongue-in-cheek humorist. Well before the critical and popular success of his Pepita Jimenez in 1874, Valera was drawn to the oral tradition of Andalusia, his native patria chica, where he found "The Green Bird" being passed orally from generation to generation. Citing Spain's lack of collections-in his time [siglo]-like those of the brothers Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault, he writes in his Cuentos y chascarrillos andaluces that his aim is to add to the "written treasure of tales popularly told [tesoro escrito de los cuentos que el vulgo refiere]." And they range, in this Juan de la Cuesta collection, from the lyrical and poetic to the comical and earthy. The historical pieces center on Bernardo del Carpio, of whom don Quijote was so fond, and Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, the Great Captain, who fought so long and so valiantly in the service of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel of Castile and Fernando of Aragon. Here Valera again shines, weaving fictional accounts in fluid prose, and with a thorough command of Spanish history, as he brings to life two figures of legend and lore. Together the nine tales demonstrate that Juan Valera excels in short, as well as long, prose fiction.
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Download or read book Teaching Science Fiction written by A. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Handbook written by M. Keith Booker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Download or read book The History of Science Fiction written by A. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
Download or read book El p jaro verde written by Juan Valera and published by Linkgua. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El pájaro verde. Juan Valera Fragmento de la obra Hubo, en época muy remota de esta en que vivimos, un poderoso rey, amado con extremo de sus vasallos y poseedor de un fertilísimo, dilatado y populoso reino allá en las regiones de Oriente. Tenía este rey inmensos tesoros y daba fiestas espléndidas. Asistían en su corte las más gentiles damas y los más discretos y valientes caballeros que entonces había en el mundo. Su ejército era numeroso y aguerrido. Sus naves recorrían como en triunfo el Océano. Los parques y jardines, donde solía cazar y holgarse, eran maravillosos por su grandeza y frondosidad y por la copia de alimañas y de aves que en ellos se alimentaban y vivían. Pero ¿qué diremos de sus palacios y de lo que en sus palacios se encerraba, cuya magnificencia excede a toda ponderación? Allí muebles riquísimos, tronos de oro y de plata y vajillas de porcelana, que era entonces menos común que ahora; allí enanos, gigantes, bufones y otros monstruos para solaz y entretenimiento de Su Majestad; allí cocineros y reposteros profundos y eminentes, que cuidaban de su alimento corporal, y allí no menos profundos y eminentes filósofos, poetas y jurisconsultos, que cuidaban de dar pasto a su espíritu, que concurrían a su consejo privado, que decidían las cuestiones más arduas de derecho, que aguzaban y ejercitaban el ingenio con charadas y logogrifos, y que cantaban las glorias de la dinastía en colosales epopeyas.
Download or read book Cosmos Latinos written by Andrea L. Bell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.
Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction written by M. Ginway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.
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Download or read book Woman with Horns and Other Stories written by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of a dozen stories by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard that weave Philippine history, culture, folklore, and myths. This 2020 edition of this anthology presents this beloved stories to a new audience as well as readers of Brainard's subsequent literary work, which include the novels WHEN THE RAINBOW WEPT, MAGDALENA, and THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW. Brainard's books, including the books she edited, GROWING UP FILIPINO: STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS and the follow-up GROWING UP FILIPINO II, are considered significant contributions to Philippine, Philippine American, as well as Asian American literature. Katipunan praised it as follows: "Beautifully written in the minimalist style yet never lacking color and clarity, Brainard's stories reach out from the deep centuries of folklore, superstition, religion, customs, geography, and history to bring them life into the present. But more than life itself, this book mirrors the unique ways in which the Filipino woman searches for meaning." World Literature Today noted, "The author, through deep woman-knowledge, makes the stories into one web, weaving events (folkloric, historical, and contemporary) and people through sensibility rather than structure, drawing the reader into the loom of history and fiction, to read all life as one unity.
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