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Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  El Polifemo  Madrid  1629

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America El Polifemo Madrid 1629 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  El Polifemo  Madrid  1629

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America El Polifemo Madrid 1629 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spain  a Global History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luis Francisco Martinez Montes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-12
  • ISBN : 9788494938115
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Spain a Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Book Poems of G  ngora

Download or read book Poems of G ngora written by Gongora and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1966-01-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students of Spanish literature will have encountered some of Góngora's poems. No Spanish poet is grater or more rewarding, but few are as difficult for the beginner. His style is a habit of mind: radically metaphorical, elliptical, witty, highly sensuous, transmuting the world of the sense into a world of the spirit. To read him, one has to learn these characteristic habits and perform athletic mental feats as one goes along. It would be too easy to say that Professor Jones has made Góngora 'easy'; but he has certainly made him more accessible. A long introduction briefly deals with Góngora's life, and then gives solid critical guidance to the poems. It includes passages of sustained and detailed analysis which explain how characteristic poems 'work' and it incorporates original insights and research. The notes are full and are designed to help the reader through the difficulties by offering critical comment.

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  Delicias del Parnaso  I  Barcelona  1634  II  Barcelona  1640  III  Zarago  a  1643

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America Delicias del Parnaso I Barcelona 1634 II Barcelona 1640 III Zarago a 1643 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  Quatro comedias  Madrid  1617

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America Quatro comedias Madrid 1617 written by Hispanic Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Perilous Hunt

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  • Author : Edith Randam Rogers
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 081316429X
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Perilous Hunt written by Edith Randam Rogers and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the plot reaches a turning point. In her original and far-reaching study of such familiar narrative elements, Edith Randam Rogers adds much to our understanding of poetic expression in the ballad tradition. In focusing on individual motifs as they appear in different ballads, different languages, and different periods, Rogers proves the existence of a reliable lingua franca of symbolism in European balladry. Lines or even whole stanzas that have defied interpretation often come to life when the reader is aware of the meaning of a particular motif in such an international vocabulary of images. Thus this book makes available important new critical tools sure to have significant results for ballad scholarship.

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  Editions of Todas las obras  I  Madrid  1633  portrait edition  II  Madrid  1633  III  Madrid  1634  IV Zaragoza  1643  V  Sevilla  1648  VI  Madrid  1654

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America Editions of Todas las obras I Madrid 1633 portrait edition II Madrid 1633 III Madrid 1634 IV Zaragoza 1643 V Sevilla 1648 VI Madrid 1654 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  Delicias del Parnaso  I  Barcelona  1634  II  Barcelona  1640  III  Zarago  a  1643

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America Delicias del Parnaso I Barcelona 1634 II Barcelona 1640 III Zarago a 1643 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empires of the Word

Download or read book Empires of the Word written by Nicholas Ostler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “monumental” account of the rise and fall of languages, with “many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities” (Chicago Tribune). Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once “universal” languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet’s diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises. “Readers learn how languages ancient and modern spread and how they dwindle. . . . Few books bring more intellectual excitement to the study of language.” —Booklist (starred review) “Sparkles with arcane knowledge, shrewd perceptions, and fresh ideas…The sheer sweep of his analysis is breathtaking.” —Times Literary Supplement “Ambitious and accessible . . . Ostler stresses the role of culture, commerce and conquest in the rise and fall of languages, whether Spanish, Portuguese and French in the Americas or Dutch in Asia and Africa.” —Publishers Weekly “A marvelous book.” —National Review

Book European Balladry

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Entwistle
  • Publisher : Oxford : The Clarendon Press, [1939 reprinted 1951]
  • Release : 2010-02
  • ISBN : 9781849028172
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book European Balladry written by William Entwistle and published by Oxford : The Clarendon Press, [1939 reprinted 1951]. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America  Quatro comedias  Madrid  1617

Download or read book Gongora in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America Quatro comedias Madrid 1617 written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Ballad Problems

Download or read book Spanish Ballad Problems written by Sylvanus Griswold Morley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise of the Spanish American Empire

Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish American Empire written by Salvador de Madariaga and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1947 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Fiction and the American Self

Download or read book Political Fiction and the American Self written by John Whalen-Bridge and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonical status, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood have grappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows that some books are more political than others, that some political novelists are more skillful than others, and that readers must allow for basic working distinctions between politics and aesthetics if we are to make useful judgments about which political novels to read, and why. "Whalen-Bridge demonstrates with clarity and power that the American political novel should not be ostracized but celebrated as a genre equal or superior to poetic and aesthetic ones." -- Tobin Siebers, author of Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Book Companions of the Day and Night

Download or read book Companions of the Day and Night written by Wilson Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures, echoing stone?... It was time to take stock of others as hollow bodies and shelters into which one fell...' In Companions of the Day and Night (first published in 1975) Wilson Harris revives figures from his earlier Black Marsden - chiefly Clive Goodrich, the 'editor' of this text, who constructs a narrative from the papers of a figure known as Idiot Nameless: a wanderer between present and past, taking an Easter sojourn in Mexico that lasts both for days and for centuries. The results have the strangely hypnotic power characteristic of Wilson Harris's fiction.

Book Images of Shakespeare

Download or read book Images of Shakespeare written by International Shakespeare Association. Congress and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of approaches is presented in this collection, among them artists' images of Shakespeare. Victorian Hamlets, changing images of the protagonists in Romeo and Juliet, degrees of metaphor in King Lear, and Shakespeare's plays in performance.