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Book Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century Spanish Press

Download or read book Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century Spanish Press written by Lou Charnon-Deutsch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture. Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or &"fictions of the feminine&": she reads women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of Spanish exoticism and political ambitions. These imaginary visions of femininity, Charnon-Deutsch argues, were a response to, and also helped to create, gendered stereotypes by suggesting ideal feminine behavior and poses. Further, they comprised a reassuring &"between-male&" cultural medium that provided graphic validation of women's docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity. Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique. Many of the images collected here are available for the first time, and they represent only a fraction of the two thousand images Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research. This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians.

Book The Power of God Against the Guns of Government

Download or read book The Power of God Against the Guns of Government written by Paul J. Vanderwood and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing in a narrative style reminiscent of Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, author explains a series of 1890s uprisings in Tomochic, in the border state of Chihuahua, against the Porfirians' determination to dictate who would control the lan

Book Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad  1850   1920

Download or read book Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad 1850 1920 written by Jennifer Jenkins Wood and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1920 women’s travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure. Although British women were at the forefront of this movement, a number of intrepid Spanish women also participated in this new era of travel and travel writing. They transcended general societal limitations imposed on Spanish women at a time when the refrain “la mujer en casa, y con la pata quebrada” described most of their female compatriots, who suffered from legal constraints, lack of education, a husband’s dictates, or little or no money of their own. Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920: From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun analyzes the travels and the travel writings of eleven extraordinary women: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos (pseud. Colombine), Rosario de Acuña, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano (Baronesa de Wilson), Eva Canel, Cecilia Böhl de Faber (pseud. Fernán Caballero), Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Sofía Casanova, and Mother María de Jesús Güell. These Spanish women travelers climbed mountain peaks in their native country, traveled by horseback in the Amazon, observed the Indians of Tierra del Fuego, suffered from el soroche [altitude sickness] in the Andes, admired the midnight sun in Norway, traveled to mission fields in sub-Saharan Africa, and reported on wars in Europe and North Africa, to mention only a few of their accomplishments. The goal of this study is to acquaint English-speaking readers with the narratives of these remarkable women whose works are not available in translation. Besides analyzing their travel narratives and the role of travel in their lives, Spanish Women Travelers includes many long excerpts translated into English for the first time.

Book Emilia Pardo Bazan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maurice Hemingway
  • Publisher : Ardent Media
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Emilia Pardo Bazan written by Maurice Hemingway and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1983 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of the Pen

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  • Author : Denise Merkle
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 3643501765
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The Power of the Pen written by Denise Merkle and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection investigates the relations between translation and different forms and systems of censorship that were operating in nineteenth-century Europe. The volume presents and discusses broadly the research findings of translation studies scholars from a total of nine countries. Contributors have studied not only the apparati of power that enforce censorship but also the symbolic dimension that as well as being inherent to systems is also an explicit activity on the part of decision makers. The nineteenth century has been very neglected in studies of translation censorship to date. This volume addresses this gap in research, showing how discourse was filtered by official and unofficial censorship mechanisms against a background of massive political and technological change. The volume brings together eleven essays on censorship of literature, philosophy and the press in Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Russia and Spain. Publisher's note.

Book Intersected Identities

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  • Author : Erica Segre
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781845452919
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Intersected Identities written by Erica Segre and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present - from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers - this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.

Book Todo sobre la t  cnica de la ilustraci  n

Download or read book Todo sobre la t cnica de la ilustraci n written by Equipo Parramón Paidotribo and published by Parramón Paidotribo. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cada título de esta serie está dedicado a una técnica (acuarela, óleo, acrílica, pastel, etc.), tal y como reza el enunciado de la colección. Se trata de un conjunto de libros en cada uno de los cuales se explican de forma detallada y exhaustiva todos los aspectos que necesita saber para conseguir conocer a fondo la técnica en cuestión y poder así pintar con ella con soltura y dominio. Los volúmenes están estructurados de forma enciclopédica, a base de capítulos monográficos que contienen pequeños apartados. Todas las explicaciones se acompañan de la ilustración correspondiente al objeto de que ningún tema quede sin comprensión. Los volúmenes se cierran con un índice detallado para facilitar la consulta, la utilidad y el manejo de cada tomo, que viene a ser un vademécum con todo el acopio de conocimientos sobre la técnica en él tratada.

Book Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico

Download or read book Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico written by Juan Pedro Viqueira Albán and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. These new ideas, it has been assumed, brought a relaxation of social customs. But Viqueira Alban takes this assumption, and raises the question: Was it really a period of relaxation of social customs, in this age of growth without development? He discovered that the movement of rural workers and their families to urban centers created a concern within the church and government hierarchy about the threat of disorder, leading to the need for new social restraints. This new text is ideal for colonial Latin American survey courses, courses on the history of Mexico and Latin American literature, and courses on the popular culture and social history of Latin America.

Book Alphabetical Finding List

Download or read book Alphabetical Finding List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford  K T

Download or read book Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford K T written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by London : Philatelic Literature Society. This book was released on 1911 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

Download or read book The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment written by Kostas Gavroglu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.

Book Bibliotheca Lindesiana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transnational South America

Download or read book Transnational South America written by Ori Preuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America: the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis, and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued, brought segments of South America’s capital cities not only close to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the national and regional levels.

Book Francisco Goya

Download or read book Francisco Goya written by Hugh Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pen Drawing

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  • Author : Charles Donagh Maginnis
  • Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Pen Drawing written by Charles Donagh Maginnis and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on 1903 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: