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Book Rancho de Amor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Harder
  • Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 151326432X
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Rancho de Amor written by Dan Harder and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern Western romance for fans of Jane Austen and Zane Grey, Rancho de Amor brings city sensibilities and country values together in a tale rich with wit, irony, and self-discovery. In a last-ditch effort to save a New York publishing house facing imminent closure, editor Catherine Doyle travels across the country to the small town of Sisquoc, California, in search of the famous Loretta de Bonnair, an elderly recluse and breakout author of the bestselling romance novel that has the nation in a fervor. Despite her own disappointment with love and misgivings about the novel, Catherine’s determined to beat out the competition to offer Ms. de Bonnair a book deal she can’t refuse. But as Catherine wanders the town interviewing the locals, she slowly realizes something: no one has ever seen the mysterious author. Not even the post office has her address. The only clue to Ms. de Bonnair seems to come in the form of a certain handsome blue-eyed cowboy with a penchant for bar fights. But if Catherine wants to save her job and the publishing house, she’ll have to get closer to this stranger, even if it means trusting him.

Book The Novels of Juan de Flores and Their European Diffusion

Download or read book The Novels of Juan de Flores and Their European Diffusion written by Barbara Matulka and published by Slatkine. This book was released on 1974 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calder  n

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert ter Horst
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813158826
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Calder n written by Robert ter Horst and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias—118 in all—have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of these works, a sustained, meditative analysis dealing with more than 80 plays, conveying a sense of the whole of Calderón's secular theater. To approach so vast a body of literature, Mr. ter Horst examines the meaning and function in Calderón of three broad subjects—myth, honor, and history—the warp threads across which the playwright weaves a subtle tapestry of contrasts, dualities, and conflicts: the private person versus the public person, the inner realm versus the outer, masculine against feminine, poet against prince. The Calderón who emerges is a consciously consummate artist whose lifelong study was the passions of the human mind and body. In addition, he is seen as a synthesizer of his Spanish literary heritage and especially as a brilliant adapter of Cervantes' insights to the stage. Robert ter Horst's profound and far-ranging analysis sheds light on many fine works previously neglected and finds new depths in such supreme achievements as No hay cosa como callar, El segundo Escipión, and La vida es suefio.

Book The Wild Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Husband
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 0870992546
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Wild Man written by Timothy Husband and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1980 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queer Iberia

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  • Author : Josiah Blackmore
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999-08-12
  • ISBN : 0822382172
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Queer Iberia written by Josiah Blackmore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed from Muslim to Christian hands. To show how sexual otherness is most evident at points of cultural conflict, the contributors use a variety of methodologies and perspectives and consider source materials that originated in Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese. Covering topics from the martydom of Pelagius to the exploits of the transgendered Catalina de Erauso, this volume is the first to provide a comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation-building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia. Some essays consider archival evidence of sexual otherness or evaluate the use of “deviance” as a marker for cultural and racial difference, while others explore both male and female homoeroticism as literary-aesthetic discourse or attempt to open up canonical texts to alternative readings. Positing a queerness intrinsic to Iberia’s historical process and cultural identity, Queer Iberia will challenge the field of Iberian studies while appealing to scholars of medieval, cultural, Hispanic, gender, and gay and lesbian studies. Contributors. Josiah Blackmore, Linde M. Brocato, Catherine Brown, Israel Burshatin, Daniel Eisenberg, E. Michael Gerli, Roberto J. González-Casanovas, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Mark D. Jordan, Sara Lipton, Benjamin Liu, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Michael Solomon, Louise O. Vasvári, Barbara Weissberger

Book The Awakening of Man

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  • Author : Daath Gnosis
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2014-03-18
  • ISBN : 1304951413
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book The Awakening of Man written by Daath Gnosis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of diverse lectures centered around the theme of the three factors of the revolution of the consciousness. Published in 1979. "Read this booklet, casual reader, and you can be sure you have got in your hands a Wisdom which can convert you into a Superman, which gives you power in order to break all the chains that bind you to vices and pleasures, paths which lead to the devastation. Here is the fulcrum of Archimedes that he had asked for in order to move the universe." "Lee este librito, lector ocasional y puedes estar seguro que ha llegado a tus manos una Sabiduría que puede convertirte en Superhombre, que te da poder para romper todas las cadenas que te atan a vicios y placeres, caminos que conducen a la devastación. Aquí tienes el punto de apoyo que pedía Arquímedes para mover el universo."

Book Spanish Literature

Download or read book Spanish Literature written by David William Foster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Book A New Dictionary  Spanish and English  and English and Spanish

Download or read book A New Dictionary Spanish and English and English and Spanish written by John Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Live Flesh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Santiago Fouz-Hernández
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2007-06-29
  • ISBN : 0857714430
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Live Flesh written by Santiago Fouz-Hernández and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-Franco Spain, a re-shaping of notions of the masculine has been under way for some time. The authors of "Live Flesh" demonstrate how contemporary Spanish films, during this modern period, have contributed to this process. They do so by visualizing the ways in which Spanish men have been abandoning old self images and adopting new ones, and they explain and explore the complexity and diversity of these fresh cinematic creations of masculine identities. The book's point of focus is Spanish films of the democratic period, both popular and auteur, made by directors of national and international prominence, such as Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Bigas Luna or Julio Medem, as well as films featuring acclaimed actors who have contributed to the construction of contemporary ideas of the masculine in their country, including Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem. Using a fresh theoretical framework, embracing queer and feminist theory and concepts of nation, race and class, each chapter examines key films that represent the male body, highlighting notable elements - young, muscular, homosexual, (dis)abled, foreign and so on - and goes on to focus on recent case studies from the early 1990s to the present. An increasingly transnational Spanish cinema is a most promising field in which to explore questions of how male bodies are represented - and mediated - in film. "Live Flesh" more than fulfils this promise and goes further, to reveal how these representations have intervened in the Spanish cultural imagination.

Book Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy  Spain  and Portugal

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy Spain and Portugal written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Italian Madrigal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Einstein
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-06
  • ISBN : 0691627533
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book The Italian Madrigal written by Alfred Einstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr. Einstein, renowned musicologist, supplies a background and a sense of proportion to the field: he gives the right order to the single composers in the evolution fo the madrigal, attaches new values to old names, and places in the foreground the outstanding, but until now rather neglected, personality of Cipriano de Rore. His work is not, however, purely musicological; his object is to inquire into the functions of secular music in Italian life during the Cinquecento, and to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of that great century in general. Translated from the German by Oliver Strunk, Roger Sessions and Alexander H. Krappe. Originally published in 1948. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Within Our Gates

Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Part 1   C  Group 3  Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 C Group 3 Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights  Library of Congress  at Washington  D C

Download or read book Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights Library of Congress at Washington D C written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Corpus Delicti

Download or read book The Corpus Delicti written by Josefina Ludmer and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-06-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual tour de force from one of today’s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation. Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining the relationship of crime and punishment to the formation of law, the body, and the modern state, exposing the ways in which literature—both high art and mass culture—can help construct, not just represent, social reality. Covering a dazzling array of primary sources, social history, and cultural theory, this provocative work is also a structural masterpiece, challenging readers as it charts new roles for text and notes. In this redefined dialogue, the notes variously offer alternate views, additional insights, and, often, parallel commentaries. Glen Close’s stylish translation captures the energy of Ludmer’s prose—simultaneously subtle and daring—for English-language readers.

Book A Companion to Celestina

Download or read book A Companion to Celestina written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to Celestina, Enrique Fernandez brings together twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions on the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, popularly known as Celestina (c. 1499) written by leading experts who summarize, evaluate and expand on previous studies. The resulting chapters offer the non-specialist an overview of Celestina studies. Those who already know the field will find state of the art studies filled with new insights that elaborate on or depart from the well-established currents of criticism. Celestina's creation and sources, the parody of religious and erudite traditions, the treatment of magic, prostitution, the celestinesca and picaresque genre, the translations into other languages as well as the adaptations into the visual arts (engravings, paintings, films) are some of the topics included in this companion. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Raúl Álvarez Moreno, Consolación Baranda, Ted L. Bergman, Patrizia Botta, José Luis Canet, Fernando Cantalapiedra, Ricardo Castells, Ivy Corfis, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Enrique Fernandez, José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Ryan D. Giles, Yolanda Iglesias, Gustavo Illades Aguiar, Kathleen V. Kish, Bienvenido Morros Mestres, Devid Paolini, Antonio Pérez Romero, Amaranta Saguar García, Connie Scarborough, Joseph T. Snow, and Enriqueta Zafra.