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Book Viaje sentimental por Francia y por Italia

Download or read book Viaje sentimental por Francia y por Italia written by Laurence Sterne and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe

Download or read book The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe written by Peter de Voogd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Laurence Sterne.

Book The Shandean

Download or read book The Shandean written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Libre Acceso

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  • Author : Susan Antebi
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2015-12-02
  • ISBN : 143845967X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Libre Acceso written by Susan Antebi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film. Libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a much-needed framework to engage the representation, construction, embodiment, and contestation of human differences, and provides tools for the urgent resignification of a robust and diverse Latin American literary and filmic tradition. The contributors discuss such topics as impairment, trauma, illness and the body, performance, queer theory, subaltern studies, and human rights, while analyzing literature and film from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru. They explore these issues through the work of canonical figures Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves.

Book Restoration of Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Download or read book Restoration of Tropical Forest Ecosystems written by Helmut Lieth and published by Springer. This book was released on 1914 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of the tropical forests continues rapidly. We all know that this has global, ecological and economic consequences. The problem is of such magnitude that it can only be compared to warfare. The destruction of tropical forests is both detrimental to the global ecology as well as posing a serious threat to the people living in these areas. Furthermore, the overutilization of such a valuable resource poses a serious threat to the next generations. Besides the problem generated for the people in these regions, and for the earth in general, there is a moral obligation to preserve the vast biological diversity in the tropical forests. We have a commitment to all species on earth as well as man and, therefore, need to preserve as many as possible, if not all. This book discusses the problem from different angles: from forestry, ecology and nature conservation. The two main problem areas are: first the wise utilization of that portion of the forest which will be used - especially the introduction of planned forestry in such areas and second the development of a good plan for nature conservation in the tropics.

Book Tempus

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  • Author : Herald Weinrich
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2024-02-06
  • ISBN : 1531503365
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Tempus written by Herald Weinrich and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses—that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or writer—Tempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern texts from famous authors as well as casual speakers of German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and English, with a final chapter extending the observations to Greek, Russian, and world languages. A classic in German and long available in many other languages, Tempus launched a new discipline, text linguistics, and established a unique career that was marked by precise observation, sensitive cultural outreach, and practical engagement with the situation of migrants. Weinrich’s robust and lucid close readings of famous and little-known authors from all the major languages of western Europe expand our literary horizons and challenge our linguistic understanding.

Book Old Spain and New Spain

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  • Author : David Henn
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780838640159
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Old Spain and New Spain written by David Henn and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first, book-length study of the six travel narratives published by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literatures. Preliminary chapters focus on technical and thematic aspects of travel-writing, and on the author's approach to the genre. Cela's travel works, which appeared between 1948 and 1986, are examined in turn, with a focus on the construction of the narratives and also on the themes that are developed in each of them. There is an assessment of the author's treatment of topographical, cultural, historical, and social material in his accounts of the journeys he made through various areas and regions of Spain, as well as a consideration of the way in which these narratives reflect changes taking place in Spain during the Franco regime and in the decade following the dictator's death. David Henn teaches modern Spanish fiction, drama, and travel literature at University College London.

Book Juan Goytisolo

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  • Author : Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
  • Publisher : Tamesis Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781855661097
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Juan Goytisolo written by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses Goytisolo's contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and revises the prevailing critical interpretation of his fiction, arguing that his works represent an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory rather than an illustration of it. This monograph offers two new perspectives on Spanish writer, Juan Goytisolo. First, under the themes of authorship and dissidence, it integrates his writing across several genres, providing a rounded assessment of his contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and arguing that resistance to repressive discourses characterizes his essays and autobiographies as much as his fiction. Second, it revises the prevailing critical interpretation of Goytisolo's fiction by building on four premises: that his novels are less clearly oppositional than prevailing interpretations imply; that, in order to engage with discourses of identity, he employs an idiom which, contrary to his own statements, is not a poststructuralist autonomous world of words; that a textual practice grounded in the recognizable experience of post-Civil War Spain, rather than one which seeks out the realm of pure textuality, is essential to Goytisolo's subversive political intentions; and that the autobiographical element of much of his work constitutes a more complex narrative aesthetic than has been appreciated. The book argues that ifGoytisolo's work is interpreted as an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory, rather than as an illustration of it, then certain contradictions for which he has been criticized are seen in a new and valuable light. ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin.

Book The Pan American Book Shelf

Download or read book The Pan American Book Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La peque  a Dorrit

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  • Author : Charles Dickens
  • Publisher : Editorial Verbum
  • Release : 2023-02-10
  • ISBN : 8413379458
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book La peque a Dorrit written by Charles Dickens and published by Editorial Verbum. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La pequeña Dorrit cuenta la historia de una joven cuyo padre es encarcelado por deudas durante muchos años; de hecho, ella misma nace en la prisión y crece allí, aunque puede abandonarla cuando lo decide. Por otro lado, también se atiende a los avatares de Arthur Clennam, un hombre que se ha dedicado al negocio familiar en el extranjero y que regresa a Londres con el propósito de cambiar por completo de vida. Arthur conoce a Amy Dorrit en casa de su madre, que la ha contratado como costurera, y conoce así la desgraciada historia de la muchacha. Pronto ambos personajes entenderán que sus vidas tienen muchos puntos en común, y la suerte de ambos cambiará conforme vayan desarrollándose los acontecimientos.

Book Cerebro educado

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  • Author : Antonio M. Battro
  • Publisher : Editorial GEDISA
  • Release : 2016-09-21
  • ISBN : 849784971X
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Cerebro educado written by Antonio M. Battro and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoy en día, las neurociencias prosiguen su imparable avance en nuestra sociedad. Esta obra nos adentra en las capacidades de la educación cerebral, un concepto revolucionario que ya está siendo introducido en numerosos programas e instituciones. ¿Pero qué es la neuroeducación? Cerebro educado nos adentra en las novedosas tecnologías, métodos y conceptos de esta nueva disciplina. La primera parte del libro examina las tradiciones históricas y epistemológicas en torno al debate sobre mente/cerebro; la segunda parte proporciona una panorámica de las investigaciones más innovadoras hasta los avances más espectaculares en neuroimagen; en la tercera parte se indaga en las bases neuronales del lenguaje y las matemáticas en las diferentes culturas humanas. Con el rigor de grandes investigador en la materia, este libro explora las desconocidas posibilidades del más fascinante de nuestros órganos: el cerebro.

Book D  as de lluvia

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  • Author : Montserrat Lunati
  • Publisher : Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1910572292
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book D as de lluvia written by Montserrat Lunati and published by Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla. This book was released on 2018 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzâo or Cristina Fernâandez Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual collection published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernâandez Cubas, Paloma Dâiaz-Mas, Adelaida Garcâia Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puâertolas and Marâia Eugenia Salaverri. The present edition adds another four: Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsâe. The stories gathered in this second edition were written between 1980 and 2010, and testify to the richness and vitality of women’s writing in contemporary Spain. With the original texts in Spanish as well as facing-page English translations, an Introduction, notes, and bio-bibliographical information on each author, this volume is a useful tool for students of the Spanish language and culture at all levels. It includes a selection of secondary reading on Spanish women writers and a selection of anthologies of Spanish short stories since 1997"--

Book Javier Mar  as s Debt to Translation

Download or read book Javier Mar as s Debt to Translation written by Gareth Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Marías has explained many times that working as a translator of literary works from English into Spanish helped shape him as a writer. This study explores those claims by analysing two things: firstly, his translations themselves; and secondly, seeing how those translations have left discernible traces in his own fiction.

Book Iberian Interfaces

Download or read book Iberian Interfaces written by Antonio Sáez Delgado and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a key historical moment for literary and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal. Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1930, it analyses the contacts between Portuguese and Spanish writers and artists of this period, showing that, at least among the cultural elites, there were intense and fruitful dialogues across political and linguistic borders. The book presents the Iberian Peninsula as a complex and multilingual cultural polysystem in which diverse literary cultures coexist and are mutually dependent upon each other. It offers a panoramic view of Iberian literary and cultural history, encompassing not just Portuguese and Spanish literary productions, but also Catalan, Galician and Basque works. Combining a clear theoretical foundation with deep historical knowledge and references to specific texts and works, the book offers a thorough introduction to Iberian literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Book Cultural Organizations  Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero America

Download or read book Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero America written by Diana Roig-Sanz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book The Modern Language Journal

Download or read book The Modern Language Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews".

Book Fray Luis de Le  n

Download or read book Fray Luis de Le n written by Karl Vossler and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: