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Book Abel Sanchez and Other Stories

Download or read book Abel Sanchez and Other Stories written by Miguel De Unamuno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into three of Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's most haunting parables. This essential Unamuno reader begins with the full-length novel Abel Sanchez, a modern retelling of the story of Cain and Abel. Also included are two remarkable short stories, The Madness of Doctor Montarco and San Manuel Bueno, Martyr, featuring quixotic, philosophically existential characters confronted by the dull ache of modernity. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan and with an insightful introduction by Mario J. Valdes

Book Outlines of General Chemistry

Download or read book Outlines of General Chemistry written by Wilhelm Ostwald and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Iberian Civilization

Download or read book A History of Iberian Civilization written by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno  Volume 1

Download or read book Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno Volume 1 written by Miguel de Unamuno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Unamuno's first novel, published in 1897, when he was 33. Its setting is the Basque country of northern Spain during the Second Carlist War (1874--1876), a conflict he lived through as a child. Originally published in 1983. 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 The Precarious

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  • Author : M. Catherine de Zegher
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780819563248
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Precarious written by M. Catherine de Zegher and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two works in one. this is an exquisite art book offering the first comprehensive treatment of Vicuna's work in English.

Book Bibliograf  a descriptiva de estudios cr  ticos sobre la obra de Emilia Pardo Baz  n

Download or read book Bibliograf a descriptiva de estudios cr ticos sobre la obra de Emilia Pardo Baz n written by Robert M. Scari and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography consists of a complete list of articles and books dealing with all the works of this major 19th century Spanish author. Each entry is accompanied by a comprehensive summary of its essential facts and claims. An indispensable aspect of the work is the thoroughly cross-referenced index of subjects which allows the user to judge, on the basis of indicated treatment depth, the desirability of closer inspections. - All entries in Spanish, with English and Spanish prefaces.

Book Blood Of Spain

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  • Author : Ronald Fraser
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-06-30
  • ISBN : 1448138183
  • Pages : 873 pages

Download or read book Blood Of Spain written by Ronald Fraser and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured. And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. 'Fascinating and brilliantly unorthodox. ' Hugh Thomas, author of THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.

Book The Poisoned Water

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  • Author : Fernando Benítez
  • Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Poisoned Water written by Fernando Benítez and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation makes avail­able to English-speaking readers a power­ful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico's 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by build­ing it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest. The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the "poisoning" of the water as one of Don Ulises's men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feed­ing on itself, the rumor spreads that the "boss" has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico's major social problems and glaring ironies--that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.

Book Public Pages

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  • Author : Marcy Schwartz
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1477315187
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Public Pages written by Marcy Schwartz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, the reading programs all use public space, distribute creative writing to a mass public, foster collective rather than individual reading, and provide access to literature in unconventional arenas. The first international study of contemporary print culture in the Americas, Public Pages reveals how recent cultural policy and collective literary reading intervene in public space to promote social integration in cities in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. Marcy Schwartz looks at broad institutional programs such as UNESCO World Book Capital campaigns and the distribution of free books on public transportation, as well as local initiatives that produce handmade books out of recycled materials (known as cartoneras) and display banned books at former military detention centers. She maps the connection between literary reading and the development of cultural citizenship in Latin America, with municipalities, cultural centers, and groups of ordinary citizens harnessing reading as an activity both social and literary. Along with other strategies for reclaiming democracy after decades of authoritarian regimes and political violence, as well as responding to neoliberal economic policies, these acts of reading collectively in public settings invite civic participation and affirm local belonging.

Book Instan

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  • Author : Cecilia Vicuña
  • Publisher : Kelsey Street Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Instan written by Cecilia Vicuña and published by Kelsey Street Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Includes drawings by the writer. Cecilia Vicuna's INSTAN is composed in handwrittenlines that move across the page with the instantaneousfeeling of marks in a private journal, the booktransmits the energy of her performative works, wherethread and poetic lines play at being one. The word/drawings are certain and fragile. In theirpower to preserve and transform, they offer hope inart and daily speech for radical change. "Cecilia Vicuna, born and raised in Santiago de Chile, has been an exile since the early 1970s. Vicuna has never accepted the boundaries between cultural disciplines, creating a terrain of her own ..." Lucy Lippard, "The Precarious" The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuna."

Book Del sentimiento tr  gico de la vida

Download or read book Del sentimiento tr gico de la vida written by Miguel de Unamuno and published by Editorial Verbum. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel de Unamuno reflexiona hondamente en este ensayo sobre la condición del hombre a principios del siglo XX, analizando la trayectoria cultural, filosófica y religiosa que lo ha llevado, a través de los siglos, hasta ese momento histórico. Con gran profundidad, Unamuno recoge y rebate, en su caso, algunas de las corrientes de pensamiento que se han ido sucediendo a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, desde el clasicismo griego hasta las más modernas teorías del siglo XX. Unamuno trata además la problemática de la divinidad y llega a la conclusión de la necesidad espritual de creer en un Dios personal.

Book After Human Rights

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  • Author : Fernando J. Rosenberg
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2017-03-30
  • ISBN : 0822981432
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book After Human Rights written by Fernando J. Rosenberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity by attempting to address and supplement the state's inability to embody and enact justice. Rosenberg argues that since the topics of emancipation, identity, and revolution no longer define social concerns, Latin American artistic production is now situated at a point where the logic and conditions of marketization intersect with the notion of rights through which subjects define themselves politically. Rosenberg grounds his study in discussions of literature, film, and visual art (novels of political re-foundations, fictions of truth and reconciliation, visual arts based on cases of disappearance, films about police violence, artistic collaborations with police forces, and judicial documentaries.) In doing so, he provides a highly original examination of the paradoxical demands on current artistic works to produce both capital value and foster human dignity.

Book Our America

Download or read book Our America written by Waldo David Frank and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acoustic Properties

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  • Author : Tom McEnaney
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-15
  • ISBN : 081013540X
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Acoustic Properties written by Tom McEnaney and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States’ 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wright’s cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduy’s radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castro’s Radio Rebelde, FDR’s fireside chats, Félix Caignet’s invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Perón’s populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welles’s experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. “radio wars,” and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williams’s proto–black power Radio Free Dixie. From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power.

Book The Great Woman Singer

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  • Author : Licia Fiol-Matta
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-06
  • ISBN : 0822373467
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Great Woman Singer written by Licia Fiol-Matta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"—an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.

Book Delirious Consumption

Download or read book Delirious Consumption written by Sergio Delgado Moya and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

Book Short Stories by the Generation of 1898 Cuentos de la Generaci  n de 1898

Download or read book Short Stories by the Generation of 1898 Cuentos de la Generaci n de 1898 written by Miguel de Unamuno and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 13 short stories by 5 authors of the era include 4 tales by Miguel de Unamuno along with the works of Valle-Inclán, Blasco Ibánez, Baroja, and "Azorín" (José Martínez Ruiz).