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Regards sur les Espagnoles créatrices (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 308

Si la nécessité d’améliorer l’instruction des femmes a trouvé très tôt de nombreux défenseurs, il semble qu’il n’ait pas été aussi facile, pour beaucoup et pendant longtemps, de les imaginer aptes à la création. Pour preuve cette affirmation péremptoire de Voltaire, dans ses Questions sur l’Encyclopédie : « On a vu des femmes très savantes comme il en fut de guerrières ; mais il n’y en eut jamais d’inventrices ». En Espagne, aux carences éducatives (plus durables qu’ailleurs, peut-être) s’ajoute le poids des préjugés et des habitudes mentales qui se traduisent par des actes et des discours en réaction à la création féminine. En retour, les femmes qui s’engagent dans une expérience littéraire ou artistique tiennent un discours aux significations variées, voire contradictoires : désir de se justifier, de s’excuser, de s’affirmer ou de se cacher derrière un pseudonyme masculin ; discours sincère ou trompeur, comme le montrent parfois des discordances entre déclarations publiques et confessions privées. L’étude de ces interactions entre le contexte socio-politique espagnol et la création féminine, du XVIIIe au XXe siècle,...

Concurso y consorcio

Autor: Russell P. Sebold

Número de Páginas: 272

La vida y la escritura en el siglo XVIII

Autor: Mónica Bolufer Peruga

Número de Páginas: 337

Este libro parte de un enigma: desvelar la identidad de la autora de uno de los más importantes textos críticos sobre la condición de las mujeres de su época, la 'Apología de las mujeres' (1798), un ensayo cuya audacia contrasta con la oscuridad que rodea las circunstancias de su aparición. ¿Quién era Inés Joyes? ¿Con qué recursos y a través de qué negociaciones con los valores y prácticas de su tiempo pudo una mujer, en la España del siglo XVIII, dotarse de una voz propia? Para responder a estas preguntas, se reconstruye su vida, su contexto social e intelectual, español y europeo, y su breve pero significativa obra: la 'Apología de las mujeres', de la que ofrecemos por primera vez una edición crítica, y la traducción de la novela filosófica 'Rasselas' de Samuel Johnson, cuyas afinidades con su traductora se exploran detenidamente.

El Eustaquio

Autor: Antonio Montiel

Número de Páginas: 262

Galdós Studies II

Autor: Robert J. Weber

Número de Páginas: 100

Arts of Perception

Autor: Jeremy Robbins

Número de Páginas: 333

Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European thought and the new science, and philosophy, the study considers how they developed various ‘arts of perception’ - complex perceptual strategies designed to overcome and exploit epistemic problems to enable an individual to act effectively in the moral, political, social or religious sphere. The study takes as its subject the distinctive epistemological mentality behind such ‘arts of perception’. This mentality was fostered by the creative interaction of scepticism and Stoicism, and found expression in the key concepts ser/parecer and engaño/desengaño. The work traces the emergence, development, and impact of these concepts on Spanish thought and culture. As well as offering new interpretations of specific major figures, Arts of Perception offers an interpretation of the mentality of an entire culture as it made the fraught transition to intellectual modernity. As such it ranges...

Amadis in English

Autor: Helen Moore

Número de Páginas: 413

A volume on the readership and reception of Amadis de Gaula, an influential Spanish chivalric novel dating from the fourteenth century, from Tudor England to the twentieth century.

Dios en la naturaleza

Autor: Camille Flammarion

Número de Páginas: 418

Reimpresión del original, primera publicación en 1878.

Introduccion á la filosofía y preparacion á la metafísica

Autor: Guillaume Tiberghien

Número de Páginas: 452

A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

Autor: Xon De Ros , Geraldine Hazbun

Número de Páginas: 424

This volume presents an overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of women's studies, including original essays by pioneering scholars as well as by younger specialists. New pathfinding models of theoretical analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of the historical foundations of women's studies.

De amor y política

Autor: Josep Maria Sala-valldaura

Número de Páginas: 554

El propósito de este libro es establecer las líneas generales de la tragedia neoclásica española y examinar sus obras y aspectos más relevantes. El autor atiende especialmente al período comprendido entre 1766 y 1773, los años en que el teatro recibió el apoyo institucional del conde de Aranda como presidente del Consejo de Castilla, y compara ese período con los primeros pasos de la tragedia y con la evolución posterior, que se diluye sin grandes rupturas hasta el triunfo del romanticismo. Se tratan en el libro las cuestiones relacionadas con la lección y la argumentación, aparecen referencias a la preceptiva y a la política cultural, y consideraciones sobre la recepción y sobre la influencia de la tragedia clásica francesa, presente a través de las traducciones. Se recoge en un apéndice una relación de las tragedias del siglo XVIII por orden alfabético de autores, con algunos comentarios particulares sobre las obras más destacadas.

Spain and Its Literature

Autor: Ann L. Mackenzie

Número de Páginas: 396

Besides an Introduction, Bibliography and "Centenary Reappraisal", eighteen original articles by respected Hispanists from Britain, Spain and the United States have been collected in this homage volume. A high proportion of articles reflect Peers’ major interests in mysticism and the Romantic Movement. Part I, From the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro, includes essays that deal with Francisco de Osuna’s "higher memory", the "Dark Night" of San Juan de la Cruz, Judaeo-Islamic traditions in Luis de León and Miguel de Molinos’ Spiritual Guide. Part II, From the Dawn of Romanticism to the Twentieth Century, contains articles concerned with writers, works or themes as: Sánchez’s Colección and Percy’s Reliques, Rivas and tragedy, El moro expósito, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Victor Hugo and "La Nonne sanglante". An article, dealing comparatively with Goytisolo and Zorrilla, which provides "A Missing Link in the Dis-affiliation of a Post-Romantic Expatriate in Revolt?" aptly concludes the volume.

The Emerging Female Citizen

Autor: Theresa Ann Smith

Número de Páginas: 348

Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800s. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias—similar to French salons—and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies.

The Catholic Labyrinth

Autor: Peter Mcdonough

Número de Páginas: 408

At the heart of Catholicism's resistance to change in the U.S. is the equation of hierarchical authority with traditional gender roles, especially the subordination of women. This book traces the variably confrontational and incremental strategies of advocacy groups as they struggle to reconcile an age-old culture with the onslaughts of modernity.

Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta

Autor: Harriet S. Turner

Número de Páginas: 156

A new critical introduction to Galdos' four-part masterpiece set in Madrid in the 1870s.

Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature

Autor: Elizabeth Smith Rousselle

Número de Páginas: 208

Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.

Annual Report

Autor: National Endowment For The Humanities

Número de Páginas: 176

Foucault and Latin America

Autor: Benigno Trigo

Número de Páginas: 330

Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to tracethe influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse,government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin Americanthought.

Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

Autor: Ann L Mackenzie , Jeremy Robbins

Número de Páginas: 278

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars, all of which are focused on elucidating the Enlightenment and its characteristic manifestations in the Hispanic world. Among the Enlightenment writers and artists, works and genres, themes and issues discussed, are: Nicolás Moratín and epic poetry, Lillo’s The London Merchant and English and French influences on eighteenth-century Spanish drama, José Marchena and literary historiography, oppositions and misunderstandings within Spanish society as reflected in El sí de las niñas, Goya and the visual arts, Quintana’s Pelayo and historical tragedy, Enlightenment discourse, the Periodical Press, theatre as propaganda, the ideology and politics of Empire, the roots of revolt in late viceregal Quito, women’s experience of Enlightenment in Spain, social and cultural difference in colonial Peru, ideological debate and uncertainty during the Age of Reason, eighteenth-century Spain on...

General Register

Autor: University Of Michigan

Número de Páginas: 1146

Announcements for the following year included in some vols.

The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain

Autor: Keith David Howard

Número de Páginas: 184

Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restructuring of the language of European political thought, in chapter 2 Dr. Howard shows how, before his works were prohibited in Spain in 1583, Spaniards such as Fadrique Furi Ceriol and Balthazar Ayala used Machiavelli's new vocabulary and theoretical framework to develop an imperial discourse that would be compatible with a militant understanding of Catholic Christianity. In chapters 3, 4 and 5 he demonstrates in detail how Giovanni Botero, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, and their imitators in the anti-Machiavellian reason-of-state tradition in Spain, attack a straw figure of Machiavelli that they have invented for their own rhetorical and ideological purposes, while they simultaneously incorporate key Machiavellian concepts into their own advice. Keith David Howard is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida...

Dualism and Polarity in the Novels of Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Autor: Margaret Pol Stock

Número de Páginas: 168

The Last Frontier

Autor: Karl S. Guthke

Número de Páginas: 419

The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.

Sacred Realism

Autor: Noël Valis

Número de Páginas: 367

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.

Report

Autor: National Endowment For The Humanities

Número de Páginas: 252

Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque

Autor: Evonne Levy , Kenneth Mills

Número de Páginas: 367

Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another. Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from...

Italic and Romance Linguistic Studies in Honor of Ernst Pulgram

Autor: Ernst Pulgram , Herbert J. Izzo

Número de Páginas: 362

The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal, Spanish, Romanian and Sardinian.

University of Michigan Official Publication

Número de Páginas: 1138

Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Autor: Thomas C. Neal

Número de Páginas: 205

How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Americas seeks to answer this question by examining how novels, plays and short stories imagined and contested core notions about enlightened knowledge. Expanding upon recent transatlantic and postcolonial approaches to Spain's Enlightenment that have focused mostly on historiographical and scientific texts, this book disputes the long-standing perception of the Spanish Enlightenment as an "imitative" movement best defined best by its similarities with French and British contexts. Instead, through readings of major and minor texts by authors such as José Cadalso, Gaspar Melchor Jovellanos, Pedro Montengón and José María Blanco White, Writing the Americas argues that literary texts advanced a unique exploration of the compatibility between supposed universal principles and local histories, one which often diverged noticeably from dominant trends and patterns in Enlightenment thought elsewhere. The authors studied often drew directly from Spain's own imperial experiences to submit prevailing ideas about culture, commerce,...

Writing from History

Autor: Timothy Hampton

Número de Páginas: 327

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Modernity's Metonyms

Autor: Geraldine Lawless

Número de Páginas: 297

Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach—exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy, historiography, to natural history—Modernity's Metonyms moves beyond the consideration of nineteenth-century Spanish literary modernity in terms of the problem of representation. Through an exploration of the associations prompted by three themes, the railway, food, and suicide, it argues that literary modernity can be considered as the expression of the perception that a linear model of time bringing together the past, the present and the future, was fragmenting into a proliferation of simultaneous moments. It draws French, German, American and British writers into discussion of stories by the canonical author Alas, and Ros de Olano, an author who is receiving increasing attention from scholars of nineteenth-century Spanish literature. Recent scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture has challenged the thesis of "retraso," the thesis that ...

Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities

Autor: National Endowment For The Humanities

Número de Páginas: 176

Infortunate

Autor: Susan E. Klepp , Billy G. Smith

Número de Páginas: 196

The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey ...: The University of Michigan, 1940-1975

Autor: University Of Michigan

Número de Páginas: 260

Galdos

Autor: Jo Labanyi

Número de Páginas: 277

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period. Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-rangting introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to each piece and helpful appendix material.

Mindscapes, the Geographies of Imagined Worlds

Autor: George Edgar Slusser

Número de Páginas: 326

Eighteen essays plus four examples from the ninth annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature at the University of California, Riverside. The concept of mindscape, Slusser and Rabkin explain, allows critics to focus on a single fundamental problem: "The constant need for a relation between mind and some being external to mind." The essayists are Poul Anderson, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Ronald J. Heckelman, David Brin, Frank McConnell, George E. Slusser, James Romm, Jack G. Voller, Peter Fitting, Michael R. Collings, Pascal J. Thomas, Reinhart Lutz, Joseph D. Miller, Gary Westfahl, Bill Lee, Max P. Belin, William Lomax, and Donald M. Hassler. The book concludes with four authors discussing examples of mindscape. The participants are Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Gregory Benford, Gary Kern, and David N. Samuelson.

Galdós and Beethoven

Autor: Vernon A. Chamberlin

Número de Páginas: 140

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Autor: Baltasar Gracian

Número de Páginas: 214

The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.

The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain

Autor: Philip B. Thomason , Ceri Byrne

Número de Páginas: 277

Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain. Representing ten years of searches and compilation by its specialist authors, this volume draws together data on more than 1,500 books, articles and documents concerned with Spanish eighteenth-century theatre. Studies of plays and playwrights are included as well as material dealing with theatres, actors and stagecraft. Wherever possible, items listed have been personally examined, and their library location in Britain, Spain or USA is provided. Scholars with interests in drama will find in this single-volume work of reference a wealth of reliable information concerning this specialist field.