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“michael armstrong roche”

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  • Cervantes' Epic Novel

    Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles

    by Michael Armstrong-Roche ...
    Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists.This ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • A Pocket Mirror for Heroes

    by Baltasar Gracian ...
    Translated by Christopher Maurer ...
    A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Cultural Hermeneutics

    Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

    by Mario Valdes ...
    In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno and Ricoeur shared in their hermeneutic studies was a theory of interpretation in which the meaning of ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • After Translation

    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

    by Ignacio Infante ...
    Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Terms of Response

    Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory

    by Robert Montgomery ...
    This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges Dumézil to be fundamental to the belief systems of widely distributed Indo-European peoples, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

    by Mary E Barnard ...
    Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Magellan Fallacy

    Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

    by Adam Lifshey ...
    Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa.The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centers and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through archival research and comparative ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Spanish Islam

    A History of the Moslems in Spain

    Translated by Francis Griffin Stokes ...
    by Reinhart Dozy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Islam
    Originally published in 1913, this book contains the English translation of Reinhardt’s Dozy’s notable work, Histoire des Musalman’s d’Espagne. First published in 1861, this comprehensive work chronicles the extensive history of Islam in Spain. The introduction by the translator provides a useful overview of Reinhardt’s Dozy’s life and career.This comprehensive work will be of interest to those ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity

    Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay

    by Cara Levey ...
    Series Book 3 - Cultural Memories
    Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges memory’s propensity for engagement beyond the cultural sphere – this study shifts the focus away from ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives

    Edited by Ignacio Bosque ...
    Series series Theoretical Developments in Hispanic Lin
    Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax—as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects—of exclamations on ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Writing Teresa

    The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo

    by Denise DuPont ...
    Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Food Matters

    Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain

    by Carolyn A. Nadeau ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”Through an inventive and original engagement with this text, Carolyn A. Nadeau explores the shifts in Spain’s cultural and gastronomic history. ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD