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  • Cervantine Futures

    Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn

    by Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, Luis F. Avilés, Margaret E. Boyle, Israel Burshatin, Susan Byrne, David Castillo, William Egginton, Ana Fernández-Blázquez, Pablo García Piñar, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Catherine Infante, Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González, Ana Laguna, Chad Leahy, Maxim Rigaux, Luis Rodríguez Rincón, Victor Sierra Matute, Elizabeth Spragins, Cornesha Tweede, Steven Wagschal ...
    Cervantine Futures places the writings of Miguel de Cervantes into conversation with some of the most pressing issues in cultural studies, critical theory, and sociopolitical discourse of the last decade. Assembling a diverse range of prominent and emerging scholars in the field, this volume stakes a claim for Hispanism’s place in the growing scholarly movement to vindicate pre- and early ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Jaguar

    by Steven Wagschal ...
    Series Book 115 - Animal
    Jaguars have long captivated human imagination, inspiring awe, fear and reverence across the Americas and beyond. This book examines both the biology and behaviour of this iconic apex predator and the deep cultural history of human-jaguar interactions, from prehistoric civilizations to the modern era. Drawing on artefacts, literature and textual sources in English, Spanish, French, Latin, Mayan ... Read more

    $22.09 CAD

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  • Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds

    A Cognitive Historical Analysis

    by Steven Wagschal ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Beyond Sight

    Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750

    Edited by Steven Wagschal, Ryan D. Giles ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian authors and thinkers from the pre- and early modern periods. Medievalists delve into the poetic ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • Essays of Montaigne

    {Complete & Illustrated}

    by Michel Montaigne ...
    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Read more

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  • Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

    by Susan Byrne ...
    Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • They Need Nothing

    Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period

    by Robert Richmond Ellis ...
    The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Prison of Love

    Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century

    by Emily C. Francomano ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.In The Prison of Love, Emily Francomano offers the first comparative study of this sixteenth-century work as a transcultural, ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Front Lines

    Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World

    by Miguel Martínez, Miguel Martinez ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios, on colonial American frontiers ... Read more

    $78.99 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

  • Edging Toward Iberia

    by Jean Dangler ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study of Iberia’s complex heterogeneity.In Edging Toward Iberia Jean Dangler argues that new tools and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Songs of a Friend

    Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal

    Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD