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Esta Antología de Jarchas contiene el conjunto de las jarchas actualmente conocidas. La palabra jarcha significa en árabe «salida». Las jarchas son breves textos romances (en escritura aljamiada) antecedentes de los «villancicos», las coplas y cantares. Van al final de unos poemas en árabe o hebreo llamados moaxajas. Este género apareció en Andalucía al término del siglo IX y comienzos del X y la tradición atribuye a Muqadamm ben Musafa...
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Artes poéticas españolas es un compendio de observaciones sobre la poesía y sus formas más difundidas. La presente antología contiene textos de los siguientes autores:
Enrique de Villena (Cuenca, 1384-1434)
Juan de la Encina (Salamanca, 1469-1529)
Cristóbal de Castillejo (1492-1550)
Juan de la Cueva (Sevilla, 1543-1612)
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this...
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Je serai tout au long de ma vie
de deux rives,
de deux continents,
de deux mondes,
comme les lèvres d'une plaie ouverte.
Mais c'est ici que je vivrai,
ici que je travaillerai,
ici que grandira mon fils,
ici que ma fille aura des enfants.
Vous m'avez accueilli un jour
et j'ai saisi la chance à bout de bras.
J'ai peiné.
J'ai sué.
J'ai pleuré.
Je veux rire et vivre maintenant.
J'ai reçu.
Je donnerai.
Nommez votre combat
et j'en serai....
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Se publican en este volumen una serie de comunicaciones sobre el teatro medieval de la península Ibérica que se presentaron en el XI Colloquium de la Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre Médieval (Elx, 2004). En ellas se examina el rico y complejo panorama del teatro medieval peninsular desde diversos ángulos: desde la teatralidad folclórica y la espectacularidad ceremonial a los textos dramáticos escritos en la frontera entre...
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Los historiadores de los teatros español e italiano se han mostrado tradicionalmente poco proclives a establecer puentes que permitan los estudios comparativos entre dos teatros tan ricos y complejos, más allá de algunas épocas (el siglo XVI) o autores concretos (Goldoni, Pirandello). Y, sin embargo, se trata de dos tradiciones dramáticas que presentan puntos de contacto a lo largo de prácticamente toda su historia. La época medieval, la renacentista....
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Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the...
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In 1969 a small group of US scholars began discussing the possibility of starting a consortium of Western European Studies programmes. Europe was increasingly becoming an object of study and it was felt that greater coordination of the intellectual effort would help avoid duplication and further the acceleration of research. So began the Council for European Studies.
In commemoration of the founding of the Council fifty years ago, this volume brings...
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What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian...
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Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan's writing-and that Celan's writing has come to mark for others (Hamacher, Derrida, Szondi)-thus call for a new philology. This philology cannot be situated within presupposed genres or fields but rather explores the ways in which poetic and philosophical ambitions meet in...
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This edition of the Fables and Parables has been reset from the original book from 1846 which was published by James Burns in London.
The original spelling and grammar have been intentionally retained in order for the reader to get a feel for the culture of the time. As mentioned in the original introduction above, these fables were originally written in German and here translated into English. The editor of this edition came across this little book...
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There are huge opportunities for Britain in a world where the global middle class is expected to treble to five billion people in the next two decades. This text brings together leading experts, business leaders, entrepreneurs and politicians with ideas for how Britain can thrive in this context, building an inclusive and broad-based economy.
Contributions focus on the changing global context and discuss how government can work with business to generate...
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This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 “The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature”. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian...
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The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore...
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This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965, the socially-critical crime novel has figured prominently in Scandinavian culture, and found hundreds of millions of readers outside Scandinavia. But...
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The contributors ask the following questions:
• What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
• How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?
• What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?
• What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting...
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Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women's writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have experienced or reflected upon the experience of transnational...
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Richard Zenith, the author of Pessoa: A Biography, is a prolific translator of Portuguese and Brazilian poets and writers.
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain
The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close...
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Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.
The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers-Sarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano, George Perec, Henri Raczymow, and Irene Nemirovsky-whose novels and memoirs capture and probe the absences of deported Paris Jews. These writers move their...
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Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today?
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