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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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El hidalgo de la Mancha es una versión del Quijote escrita por los siguientes autores del Siglo de oro:
Juan de Matos Fragoso (Alvito, 1608-Madrid, 1689). Portugal.
Estudió filosofía y jurisprudencia en la Universidad de Évora y luego se marchó a Madrid, donde fue amigo de los principales dramaturgos de la época. Pasó un tiempo en Italia, donde se representó alguna comedia suya en la corte del virreinato de Nápoles. Estuvo siempre bien relacionado...
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Este libro nació en Instagram. Un día nos reunimos y salió la idea de preparar una antología de relatos que nuestros seguidores habían escrito en este tiempo. No tenían que ser necesariamente argumentos relacionados con el Covid, pero sí brindar un escaparate donde poder mostrar sus trabajos. Y este es el resultado. Hay gran pluralidad de temas; cada autor, con su estilo propio, ha conformado una muestra muy interesante y ecléctica. También...
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Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in the 21st-century. Patty Hart, whose The Spanish Sleuth...
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Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.
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This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well...
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Tras el espejo la musa escribe reúne las voces poéticas de doce escritoras seglares y religiosas de los siglos XVI y XVII que, apropiándose cauta y sigilosamente de los códigos y retórica al uso, desafían el canon de las letras masculinas para desestabilizarlo y, a la postre, subvertirlo.
Las escritoras seglares, siguiendo la tradición de la querelle des femmes, critican la inconstancia y traiciones de los hombres, se mofan de sus pretensiones...
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Este volumen reúne las intervenciones del conversatorio "Los futuros de Fernando Pessoa" (octubre de 2011), actividad que congregó a Ani Bustamante, Julio del Valle, Jerónimo Pizarro y Jorge Wiesse en la Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Perú). Además de estos textos críticos, se incluyen traducciones de poesías y prosas de Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa, 1888—1935), con las obras originales en espejo. Tradujeron los poemas y las prosas Jerónimo...
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María Baranda and Paul Hoover present revitalized translations of some of the most beloved poems of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs-and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell-that take God as the beloved. Erotically charged, initially scandalous, his...
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This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain. For the first time in English, this volume traces the key narrative works, authors and themes of this small but significant territory. Goa, a Portuguese colony between 1510 and 1961, was the site of a particular and particularly intense meeting of West and East. The problematic yet productive encounter between...
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The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.
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The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and detailed critical commentaries. Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo receive particular attention, but other poets such as Aldana, Lope de Vega...
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Blindness tells the story of a group of people who, for some unknown reason, suddenly lose their sight. They are all sent to an asylum where the inmates quickly turn to violence and force to get what they want. As tensions grow and people become increasingly dehumanized, everybody wants to escape. But without knowing what caused the blindness epidemic, how can anybody...
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The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers' works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and...
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