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Stories from Mexico: Historias de Mexico
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Genevieve Barlow, Barlow Genevieve, Stivers William
These 16 legends, drawn from 1500 years of Mexican history are told in Spanish and English, on facing pages, and with end vocabulary lists in both languages.
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Modern Spanish Prose: With a Selection of Poetry
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Gustave W Andrian
For use in upper-level courses in Spanish Conversation and Composition, Spanish Conversation, and Intermediate Spanish. This collection of prose works and poetry by famous Hispanic authors features intellectually mature and appealing selections whose brevity and simplicity of style do not require adaptation, simplification, or abridgment. The ...
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Huellas de Las Literaturas Hispanoamericanas
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John F Garganigo, Ben Heller, Rene De Costa
For one-semester introduction courses on selected masterpieces of Latin American Literature, or two-semester survey courses on the literatures and cultures of Latin America, or as a reader in more advanced genre courses. Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literatures - from pre-Colombian times to the ...
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The Pocket Mirror of Heroes
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Baltasar Gracian y Morales, Christopher Maurer (Translator)
Offering advice that will elevate mere leaders into larger-than-life heroes bold enough to accept greatness, the author of The Art of Worldly Wisdom creates a recipe for heroism and instructs readers in how to be guided by their wits and "spiritual cunning".
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Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer
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Richard Graham (Editor)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights, and brilliant literary innovations. Yet, ...
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The Passion According to G.H.
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Clarice Lispector, Ronald W Sousa (Translator)
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Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector: The Differance of Desire
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Earl E Fitz
Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanise many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between ...
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Always Astonished
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Fernando Pessao, Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig (Translator)
A collection of literary manifestos, selected letters and journals, short fiction, and critical essays by the celebrated Portuguese poet and accountant.
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El Medico de Su Honra
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Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Pedro Calderon de La Barca
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Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca
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C Brian Morris
Through exhaustive research and painstaking readings in a wide range of anthologies of Andalusian folk culture and collections of popular verse, author C. Brian Morris reveals how Lorca transformed and veiled real people and real places in his poetry and drama. Exploring subjects ranging from medieval ballads to flower and plant lore, he further ...
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Selected poems
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Fernando Pessoa
The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and ...
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Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Joseph R Jones (Editor), Kenneth Douglas (Editor)
Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, "Don Quixote" is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval ...
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Brazilian Literature
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Claude L. Hulet
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An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry
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Elizabeth Bishop (Editor), Emanuel Brasil (Editor)
Bishop compiled this important collection after she went to live in Brazil and became familiar with its literature, in the 1950s.
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Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa, Susan M Brown (Editor), Edwin Honig (Editor)
Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely different in subject, temperament, and style. This volume brings ...
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Lorca's Granada: A Practical Guide
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Ian Gibson
This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the village of Fuente Vaqueros to the site of his assassination, at the beginning of the Civil War, in the foothills outside the city. The author investigates the ...
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Lectures on Don Quixote
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Vladimir Nabokov
A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.
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The Pearl Necklace: Toward an Archaeology of Brazilian Transition Discourse
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Roberto Reis
In his book-length publication in English, Roberto Reis re-evaluates the Brazilian literary canon, stressing the authoritarian undercurrent in much of that country's cultural discussion and rejecting the idea that literature has been a force for positive social change. Reis analyzes 8 works of fiction written during what he calls the "transition ...
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Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
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Paul Julian Smith
This book, the first study of its kind to adopt a post-structuralist viewpoint, offers new readings of the major texts of the Spanish Renaissance, or Golden Age. Beginning with a comparison of Renaissance and modern theories of discourse, the main substance of the book appeals to terms borrowed from Jacques Derrida for the analysis of the three ...
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Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa
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Josiah Blackmore
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Historia de La Literatura Espanola
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J. L. Lopez Garcia
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The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems
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Adelia Prado
Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.
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Ambiguous Angels: Gender in the Novels of Galdas
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Catherine Jagoe
The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Perez Galdos, one of Spain's greatest modern novelists, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's study. Revising commonly-held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdos's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, arguing that after 1892 the muted feminist discourse of his early work ...
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Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction
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Carroll B Johnson
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Contemporary Mexican Women Writers: Five Voices
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Gabriella De Beer
Mexican women writers have moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Marķa Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the ...
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