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1	Modern Spanish Prose: With a Selection of Poetry more books like this by Gustave W Andrian add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.78! \| SVS
2	Huellas de Las Literaturas Hispanoamericanas more books like this by John F Garganigo, Ben Heller, Rene De Costa add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $20.55! new only from $88.00! \| SVS
3	Stories from Mexico: Historias de Mexico more books like this by Genevieve Barlow, Barlow Genevieve, Stivers William add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.94! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Pocket Mirror of Heroes more books like this by Baltasar Gracian y Morales, Christopher Maurer (Translator) add to wishlist 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". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Passion According to G.H. more books like this by Clarice Lispector, Ronald W Sousa (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.50! new only from $19.50!
6	Poems of Fernando Pessoa more books like this by Fernando Pessoa, Susan M Brown (Editor), Edwin Honig (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector: The Differance of Desire more books like this by Earl E Fitz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.59! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer more books like this by Richard Graham (Editor) add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions
9	Lectures on Don Quixote more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.14! new only from $11.74! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Brazilian Literature more books like this by Claude L. Hulet add to wishlist see all copies from $3.75! new only from $79.76! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca more books like this by C Brian Morris add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry more books like this by Elizabeth Bishop (Editor), Emanuel Brasil (Editor) add to wishlist Bishop compiled this important collection after she went to live in Brazil and became familiar with its literature, in the 1950s. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $16.65! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Always Astonished more books like this by Fernando Pessao, Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of literary manifestos, selected letters and journals, short fiction, and critical essays by the celebrated Portuguese poet and accountant. see all copies from $5.98! new only from $59.86! \| first editions
14 view cover	Lorca's Granada: A Practical Guide more books like this by Ian Gibson add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.09! new only from $11.64! \| first editions
15	The Pearl Necklace: Toward an Archaeology of Brazilian Transition Discourse more books like this by Roberto Reis add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism more books like this by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Joseph R Jones (Editor), Kenneth Douglas (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $8.16! new only from $197.79!
17 view cover	Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition more books like this by James Mandrell add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! new only from $42.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age more books like this by Paul Julian Smith add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $26.10! new only from $125.64! \| SVS
19 view cover	El Medico de Su Honra more books like this by Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Pedro Calderon de La Barca add to wishlist see all copies from $6.72! new only from $13.63! \| SVS
20	Historia de La Literatura Espanola more books like this by J. L. Lopez Garcia add to wishlist see all copies from $10.94! new only from $176.98!
21 view cover	Borges on Writing more books like this by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (Editor), Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Halpern (Editor) add to wishlist Borges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, ... see all copies from $7.33! new only from $7.81! \| first editions
22 view cover	Tales of Seduction: The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture more books like this by Sarah Wright, Juliet Mitchell (Preface by) add to wishlist Don Juan is one of the intriguing creations of Western literature. A subject of countless revisions over the centuries, he seems a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as the legendary seducer of women, charismatic rogue and trickster. A potent icon of male sexual energy, he crosses cultures, from east to west.The ... see all copies from $70.67! new only from $70.67! \| SVS
23 view cover	La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth more books like this by Sandra M Cypess, Sandra M Cypress add to wishlist Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernan Cortes, Dona Marina - La Malinche - Malintzin. The mother of Cortes' son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but ... see all copies from $9.14! new only from $26.63! \| SVS
24	Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction more books like this by Carroll B Johnson add to wishlist see all copies from $4.14! new only from $44.34!
25 view cover	Contemporary Mexican Women Writers: Five Voices more books like this by Gabriella De Beer add to wishlist 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 María 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 ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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