Performing al-Andalus
Performing al-Andalus

Author: Jonathan Holt Shannon

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0253017742

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Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage animates performers and aficionados in modern-day Syria, Morocco, and Spain, but with varying and sometimes contradictory meanings in different social and political contexts. As he traces the movements of musicians, songs, histories, and memories circulating around the Mediterranean, he argues that attention to such flows offers new insights into the complexities of culture and the nuances of selfhood.

A Love Renewed
A Love Renewed

Author: Joseph Alicea

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0595370926

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A Love Renewed is a collection of stories and wonderfully crafted letters that transports you seamlessly across three continents, as you experience the heat of passion, the depths of despair, the pain of loss, and the maturing of the hearts and minds of two lovers-Harry and Camille. Harry is a writer whose love for Camille seems to be overshadowed by his desire for literary success. Four stories written by Harry weave a picture of what's in his heart and mind. He takes you to Europe and the rich, blue southwest beaches of Spain, as he acquaints you with a culture rich in tradition and national identity. He then takes you to Texas, as two people, both searching for someone to touch their hearts, shed the truths of their pasts and find each other. Yet another tale of two families joined together takes you through the jungles of Venezuela in a race to stop a bio-terrorist from spreading his venom in the United States. Harry's strategy for recovering Camille's love is an intricate plan that is played out in colorful, romantic scenes that will carry you away and warm your heart.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Author: Henry Mills Alden

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 998

ISBN-13:

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Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Spanish Spaces
Spanish Spaces

Author: Ann Davies

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 184631822X

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Contemporary cultural geography and contemporary Spanish culture are married in this pioneering study of space and place. Spain's varied terrain—with complex negotiations between the rural, urban, and coastal—offers an ideal setting in which to explore questions of landscape, space, and place. In Spanish Spaces, Ann Davies draws on contemporary Spanish film and literature to explore Spain's sophisticated sense of its geographical and spatial self.

The Book of Lillith
The Book of Lillith

Author: eveline

Publisher: BalboaPress

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1452535787

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The search for the wholeness within. The Book of Lillith is a beautifully written odyssey of the journey of the soul searching for union with its human counterpart. The human part lost its memory along the way of growing up in the illusionary world that surrounds human kind. The dramas, traumas and pain that this world inherits, supply us with the motives and tools to find answers for our feelings of hopelessness, fear, loneliness and of being lost. By chiseling these illusions away, we become naked and open for the higher Self, the sacred within the soul to reunite in harmony with our human part. Here the human part recognizes the yearning has been toward union with its divine part all along. Julian & Lillith, soul and body, love and acceptance, thus creating a third entity. A life lived in awareness of our full potential, guided by our source of Love & Harmony, life as it was meant to be

Urwind
Urwind

Author: Bo Carpelan

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780810116184

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Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism; memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, monologues, and dialogues with the living and the dead coalesce in a complex layering of experience, past and present. Urwind is a construct worthy of Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and a painful chronicle of the ending of a love.

Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz

Author: Ann Davies

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1838717579

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Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penélope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies charts the development of Cruz's star persona both at home and abroad and the questions, difficulties and pleasures it inspires.