Making Modern Spain
Making Modern Spain

Author: Azariah Alfante

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1684484979

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In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Böhl de Faber (Fernán Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, and José María de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain’s liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.

Delphi Collected Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Illustrated)

Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2023-03-13

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 1801701091

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The late Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is considered one of the first modern Spanish poets. His ‘Rimas’ (Rhymes) are celebrated for their sensitive, restrained and deeply subjective quality. Bécquer’s poetry tackles themes of love, disillusionment and loneliness, while exploring the mysteries of life and poetry. In contrast to the rhetorical and dramatic style of the Romantic period, Bécquer’s lyricism, in which assonance predominates, is simple and airy. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Bécquer’s collected works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bécquer’s life and works * Concise introduction to Bécquer’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry was first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Multiple translations of the ‘Rimas’: Owen Innsly, 1882; Mason Carnes, 1891 * Includes the original Spanish texts, edited by Everett Ward Olmsted in 1909, with hyperlinked footnotes and a vocabulary glossary * Excellent formatting of the poems * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Also includes Bécquer’s seminal romantic and gothic legends * Features a bonus biography — discover Bécquer’s world CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Brief Introduction: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1891) by Mason Carnes From the Spanish of Gustavo Bécquer (1882) by Owen Innsly Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Rendered into English Verse (1891) by Mason Carnes The Fiction Romantic Legends of Spain (1909) The Spanish Texts Legends, Tales and Poems (1909) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer The Biography Life of Bécquer (1907) by Everett Ward Olmsted Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

Sí/pero no: La poesía de Bécquer
Sí/pero no: La poesía de Bécquer

Author: Giannina Braschi

Publisher: Costa-Amic Editores

Published: 2022-05-27

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 607851895X

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Las rimas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, así como su obra en prosa, ponen de relieve la polaridad, la contradicción, el continuo vaivén de la esperanza y la desilusión. La estructura de sus poemas responde, en la medida de su lógica interna (sí/pero no), a la misma ley de contradicción que existe en los estratos profundos del espíritu. El problema de la vida y el amor se plantea y se une con su visión del mundo. La vida, o la experiencia, puede ser bella o fea, buena o mala. Toda experiencia abre una última dualidad insuperable, que desgarra la unidad de la existencia. En su coyuntura interna, lo uno anula lo otro; un mismo objeto o sentimiento puede ser motivo de entusiasta afirmación y al mismo tiempo de apasionada negación. Su poesía es delirio alegre o reconcentrado dolor; el ritmo psicológico oscila entre impulsos contrarios. La acumulación de las antítesis profundiza los estados internos. El alma se debate entre opuestos: la razón y la pasión; la alegría y el dolor; la esperanza y la desesperanza.

Admiration and Awe
Admiration and Awe

Author: Antonio Urquízar-Herrera

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0192518011

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This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been discussed as a phenomenon of architectural hybridisation. However, this was a period in which the construction of a Spanish national identity became a key focus of historical discourse. As a result, cultural hybridity encountered partial opposition from those seeking to establish cultural and religious homogeneity. Spain's Islamic past became a major concern in this period and historical writing served as the site for a complex negotiation of identity. Historians and antiquarians used a range of strategies to re-appropriate the meaning of medieval Islamic heritage as befitted the new identity of Spain as a Catholic monarchy and empire. On the one hand, the monuments' Islamic origin was subjected to historical revisions and re-identified as Roman or Phoenician. On the other hand, religious forgeries were invented that staked claims for buildings and cities having been founded by Christians prior to the arrival of the Muslims in Spain. Islamic stones were used as core evidence in debates that shaped the early development of archaeology, and they also became the centre of a historical controversy about the origin of Spain as a nation as well as its ecclesiastical history.

The Spanish Eye
The Spanish Eye

Author: Robert Havard

Publisher: Tamesis Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781855661431

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The guiding principle of this title is that the 'sister arts' of painting and poetry are mutually illuminating, their common currency being the visual image. Five masters - El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Picasso and Dali - are discussed, with a view to distinguishing what is peculiarly Spanish in their way of looking at reality.

Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture
Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Author: Alice Isabella Sullivan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9004538461

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This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.