La Obra Narrativa de Segundo Serrano Poncela

La Obra Narrativa de Segundo Serrano Poncela

Author: Gerardo Piña-Rosales

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 200

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This comprehensive work is devoted to the study of the literary production of Segundo Serrano Poncela, a writer who found himself in exile after the Spanish Civil War. Poncela's topics are not only about war and exile, but also his exploration of Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States.


An Etymological Vocabulary and Study of La Estoria de Los Godos, 1243

An Etymological Vocabulary and Study of La Estoria de Los Godos, 1243

Author: Linda Elizabeth Lassiter

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 144

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The Estoria de los godos is a paraphrase and summary of the Latin text DeRebus Hispaniae, or Historia Gothica, written by Archbishop don Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada and completed in 1243. The creation of the Estoria de los godos was prompted by a genuine desire to afford the less learned inhabitants of Castile the opportunity to know more about the history of their culture and civilization. It served as a model for historiographers of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This etymological study of all the common names occurring in the text will serve to facilitate the reading comprehension of those interested in Spanish history who may have difficulty understanding and interpreting the language of the 13th century.


The Flamenco Tradition in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura

The Flamenco Tradition in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura

Author: Rob Stone

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

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This study explores the meaning and importance of flamenco in the works of two of the most important and influential figures in 20th-century Spanish culture, the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca and the film-maker Carlos Saura. Lorca and Saura shared a fascination for flamenco as a medium for the existential ideology of the marginalized and disenfranchised and this work evaluates the development of these themes through a close, contextual study of their works, which are linked explicitly by Saura's film adaptation of Lorca's Bodas de sangre and, more profoundly, by their use of flamenco to express ideas of sexual and political marginalization in pre- and post- Francoist Spain respectively. The study demonstrates that an understanding of the symbolism, visual style, characters, themes and performance system of flamenco is key to a greater understanding of the social, sexual, political and existential themes in the works of Lorca and Saura.


The Esperpento Tradition in the Works of Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Luis Buñuel

The Esperpento Tradition in the Works of Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Luis Buñuel

Author: Diane M. Almeida

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 138

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This work analyses Valle-Inclan's works, defines precisely what the term esperpento means, and what technique Valle-Inclan used to achieve his aesthetic. The second part examines the manner in which Valle-Inclan's esperpento blends with Bunuel's surrealistic films, particularly Un Chien andalou, L'age d'or and Tierra sin pan.


History of Trial by Jury in the Spanish Legal System

History of Trial by Jury in the Spanish Legal System

Author: Carmen Gleadow

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 372

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This work traces the emergence of the jury in 19th-century Spain and its establishment and disappearances throughout 190 years of Spanish history. The text is interdisciplinary, placing the successive Spanish jury laws within a general political and social context. It includes material on the origins of the echevinat and addresses issues not confronted by Spanish or other jurists, and it questions received wisdom.


Three Dominican Pioneers in the New World

Three Dominican Pioneers in the New World

Author: Antón de Montesinos

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 100

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This essay and the translation of original Spanish texts places the early Dominican contribution into focus. It examines the time span from 1510 to about 1548. It is divided into three main sections: activities on the Island of Espanola and their echo in Spain; activities in Mexico proper and Guatemala; and missions to the Mixtecs in Oaxaca and environs.


History and Autobiography in Contemporary Spanish Women's Testimonial Writings

History and Autobiography in Contemporary Spanish Women's Testimonial Writings

Author: Sarah Leggott

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

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This monograph explores the biographical and autobiographical works of seven 20th-century Spanish women writers: Josefina Aldecoa, Mercedes Formica, Dolores Ibarruri, Pilar Jaraiz Franco, Federica Montseny, Constancia de la Mora, and Isabel Oyarzabal de Palencia. Literary and political figures, these women contest traditional versions of Spanish history through their published works, and offer different perspectives on the role of women within that history. They address the past from diverse ideological standpoints - communism, republicanism, socialism, anarchism and fascism. The text examines the construction of the identity of the female historical subject within a specific sociopolitical context, drawing on relevant critical work from the fields of historicism, feminism and cultural studies.