Cartas de Luis Mariano de Larra a Manuel Castellano y a Manuel Catalina
Author: Luis Mariano de Larra y Wetoret
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Published: 1860
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Author: Luis Mariano de Larra y Wetoret
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Published: 1860
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carmen Martín Gaite
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780520070431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was customary for the wife of a nobleman in eighteenth-century Spain to be courted fervently and seemingly forever, by a man who was not her husband. This liaison, accepted and even encouraged by the husband, was presumably platonic, though that may not always have been the case. It was carried on according to a complex, if ambiguous, code of companionship and whispered conversation. With the help of a lively blend of archival documents and literary sources, Carmen Martín Gaite admits us to the intricacies of the code and unravels its significance for the women who enjoyed the attention of a cortejo, or escort. Why was the cortejo tolerated, by society and by the woman's aristocratic family, even though it infringed traditional religious precepts? What did woman and her friend talk about at such length? Was their flirtation intellectual, reflecting the effects of Enlightenment rationalism on Spanish culture? Letters, memoirs, and travel journals as well as dramatic works of the period offer invaluable clues to the nature of these relationships, in which the woman was almost ritually adored and placed on a pedestal. The conversation, we learn, was generally frivolous, focusing on possessions and luxuries in a way that clearly signals economic change and the dawn of a material age. At the same time, the cortejo did represent a taste of symbolic liberation for women whose social lives were rigidly constrained. Clarifying details from a great variety of historical sources are presented with the urgency and fluidity of a novel in this excellent English translation -- Book jacket.
Author: Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1558852514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents essays dealing with literature written by Hispanic Americans from the sixteenth century through 1960, evaluates individual authors, and examines the contributions of Latino authors in a multicultural, multilingual society.
Author: John A. Crow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-05-10
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780520244962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA readable and erudite study of the cultural history of Spain and its people.
Author: James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Thatcher Gies
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Juan Pro
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845199821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin America has historically been a fertile ground where utopian projects, movements, and experiments could take root and thrive. Each of the thirteen authors in this collective volume address a particular case or specific aspect of Latin American utopianism from colonial times to the present day. The America that the Spanish and Portuguese discovered became, from the sixteenth century onwards, a space in which it was possible to imagine the widest variety of forms of human coexistence. Utopias in Latin America reconsiders the sense and understanding of utopias in various historical frames: the discovery of indigenous cultures and their natural environments; the foundation of new towns and cities in a vast colonial territory; the experimental communities of nineteenth-century utopian socialists and European exiled intellectuals; and the innovative formulae that attempts to get beyond twentieth-century capitalism.
Author: Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2022-08-29
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1478022973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Méxicos—the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the extraordinary power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church to Mexico’s uneven postrevolutionary modernization, from chronic economic and political instability to its rich cultural heritage. Bringing together over eighty selections that include poetry, folklore, photo essays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, journalism, and scholarly writing, this volume highlights the voices of everyday Mexicans—indigenous peoples, artists, soldiers, priests, peasants, and workers. It also includes pieces by politicians and foreign diplomats; by literary giants Octavio Paz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Carlos Fuentes; and by and about revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. This revised and updated edition features new selections that address twenty-first-century developments, including the rise of narcopolitics, the economic and personal costs of the United States’ mass deportation programs, the political activism of indigenous healers and manufacturing workers, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mexico Reader is an essential resource for travelers, students, and experts alike.
Author: Mariano Catalina
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Published: 1874
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Nicholson
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2010-05-26
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0307490157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. He is a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately engrossed in reading about Napoleon’s costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love for a new anthology. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albee’s best family dramas, The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.