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A reflection on Federico Garcia Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world

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Courses dealing with the Spanish Civil War are given regularly in literature, foreign language, and history departments, in English and in Spanish. This volume helps instructors plan courses that exploit the interdisciplinary, multigeneric opportunities present in the period's aesthetic output. In thirty-five essays, contributors negotiate the complex relation between art and history in depictions of the war and its aftermath, exploring how me...

Similar to the term "kitsch" but evoking pretensions to elegance, "cursileria" and its role in the cultural life of modern Spain and the subjects of this work.

Similar to the term "kitsch" but evoking pretensions to elegance, "cursileria" and its role in the cultural life of modern Spain and the subjects of this work.

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Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided i...

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noel Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, "Sacred Realism" views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.