Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521232258
This volume looks at Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.
Author : Patrick H. Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1474226906
An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.
Author : Daniel Raposo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3031096592
This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, as well as musicology and other related areas. It especially focuses on the role of digital technologies, and on strategies fostering creativity, collaboration, education, as well as sustainability and accessibility in the broadly-intended field of design. Gathering the proceedings of the 8th EIMAD conference, held on July 7–9, 2022, and organized by the School of Applied Arts of the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, in Portugal, this book offers a timely guide and a source of inspiration for designers of all kinds, advertisers, artists, and entrepreneurs, as well as educators and communication managers.
Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108195628
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational poetry, and contemporary poetry. Part II contains six succinct essays on the major figures Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Octavio Paz. Part III analyses specific and distinctive trends within the poetic canon, including women's, LGBT, Quechua, Afro-Hispanic, Latino/a and New Media poetry. This Companion also contains a guide to further reading as well as an essay on the best English translations of Latin American poetry. It will be a key resource for students and instructors of Latin American literature and poetry.
Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0520318021
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199809259
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Author : Cecini, Ulisse
Publisher : Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8449072530
Studies on the Latin Talmud gathers the latest findings on the Latin translation of the Babylonian Talmud which was produced in Paris in the 1240s and eventually led to its condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1248. Prominent international scholars guide the reader through the historical circumstances of the translation, its methodology, the manuscript tradition and the intertextual relations with Latin and Hebrew sacred texts and commentaries (Latin and Hebrew Bible, Rashi, Church Fathers, Jewish and Christian commentators), thus giving unprecedented insight into this fundamental chapter of Christian-Jewish relations. Authors of the contributions are: Ulisse Cecini, Federico Dal Bo, Óscar de la Cruz Palma, Alexander Fidora, Ari Geiger, Annabel González, Görge Hasselhoff, Isaac Lampurlanés, Montse Leyra and Eulàlia Vernet.
Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691154910
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author : Karen Patricia Peña
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 1905981333
The volume explores how these three writers used poetry to oppose patriarchal discourse on topics ranging from marginalized peoples to issues on gender and sexuality. Poetry was a means for them to redefine their own feminized space, however difficult or odd it could turn out to be.
