Book Description
Essays on key aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual life in early modern Spain.
Author : Nigel Griffin
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Spain
ISBN : 9781855660809
Essays on key aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual life in early modern Spain.
Author : Teofilo F Ruiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317888898
Spanish Society depicts a complex and fascinating country in transition from the late Middle Ages to modernity. It describes every part of society from the gluttonous nobility to their starving peasants. Through anecdotes, a lively style and portraits of figures such as St Teresa of Avila and Torquemada, the book reflects the character and humour with which the common Spaniard endured an often-wretched lot. Beginning with a description of the geography, political life, and culture of Spain from 1400 to 1600, the unfolding narrative charts the country's shifts from one age to the next. It unveils patterns of everyday life from the court to the brothel, from the 'haves' of the aristocracy and clergy to the 'have nots' of the peasantry and the urban poor. Historical records illuminate details of Spanish society such as the transition from medieval festivities to the highly-scripted spectacles of the early modern period, the reasons for violence and popular resistance and the patterns of daily living: eating, dressing, religious beliefs and concepts of honour and sexuality. This compelling account includes historical examples and literary extracts, which allow the reader direct access to the period. From the street theatre of village carnivals to the oppressive Spanish Inquisition, it gives an abiding sense of Spain in the making and renders vivid the colours of a passionate history.
Author : Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
"Over the past several years, a series of extraordinary cutting edge developments have taken place in Golden Age Spanish studies. Important new issues have been addressed--and conceived--in innovative ways: questions of gender and sexuality; concepts of self and other; political and social contexts of literary production and reception. While these investigations have already begun to have a significant impact on our current reconceptualization of culture in general and Spanish culture in particular, they have until now been somewhat overly dispersed, even fragmented--in large part because of their very nature as rethinkings, as experimental. The present volume constitutes a collective examination of these kinds of key cultural issues within the historically specific context of Golden Age Spain, configured around the central question of authority."--Marina S. Brownlee, from the Preface. In a wide-ranging series of essays, the contributors to this volume bring recent critical and theoretical perspectives to bear on our understanding of culture in Golden Age Spain, focusing on the related notions of authority, authorship, selfhood, and tradition in Spanish culture. This book will appeal to Hispanists and comparatists interested in contemporary perspectives on the literature and culture of medieval and Renaissance Spain as well as to medievalists and Renaissance specialists interested in Spanish literature. Contributors: La Schwartz Lerner, Jos Regueiro, Edward H. Friedman, Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Marina S. Brownlee, Paul Julian Smith, Harry Sieber, Robert ter Horst, Ruth El Saffar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Diana de Armas Wilson, Walter Cohen, Joan Ramn Resina, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
Author : Helen Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198151999
This work adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its study of 20th-century Spanish culture and society, emphasizing contemporary developments. The contributors take into account major recent changes which have taken place in the context of higher education Spanish studies.
Author : Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Spain
ISBN :
This book is for those who feel the need to relate to what they see and hear around them every day in Spain. Not an encyclopedia or text book on Spanish culture, it presents 34 topics of interest in a readable way - giving an inside look into the country's politics, history, arts, traditions, cuisine and folklore.
Author : Barry Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317835883
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Philip V. Martin-Clark
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Spain
ISBN :
Author : Barry Jordan
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780340731222
Focusing on the developments over the last twenty years in Spain, this stimulating book contains twenty-eight original essays, by recognized specialists, that offer a new interdisciplinary approach to contemporary Spanish culture and society. Combining overviews and case studies, the essays range widely over a diverse series of topic areas, including race, nationalism and identity, the media, gender and sex, religion, sport, and shopping. By providing students, scholars, and general readers entrance to the key debates and issues involved in contemporary Spanish culture, this volume represents a crucial landmark in the ongoing definition of the new field of Spanish Cultural Studies.
Author : Andrew Ginger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526124769
Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world
Author : Diana Arbaiza
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0268106959
In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as a form of cultural empire to symbolically compensate for Spain’s colonial decline but it was also imagined as an opportunity to materially regain the Latin American markets. Paradoxically, a central trope of Hispanist discourse was the antimaterialistic character of Hispanic culture, allegedly the legacy of the moral superiority of Spanish colonialism in comparison with the commercial drive of modern colonial projects. This study examines how Spanish authors, economists, and entrepreneurs of various ideological backgrounds strove to reconcile the construction of Hispanic cultural identity with discourses of political economy and commercial interests surrounding the movement. Drawing from an interdisciplinary archive of literary essays, economic treatises, and political discourses, The Spirit of Hispanism revisits Peninsular Hispanism to underscore how the interlacing of cultural and commercial interests fundamentally shaped the Hispanist movement. The Spirit of Hispanism will appeal to scholars in Hispanic literary and cultural studies as well as historians and anthropologists who specialize in the history of Spain and Latin America.