Author: Robert Folger
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823360063
Category : Castile (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Fernán Pérez de Guzmán
Publisher: Catedra Ediciones
ISBN: 9788437616636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : es
Pages : 200

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" Generaciones y semblanzas " nos presenta treinta y cinco personajes seleccionados por el criterio personal del autor. Se trata de reyes y reinas, nobles y prelados. A través del retrato y genealogía de todos ellos, Pérez de Guzmán, como perteneciente él mismo a la clase dirigente, transmite la ideología en la que se fundamenta la estructura social feudal que, en su opinión, debería seguir respondiendo a la rígida jerarquización estamentaria de defensores, oradores y labradores. El prólogo que acompaña a la obra supone una reflexión sobre el papel que deben desempeñar la historia y el historiador. Por ello ha sido considerado como el primer tratado castellano de historia.

Author: Jos? David SaldÕvar
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922745
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This collection of critical essays addresses the complex relationship between contemporary literature theory and Chicano literature„a literature that is not part of the traditional literary cannon. The contributors, including Yolanda Julia Broyles, H?ctor CalderÑn, Margarita Cotà-Càrdenas, Lauro Flores, Patricia de la Fuente, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, Jos? David SaldÕvar, RamÑn SaldÕvar, MarÕa I. Duke dos Santos, and Rosaura Sànchez, draw upon a diverse array of theories„Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist„to make fresh, critical comments, not only on Rolando HinojosaÍs work, Klail City Death Trip series, but also on literary theory today.

Author: Klaus Zilles
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The first comprehensive interpretation of the work of a major figure in Chicano literature, Klaus Zilles's study of the fourteen novels in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series will appeal equally to the specialist, to the student, and to the interested reader of Hinojosa's intriguing and innovative "Tejano" novels. The series is dedicated to revealing the suppressed oral history of Mexican Texas and to making the reader a companion on a quest for this elusive history. Published between 1973 and 1998, the Klail City series ranges in historical time from the mid-1700s to the end of the twentieth century, attesting to 250 years of Spanish-Mexican presence in the Lower Río Grande Valley of Texas. The main body of Hinojosa's series, however, is set in fictitious Belken County, located on the U.S./Mexico border, and charts the lives of Hinojosa's two protagonists, Rafe Buenrostro and his cousin, Jehú Malacara, two men raised in the rigidly segregated world of a South Texas farming community. The Klail City series constitutes a truly "novel" approach to the novel: each installment in the cycle differs from the one before it in genre (the adult Buenrostro becomes a police detective and appears in several mystery novels), in narrative style (one novel is written entirely in verse, while another takes epistolary form), or in language (Hinojosa writes in Spanish, in English, in Chicano idiom, and in mixtures of all three). Zilles accomplishment is to provide a critical guide to the complicated fictional world that Hinojosa creates. By showing the profusion of forms and styles Hinojosa deploys, Zilles reveals the true dimensions of Hinojosa's design. "What makes Zilles so refreshing is his style. . . . He writes in a language accessible to the average reader. His work is solid, informative, thoughtful, and useful. I recommend it highly."--Juan Bruce-Novoa, Harvard University

Author: David William Foster
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292724822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major new reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico's most significant and original contributions to literature. Recognizing that no one scholar can authoritatively cover so much territory, David William Foster has assembled a group of specialists, some of them younger scholars who write from the most current and emerging trends in Latin American and Mexican literary scholarship. The topics they discuss include pre-Columbian indigenous writing (Joanna O'Connell), Colonial literature (Lee H. Dowling), Romanticism (Margarita Vargas), nineteenth-century prose fiction (Mario Martin Flores), Modernism (Bart L. Lewis), major twentieth-century genres (narrative, Lanin A. Gyurko; poetry, Adriana Garcia; theater, Kirsten F. Nigro), the essay (Martin S. Stabb), literary criticism (Daniel Altamiranda), and literary journals (Luis Pena). Each essay offers detailed analysis of significant issues and major texts and includes an annotated bibliography of important critical sources and reference works.

Author: Margaretta Jolly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1141

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004341099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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This festschrift in Richard Kaeuper’s honor brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - from a variety of perspectives.

Author: Robert Folger
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Reconstructing the workings of colonial Spanish bureaucracy in the production of reports on individuals’ achievements, this book explores the interrelation of state-induced curricula vitae and individuals’ endeavor to outsmart this system in the genesis of modern forms of literature.

Author: Roberto Cantú
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527568644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, the essays propose a reexamination of Mexican American cultural history from a twenty-first century standpoint, written in English and approached from different analytical models and critical methods, but free of theoretical jargon. The essays range from biographies and memoirs by leading Chicano historians and studies of globalism during the rule of Imperial Spain (1492-1898), to the modern rise and global influence of the United States, particularly in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also included are critical studies of novels by Chicano, Latin American, and Caribbean writers who narrate and represent the dominant role played by the United States both within the nation itself and in the Caribbean, thus illustrating the historical parallels and relations that bind Latinos and Americans of Mexican descent. This book will be of importance to literary historians, literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in stimulating and unconventional studies of Mexican American cultural history from a global perspective.

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Languages : en
Pages : 608

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