Author: Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author: Edward Loomis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462832164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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The book tells the story of an investigator whose views change dramatically as his knowledge of Spain quite dramatically grows in the course of a few years. He comes under the influence of the Catholic Church, very directly, as an experience that repeats itself in certain holy Spanish places. This is a personal reaction. But it is a religious reaction. He accepts it as such. He comes to a better sense of the Royalist tradition in both politics and living, he feels the strength of it in Spain, and its usefulness in the day-to-day of the country. Above all, he comes to realize the beautiful way the Spanish miracle is conducting itself. The Republican Cause is everywhere triumphant. There's a new Democracy out there. As peacetime flowers, Spain is flowering. in a democracy of an ideal type. There is a benevolent king. The old country has decreed some novelty in old vessels and fabrics still stained with the blood of savage conflict, and ventured into the domain of the New, as well. The investigator plunges into all this strangeness, and is charmed by what he finds. In this book, the study of poets is in collaboration with the doings of a Participant Observer as in Cultural Anthropology. At all times a true report is attempted, and editing has been drastically limited, mostly to correcting obvious solecisms or mis-steps. The principal bias will be noticeable to any reader, it is a love of Spain and of the Spanish language and of some Spanish people. The book tells a story--but the author of the book is not the author of the story. That comes from the way things are, in Soria and Baeza, in Seu de Orgell and Madrid, in the mountains and on the plains, and in the language left behind by the genius of this wonderful people

Author: Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465523375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Author: Theodore F. Price
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Louis Stanley Young
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Stephen Rupp
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood. In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes’s plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes’s works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction.

Author: Robert Auty
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547720
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1471

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Author: Diego Saglia
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319644564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by nineteenth-century poets such as Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, S.T. Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Felicia Hemans in contrast to the Enlightenment-era view of Spain as a backwards nation in decline. Topics discussed include the vision of Spain in Gothic fiction, Spanish experiences of exile as exemplified by the conflict between Valentin de Llanos and Joseph Blanco White, and British women writers' approach to peninsular fiction. Spain in British Romanticism: 1800-1840 is essential reading for scholars and enthusiasts of Romantic literature and Spanish history.

Author: Waldo David Frank
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Scenes from the spiritual drama of a great people.