Author: Francisco MARCOS (a Convict.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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A satirical masterpiece, "The Visions of Quevedo" offers a glimpse into Spanish literature through the lens of Francisco de Quevedo. With sharp wit and keen observations, Quevedo critiques society, human nature, and the world around him, making this work a significant contribution to classic literature. His perspective offers a fresh take on traditional themes.

Author: George Ticknor
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
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Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042917545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In the terms of Durheimian sociology, conversion is a fait social. Although they are rarely treated as a cultural phenomenon, conversions can obviously be examined for the norms, values and presuppositions of the cultures in which they take place. Thus conversion can help us to shed light on a particular culture. At the same time, the term evokes a dramatic appeal that suggests a kind of suddenness, although in most cases conversion implies a more gradual process of establishing and defining a new - religious - identity. From 21-24 May 2003, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'Cultures of Conversion'. The contributions have been edited in two volumes, which pay special attention to the modes of language and idiom in conversion literature, the meaning and sense of religious-ideological discourse, the variety of rhetorical tropes, and the effects of the conversion narrative with allusions to religious or political conventions and idealizations. The present volume contains theoretical contributions on the theory of conversion, with special attention to the rational choice theory, and on the history of research into conversion. It also offers stimulating case studies, ranging from the late Middle Ages to present times and taken from Germany, Great Britain and The Netherlands. The other volume, Cultures of Conversion, offers in-depth studies of conversion that are mainly taken from the history of India, Islam and Judaism, ranging from the Byzantine period to the new Muslimas of the West.

Author: Gongora
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521051125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Many students of Spanish literature will have encountered some of Góngora's poems. No Spanish poet is grater or more rewarding, but few are as difficult for the beginner. His style is a habit of mind: radically metaphorical, elliptical, witty, highly sensuous, transmuting the world of the sense into a world of the spirit. To read him, one has to learn these characteristic habits and perform athletic mental feats as one goes along. It would be too easy to say that Professor Jones has made Góngora 'easy'; but he has certainly made him more accessible. A long introduction briefly deals with Góngora's life, and then gives solid critical guidance to the poems. It includes passages of sustained and detailed analysis which explain how characteristic poems 'work' and it incorporates original insights and research. The notes are full and are designed to help the reader through the difficulties by offering critical comment.

Author: Edith Randam Rogers
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081316429X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the plot reaches a turning point. In her original and far-reaching study of such familiar narrative elements, Edith Randam Rogers adds much to our understanding of poetic expression in the ballad tradition. In focusing on individual motifs as they appear in different ballads, different languages, and different periods, Rogers proves the existence of a reliable lingua franca of symbolism in European balladry. Lines or even whole stanzas that have defied interpretation often come to life when the reader is aware of the meaning of a particular motif in such an international vocabulary of images. Thus this book makes available important new critical tools sure to have significant results for ballad scholarship.