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• Translation of Aura.
• English and Spanish.

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Part of the series Toronto Iberic 16;Toronto Iberic.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
• Warriors: epic and tragedy — Defenders: pastoral and satire — Captains and saints: lyric and romance — Soldiers and sinners: picaresque.

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• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 — Criticism and interpretation.
• War and literature — Spain — History — 16th century.
• War in literature.

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Part of the series Cambridge introductions;Cambridge introductions to literature.
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• In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature – its themes and forms, traditions and transformations – from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of the most influential writers within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in the original French and with an English translation. The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French literature — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Villon: a dying man 2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter 3. Montaigne: self-portrait 4. Corneille: heroes and kings 5. Racine: in the labyrinth 6. Molière: new forms of comedy 7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power 8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel 9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance 10. Rousseau: man of feeling 11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic 12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons 13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness 14. Balzac: ‘All is true’ 15. Hugo: the divine stenographer 16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris 17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes 18. Zola: the poetry of the real 19. Huysmans: against nature 20. Mallarme : the magic of words 21. Rimbaud: somebody else 22. Proust: the self, time and art 23. Jarry: the art of provocation 24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new 25. Breton and company: surrealism 26. Ce line: night journey 27. Sartre: writing in the world 28. Camus: a moral voice 29. Beckett: filling the silence 30. French literature into the twenty-first century Notes Further reading.
• Passages in French with English translation.

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• French literature — History and criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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Part of the series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies;Fordham series in medieval studies.
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• Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with medieval characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience — Provided by publisher.
• Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
• Introduction / Martin Chase — The sources of Merlínússpá: Gunnlaugr Leifsson’s uses of texts additional to the De Gestis Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth / Russell Poole — The genesis of Strengleikar: scribes, translators, and place of origin / Ingvil Brügger Budal — Einarr Skúlason, Snorri Sturluson, and the post-pagan mythological kenning / Christopher Abram — Skáldskaparmál as a tool for composition of early skaldic poetry / Mikael Males — Háttatal Stanza 12 and the divine legitimation of kings / Kevin J. Wanner — Creating tradition: the use of skaldic verse in Old Norse historiography / Rolf Stavnem — Rattus Rattus as a beast of battle?: stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga / Rory McTurk — Wit and wisdom: the worldview of the Old Norse-Icelandic riddles and their relationship to eddic poetry / Hannah Burrows — Devotional poetry at the end of the Middle Ages in Iceland / Martin Chase — Love and death in the Icelandic Ballad / Paul Acker — Steinunn Finnsdóttir and Snækóngs Rímur / Shaun F.D. Hughes.

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• Old Norse poetry — History and criticism.
• Eddas — History and criticism.
• Scalds and scaldic poetry — History and criticism.
• Edda. (DE-588)4138527-5 gnd
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Part of the series Key words in Jewish studies VI;Key words in Jewish studies v. 6.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Jews — Identity.
• Jews — United States — Identity.
• Jews — United States — Politics and government — 21st century.
• Jews — United States — Social conditions — 21st century.
• Israel and the diaspora.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• USA. (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd
• 2000 – 2099 fast

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• Parts One and Two published separately … in 1992 and 1998 –Title page verso.
• A classic of world literature, Goethe’s ‘Faust’ is a philosophical and poetic drama full of pathos, tragedy, satire, irony, and humor. Martin Greenberg renders not only the text’s varied meters and rhymes but also its diverse tones and styles–dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His translations of ‘Faust’ has been widely praised as the most faithful, readable, and elegant translation of Goethe’s masterpiece in English. Now the Greenberg ‘Faust’ has been fully updated and is available in a single volume, with an introduction by Goethe scholar W. Daniel Wilson. –Back cover.
• Includes bibliographical references.

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• Faust, -approximately 1540 — Drama.
• German drama — 18th century.
• Tragedies (Drama) lcgft
• Poetry. lcgft

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• The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics on them. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán provides a rigorously researched study of the vexed and bloody period of 1855 to 1876, during which successive national governments implemented, replaced, and restored liberal policies. Synthesizing an extensive and heterogeneous range of sources, Douglas W. Richmond covers three tumultuous political upheavals of this period. First, Mexico’s fledgling republic attempted to impose a liberal ideology at odds with traditional Maya culture on Yucatán then, the French-backed regime of Emperor Maximilian began to reform Yucatán and, finally, the republican forces of Benito Juárez restored the liberal hegemony. Many issues spurred resistance to these liberal governments. Instillation of free trade policies, the suppression of civil rights, and persecution of the Roman Catholic Church mobilized white opposition to liberal governors. The Mayas fought the seizure of their communal properties. A long-standing desire for regional autonomy united virtually all Yucatecans. Richmond advances the thought-provoking argument that Yucatán both fared better under Maximilian’s Second Empire than under the liberal republic and would have thrived more had the Second Empire not collapsed. The most violent and bloody manifestation of these broad conflicts was the Caste War (Guerra de Castas), the longest sustained peasant revolt in Latin American history. Where other scholars have advocated the simplistic position that the war was a Maya uprising designed to reestablish a mythical past civilization, Richmond’s sophisticated recounting of political developments from 1855 to 1876 restores nuance and complexity to this pivotal time in Yucatecan history. Richmond’s Conf
• Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán centers on the failure of liberal ideology during the little-known 1855-1876 period in Mexico. During this period, Mexican liberals insisted on regional autonomy, free trade, civic rights, and suppressing the pervasive influence of the Catholic Church. Yet, argues Douglas W. Richmond, liberal politicians and regional leaders committed the fatal error of seizing Maya communal lands, which resulted in the largest peasant revolution nineteenth-century Latin America. The Maya insurrection continued as a French-supported Second Empire attempted to improve socioeconomic conditions throughout Mexico. Although the imperial government eventually failed, its Yucatecan representatives reformed the embattled peninsula more than heretofore recognized. Finally, the liberals returned to power in 1867, but once again their policies during the Restored Republic resulted in self-serving repression — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
• A Confrontational Foundation : Yucatecan Conflicts from Antiquity to 1821 — Liberal Oppression and Maya Resistance, 1822-61 — French Intervention and the Second Empire, 1861-67 — The Tragedy of the Restored Republic Era, 1867-76.

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• Yucatán Peninsula — Politics and government — 19th century.
• Yucatán Peninsula — History, Military — 19th century.
• Mayas — Yucatán Peninsula — Politics and government — 19th century.
• Peasants — Political activity — Yucatán Peninsula — History — 19th century.
• Revolutions — Yucatán Peninsula — History — 19th century.
• Regionalism — Political aspects — Mexico — History — 19th century.
• Liberalism — Mexico — History — 19th century.
• Mexico — History — 1821-1861.
• Mexico — History — European intervention, 1861-1867.
• Mexico — Politics and government — 19th century.
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• Central America — Yucatán Peninsula. fast (OCoLC)fst01243915
• Mexico. fast (OCoLC)fst01211700
• Yucatán. (DE-588)4067225-6 gnd
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• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
• Military history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411630

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index.
• Introduction : Blanco White and monsters of coloniality — Negro Tomás and the trader — The colony in the capital : El amigo Manso and Lo prohibido — Baroja’s Atlantic, beyond slavery — Postimperial detours and retours : the Ruta del Indiano — Family ties and narrative confessions in Catalonia — Conclusion : The negrero resurfaces.

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• Spanish literature — 19th century — History and criticism.
• Spanish literature — 20th century — History and criticism.
• Slave trade in literature.
• Slavery in literature.
• Slave trade — Spain — History — 19th century.
• Slavery — Cuba — History — 19th century.
• Spain — Colonies — America — History — 19th century.
• Collective memory — Spain — History — 20th century.
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• Cuba. fast (OCoLC)fst01205805
• Spain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204303
• Latijns-Amerika. gtt
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• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series The Mexican experience;Mexican experience.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
• Introduction : alcohol, literature, and nation-building — Part 1. Imagining the nation through alcohol, class, and gender. 1 Everything in its right place? Social drinking spaces, popular culture, and nationhood 2. Patriotic heroes and consummate drunks : alcohol, masculinity, and nationhood — Part 2. Alcohol, morality, and medicine in the story of national development. 3. Yankees, toffs, and Miss Quixote : drunken bodies, citizenship, and the hope of moral reform 4. Medicine, madness, and modernity in porfirian Mexico : alcoholism as the national disease — Conclusion : drunkenness, death, and Mexican melancholia.
• An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910 Provided by publisher.

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• Mexican literature — Political aspects — History — 19th century.
• Drinking customs — Political aspects — Mexico — 19th century.
• Alcohol — Political aspects — Mexico — 19th century.

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Part of the series Toronto Iberic;Toronto Iberic.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Engaging the material — Weaving, writing, and the art of gift-giving — Empire, memory, and history — Objects of dubious persuasion — The mirror and the urn — Eros at material sites — Staging objects in pastoral — Epilogue.

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• Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1503-1536 — Criticism and interpretation.
• Material culture in literature.
• Material culture — Europe — History — 16th century.
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• Material culture. fast (OCoLC)fst01011739
• Material culture in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01011754
• Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064
• 1500 – 1599 fast

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