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Esta Antología de Jarchas contiene el conjunto de las jarchas actualmente conocidas. La palabra jarcha significa en árabe «salida». Las jarchas son breves textos romances (en escritura aljamiada) antecedentes de los «villancicos», las coplas y cantares. Van al final de unos poemas en árabe o hebreo llamados moaxajas. Este género apareció en Andalucía al término del siglo IX y comienzos del X y la tradición atribuye a Muqadamm ben Musafa...
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Artes poéticas españolas es un compendio de observaciones sobre la poesía y sus formas más difundidas. La presente antología contiene textos de los siguientes autores:
Enrique de Villena (Cuenca, 1384-1434)
Juan de la Encina (Salamanca, 1469-1529)
Cristóbal de Castillejo (1492-1550)
Juan de la Cueva (Sevilla, 1543-1612)
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
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Los historiadores de los teatros español e italiano se han mostrado tradicionalmente poco proclives a establecer puentes que permitan los estudios comparativos entre dos teatros tan ricos y complejos, más allá de algunas épocas (el siglo XVI) o autores concretos (Goldoni, Pirandello). Y, sin embargo, se trata de dos tradiciones dramáticas que presentan puntos de contacto a lo largo de prácticamente toda su historia. La época medieval, la renacentista....
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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this...
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CHoeur
Je serai tout au long de ma vie
de deux rives,
de deux continents,
de deux mondes,
comme les lèvres d'une plaie ouverte.
Mais c'est ici que je vivrai,
ici que je travaillerai,
ici que grandira mon fils,
ici que ma fille aura des enfants.
Vous m'avez accueilli un jour
et j'ai saisi la chance à bout de bras.
J'ai peiné.
J'ai sué.
J'ai pleuré.
Je veux rire et vivre maintenant.
J'ai reçu.
Je donnerai.
Nommez votre combat
et j'en serai....
6) La Borbona
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He aquí la novela que corrige las versiones bastardas de la historia de La Moragas (1896-1936), actriz destacada del teatro español del primer tercio del siglo pasado. Javier Pérez Bazo restituye la verdad de quien, después de un brevísimo matrimonio con el célebre torero mexicano Rodolfo Gaona, mereció los favores de Alfonso XIII al despuntar los años veinte, convirtiéndose en su consejera política y madre de dos bastardos nunca por él...
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Se publican en este volumen una serie de comunicaciones sobre el teatro medieval de la península Ibérica que se presentaron en el XI Colloquium de la Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre Médieval (Elx, 2004). En ellas se examina el rico y complejo panorama del teatro medieval peninsular desde diversos ángulos: desde la teatralidad folclórica y la espectacularidad ceremonial a los textos dramáticos escritos en la frontera entre...
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What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian...
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This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965, the socially-critical crime novel has figured prominently in Scandinavian culture, and found hundreds of millions of readers outside Scandinavia. But...
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The contributors ask the following questions:
• What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
• How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?
• What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?
• What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting...
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The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore...
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There are huge opportunities for Britain in a world where the global middle class is expected to treble to five billion people in the next two decades. This text brings together leading experts, business leaders, entrepreneurs and politicians with ideas for how Britain can thrive in this context, building an inclusive and broad-based economy.
Contributions focus on the changing global context and discuss how government can work with business to generate...
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This edition of the Fables and Parables has been reset from the original book from 1846 which was published by James Burns in London.
The original spelling and grammar have been intentionally retained in order for the reader to get a feel for the culture of the time. As mentioned in the original introduction above, these fables were originally written in German and here translated into English. The editor of this edition came across this little book...
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This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 “The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature”. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian...
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El hidalgo de la Mancha es una versión del Quijote escrita por los siguientes autores del Siglo de oro:
Juan de Matos Fragoso (Alvito, 1608-Madrid, 1689). Portugal.
Estudió filosofía y jurisprudencia en la Universidad de Évora y luego se marchó a Madrid, donde fue amigo de los principales dramaturgos de la época. Pasó un tiempo en Italia, donde se representó alguna comedia suya en la corte del virreinato de Nápoles. Estuvo siempre bien relacionado...
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Gabriela Zapolska (1857—1921) was one of the foremost modernist Polish playwrights. “Zapolska's Women” features three of her performance texts that focus on the economic and social pressures faced by women in partitioned Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to the plays, “Zapolska's Women” provides a detailed biography of Zapolska, relating her life story to the themes of each play; an analysis of her significance within...
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Richard Zenith, the author of Pessoa: A Biography, is a prolific translator of Portuguese and Brazilian poets and writers.
A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain
The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close...
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These excerpts from works of philosophy and religion, history and drama, fiction, poetry, and other genres introduce the many facets of medieval literature. The anthology opens with chapters from The Confessions of St. Augustine, the first Western biography and a model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Book One of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy follows, along with selections from the Venerable Bede's The Ecclesiastical History...
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This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis' "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, 1959) and to provide a volume which will serve the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The principal focus is the production, dissemination and evolution of Arthurian material...
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Extrait : "LES ÉCREVISSES - Trente-neuf ans, fortune ronde, Célibataire et bon garçon, Depuis qu'on m'avait mis au monde, J'habitais à Pont-à-Mousson. Jamais de mes destins propices, Poursuivant le cours régulier, Je n'avais mangé d'écrevisses, En cabinet particulier."
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