Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural expresses the fears of complex societies beset by dizzying change and perceived decline. Throughout the nineteenth century, amid governmental upheavals and imperial losses, Spain's dominant political, legal, and scientific voices constructed the prototypical citizen as male, middle-class, and ethnically pure. The role of realist novels by canonical authors like Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas in forging this Spanish identity has been meticulously examined over the last half century, to the exclusion of many other genres. This book complements existing scholarship by demonstrating how a neglected corpus of late nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century fantastic short fictions, many by the same canonical authors, engages with processes of national identity formation in unexpected and ambiguous ways.

Tang offers innovative readings of eleven fantastic short stories and one novella as they first appeared, some serialized and others illustrated, in Spanish periodicals from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Drawing on original archival research, she demonstrates how these stories--in which the everyday is suddenly and inexplicably disrupted by the supernatural--often employ gothic imagery (specifically that of the specter, the monster, and the curse) to depict as threatening those who deviate from cultural norms in terms of class, gender, and race. Tang argues, however, that these unsettling, open-ended narratives likewise allow readers to question how and why certain designated groups are privileged by society. She contends that the fantastic depiction of reality as unstable in these works ultimately facilitates an interrogation of those values that are accepted as natural by the reigning social order, gesturing toward the inhumanity not of the marginalized, but of the dominant group.

Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author's more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca's Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging plays--Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, El público, Así que pasen cinco años, and El sueño de la vida (previously known as Comedia sin título)--and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca's plays can be considered conventional, these four works stand out in his corpus for challenging theatrical conventions most forcefully, both thematically and technically.

With discussions of stagecraft, artistic modernism, and the historical avant-garde, Lorca's Experimental Theater provides detailed interpretive readings of the four plays, surveys their textual and performative history, and examines the most important contemporary influences on Lorca's creation of these expressive, innovative works.

The book brings to the English-speaking public outstanding texts of prominent Latin American & Caribbean women thinkers translated for the first time into English. All the authors address contemporary issues in the field of social sciences, humanities, literature and translation adopting a theoretical point of view. The book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the contribution of the selected thinkers to show how their contribution moves beyond 'regional/area' studies. It shows how the theoretical and methodological innovations found in the writings of these intellectuals are essential for the establishment of a truly global perspective in the social sciences, literature, translation and political philosophy.

Ética de la teatralidad en Cervantes reevalúa el humanismo cervantino (un lugar central en los estudios sobre el escritor) como una ética de la teatralidad que puede servir como modelo de lectura crítica y pedagogía social en nuestro tiempo. El estudio profundiza en el corazón mismo de la ficción de Cervantes (teatro mayor y novelas) con la finalidad de esclarecer su ética humanista arraigada en la comprensión de la vida como complejo y precario experimento. Un experimento, la vida, para el que el autor ofrece la luz rectora de la virtud, sustentada en una profunda noción de la dignidad humana y no en el dogmatismo y la intolerancia hacia nuestros otros culturales y religiosos. Frente a las imágenes estereotipadas de musulmanes, judíos, protestantes, turcos, gitanos o moriscos, entre otros, que impregnan los escritos de los autores de su tiempo, Cervantes diseña una estrategia que le permite exponer las distintas facetas del tema desde una perspectiva crítica, al tiempo que se protege de posibles represalias por parte de las autoridades públicas. Esta estrategia consiste en reproducir estereotipos comunes con gradaciones irónicas que generan ambivalencias, ambigüedades, vacíos y contradicciones, mediante los cuales definitivamente se abren perspectivas novedosas.

Su objetivo no es proporcionar soluciones sino exponer los problemas en su complejidad y dejar el juicio final a su lector perspicaz (lector avisado). El punto de partida del escritor es el reconocimiento de que la vida humana debe considerarse un proyecto comunitario (incierto e imperfecto), ya que cualquier noción rectora de autocomprensión que podamos adquirir a lo largo de ese camino de vida surgirá invariablemente en la coexistencia con los demás. En este sentido, podemos pensar en Cervantes como un precursor de filósofos como Spinoza, quienes basan su concepción de la humanidad en una ética de la empatía. Hoy, el distintivo humanismo de Cervantes puede servir como base para una crítica ética del fundamentalismo y como modelo de ciudadanía responsable basado en la empatía.

Esta es la primera edicion critica en espanol del Tratado sobre la redondez de la Tierra, ensayo cosmologico y geografico nacido de la ciencia infusa (conocimento transmitido por la divinidad), atribuido a Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda (Agreda, Soria, Espana, 1602-1665). Maria Coronel de Arana es posiblemente una de las figuras mas misteriosas y controvertidas de la Edad Moderna. No solo como personaje historico o literario, su vida y su obra reunen numerosos aspectos aun por descifrar que han dado lugar a una sugerente mitologia cultural de dimension transatlantica, abierta a sumar nuevas interpretaciones y significados.

Figura politica, teologica y legendaria, Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda se transforma en un significante cultural que no deja de acumular capas de sentido. Una de ellas, todavia poco explorada, es la atribucion del Tratado sobre la redondez de la tierra. Este volumen indaga en las razones para la atribucion a Sor Maria de Jesus, considerando su dimension de imagen cultural y transoceanica que rebasa la individualidad concreta. Tratamos diferentes aspectos de la vida, la obra, el contexto cultural y la tradicion desde la que se la leyo y puede leerse tambien en el siglo XXI. El Tratado se enmarca en el espacio de produccion cultural femenina conventual, sin el que no puede entenderse la figura de la autora, ni la escritura de mujeres en la epoca, no solo observando los generos mas conocidos del convento, sino una tradicion todavia por recuperar: la del conocimiento cientifico, que, aunque presente entre sus muros, apenas ha recibido atencion critica.

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Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognitive part can be modified, while the physiological response is largely involuntary. In religious terms, the answer is clear in its legislation of heart motives: love your enemies, lust is equivalent to adultery, hate is the same thing as murder.

In Perilous Passions, Hilaire Kallendorf draws on early modern Spanish theatre to reveal how emotions have always been understood as central to ethics. Starting with a treatise on emotion, On the Passions of the Soul by Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540), Kallendorf uses pairs of opposing emotions - love/hatred, desire/aversion, joy/sorrow, hope/despair, and courage/fear - to explore how they are depicted in Golden Age plays.

The book pinpoints and probes intersections of feelings with morality. It asks: Do emotions bear positive or negative ethical overtones? Which emotions are more conducive to virtue? Are passions perceived as perilous in early modern Spain, in agreement with Neostoic principles? Or does the Catholic liturgy's emphasis on involving the corporeal senses in worship mean that bodily sensations, including feelings, are accorded pride of place - especially in drama? In asking these questions, Perilous Passions argues for the significance of theatre in emotional education.

Descubre los secretos ocultos del universo con El Kybalion, una obra clásica y esencial que revela los principios fundamentales de la filosofía hermética. Escrito por los misteriosos Tres Iniciados, este libro ofrece una visión profunda y reveladora de las leyes universales que rigen la vida, el cosmos y la mente humana.

A través de los siete principios herméticos -Mentalismo, Correspondencia, Vibración, Polaridad, Ritmo, Causa y Efecto, y Generación-, esta obra maestra invita al lector a explorar la sabiduría ancestral que ha influido en innumerables tradiciones espirituales y filosóficas a lo largo de la historia. El Kybalion no solo es un texto para reflexionar, sino también una guía práctica para transformar tu vida, alcanzar el equilibrio interior y comprender tu conexión con el todo.

Ideal para buscadores espirituales, filósofos y cualquier persona interesada en desentrañar los misterios más profundos de la existencia, El Kybalion te abrirá las puertas a una nueva dimensión de conocimiento y autodescubrimiento.

Sumérgete en este viaje hacia la iluminación y lleva contigo la sabiduría eterna de los antiguos maestros. Estás listo para despertar a los secretos del universo?

Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, frightful images of chaos and death are inclusive and interrelated, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality (never seen or experienced before, the mother of all battles, I am the only one who can fix it). This investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities when images remain unfulfilled in a proscribed End. By redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, the Apocalypse suggests bewildering complexities as it trains its lens on New Beginnings. Here analysis explores resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America, Spain and Latin@ communities in the US. Whether revealed through gilded illustrations, messianic chronicles, poetry, Baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality and spirituality in film or intimidating immigrant photos, apocalyptic examples explode notions of final moments. The Resilient Apocalypse ironically performs as both an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). This study argues for a strategy that listens to and keeps the enemy in sight and in mind, a method for grappling with and engaging difference by decolonizing the politics of the End. It reformulates an incomplete, mythical, and uncanny narrative into a poetics of resistance with communal solutions and obligations. When the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to impose social justice, salvation and reason, it paradoxically introduces future hope against itself. In the works of Beato de Liebana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Cirilo Villaverde, Cristina Garcia, Martin Kohan, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Santiago Roncagliolo, Alfonso Cuaron, etc., rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews and arrive at sustainable plans of action for negotiating the afterward. By bracketing the finality of the End and proposing a tension between conflict archaeology and the transcendence of opposition through renovation, salvation or hope, this study reveals how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimizing each other. Ultimately, The Resilient Apocalypse traces a compelling narrative theory of unfulfilled promise that forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self during intervals of fear.

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural expresses the fears of complex societies beset by dizzying change and perceived decline. Throughout the nineteenth century, amid governmental upheavals and imperial losses, Spain's dominant political, legal, and scientific voices constructed the prototypical citizen as male, middle-class, and ethnically pure. The role of realist novels by canonical authors like Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas in forging this Spanish identity has been meticulously examined over the last half century, to the exclusion of many other genres. This book complements existing scholarship by demonstrating how a neglected corpus of late nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century fantastic short fictions, many by the same canonical authors, engages with processes of national identity formation in unexpected and ambiguous ways.

Tang offers innovative readings of eleven fantastic short stories and one novella as they first appeared, some serialized and others illustrated, in Spanish periodicals from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Drawing on original archival research, she demonstrates how these stories--in which the everyday is suddenly and inexplicably disrupted by the supernatural--often employ gothic imagery (specifically that of the specter, the monster, and the curse) to depict as threatening those who deviate from cultural norms in terms of class, gender, and race. Tang argues, however, that these unsettling, open-ended narratives likewise allow readers to question how and why certain designated groups are privileged by society. She contends that the fantastic depiction of reality as unstable in these works ultimately facilitates an interrogation of those values that are accepted as natural by the reigning social order, gesturing toward the inhumanity not of the marginalized, but of the dominant group.

Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was the exploration of the materiality of words, the rigorous construction of (. . .) lucid objects of language. His poetry, hard as stone and light as air, is like no other.

A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.

Textos relativos al Zoroastrismo de la antigua Persia, primera de las grandes religiones. Traducidos por primera vez al espa ol, prologado y anotado por Juan Bautista Bergua. El Avesta es una colecci n de textos sagrados de la antigua Persia, actualmente Ir n, pertenecientes a la religi n Parsis del Zoroastrismo y redactadas en av stico, una de las m s antiguas lenguas. Hab a sido, no tan s lo la primera de las grandes religiones, sino la fuente de muchos de sus dogmas m s importantes, influenciando al Juda smo, Cristianismo y m s tarde al Islamismo. En el Avesta, Los Gathas, del siglo VI a. C., es la parte m s antigua que se atribuye tradicionalmente a Zoroastro (Zaratustra), el nombre del profeta fundador de la religi n y filosof a del Mazde smo. El Mazde smo hunde sus ra ces en la anterior tradici n hind v dica que reconocen como poder benigno a Ahura Mazda, considerado por Zoroastro como la primera divinidad de todas las divinidades y el nico creador. Este libro tambi n incluye los fargard o cap tulos del Vendidad-Sade que contienen las leyes de purificaci n y de protecci n m gica.

First published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega's first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930's, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later writings, it has become more and more important among students of his philosophy as a key to fuller understanding of his work. It may be said to represent the core of Ortega's thought, especially in regard to art and literature.

Only as a point of reference is this book concerned with Quixote. As was his custom, Ortega ranges widely and offers profound insights on Mediterranean culture, epic poetry, tragedy and comedy, the nature of the novel, the relation of poetry to reality, and many other subjects.

From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic elective affinities , to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as post-imperial , marginal , or peripheral .

In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history.

New materials in the classic bilingual literary and critical edition of extraordinary Mexican 17th-century feminist nun.

How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization? In Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization, Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo argues that to understand the historical ramifications of the ecological crisis, it is imperative to excavate the fragmented histories and entangled viewpoints associated with European imperialism. Drawing on early modern Iberian, Indigenous, and European sources, the book interrogates how early modern debates regarding war, free trade, abundance, property, race, sovereignty, and history were deeply entwined within ideas and theories driving the relationship between humans and the environment. By exploring the conflict-ridden experiences arising from Spanish imperialism, the book argues that ecological crises have given rise to divergent visions and social hierarchies over time, driven by environmental conflicts opposing social justice and collective life to capital accumulation and imperial competition.

Often regarded as a small and homogeneous country, modern Portugal has frequently displayed clear regional tensions, on several 'axes': between its capital, Lisbon, and more neglected cities and towns; between its developed coastline and its (noticeably declining) inland villages; between the relatively conservative small-holding communities of the North and the politically radical tenant farmers of the South, amongst others. Examining twentieth-century novelists' treatment of such geographical precepts leads one to ponder: what relationships exist between ideology and (regional) spaces? Through analysis of narrative fiction, how can one better comprehend the complex geographical grievances and identity politics that are increasingly characterising ideo-logical discourses across Western nations? The novels of Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963), Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-2019), Lídia Jorge (1946-) and José Saramago (1922-2010) all have their part to play, in this quest for greater understanding of Portuguese regionalisms and resistances.

Peter Haysom-Rodríguez is a Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Leeds. He holds a Ph.D. in Portuguese & Lusophone Studies from the University of Nottingham.