Monographic Review
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Authors, Spanish |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
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Author | : Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden |
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Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Thermosbaenacea |
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Author | : Richard A. Young |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : 9789042002593 |
Author | : Nina L. Molinaro |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131707906X |
Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.
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Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Biology |
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Author | : Terry J. Peavler |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791428399 |
Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.
Author | : Kay Pritchett |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611486734 |
This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at the developmental process itself: the means by which a protagonist, young or old, might transcend a deprived status to achieve a complete sense of self. Pedraza's works imply that, regardless of the path followed, a character's ability to think differently is crucial to progress. The fixed image, representative of an inflexible, socially determined mindset, arises as an obstacle to maturation. In "Días de perros," for example, a triangular arrangement of coins in a cigar box elucidates the connection between individual lives and the social order or assemblage. Literary texts, such as this one, serve as collective assemblages of enunciation, capable of exposing fixed images as powerful instruments of control. "Tristes Ayes del Águila Mejicana" discovers fixed images among the icons of Colonial Spain's exequias reales, used in this case to territorialize the evolving identity of indigenous peoples. The territory thatPedraza's fictionbest illuminates is, in reality, the image. When images remain fixed or territorialized, they uncannily infect the assemblages over which they exert influence. Placing emphasis on images that impact women, Pedraza, in "Anfiteatro," for example, deconstructs "cat woman," which, albeit a potentially subversive image in its early manifestations, eventually ceases to empower the feminine, lashing it, rather, to a burdensome stereotype. Territorialized, the feminine must, then, break free from the image in order to discover representations more capable of illuminating present-day challenges. The phrase "dark assemblages," drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, gestures toward societal stagnation as a decisive factor in individual evolvement. Gothic fiction represents an uneven landscape, in that it tenders the possibility of a social critique yet, equally well, lends itself to the exclusion of specific identities and practices that society brands as anomalous. Pedraza's Gothic fiction is, indeed, subversive, in that it offers readers original perceptions of modern day people and the assemblages, dark or otherwise, to which they belong.
Author | : Kathleen Mary Glenn |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0874139058 |
Cristina Fernandez Cubas is, without question, one of the most important of the Spanish writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Credited with playing a major role in the renaissance of the short story in Spain, she has won national and international acclaim for her fiction. Works by her have been translated into eight languages and have become a staple of university courses on contemporary Peninsular literature. Fernandez Cubas has created a remarkably coherent narrative world, nourished by a core of fundamental concerns. The eleven essays of Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernandez Cubas examine the intellectual preoccupations, narrative strategies, and rhetorical devices that distinguish the four volumes of short stories, two novels, the play, and the book of memoirs that she has published to date.
Author | : Martin Gitlin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313348804 |
Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the barrier between royal and commoner. As a member of the royal family in an age of mass media, her fairy-tale wedding to, and painful divorce from, Prince Charles was played out on the world stage. Later, her humanitarian work for the Red Cross, her campaigns against landmines, and her work with the sick, especially AIDS victims, added a compassionate element to the royal family in the eyes of the world—and the world, ten years later, still hasn't gotten enough of Lady Di. This objective, accessible volume explores Diana's fascinating life, including her aristocratic upbringing, her whirlwind engagement to Prince Charles, her rocky marriage, her post-divorce status as global humanitarian icon, the media's frenzied treatment of her death, and her charitable legacy, including her sons' coming-of-age and their attempts to honor her memory.
Author | : Howard K. Gloyd |
Publisher | : Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Agkistrodon |
ISBN | : 9780916984205 |
Comprehensive treatment of 33 taxa of pitvipers included in four genera: Agkistrondon of Asia and America, Calloselasma of Southeast Asia and Java, Deinagkistrondon of China, and Hypnale of India and Sri Lanka.--Publications List.