Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture write by Lloyd Hughes Davies. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.
Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985
Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985 write by Catherine O'Leary. This book was released on 2023-05-15. Theatre Censorship in Spain, 19311985 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.
Blood, Land and Power
Blood, Land and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood, Land and Power write by Manuel Perez-Garcia. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Blood, Land and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction write by Gustavo Carvajal. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study is the only book in English to analyse Chilean memory culture using an interdisciplinary angle (memory studies, gender studies, literature in post-dictatorship Chile) It includes comprehensive material, from award-winning authors (Diamela Eltit, Carlos Franz, Arturo Fontaine), rising stars of the Chilean literary scene (Nona Fernández) to first-time published novelists (Pía González, Fátima Sime) It is the only book in English that focuses on women, memory and dictatorship in contemporary Chile from a cultural and literary perspective. It offers a new way of comprehending Chilean memory culture, considering gender and literature as two key elements in this cultural approach to the recent past.
Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861
Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861 write by Brian Hamnett. This book was released on 2022-04-15. Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 18361861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico’s difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from long-standing imperial systems. The leaders of the Republic in Mexico envisaged the construction of a nation, in a process that often conflicted with ethnic, religious, and local loyalties. The question of popular participation always remained outstanding, and this book examines regional and local movements as the other side of the coin to capital city issues and aspirations. Formerly an outstanding Spanish colony on the North American sub-continent, financial difficulties, economic recession, and political divisions made the new Republic vulnerable to spoliation. This began with the loss of Texas in 1836, the acquisition of the Far North by the United States in 1846–8, and the European debt-collecting Intervention in 1861. This study examines the Mexican responses to these setbacks, culminating in the Liberal Reform Movement from 1855 and the opposition to it.
