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  • A Character Named Cervantes

    On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page

    Edited by Howard Mancing, Tatevik Gulamiryan ...
    Series Book 95 - Toronto Iberic
    Miguel de Cervantes, writer of Don Quixote, has frequently been portrayed in fictionalized contexts across various mediums. In A Character Named Cervantes, Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan explore how Cervantes’s life is depicted in biographies and fiction and how he, as a (bio)fictional character, contributes to our understanding of reality and fiction, fact and invention, history and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Theory of Mind and Literature

    Edited by Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert ...
    Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don Quixote

    The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

    by Eduardo Urbina, Bruce R. Burningham, Emilio Martínez Mata, Ricardo Castells, Rachel Schmidt, Stephen Hessel, S. Alleyn Smythe, J. A. Garrido Ardila, Victor Fet, Steven Ritz-Barr, Fernando González Moreno, Tatevik Gyulamiryan, William Childers, Margarita Marinova, Scott Pollard, Jonathan Wade, Roy H. Williams ...
    This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

    by Michael Eskin, Michael Everson, Victor Fet, Norbert Francis, Melissa Garr, David Gorman, Grant Hamilton, Ilya Kalinin, Basil Lvoff0, Alexander Markov1, Steven Mills2, Eric Naiman3, Annie Van den Oever4, Holger Pötzsch5, Rachel Schmidt6, Serguei Oushakine7, Dr. or Professor Slav Gratchev8 ...
    This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world—the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and China—in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology

    Art and Answerability

    by Greg M. Nielsen, Dick McCaw, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, James Cresswell, Yumi Tanaka, Ricardo Castells, Victor Fet, Melissa Garr, Brian M. Phillips, Steven Mills, Michael E. Gardiner, Pablo José Carvajal Pedraza, Andres Hayes, Michael Eskin, Margarita Marinova ...
    Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage.This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtinin a variety of disciplines.To ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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    A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018

    by Joshua Alma Enslen ...
    Series Book 84 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias’s “Canção do exílio.” Written in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, “Song of Exile” has inspired thousands of parodies and pastiches, and new variations continue to appear to this day. Every generation of Brazilian ... Read more

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  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

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  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Bilingual

    Life and Reality

    by François Grosjean ...
    Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do ... Read more

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  • The child in Spanish cinema

    by Sarah Wright ...
    In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art ... Read more

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  • The Multilingual Subject

    by Claire Kramsch ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    By drawing on multiple examples of real-world language learning situations, this book explores the subjective aspects of the language learning experience. ... Read more

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