Tyrant Banderas

Author : Ramon del Valle-Inclan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175163

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Tyrant Banderas by Ramon del Valle-Inclan Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, and revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach’s Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. Mean­while, his secret police lock up, torture, and execute students and Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator’s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace. Peter Bush’s new translation of Valle-Inclán’s seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goya’s in his The Disasters of War.

Author : Ramon del Valle-Inclan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174982

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Tyrant Banderas by Ramon del Valle-Inclan Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, and revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach’s Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. Mean­while, his secret police lock up, torture, and execute students and Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator’s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace. Peter Bush’s new translation of Valle-Inclán’s seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goya’s in his The Disasters of War.

Author : Harriet Turner,Adelaida López de Martínez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521778158

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The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel by Harriet Turner,Adelaida López de Martínez Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.

Author : Tania Gentic,Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319582085

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Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic by Tania Gentic,Francisco LaRubia-Prado Pdf

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.

Author : Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791480823

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Mexico's Ruins by Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández Pdf

At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300247381

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Fabulous Monsters by Alberto Manguel Pdf

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel's favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet's mother, and Dr. Frankenstein's maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships. An intimate preface and Manguel's own "doodles" complete this delightful and magical book.

Author : Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140424

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The Dictator Novel by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Pdf

Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But “dictator novels” do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a self-generating force distinct from its historical referents. The dictator novel has become a space in which writers consider the difficulties of national consolidation, explore the role of external and global forces in sustaining dictatorship, and even interrogate the political functions of writing itself. Literary representations of the dictator, therefore, provide ground for a self-conscious and self-critical theorization of the relationship between writing and politics itself. The Dictator Novel positions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has underacknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. Although scholars have noted similarities, this book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions; it includes discussions of authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Mármol, Esteban Echeverría, Ousmane Sembène , Chinua Achebe, Aminata Sow Fall, Henri Lopès, Sony Labou Tansi, and Ahmadou Kourouma. This juxtaposition illuminates the internal dynamics of the dictator novel as a literary genre. In so doing, Armillas-Tiseyra puts forward a comparative model relevant to scholars working across the Global South.

Author : Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89104400486

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The Tyrant by Ramón del Valle-Inclán Pdf

The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez's "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and Roa Bastos's "I, the Supreme," Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American Republic in the grip of a monster. Valle-Inclán, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, and revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach’s Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. The tyrant steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. Meanwhile, his secret police lock up, torture, and execute students and Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator’s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace.

Author : Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299311049

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Yaqui Resistance and Survival by Evelyn Hu-DeHart Pdf

nguage, and culture intact.

Author : Maria M. Delgado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135299330

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Spanish Theatre 1920-1995 by Maria M. Delgado Pdf

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.

Author : Noe Jitrik
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822386636

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The Noé Jitrik Reader by Noe Jitrik Pdf

The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik’s work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing. Together they signal the variety of critical approaches and vocabularies Jitrik has embraced over the course of his long career, including French structuralist thought, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism. The Noé Jitrik Reader showcases Jitrik’s reflections on marginality and the canon, exile and return, lack and excess, autobiography, Argentine nationalism, the state of literary criticism, the avant-garde, and the so-called Boom in Latin American literature. Among the writers whose work he analyzes in the essays collected here are Jorge Luis Borges, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Martí, César Vallejo, José Bianco, Juan Carlos Onetti, José María Arguedas, Julio Cortázar, and Augusto Roa Bastos. The Noé Jitrik Reader offers English-language readers a unique opportunity to appreciate the rigor and thoughtfulness of one of Latin America’s most informed and persuasive literary critics.

Author : Peggy Lynne Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Historical fiction, Spanish
ISBN : UOM:39015008821624

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Time and History in Valle-Inclán's Historical Novels and Tirano Banderas by Peggy Lynne Tucker Pdf

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826208606

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Contemporary Argentine Cinema by David William Foster Pdf

"Foster discusses ten Argentine films, including Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Official Story, and Man Facing Southeast to examine the transformation of social topics into motion pictures and the relationship between commercial filmmaking strategies and Argentine redemocratization."--Publishers website.

Author : Ramón del Valle-Inclán,Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486440712

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Sonata de Primavera by Ramón del Valle-Inclán,Stanley Appelbaum Pdf

Inspired by the similarities between human existence and the seasons, Ramón del Valle-Inclán created 4 modernist stories known as the Sonatas tetralogy. From that highly regarded series comes this 1904 masterpiece. It chronicles a Don Juan's passion for a beguiling young aristocratic woman who intends to take the veil. The only available dual-language edition.

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493605

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The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism by Pericles Lewis Pdf

Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. The essays place the various literary traditions within a social and historical context and set out recent critical debates. Particular attention is given to the urban centers in which modernism developed – from Dublin to Zürich, Barcelona to Warsaw – and to the movements of modernists across national borders. A broad, accessible account of European modernism, this Companion explores what this cosmopolitan movement can teach us about life as a citizen of Europe and of the world.